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[Pharaoh Hamenthotep]

That's the problem with having so many superheroes in one world.. If something major happens you expect them all to be there..

Maybe the next Spiderman film will mention where he was. Caulson is his school principal in the Ultimate Spiderman series so they're aware he exists.. in at least one version of the Marvel universe

[BruTak]

Well, New York's a big place. Maybe he was in another part of the city?

[knowles2]

Ah the good ol its poor writring excuse because I do not know everything in one episode. That one never gets old

That depends, this looks like it not going to be a heavily serialise show that going to see us get these questions answer down the road.

[knowles2]

That's the problem with having so many superheroes in one world.. If something major happens you expect them all to be there..

Maybe the next Spiderman film will mention where he was. Caulson is his school principal in the Ultimate Spiderman series so they're aware he exists.. in at least one version of the Marvel universe

Didn't his father and mum work for Shield in one universe and Shield and Spiderman has certainly worked together in the past. But then Marvel doesn't own the film rights to Spiderman and that why there was no mention of him in the last film and why there will probably be no mention of alien invasion and the destruction of new york in the next spiderman. I expect even the villains would show up and defend the earth against alien invaders. .

[Wyrminarrd]

The "Magical place" line does it make it seem like he's been programmed to respond that way when remembering Tahiti.

[yukin1990]

That one thing that annoy me slightly, this was suppose to be an investigation team, , not a combat team, so yes it would have made sense for them to have a combat team on standby at the aircraft to extract them, and they seem to have left the aircraft abandon, anyone could have took it.
It was also odd that they didn't take any security precautions with their guests.

they do have their guests hand over their weapon into the case that is password protected!!! so you see the fight scene that the guest using hand gun fire on the team, this may be someone only concise their handgun not to hand it over. And as you guys know, S.H.I.E.L.D is a UN-like organization so they have Serenity-like stun grenade non-lethal weaponry at their disposal and sometimes need to work with local military.
Also i wonder are they using arc reactor in their 'BUS' engine because i don't see obvious refueling scene in the show.
Age and May are kind of a combat team replacement in the field for the lab rats and Skye!! Those two can replace the whole fire team in combat situation.


also, i don't why guys want the superheros to steal the show, this show is about normal people, not superheros man!!!

[ZRFTS]

also, i don't why guys want the superheros to steal the show, this show is about normal people, not superheros man!!!

It's in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there has to be superheros involved!

[Starfist]

I enjoyed the episode.
It was nice to know that Coulson had a past.

And the cameo at the end was a pleasant surprise.

[Gollumpus]

Its more cynical than superior. I've seen to many people take that reasoning to call it poor writing. All or most TV is contrived. Who knows what is to come. Its way to early to pass judgement and just dismiss these all as fillers.

I think you're jumping to conclusions regarding my position, not to mention my cynicism.

There very well could be connections between the events of this episode and a possible series arc (certainly it could be said that there is a link to the Avengers film), or this could be a one off

Spoiler:

although the events of the following episode to this suggest that energy sources could be part of an ongoing theme

I don't recall ever writing that I thought these episodes were "fillers". My concerns are not on the macro level but rather on the micro. There are things which do not make sense.

Having May as the only pilot doesn't make sense. Not having an actual flight crew on board does not make sense. Not having someone acting as a payload specialist does not make sense. Not having medical and military support on that plane doesn't make sense.

Spoiler:

I would be willing to cut them some slack for this episode on this particular point. It could be seen as a case that they were on their first flight out etc and the rest of the crew were going to arrive "the following Tuesday". If some additional people were included for the following episode I would be happy. Such was not the case as we saw the next episode.

The intel and devices which the Peruvians had, and the plan to take over the plane was all a bit too convenient. They scream, "Easy plot device to advance the story!"

These are not deal breakers. They do not ruin the show, but they do detract from the enjoyment of watching the show (specifically, my enjoyment, and it's all about me ).


regards,
G.

[jelgate]

Those things sound like things where you have to separate TV from the real world. Hiring all those kind of people cost a TV show more money

[Starsaber]

I wonder if we'll get a cameo by Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker at some point?

Spider-Man was conspicuous by his absence during the Battle of New York.

That's because Marvel doesn't have the movie rights to him (and as long as whoever it is keeps making Spiderman movies, they won't revert either. That's why they did a reboot so soon.)

[mr_kennedy]

That's because Marvel doesn't have the movie rights to him (and as long as whoever it is keeps making Spiderman movies, they won't revert either. That's why they did a reboot so soon.)

I thought that was one of the reasons for a new spiderman movie series so that marvel could retain the rights, it has been talked about to feature spiderman in the avengers movies at some point

A spiderman cameo could be possible if they want to feature him in the avengers at some point but then again i guess that depends on how well this show does, i didnt expect a nick fury cameo so soon

Not every Marvel character has to be present during an alien invasion but you would think they would be, Classic Avengers comics only had the then current avengers line up deal with the skrulls or whoever, whenever they attacked

[knowles2]

I thought that was one of the reasons for a new spiderman movie series so that marvel could retain the rights, it has been talked about to feature spiderman in the avengers movies at some point

A spiderman cameo could be possible if they want to feature him in the avengers at some point but then again i guess that depends on how well this show does, i didnt expect a nick fury cameo so soon

Not every Marvel character has to be present during an alien invasion but you would think they would be, Classic Avengers comics only had the then current avengers line up deal with the skrulls or whoever, whenever they attacked

Sony own the rights to produce spider man movies. Marvel sold them years ago before they stumble onto the idea that they would make more money if they made the movies themselves.

[mr_kennedy]

Sony own the rights to produce spider man movies. Marvel sold them years ago before they stumble onto the idea that they would make more money if they made the movies themselves.

I knew that i thought that was just the Sam Raimi/toby mcguire verse

[Starsaber]

I knew that i thought that was just the Sam Raimi/toby mcguire verse

From what I understand, Sony has the rights as long as they put a new movie into production at least every X number of years. Toby didn't want to do any more and they didn't want to hand the rights back to Marvel given how hot superhero moves are right now, so they rebooted with Andrew Garfield. That's the same reason Fox is casting for a Fantastic Four reboot now.