wait, what whose bright idea was it to go into unmapped tunnels with TORCHES. Where are the island’s hurricane lanterns? wtf
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Loved having #AgentsofSHIELD cast & crew party at my house! #WeAreFamily Let’s do it again! xoxo (x)
*contemplates the idea that Skye is half-Inhuman*
oh my god, Fitz. Just, Fitz. Wow.
Leo Fitz Week » Day Three: Favourite Relationship
flywithturtles replied to your post: “So let’s actually talk about Mike Peterson for a change instead of…”:Mike Peterson = Winter Soldier sans Steve Rogers. And sans mindwipes so he knows what he’s doing which is somehow worse. (I haven’t seen the last 4 episodes, btw)Totally the Winter Soldier: none of the agency, but with the full knowledge of everything he does, which makes him technically complicit (but again, the choice between doing evil and death is not a real choice, it’s just coercion), and it’s going to really fuck him up when he gets rescued. He’s going to live with that forever, even though he never had a choice in the matter.
I need him to be rescued, reunited with his son, and taken someplace safe and quiet so he can recover and be safe. I just need him to not be used and hurt by everyone anymore.
It’s not even the choice between doing evil and death. It’s the choice between doing evil and them hurting his son and also death.
Garrett hasn’t only dehumanized him, he’s also actively used his humanity against him.
(Gosh, it’s a really strange coincidence how the Nazi splinter group systematically experiments on, dehumanizes, and destroys the families of people of color, isn’t it?)
(And what do we say about coincidences?)
Save Grant Ward: The Bucky Barnes of ‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D’
For Ward, even though there were no fancy brainwash machines sessions to turn him into a killer that doesn’t mean that more pedestrian methods of manipulation and coercion couldn’t be as effective. Grant may have always had a bit of darkness in him due to his environment but his loyalty extends to the person that took him away from not only a bad home life but a mediocre existence with a lack of real purpose. It’s just unfortunate for him that this person happened to be a trained sociopath who foisted his own loss of faith with SHIELD onto his young charge. Just as Bucky Barnes can be redeemed for countless horrific acts, so too can Grant Ward if the team allows him the chance to realize that the difference between Garrett and his fellow former agents could be an unconditional support.
No.
Grant killed the only canonically queer woman on the show. And I don’t see a damn Save Victoria Hand campaign. Or a Save Jasper Sitwell campaign.
Grant Ward is a manipulative sack of shit who killed a bunch of people with very much non-Bucky forms of manipulation, and whatever may have happened to him, whatever dubious friendships he’s made, it doesn’t excuse the fact that he joined a damn neonazi organization and apparently murdered Hand in cold blood.
So no.
I say we shoot him execution style and bring back Hand.
*flips tables*
… I hate people. And he’s not even remotely comparable to Bucky as the Winter Soldier. People who make that claim need to be smacked upside the head.
Ward chose. Bucky didn’t.
what is in that box?
#this says so much about each of their plans #may is going to survive on that island; kill its beasts and live on their meat #trip is getting out with a sat phone someone’s going to pick him up he has faith someone will get him #fitz has no fucking idea simmons is the smarter one ask her #simmons has been dreaming of this moment her whole life #skye also has no fucking idea but her laptop hasn’t failed her so far???? #ward is like may but he doesn’t think he will have to survive for that long #he has finite ammo he believes someone will come for him too #this scene (via maximofff)
I was thinking about this and I wonder
Ward didn’t even pick a hunting gun
Or something with more than six shots in it
I don’t think Ward’s fending off anyone
I think he only needs one bullet
And I don’t think he’s getting off that island at all
I kind of hate you right now.
*pets the stupid, stupid specialist-boy*
They actually named Skye on Agents of SHIELD “Mary Sue” … ‘nuff said.
Why is Skye a Mary Sue and Melinda May isn’t? Or Jemma Simmons?
Show your work.
Mary Sue Poots is first introduced as an anarchist hacker, living in a van but still manages to look like a supermodel. She is recruited into SHIELD by Agent Coulson where she continually out sasses everybody on a regular basis, is quickly sent into the field where she easily brings down villains of the week, is easily forgiven when she betrays SHIELD, and has a secret past that most of the audience doesn’t care about.
Eventually it is revealed that she has super powers and is the most important person in the world, all while critics and most audiences can’t muster the energy to care. The creators of the show seem to love her, while Mary Sue Poots and Chloe Bennet are torn down week after week by professional critics. Chloe Bennet auditioned six times for this role, and I find it impossible to believe there wasn’t at least one thespian who was better at the craft than she is because, well, I’ve seen more convincing performances in soft core porn.
At this point, I doubt I will ever like the show… but it would improve by leaps and bounds if they killed this character off. And right now they are telegraphing that she is going to redeem Hydra McBoringpants.
The show sucks, and Mary Sue Poots is the biggest reason (in a long list of reasons) why it sucks.
The most amusing analysis I saw: “By rejecting the name Mary Sue, the writers are showing the audience and the critics that she is not one.” Maybe they should have actually written her to be a decent character to begin with.
Had I accidentally written a character like Mary Sue “Skye” Poots, I’d go back and rewrite. Any hero worth their salt has a bunch of issues and quirks to make them relatable and likable. Batman should really be living in a padded room, Superman is lonely and struggling under the weight of massive responsibility, Iron Man has daddy issues and is emotionally closed off, Captain America is awkward with women, Spider-Man blames himself for everything, Elisa Maza is stubborn and sometimes selfish, Daenerys Targaryen has her issues with naivete, and soon, possibly, overconfidence.
Mary Sue “Skye” Poots is just perfectly perfect. Fuck her.
I feel like my concern was not actually addressed here. How is she different from Jemma and Melinda? We haven’t yet found the villain of the week whose ass Melinda can’t kick, nor the science question Jemma can’t solve. Every single character on the Bus is presented as the absolute top of their field, whether that field is piloting an oversized VTOL aircraft through a man-made nor-easter, curing an alien disease spread via static electricity with a survival rate of 0 and a patient lifespan measured in hours at best. Ward is a consummate liar, not to mention a solider who is presented as rivalling a Green Beret. Fitz builds electronics that rival Starkware.
We know next to nothing about any of these characters’ backstories — yet you claim that Skye is the one with a secret past. In fact, if I remember correctly, Skye’s past is the one we know the most about. Are you then alleging that because she is a foster child, who has no idea who her real parents are, and nevertheless managed to find a way to survive on her own when she was too old to be fostered, she cannot possibly be as skilled and intelligent as she is? I find that to be more than a little insulting — that would imply that success and intelligence are entirely dependent on nurture.
What makes Skye different from Jemma and Melinda /besides/ the fact that you don’t like her?