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    Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 1

    Director: Joss Whedon (Pilot)
    Writers: Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon, & Maurissa Tancharoen
    IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2364582/
    Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.H.I.E...28TV_series%29
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    Synopsis:
    Stories of S.H.I.E.L.D.
    Cast:

    Clark Gregg - Phil Coulson
    Ming-Na Wen - Melinda May
    Iain De Caestecker - Leo Fitz
    Elizabeth Henstridge - Gemma Simmons
    Brett Dalton - Grant Ward
    Chloe Bennet - Skye

    Character Descriptions;

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    SKYE: This late-20s woman sounds like a dream: fun, smart, caring and confident – with an ability to get the upper hand by using her wit and charm.

    AGENT GRANT WARD: Quite the physical specimen and “cool under fire,” he sometimes botches interpersonal relations. He’s a quiet one with a bit of a temper, but he’s the kind of guy that grows on you.

    AGENT MELINDA MAY: Also known as “The Calvary,” this hard-core soldier has crazy skills when it comes to weapons and being a pilot. But her experiences have left her very quiet and a little damaged.

    AGENT LEO FITZ and AGENT GEMMA SIMMONS: These two came through training together and still choose to spend most of their time in each other’s company. Their sibling-like relationship is reinforced by their shared nerd tendencies – she deals with biology and chemistry, he’s a whiz at the technical side of weaponry.


    Episodes:

    01 - Pilot
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    Set after the events of The Avengers, Agent Phil Coulson (who survived his apparent death) assembles a small team of agents to investigate a superhuman, Mike Peterson (J. August Richards), who is able to survive an exploding building and a hacktivist group called the Rising Tide that seems to have information. Skye, a member of the Rising Tide, meets with Peterson to warn him about S.H.I.E.L.D., saying that they cover up superhero-based events and that she can help him, which he declines. Later, Skye is abducted by Coulson and Ward and questioned on their plane. She does not cooperate initially, but eventually reveals what she knows. It is later revealed that Peterson had been supplied with the Centipede serum (which is made up of alien metal, gamma radiation, the Extremis Virus, and the Super-Soldier Serum) giving him his powers, by an unknown organization that is behind Project Centipede. After visiting the explosion scene, Coulson's team is able to recreate it and learn that it was caused by another subject exploding due to Extremis. While attempting to get info to the team, Skye is kidnapped by Peterson (who is now on the run) and makes her give him a clean slate. Coulson's team is able to track them down and subdue Peterson without him causing mass damage while stopping an assassin that was sent by Dr. Debbie (Shannon Lucio). With Peterson in S.H.I.E.L.D. custody, Coulson offers Skye a place on the team.

    02 - 0-8-4
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    Skye is now integrated into Coulson's team as a consultant. Their next assignment is in Peru, tracking a "0-8-4." a S.H.I.E.L.D. code for "an object of unknown origin." Once there, the team quickly realizes that the object is actually a piece of forgotten HYDRA technology powered by Tesseract energy. Coulson meets with a former ally, Camilla Reyes (Leonor Varela), and brings her team aboard the plane. Later, Reyes betrays Coulson and plans to take the HYDRA weapon for herself so she can destroy the Peruvian rebels. The squabbling team members band together, utilizing each of their talents, and take out Reyes' men. Reyes is taken into custody and Skye texts another member of the Rising Tide, confirming that she has infiltrated Coulson's team. In the final scene, Director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) scolds Coulson for the damage to the plane and reminds him about the risk Skye poses.

    03 - The Asset
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    S.H.I.E.L.D. searches for one of its assets, Dr. Franklin Hall (Ian Hart), who was kidnapped by his former research partner, mining philanthropist, and CEO of Quinn Worldwide named Ian Quinn (David Conrad) when his soldiers use a gravity device on the S.H.I.E.L.D. convoy that was transporting him. He wants to use Hall to take control over the planet's gravity by building a giant "gravitonium" generator. Heading to Malta with the team, Skye volunteers to infiltrate Quinn's mansion during his party so that Coulson and Ward can rescue Hall. Skye tricks Quinn into believing she is betraying S.H.I.E.L.D. for Rising Tide to get his guard down. However, Coulson soon discovers that Hall perpetrated his own escape and wants to destroy the massive device. Hall believes he is in the right, but Coulson warns him doing so would end up killing millions. Their violent disagreement leads to Coulson being forced to not save Hall as he falls into the middle of the generator, seemingly vaporizing him. Coulson orders that the gravitonium be placed under high security and off the books. In the final scene, S.H.I.E.L.D. does not notice that Hall is still somehow alive but trapped within the gravitonium.

