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[Agents of SHIELD] Age of Inhumans
Harry Dresden
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AoS had an awkward first season that went bonkers when Hydra was revealed in Winter Soldier. Nothing's been the same since. SHIELD has been dismantled by the government and labeled a terrorist organization. Fury has tasked Coulson with reforming SHIELD from the ground up. Oh yeah, he was resurrected and might be going crazy.
Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg): Murdered by Loki and resurrected by unknown methods involved aliens. He's the new director, appointed by Nick Fury himself. Don't fuck with his team or he will end you, politely.
Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen): Coulson's second. Stoic, Skye's new SO, a SHIELD elite veteran who says little and packs a big punch.
Skye (Chloe Bennet): She's grown up from season 1, no longer a naive hacker she's a SHIELD agent. The last one who got promoted before SHIELD shut down. Has a mysterious past
and possibly alien heritage.
Fitz (Iain De Caestecker): Coulson's technological genius who suffered brain damage when Ward attempted to kill him in season 1. Needs a helper monkey.
Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge): Genius biologist who left to
infiltrate HYDRA.
And Fitz has another Simmons in his head. Everyone has a crush on her, including Fitz's helper monkey.
Grant Ward (Brett Dalton): A spy sent by Hydra to infiltrate Coulson's unit. Now he's in their custody. Has a creepy crush on Skye. She called you a Nazi, dude, let it go.
Antoine Triplett (BJ Britt): Was Garrett's protege, like Ward - except he's not evil. Intelligent, stylish, has the skills to match Ward in combat and his grandfather was in the Howling Commandos.
Lance Hunter (Nick Blood): The actor's name is Nick Blood. British merc with a shady past, womanizer and hasn't gotten over his ex
Bobbi Morse.
Kind of a dick.
Bobbi Morse (Adrianne Palicki): The newest addition to the cast.
Worked undercover for Coulson in Hydra to protect Simmons as their head of security.
Very capable, an elite SHIELD operative that's in May's league, a one woman army if there ever was one.
Al "Mac" MacKenzie (Henry Simmons): SHIELD's new mechanic, loves technology, enjoys taunting Hunter about his ex and filled in for Simmons to help Fitz with his difficulties adjusting.
edit: SPOILERS - previous episodes won't be spoiled, latest episodes will be.
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OK... I want some small name Marvel villains to show up. Hell, when is Graviton gonna really show up?
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It's about to. It's on page 99.
Good question. I expect him to show up in season 2, probably the latter half - or the cliffhanger for the first part.
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In the show the globe was able to reverse gravity in like a single room. Give him that kind of power level and he'd be a fun show villain.
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Needs more Mac and Fitz together
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I love everything they've done with Fitz and Simmons (and Mac)
and Ward
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Not as cool sounding.
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Maria Hill's faction has gone private sector, there's a faction that's looking out for its own ends since they're out of a job and looking for a paycheck* and then there's Coulson's - whose operating his new SHIELD like freedom fighters.
* hello new Hydra recruits
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Granted, the line is pretty thin these days.
We don't know where they're getting the money from. If it was from the private sector we'd have known it by now, they'd have someone either in the supporting cast that is in a corporation or a mole in a corporation - neither have appeared. We do know they steal shit from people when they need to, from anybody. So I suspect they're doing that to Hydra regularly, but that's a theory.
As per the Policing thread.
That would have been my first guess, unfortunately we have no reason to think that's what happening. Maria Hill would have had a cameo by now, or mentioned or something.
She did! There was one in the first season.
You know what I mean.
On the other hand:
1) Pepper is running the company.
2) I could see her both covertly funding SHIELD and keeping Coulson's existence secret.
3) Most importantly, Gwyneth doesn't seem opposed to doing TV.
I can only assume he;d have millions stashed away all over the place
I mean he set all these secret bases up in case they needed places to operate from, presumably he set up funding too
even if not, they have the world's best hacker and top tier special operations guys, if they're ever low on cash they can just knock over a drug kingpin or something. Sctually an episode about just that would be pretty sweet
It seems like there are a lot of factions and individuals in play who could help Coulson but aren't, I would imagine if they get future success it'd be pretty easy to PLOT up some reinforcements and assets. One high profile operation saving DC from getting blown up by a HYDRA superlaser or something would probably see them flush with trustworthy old SHIELD who have avoided Coulson because they just want to keep existing. (or think working for government or private sector is better)
Okay, honestly, I know that SHIELD and Fury are the good guys, but if we were to decontextualize this, this would be some serious sketchy embezzlement / coup-planning stuff here. It's not presented, but I could imagine how the US government (and Talbot) see it. "You're secreting away a ton of the money to various mystery sources, and then using it to buy secret military equipment to stock in secret bases somewhere? Oh yeah, sure, no problem!"
This is pretty much the assumption I've been making. The black box had info on all of the money that Fury had been hiding away for a rainy day.
I think it was Nikita that had an episode or two where they did this, it was pretty great and I wouldn't mind seeing shield do it as well.
Person of Interest literally did this like 2 weeks ago.
(You should watch Person of Interest, is what I'm saying.)
Speaking of Nikita Lyndsy Fonseca has joined Agent Carter.
http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/lyndsy-fonseca-agent-carter-1201338418/
It would have been nice if they had fleshed out the internal workings of SHIELD and the politics behind them in the first season. They must have had to deal with things like countries backing SHIELD wanting to use SHIELD for their own political agenda or access to SHIELD's tech. They would have also had to deal with private contractors getting access to their tech. Then they could have had some of those issues having a bigger impact this season. Smaller backer countries that weren't given access to a lot of SHIELD tech may be willing to fund Coulson's SHIELD in the hopes of gaining access to what they have. Private contractors employed by SHIELD trying to fill in the power vacuum to get themselves established. Coulson has to play the PR game if he has any hopes of legitimizing SHIELD and making it an effective force in protecting the world.
well I mean, yea
Fury's bases are pretty sketchy
he had these built off the books and not in any SHIELD records, paid for by various taxpayers, and nobody knew about them
I mean in Cap2 he hired mercenaries through a dozen shell corporations with embezzled money to test his theory about there being something fishy going on in SHIELD
Why does this make me think of Bruce Wayne? I mean, just from those two perspectives. And the overarching "just in case" kind of guy . . .
which is why in Winter Soldier when Fury is like "No, we can save SHIELD from Hydra!" and Cap is like "What? No, you are part of the problem."
It's as though they're foreshadowing a polite conflict in the near future.