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SpoilerSure. But while my memory of the previous episode is hazy, I thought it basically triggered when he walked over it (glowed or something). It wasn't super clear that it wouldn't have zapped him whether he reached down and touched it with his hand or not, but it would be a pretty crappy defense method if that was actually the case (doubly so given it was built by Kree, whose defense systems might be semi-standardized and not necessarily assume that those tripping them even have hands, or skin, or whatever).

Also, they made this whole point of having them put on hazmat suits earlier in the episode. Sure, we can assume that it didn't matter whether they wore them or not, and we can assume that maybe the defenses just zap the first person who triggers them, turning that person into a zombie/whatever who then defends the place from anyone else, but maybe instead of spending time showing them dorking around with the suits, spend that time showing them finding the glyph and noticing that it doesn't activate, and perhaps a line of dialog saying something like "Oh. It must activate on the first person and that person becomes the defense, so we should be safe from the glyphs, but need to keep an eye out for Mac".

Although, to be fair, if that was how the defenses were supposed to work, they did so quite poorly. ZombieMac was apparently utterly unable to detect or prevent 3 different people roaming around planting explosives in the very place we'd assume he's there to protect. So who knows.

I'm actually hoping neither SpoilerWhitehall nor Tripp returns. Even if AoS is based on comics where nearly noone stays dead I would like that to be different in the MCU.

Yes. And I'd like them to not do things like that with every character that dies.

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Part two of the season, I guess, back up and running. Gotham I couldn't help but getting annoyed at the mismatched ranks on Jim's lapels and shoulders. How do you miss something like that? Good to see Bullock still being Bullock. Sleepy Hollow, angel with black wings a bit on the nose. Tonight Agent Carter starts up, so some post Cap 1 and pre-everything else should be interesting. Human Jarvis and possibly young Pym.

Ivy on the phone was a definite "Seriously?" Moment. Maybe Barbara thinks Jim is into that sort of thing now?

As for the nurse bit, I did assume that she was not a "current" patient. They did say she was from before they shut the place down and had apparently been living in the basement, forgotten. I just figured she showed up at the reopening and got a job because they suck at staffing.

Edit:
I rewatched the episode. It's clear that she wasn't a current patient. She was a past patient, who happened to get left behind in the previous closing, and infiltrated the staff during the reopening (not hiding, but instead actually being hired as a nurse). The "ah ha" moment for the head honcho was when he realized that she was the only one that was not a coworker of his from the past that he knew.

Edited, Jan 6th 2015 6:45pm by TirithRR

I was kind of thinking it'd be the woman doctor that Jim was kind of sort of flirting with and not the creepy nurse. Carter was good, and it's a shame it is only a mini-series.

Just watched the first two episodes of Agent Carter and I liked it. Sure, Hayley Atwell is some serious eye candy but the story and side characters were not that bad either. The henchmen of Leviathan were delightfully creepy with their scaring. I just hope it's not another operation of Hydra. A bit of diversity when it comes to evil organisations would be nice.

It's a mini-series, which I'm assuming is going to Spoilerultimately set up the Ant Man and Age of Ultron movies, and possibly even Dr Strange. AoS should return in March, if my math is right. And if my math isn't right, that's what returndates.com says so blame them.

Since Hydra is out of the picture I wonder if they're going to focus solely on superpowered beings from now on.

Something has to, after the goose egg that came out of Carter.

Honestly, I kinda like that they don't just automatically go for the cheap tie in.Spoiler There kinda wouldn't be a reason for a random Kree operative to mention anything specifically related to GotG anyway. The whole mention of factions among the Kree itself serves to provide sufficient hook, given that's basically what was going on in that story anyway *and* it ties into the whole inhuman experiment thing as well. I actually thought it was done well, and with a light touch.

Similarly, I actually thought it was nice that they averted the classic "heroes fight each other when meeting due to some contrived misunderstanding" trope with Sif's appearance. Worked IMO. Yeah, some people are suckers for the classics, though.



SpoilerAgree. I get that they did try to set up some background for it, with her freaking about the killed agents, but it did seem like quite a radical change in her personality. With Simmons you'd expect her to withdraw in some way, or even decide to obsess over examining the biological data to understand the inhuman process, but having her basically committing to just exterminating them all was too much IMO. I think they were playing on her relationship with Trip (or the one she wanted anyway, it was unclear how far that ever actually got), and that's why she kinda snaps, but it wasn't well acted and there wasn't enough development for it to work. Of course, that may produce additional problems with her relationship with Skyye.

As to Mack? Not sure what's going on there. Something sneaky that likely wont be at all what we think.

Edited, Mar 11th 2015 4:12pm by gbaji