    04 - Eye Spy
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    There have been a series of thefts throughout the world that are almost impossibly premeditated. Coulson and his team investigates and he uncovers the identity of the thief: his former protégé Akela Amadour (Pascale Armand). Coulson had presumed her dead and does not believe she is capable of turning on S.H.I.E.L.D. despite May's argument that she is nothing more than a weapon. The team nearly catches up to her, but she manages to evade them. When May takes matters into her own hands upon finding her hotel room and Coulson catches up to her, they soon find out she is being blackmailed through a camera (with X-ray backscatter functions) that has replaced her right eye which has a fail-safe bomb in case she rebels. Coulson takes her to the Bus and hijacks her feed so Ward can take over her new mission. Fitz takes out the bomb while the others work to remove the camera from Akela's right eye. Coulson catches up to who he thinks is the mastermind behind Akela's thefts, but the man is quickly killed through a similar device to Akela's. Coulson and Ward are then left wondering who was actually behind Akela's thefts. Now wearing an eyepatch, Akela is taken away by S.H.I.E.L.D. officers though Coulson promises her she will have a fair trial. Before she goes, Akela tells May something seems different about Coulson. Afterwards, Fitz is playing poker with Ward and taunts him as they play. Ward is unaware that Skye is about to use the glasses he used to simulate Akela's vision to help Fitz cheat, but Fitz changes his mind when Skye tells Fitz she will see him without clothes, and he leaves. She turns them on anyway to check out Ward.

    05 - Girl in the Flower Dress
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    Chan Ho Yin (Louis Ozawa Changchien) is a Hong Kong street magician who dreams of becoming something more. He reveals his secret pyrokinetic ability to a "girl in a flower dress" named Raina (Ruth Negga) who kidnaps him and then promises him fame in exchange for running a few tests on his powers. Upon being informed of Chan's abduction by his handler, S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Quan Chen (Tzi Ma), the S.H.I.E.L.D. team attempts to trace his whereabouts. They find that it was the Rising Tide who leaked the information that led to his capture and the blame falls to Skye. She protests her innocence and believes she knows another hacker who could have released the info. They head to Austin, Texas where it is revealed that Skye has a relationship with said hacker Miles Lydon (Austin Nichols). After Skye spends the night with Miles trying to learn what she can, Coulson's team arrives. They are both led back to the Bus in handcuffs while the team flies to Hong Kong to rescue Chan. Chan discovers his captors, who are associated with Project Centipede, are injecting him with Extremis which increases the strength of his flame powers. Chan takes on the name Scorch. Back at the Bus, Miles told Coulson that he thought Project Centipede was an environmental activist group. Raina turns on Chan and orders Dr. Debbie (who previously worked on Mike Peterson) and the other doctors to have his blood platelets to be harvested for further experimentation by Project Centipede. Upon being freed during a S.H.I.E.L.D. raid on the Project Centipede facility, Scorch kills Agent Quan, attacks Coulson and May, and incinerates Dr. Debbie while Raina escapes. They are forced to activate the unstable element of Extremis to kill him. Miles is released from S.H.I.E.L.D.'s custody, though he is fitted with a tracking device that logs his computer activity as part of his probation. Coulson is told by Ward that Skye hacked the mainframe for them and are unsure if they will find the masterminds behind Project Centipede. Skye is later harshly questioned by Coulson and tearfully reveals that the reason she is with the team and worked for Rising Tide is to find her missing parents, who were connected to S.H.I.E.L.D. in some way. Coulson pledges to help her, but fits her with the same tracking bracelet that Miles was given. In the final scene, Raina visits a mysterious man in prison to discuss the outcome of the experiment and asks him to contact the "Clairvoyant."

