he does, J. August Richards (Peterson) played Gunn in Angel, Nathan Fillion, has played parts in multiple Joss Whedon productions such as Firefly, Buffy, and Dr. Horrible's Sing along Blog, and Gina Torres has at least been in Firefly and AngelCrazyGirl17 said:(Also, I like that one of the surgeons who worked on him is the same guy who played Shepherd Book on Firefly. I wonder if Joss Whedon likes getting people from his previous works to appear in his current ones.)
also I am in the group that is really hoping for the show to get better, it definitely has potential but it just isn't shining yet.jab136 said:he does, J. August Richards (Peterson) played Gunn in Angel, Nathan Fillion, has played parts in multiple Joss Whedon productions such as Firefly, Buffy, and Dr. Horrible's Sing along Blog, and Gina Torres has at least been in Firefly and AngelCrazyGirl17 said:(Also, I like that one of the surgeons who worked on him is the same guy who played Shepherd Book on Firefly. I wonder if Joss Whedon likes getting people from his previous works to appear in his current ones.)
Oh yes! It's Cyborg's new origin story!! (LOL)CrazyGirl17 said:And hey, Mike's alive! He doesn't look too good, but it's nothing a few skin grafts and a prosthetic won't fix... wait, what's that... [small]oh no... [/small]
I think he wanted him back because he's the main character and only half as many people would watch the show if Coulson hadn't been billed in it.CrazyGirl17 said:There's also the matter of WHY Fury wanted Coulson back, though it might be due to some as-of-unknown plan. Also, it looks like the "Coulson as The Vision" theory might be just a red herring.
Without knowing too much about how death is generally handled in the Marvel universe, that makes sense to me in a way. While Bob described the Coulsons brief vison as the typical near-death-experience known as "going into the light", it reminded me kind of what Gandalf went through on his transition from the Grey into the White. Falling through [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3p7BFSZ_Bw&t=3m15s]space [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVn1oQL9sWg&hd=1] as a metaphor for gaining knowledge. Granted, they both really had a death-experience, but still... Maybe Coulson too came back a little different.Loki_The_Good said:Here's an interesting thought. What if when Coleson was brought back he came back with knowledge from the other side. Given Thanos's appearance in the end of the first movie and Coleson's nihilistic state after it could be The Anti-Life equation. Or at least part of it. Maybe that ties into that other equation centipede was after.
Interesting theory, but the Anti-Life Equation was Darkseid [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkseid]'s pet project, over in the DC universe. Thanos is more the grim reaper's creepy stalker.Loki_The_Good said:Here's an interesting thought. What if when Coleson was brought back he came back with knowledge from the other side. Given Thanos's appearance in the end of the first movie and Coleson's nihilistic state after it could be The Anti-Life equation. Or at least part of it. Maybe that ties into that other equation centipede was after.
the anti-life equation is what Darkseid wants in DC.Loki_The_Good said:I don't really see Raina as the clairvoyant. Her fanboyish attitude towards him seems to genuine to be ruse. That said I do think that she was caught on purpose. Maybe the clairvoyant can use a close adviser as a proxy like a mentally controlled doll or maybe even just a boosting antenna.
Here's an interesting thought. What if when Coleson was brought back he came back with knowledge from the other side. Given Thanos's appearance in the end of the first movie and Coleson's nihilistic state after it could be The Anti-Life equation. Or at least part of it. Maybe that ties into that other equation centipede was after. I wonder if Thanos would be behind everything although the approach seems more subtle and unnecessary given his power. At any rate my guess is that Coleson wasn't just suicidal after he came back but driven to a very dark and dangerous place for all around him as well.
It does seem that he does that quite often. I think part of the reason he tears DC stuff apart is because he really likes silver/golden age stuff and DC isn't really doing silver age comic book stuff in their live action versions. Still even if this season is lukewarm it seems that for TV season 2 is where the show finds a groove and is often the best season of a series. I always withhold judgement on how good a series is if it gets a second season. Of course I wasn't able to do that with Terra Nova....Fox you bastards. Funny note though you think someone at Fox lost their job for shutting down two of Joss's shows after he went and made one of the major touchstones of modern cinema? Seriously only now are we seeing what The Avengers has done. Their is rumors of an Avengers style movie...with the Universal monsters. Seriously how awesome is that if that's true?josemlopes said:Bob, I am amazed at how much effort you are putting into this in hoping that it does get better. Marvel does some cool stuff, this show isnt one of them so treat it for what it is now and not for what you hope it becomes.
You put so much effort into ripping apart any non-Marvel superhero stuff that it comes out very poorly when every review for this show ends up like "It seems like the next episode will really start the good stuff"
I agree, I can't see where so much negativity comes from. This show has been consistently exceeding my expectations and thoroughly engaging.AgDr_ODST said:Watching the show and reading Bob's reviews is consistently confusing the crap out of me. When i watch the show i find myself loving nearly every minute of it and thinking its good and all making sense, then i read his breakdown/review and he seems to constantly imply that he's enjoying it and then blowing the notion that he is away with the next sentence and then still appearing some how to have an overall positive opinion of each episode and or the one to follow. As for me personally i enjoyed the episode overall and felt that it flowed consistently and without any hang ups and that the answers and dropped plot points were given were sufficiently satisfying and surprising
Killing simmons to motivate fitz would be called 'girl in the freezer' and most definitely not what they should do.PuckFuppet said:Fitz is far more potentially interesting without Simmons, whereas Simmons is entirely reliant on other characters (not including Fitz) to be of any interest. I've said it before, if Simmons had died/been presumed dead it'd be a much more interesting show right now. Fitz is a character trapped between who the world expects him to be and who he really is. He is desperately trying to be the former, the helpful and highly intelligent support officer, but the few glimpses we've seen of the latter, the vaguely authoritarian genius with no time for other peoples mistakes, has been interesting to say the least.