I knew I felt weird yesterday....
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Yes he must. I have examined his DNA and the hate is in his genes.
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Admittedly, I am not sure how I feel about the new, and darker, tone of the series. :/
DVR numbers matter less because DVR viewers tend to fast forward past the commercials.So if a Nielsen viewer watches Supernatural and DVRs SHIELD... that IS significant as a loss to ABC ratings.How so? how is that calculation made? a lot of folks are moving to the net for their entertainment these days (network TV websites, Netflix, etc.)
I honestly wonder how relavent Nielsen ratings are these days. fewer and fewer people watch right off the TV now. Just get it comercial free from the internet, perfectly legal too since it's on the network site.
Tuesdays is Boardgame night in Regina and I rarely miss it. I watch Shield wendsday streamed off the network site. Get to see it on my own time, no commercials. I've honestly reached a point where I find watching right off the TV very frustrating.
Commercials are annoying as hell, It's hard to beleive we used to put up with them before streaming
Admittedly, I am not sure how I feel about the new, and darker, tone of the series. :/
That was kind of inevitable with the Winter Soldier events though.
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Enjoyed the season opener. They did a classic Marvel villain justice. The bit in the park
Pretty sure they're setting up the LMDs with Agent Koenig.
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Admittedly, I am not sure how I feel about the new, and darker, tone of the series. :/That was kind of inevitable with the Winter Soldier events though.
True. ... and it does make a comicbook show more "adult."
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True. ... and it does make a comicbook show more "adult."Admittedly, I am not sure how I feel about the new, and darker, tone of the series. :/That was kind of inevitable with the Winter Soldier events though.
won't someone think of the children?!
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won't someone think of the children?!True. ... and it does make a comicbook show more "adult."Admittedly, I am not sure how I feel about the new, and darker, tone of the series. :/That was kind of inevitable with the Winter Soldier events though.
well, it airs at 9pm now, not 8pm... so kids should be in bed by then.
won't someone think of the children?!True. ... and it does make a comicbook show more "adult."Admittedly, I am not sure how I feel about the new, and darker, tone of the series. :/That was kind of inevitable with the Winter Soldier events though.
I promise to stop watching R rated movies around you or make sure that you are in bed first. Did you want your bottle too? Shall we change your diaper?
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Freehold, all R-rated movies and shows are executive produced by the Whedon-Brown Cabal. There, he'll never watch them now; problem solved.
So anyone else thinking that...
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I like Agents of Shield.....but
Kind of disappointed in that the villian got ahead of a fast moving vehicle without any apparent why, and a human shaped piece of asphalt was an immoveable object against an SUV moving at a high speeds.
Edit: Yes the SUV would have still been in an accident......but mister asphalt guy would have been crumbs all over.
I like Agents of Shield.....but
Kind of disappointed in that the villian got ahead of a fast moving vehicle without any apparent why, and a human shaped piece of asphalt was an immoveable object against an SUV moving at a high speeds.
Edit: Yes the SUV would have still been in an accident......but mister asphalt guy would have been crumbs all over.
You're right. F=m*a still applies.
He would have needed to be something much harder to survive that collision without injury himself, like a diamond. Even so, he would still bounce.
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I will second that yes.
It's certainly not a deal breaker on the coolness of the show. BUT it would be nice if they used a little science every now and again. The geek inside me cries every time shows ignore the obvious science.
Besides the villain had that diamond didn't he? How hard would it have been to add a touch of realism?
Marvel has a long and glorious tradition of ignoring science or inventing their own. Stan Lee in an interview once about the Fantastic Four uttered a phrase that's stuck with me my whole life: "I know nothing of science." Gamma bombs, cosmic rays, radioactive spider bites, these things MUST be accepted to have the Marvel universe.
One time in a comic book I saw Colossus leap in front of a speeding truck and PUNCH it in the engine block. The vehicle "THOOMED" around him and he was completely unmoved by the impact, the force of the explosion, or anything. He didn't even lose his pants. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say if you're watching Agents of Shield hoping for sciency bits, its likely you'll be disappointed.
I loved it. All of it. The sorrow, the down notes, the rough start and the
Yeah, because in a show with superhumans who can absorb other materials we should worry about realistic physics.
I go over and watch this (and other shows we watch on DVR) with my mom every week. She's not normally one to point out scientific inaccuracies and whatnot.