    06 - F.Z.Z.T.
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    At the start of the episode Agent Coulson is taking his physical exam. In the lab Agent Ward is testing out a new weapon and says its an ounce too heavy. Once Ward leaves, Skye, Fitz and Simmons are making fun of him by doing impressions of him. Then Agent Coulson and the team investigate a series of deaths, involving levitation and electrostatic anomalies. Although the team initially assumed the deaths were caused by some form of weapon, the cause of the anomalies is discovered to be an alien virus found on a Chitauri helmet salvaged from the Battle of New York that turns the unwitting victims into electrostatic bombs. When Agent Simmons is infected by the fatal virus, she and Agent Fitz work feverishly on a cure, while Coulson ignores a direct order from Agent Blake (Titus Welliver) to sacrifice Simmons to save the rest of the team. With time running out and unaware their last attempt was actually successful, Simmons knocks out Fitz to leap from the plane, but Ward manages to save her before she plunges to her death. Simmons and Ward then receives a telling off from Agent Coulson who mentioned how tough it was for him to get the Moroccans to help get them out of the ocean. Once outside his office, Ward mimics Skye, Fitz and Simmons' impressions of him that he overheard. After his physical reveals nothing unusual, Coulson confides in Agent May he is searching for some explanation for why he feels different. She points out that it would be impossible not to be changed by his seeming death; alluding to having gone through her own life-shattering incident. In the final scene, the helmet is delivered to the S.H.I.E.L.D. Sandbox facility to the possession of Agent Blake, who warns Coulson of the consequences of disobeying a direct order from headquarters.

    07 - The Hub
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    Coulson and his team arrive at a base called the S.H.I.E.L.D. Hub and are given an assignment by its director Agent Victoria Hand (Saffron Burrows). The assignment calls for Ward and Fitz to head to South Ossetia and disable a weapon device called the Overkill. Skye and Simmons try to find out more information about the mission, since they are not privy to details about the mission which has been classified as Level 8. Simmons manages to tranquilize Agent Jasper Sitwell who catches her in the act of hacking into top secret Level 8 files. Skye deduces from the information that there is no extraction team coming to pick up Ward and Fitz and Coulson learns about this upon catching her. After a talk with Victoria Hand, Coulson and the team proceed to rescue Ward and Fitz (who manage to disable the Overkill device) as S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents move in on the compound. Coulson did find out that the person who brought Skye to the orphanage when she was young was an as-yet-unidentified S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent. However, Coulson does not tell her the full truth about the file and asks May to discreetly investigate the matter further. In the final scene, Coulson (wanting to find out about his recuperation in Tahiti) is denied access to the Level 8 information despite his high level S.H.I.E.L.D. clearance. When the person he calls up about it asks if he would like to get approval from Nick Fury about it, Coulson declines and hangs up.

    08 - The Well
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    The team assists in the clean-up in the aftermath of the events of Thor: The Dark World and look into a plot to find and assemble three parts of an Asgardian Berserker Staff which imbues the holder with super strength and an uncontrollable rage. They are opposed by a paganist hate group in Norway led by Jakob Nystrom (Michael Graziadei) and Petra Larsen (Erin Way). Phil Coulson tells his team that he has called Nick Fury about it and has been informed that Thor is currently off the grid. Coulson's team is assisted by a professor in Spain named Dr. Elliot Randolph (Peter MacNicol). Touching the staff, Ward relives a traumatic childhood memory involving his abusive brother and a well. He becomes irritable and aggressive and possesses increased strength. Following the clues to the staff parts, the team discovers that Randolph is actually an Asgardian who has lived on Earth for centuries. The team recovers the Asgardian artifact in a battle with the paganist hate group. The staff repairs itself and as Ward and May defeat the paganist hate group. Randolph is convinced to relocate to Portland where Coulson offers to introduce him to Thor when next he is in town. In a hotel, Agent Ward declines Skye's invitation to having a chat in her room and follows Agent May into her room instead. In the final scene, Coulson has a nightmare about his recuperation in Tahiti.

    09 - Repairs
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    A mysterious force threatens Phil Coulson's team when they bring in a StatiCorp safety inspector named Hannah Hutchins (Laura Seay) who is blamed for an explosion that killed some technicians at StatiCorp's Particle Acceleration Complex where it is believed that she has manifested telekinesis by Coulson. Fitz and Simmons plan a S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy-style prank on Skye revolving around May's past. After the plane makes an emergency landing, they soon discover that the mysterious force is actually a Particle Acceleration Complex worker named Tobias Ford (Robert Baker) who is trapped between Earth and "Hell" (which Tobias believes that he is being dragged to) following the explosion and is targeting Hannah to protect her from those who would try to harm her as he accidentally caused the explosion to get time with Hannah. After Tobias defeats Ward, May manages to defeat Tobias at a nearby barn and convinces him to let go causing Tobias to disappear to an unknown location. Skye is thanked by Phil Coulson for identifying Tobias Ford and getting to know more about May's past. In the final scene, Coulson's team plays a game of Upwords as Fitz comes in with shaving cream on his face, unaware that May was the one who pulled that prank.

    10 - The Bridge
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    Phil Coulson recruits Mike Peterson to his team for super-soldier support when soldiers working for Project Centipede spring Edison Po (Cullen Douglas) from prison following their perfection of the Centipede serum. Coulson's team traces a Centipede-powered soldier named Brian Hayward to an abandoned factory, and walk into an ambush by a squad of Centipede-powered soldiers. When Edison and Raina see that Peterson still has his powers despite not having had an injection in some time, they realize he is the key to Stage 3 of their plan. Coulson's team discover that the soldiers were subjected to the same eye procedure to which Akela Amadour was subjected. Edison tells Raina that he told the Clairvoyant about her and that the last person who tried to find out who the Clairvoyant was stabbed to death. Meanwhile, as Skye investigates the mystery of her parents, Coulson and May are shown to be hiding information from her. When Peterson contacts his son, Ace, he learns that he has been kidnapped by Project Centipede, who wants Peterson in exchange for Ace's safety. When Coulson escorts Peterson to an arranged prisoner exchange, Peterson reveals that Centipede wants Coulson in exchange for Ace, not Peterson, but Peterson cannot go through with this betrayal. Nonetheless, Coulson, to save Ace's life, agrees to be taken prisoner. After the exchange, Peterson tries to rescue Coulson, but Centipede sets off an explosion, in which Peterson is presumed killed. After Raina escapes with Coulson in the final scene, she tells him that he only needs to give Project Centipede the information regarding how he came back to life the day after he died.

    11 - The Magical Place
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    Victoria Hand is assigned to lead S.H.I.E.L.D.'s efforts to rescue Coulson while his captors Project Centipede torture him to learn the secret of his resurrection. Believing Skye to be untrustworthy, Hand has Skye removed from the Bus. S.H.I.E.L.D. captures Mr. Vanchat, a black market dealer and an associate of Raina's. Ward manages to get Mr. Vanchat to supply S.H.I.E.L.D. with information on her. Skye sets out on her own investigation. She impersonates May and coerces Lloyd Rathman, a businessman of questionable dealings, to assist her into hacking into secure files. Coulson is initially tortured by Po, who tells him that the Clairvoyant cannot glean the information they want because the Clairvoyant has been unable to sense Coulson since his resurrection. The Clairvoyant decides that Po's methods are ineffective and kills him, after which Raina takes over Coulson's interrogation. She uses a scanning device to compel him to remember aspects of his being brought back to life. Coulson experiences flashbacks in which a reluctant Dr. Streiten and others were operated on him. During these flashbacks, Coulson's skull cap was removed and his brain was being directly stimulated by a robotic apparatus, while Coulson begged to be allowed to die. After S.H.I.E.L.D. rescues Coulson, he confronts Streiten, who tells Coulson he had been dead days, not minutes, and was resurrected at the orders of Director Fury. Streiten reveals that after his revival, Coulson had lost the will to live, and that the doctors manipulated Coulson's brain to give him false memories and restore his will to live. In the final scene, it is revealed that Peterson is alive, albeit badly burned, missing the lower half of his right leg, and has had one of the controlling eyes implanted in him by someone working for the Clairvoyant.

    12 - Seeds
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    Ward, Fitz, Simmons, and Skye go to a S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy to investigate an attack upon students which was done with an "ice machine", a device that can freeze people and their surroundings. During their time there, another ice machine goes off freezing cadet Donnie Gill (Dylan Minnette), though the agents are able to save him. While the others are interrogating the other cadets, Fitz gets to know Donnie, seeing much of himself in him and helping him solve an problem with a new power source Donnie has invented. The team learns that Donnie and his fellow cadet Seth Dormer (Daniel Zovatto) are behind the ice machines and that the power source Fitz helped him perfect was for a larger version of it. Meanwhile, Coulson and May head to Mexico City to find a former agent named Richard Lumley (Boyd Kestner), who tells them of a mission 24 years earlier involving an 0-8-4, which turned out to be Skye. He warns them that she is dangerous, as many agents, including his partner, Linda Avery, died trying to protect her. After meeting with the rest of the team, Coulson relates what Lumley revealed to Skye, who is devastated at the revelation. Donnie and Seth activate the larger device, causing a huge ice storm that Seth hopes will impress Ian Quinn, for whom Seth's father works as a lawyer at Quinn Worldwide. Realizing his mistake, Donnie attempts to shut it down, but a bolt of lightning destroys the machine and puts Seth in cardiac arrest. May tells Coulson about her sexual relationship with Ward; Coulson says he trusts her to comport herself responsibly, but adds that, if it becomes a problem...to which she responds she will break it off. The team apprehends Donnie but is unable to save Seth's life. On his way to the Sandbox for observation, Donnie realizes that the explosion of the ice machine has given him cryogenic abilities. In the final scene, Ian Quinn receives a call from Coulson warning him that if his aircraft flies over any country that is a S.H.I.E.L.D. ally, it will be shot down. Before hanging up, Quinn gives Coulson a message that the Clairvoyant says "hello."