The first words out of her mouth after that scene were "Oh come on, the asphalt would have broken into a bunch of pieces".
Sometimes, suspension of disbelief is broken by things that by all rights should not be a big a deal as accepting that, say, a guy can absorb materials in the first place. It happens.
The tarmac had a chip from a woman's engagement ring mixed in it. Add this to the fact that the Marvel Super Heroes game from 1985 suggests that when Absorbing Man absorbs a material he gains Strength and Body Armor equal to the substance he's absorbing. Also it goes on to say that he can absorb energy as well. I posit that the diamond/asphalt mix was stronger than normal tarmac giving him better than average properties for absorbing the road's surface coupled with a spontaneous absorbtion and redirection of the force of the car at the moment of impact caused the scene we witnessed in the show.
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The tarmac had a chip from a woman's engagement ring mixed in it. Add this to the fact that the Marvel Super Heroes game from 1985 suggests that when Absorbing Man absorbs a material he gains Strength and Body Armor equal to the substance he's absorbing. Also it goes on to say that he can absorb energy as well. I posit that the diamond/asphalt mix was stronger than normal tarmac giving him better than average properties for absorbing the road's surface coupled with a spontaneous absorbtion and redirection of the force of the car at the moment of impact caused the scene we witnessed in the show.
Shooting for a No-Prize?
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I don't get the "Blame Simmons" bandwagon I've seen here and elsewhere.
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I'm saving any judgement until
I'm saving any judgement until ** spoiler omitted **I don't get the "Blame Simmons" bandwagon I've seen here and elsewhere.
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Also...
Iirc, absorbing man was superhumanly dense as well as...absorby. I'll have to check.
Yeah, I wasn't too bothered by Absorbing Man being able to work some mojo to take on the car without any problems. I was much more bothered by him being able to intercept it without any explanation for 1) how he was fast enough to get ahead of it; and 2) how he located it so easily. That was much more immersion breaking, especially since they didn't even try and offer any sort of explanation.
That said, I did really like him as a villain overall. Especially after some of the previous villains being epic monologuers, having a villain who was just intimidating and generally just went about his business without any grandstanding or bantering, was a nice change of pace.
I wasn't that concerned about the asphalt thing...it was just such an "oh $#!^" moment that it was worth the suspension of disbelief.
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Don't have PVR so can't rewind, but can someone else confirm
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I'd say yes. Certainly seemed like a humanoid with a certain skin colour.
You know, after re-watching it I do have one major issue: why the blankety-blank did Hartley open the box? There's no way they were going to conceal they were there, Coulson had already asked Ross about the item...just grab the box and worry about the contents later!
Because the dumbs.
Or it was the show's way of keeping equilibrium. It killed her off in fear of Xena taking over the cast.
I'm not sure the whole "Absorbing Man gets a rush from absorbing things" bit added anything to the character, though I'm willing to wait and see if it goes anywhere in the next episode.
Similarly- why didn't he keep the diamond in his pocket the whole time so he could just absorb its properties?
(But then, the same could be said about the character in the comics, too- although I do seem to recall a storyline in the comics where he finally clued into doing just that sort of thing himself. Guy was never too bright.)
I'm not sure the whole "Absorbing Man gets a rush from absorbing things" bit added anything to the character, though I'm willing to wait and see if it goes anywhere in the next episode.
Similarly- why didn't he keep the diamond in his pocket the whole time so he could just absorb its properties?
(But then, the same could be said about the character in the comics, too- although I do seem to recall a storyline in the comics where he finally clued into doing just that sort of thing himself. Guy was never too bright.)
Actually, I think they mentioned that he does that kinda stuff in the role playing game. Creel ain't too bright, but he's not SO stupid as to not be prepared for a situation. I think he usually goes without shoes so he can always switch in an emergency.
Comic book Creel spent a lot of time in the company of a prisoner's ball and chain. Said ball and chain was magically transformed into a substance of Asgardian level power. Whenever he needed a pick-me-up he grabbed his weapon. Add to that the fact that he wasn't very bright and yeah, I can see him not walking around with a diamond in his pocket.
In the show? See: Rynjinn's last post
Except she'd already opened it before Creel showed up.
Similarly- why didn't he keep the diamond in his pocket the whole time so he could just absorb its properties?
The reason he didn't keep the diamond is that he was arrested (and presumably searched) by the military after the failed assassination attempt.
Likely the police took it.