    13 - T.R.A.C.K.S.
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    In order to find the Clairvoyant, the team boards a train in Italy on which a Cybertek Inc. security group led by Carlo Mancini (TJ Ramini) is shipping a package to Ian Quinn. They take over the mission for an Italian police member named Luca Russo (Carlo Rota). The team splits into groups, with Coulson and Simmons posing as a father and daughter while Fitz and Skye work with Ward and May to track down the package. However, the group is exposed, leaving Coulson and Ward to flee the train. May also goes missing, but when Coulson and Ward track her down, they learn the team was sold out by Luca Russo, who is killed by May. The team finds the train and Simmons, but Fitz and Skye are gone, having disembarked to track the package to Quinn's mansion. In the basement, Skye is confronted by Quinn and Mancini, who reveal that Mike Peterson is alive, having been kept in a hyperbaric chamber. Mancini opens the package which a high-tech prosthetic leg that he fits onto Peterson's amputated right leg. To test Peterson's obedience to Project Centipede, Quinn orders him to kill Skye. He refuses, stating that Skye is not who the Clairvoyant wants him to kill. Instead, Quinn then shoots Skye twice in the stomach and leaves her for dead stating that he has his own orders. Peterson then executes the Cybertek security team because they led S.H.I.E.L.D. to the mansion. Quinn walks right into a S.H.I.E.L.D. raid on the mansion. Quinn is arrested, but Skye is left near death and Simmons can only sustain her temporarily by placing her into Peterson's hyperbaric chamber. In the final scene, Peterson secretly observes his son at a playground and requests the Clairvoyant to let him see his son by writing on a piece of paper for the Clairvoyant to read. The Clairvoyant says "not yet". The view zooms in on his new prosthetic leg which bears the name "Project Deathlok".

    14 - T.A.H.I.T.I.
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    Skye is rushed to a S.H.I.E.L.D. medical facility to save her life. The doctors are only able to stabilize her, forcing Coulson to bring her to the S.H.I.E.L.D. location where he was revived. Agents John Garrett (Bill Paxton) and Antoine Triplett (B.J. Britt) board the Bus in order to claim Ian Quinn, who Garrett's men had been pursuing, and bring him to the Fridge for questioning, as Coulson refuses to turn him over. Garrett compromises with Coulson when he realizes he is keeping Quinn until he can save Skye. Through interrogating Quinn, Coulson and Garrett learn that the Clairvoyant made Quinn shoot Skye, so he could learn how Coulson came back from the dead. Fitz and Simmons, who are looking over Coulson's medical files, realize that S.H.I.E.L.D. did not revive Coulson, rather a place known as the "Guest House". They realize a specific drug would be there to help Skye. At the "Guest House", Coulson, Ward, Garrett and Fitz enter and find the place rigged with explosives after taking out the only guards. Fitz is able to find the drug, while Coulson finds a room marked "T.A.H.I.T.I." Inside, Coulson finds more of the drug as well as discovering that the drug is coming from the upper half of a blue-skinned humanoid corpse. Everyone is able to get out before the facility implodes, with Fitz getting the drug to Simmons in time to save Skye, despite Coulson's reservations, based on what he saw. In the final scene, Lorelei (Elena Satine) arrives at a motel in Death Valley and comes across a newlywed couple. She mesmerizes the man, who drives away with her, leaving his wife at the motel.

    15 - Yes Men
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    Lorelei ditches her previous victim for a biker whose gang she enslaves for her plans to create an army. While talking to Skye, who has finally awoken from her coma, the team is summoned by May to investigate an energy reading in the desert consistent with the imminent arrival of an Asgardian. They encounter Lady Sif (Jaimie Alexander), who has come to Earth seeking Lorelei. Reuniting with Coulson, she explains that Lorelei escaped imprisonment in Asgard during the attack of the Dark Elves and that to reverse her power to control the minds of men, she must fit a special collar around Lorelei's neck that prevents her from speaking. The team and Sif travel to the biker bar Lorelei is using as a hideout, but during the battle, Lorelei enchants Ward and escapes with him. They go to Las Vegas, where Lorelei and Ward have sex in a hotel room, but when Coulson, Sif and a S.H.I.E.L.D. team catch up, the two are nowhere to be found. They realize too late that Ward and Lorelei, planning to eliminate any threats to Lorelei's rule, have commandeered the Bus with help from an enchanted Fitz, who locks Sif in the interrogation room and imprisons Simmons in Skye's recovery room. Coulson, pretending to be under Lorelei's power as well, learns of Simmons' location and frees her. Lorelei encounters May and claims that Ward revealed to her that despite their sexual relationship, his heart is with someone other than May. Simmons and Skye help trick Lorelei into entering the interrogation room, where Sif confronts her; while they fight, May is forced to do battle with Ward. Sif finally manages to disarm Lorelei, and despite Lorelei's attempts to get Sif to kill her, Sif fixes the collar to Lorelei's neck, undoing her enchantment on Ward and Fitz. Sif thanks Coulson for the team's aid and says that she will bring Lorelei back to Asgard on Odin's orders, while May ends her relationship with Ward. Coulson goes to Skye and confesses that he discovered the drug used to revive them both was alien in origin based on his own suspicions and information provided by Sif. Despite how disturbed Coulson is by this fact, Skye remains optimistic, and Coulson swears that they will get answers, beginning by tracking down the Clairvoyant once and for all. He orders Skye to keep the origin of the drug a secret until Nick Fury gives them the truth. It is revealed that May is secretly monitoring him. She picks up a secure phone line to a dead drop and informs the party on the other end that "Coulson knows".

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    17 - Turn, Turn, Turn
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    Joss Whedon.

    That is all needs said, you can have anything you want from me.

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    Well it can't be any worse than Dollhouse.

    Or can it?

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    Considering the marketing effort that will no doubt go into this, it'll have a huge audience willing to sit down and watch the first two or so episodes. Capturing that audience to routinely repeat watching will be the challenge as will how they incorporate the super heroes and villains.

    It'll be interesting to say the least. I wonder what timeslot this will get?

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    Those new acolytes Joss Whedon picked up for directing Avengers are gonna be really disappointed when they find out his track record on sustainable television is pretty poor. (I know that's not his fault, but let's just say he shouldn't cast Summer Glau.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Correction View Post
    Well it can't be any worse than Dollhouse.

    Or can it?
    Dollhouse was a delicious sea of tits and ass, you bite your tongue.

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    oh boy i cum

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    Quote Originally Posted by boo View Post
    oh boy i cum
    amazing

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    I'm still hoping Agent Sitwell will be added to this lineup.

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    So excited for this show.

    I NEVER BELIEVED YOU WERE DEAD FOR A SECOND, COULSON <3

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ralys View Post
    So excited for this show.

    I NEVER BELIEVED YOU WERE DEAD FOR A SECOND, COULSON <3
    Or the story happened before he was dead

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    Quote Originally Posted by boo View Post
    Or the story happened before he was dead
    I'm pretty sure that they said somewhere the show will not be a flashback or a prequel.

    Don't crush my dreams. :c

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trichocyst View Post
    Those new acolytes Joss Whedon picked up for directing Avengers are gonna be really disappointed when they find out his track record on sustainable television is pretty poor. (I know that's not his fault, but let's just say he shouldn't cast Summer Glau.)
    Sustainable record for Fox is poor. Any other network he will do fine on. Buffy and Angel both had good runs.

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    Something that really catches me is that Tony Stark in avengers makes reference to a LMD, which means they must exist (or TS is just that silly to make it up in that universe)

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    Nashville actress Chloe Bennet is the last lead cast member to join Joss Whedon's S.H.I.E.L.D. series. Her character is named Skye and she's described as "a confident woman who is slightly obsessed with superhero culture and the shadow organizations that exist within it. She's edgy and can out-talk anyone with her unflappable nature."
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    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/liv...-bennet-405087

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    ABC president: 'S.H.I.E.L.D' is classic Joss Whedon, series order sounds likely

    Joss Whedon’s S.H.I.E.L.D. may only be a pilot at this stage, but ABC entertainment president Paul Lee sounds confident he’ll give the heavily buzzed-about project a series order.
    Critics pelted Paul Lee with questions about the network’s upcoming Avengers-related project at the network’s press tour day in Pasadena, and the executive gave up a few tidbits. Lee described the Whedon series as “not exactly about The Avengers but is attached to it” and promised “I can tell you it’s a great story.”
    “It’s just very Joss,” Lee said. “You know how Joss is so high-low? And he’s able to be intense and epic and suddenly funny and silly? He’s just got that ability to be super entertaining and sort of super educated.”
    Lee added that Whedon is “very engaged” in the creative process of the series despite big-screen commitments and that Whedon is working on scripts beyond the pilot (writers are sometimes required to produce a show “bible” or additional scripts order as part of a pilot agreement). “For us to have Joss Whedon not only [attached to] the show but passionate about the show, directing and writing pilot … he’s already working on the scripts,” Lee said. “We shot it in LA to make sure he’s free to work on it across his TV and feature life.”

    Asked if S.H.I.E.L.D. will be the network’s most expensive pilot yet, Lee said, “I don’t know that it will be. We’ll certainly be investing in it. It’s a big franchise for us.”
    And where on the schedule might S.H.I.E.L.D. go? Sundays with fairy tale hit Once Upon a Time, perhaps? “There’s no question S.H.I.E.L.D. could go anywhere. It could absolutely go on Sunday.”
    All of which sounds optimistic. More practically, it’s just unlikely that ABC would invest so heavily in this big of a Marvel project with Whedon and not pull the trigger (unless, of course, the pilot just turned out dreadful). After all, even if the show flops, it would be tough to criticize any executive for taking a chance on it. One critic pointed out that superheros have flourished on the big screen but TV versions often stumble. Lee replied, “They said the same thing about fairy tales. We couldn’t pick a better group of people or a better set of brands to do [a super hero show] with.”

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    Joss Whedon Says ‘Avengers 2′ Goes Deeper Into the Team Story; ‘S.H.I.E.L.D.’ is “Very Human”

    Many of us feel overwhelmed when we wake up and think about what needs to be accomplished in a day. Now multiply that general feeling by a large factor and add the pressure of worldwide interest; that’s what Joss Whedon is probably feeling right now. The director of The Avengers is currently getting ready to direct the pilot for ABC’s S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series, while simultaneously writing The Avengers 2 and acting as a consultant on the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe.

    In a new interview, Whedon talked about his current role in all those things. He said The Avengers 2 is mid-script, would be finished in a few months and would ”go deeper” instead of bigger. The S.H.I.E.L.D. TV show shoots in just over a week, and he also discusses how Marvel action would translate to the small screen. Finally, he talks about just how involved he’s been with the upcoming Marvel films, which includes Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy. Check out the interview below.

    http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/170...s-whedon.jhtml

    In case you can’t watch the video above (I know MTV embeds doesn’t work in other countries) here are the quotes:

    On how to meet the expectations of a sequel to a big movie like The Avengers:

    Don’t go bigger; go deeper. All of these people have met, so you have that out of the way. Now you can spend your time just digging in, and by digging in, I mean with a scalpel, to cause pain.


    On the status of S.H.I.E.L.D. and how to bring Marvel to TV:

    [We start filming] a week from Tuesday. You have to bring a bit of spectacle to it. It’s got to be bigger than your average cop show. But at the end of the day, it’s about the peripheral people. It’s about the people on the edges of the grand adventures. The whole point of the show is that even with all these big things, the little things matter. It’s about people who don’t have super powers. There will be some people with powers, there will be FX, and there will be the spectacle of science-fiction storytelling, but all played on a very human, small level. That’s the appeal of the thing.

    On his current role with the other Marvel films:

    I read all the scripts and I give notes on everything. I’ll look at cuts when they’re ready to show me. I’ll talk to directors if they want to. I try to make myself useful without being intrusive. I’ve gotten to be a part of all of them. That’s a dream job for a kid like me.

    I mean with a scalpel, to cause pain.


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