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I saw it for the first time on Agents Of SHIELD just last year. They left it up in the air if the trainee killed. At least i can't recall another use of the trope. The ultimate weapon seemed to be a version of a chemical agent used on the Agent Carter miniseries.Regarding the bit with shooting the dog, it's not something new in this sort of story. As soon as they introduced the puppies, I knew that their training would end with them being asked to kill them. Not sure what it's supposed to prove other than mindless, slavish acceptance of orders and/or sociopathic tendencies (neither of which seem of much value to the Kingsmen), but it is a trope that's used a lot. However, I did like the reveal that so much of the brutal training they went through was smoke and mirrors. No drownings or parachuteless jumps, no killing the trainees at all.
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Not too long ago I found a post from my uncle about the 1940s, so I can say with some authority that bro-hugs did not exist back then. Also, every single man would be wearing a fedora when he left the office. (It's an alternative universe, you say? How alternative?)
I remember hearing that the war started to change that standard fashion choice. First the shortages of material cut the use for civilians left behind during the war and then to the returning vets getting away from the sergeant who forced him to wear a hat it was a sign of freedom
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What year is it? Did they have black patrolmen in New York at that time? If so, it was probably realistic that he was riding alone. I didn't think New York got a black officer until sometime in the 40's.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is not real life, they have been fully integrated from their first scenes of crowds and the SSR basic training and assessment camp in the 1942 of The First Avenger. It was just a fluke that a Black agent wasn't shown in the SSR field office while two Asian agents were and two Black Howling Commandos are shown.
I found the first episode more shocking when Bubbles, Andre Royo, showed up as Spider in the first episode who by all looks was about to have sex with White women without notice by any character, his henchmen, customers or federal agents.
For a follow up MCU "historical" series I am interested in how did an open as the FBI it seems, SSR become a secret SHIELD that despite being as large as the USMC nobody knew about until the Battle of New York
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Anyone else think of "Dog Soldiers" when Reggie called Alfred a war dog?
I am older I thought of the Fredrick Forsyth book and Christopher Walken movie The Dogs of War. Not to mention Shakespeare's Julius Caesar:
Fish Mooney has absolutely no logic in her actions. How is gouging out your own eye a legitimate option when their whole plan was to blind you and leave you in the basement?
I guess you robbed them of a little profit they might get from selling the eyes, but they can still gouge out the other one and leave you in the basement blind and helpless like they planned on doing before.
Are they just gonna forget about taking the other eye, cause they can't sell it? I wouldn't, in fact as further punishment I'd use the spoon to remove her other eye instead of doing it surgically like I'm sure they would've if they planned on selling them as transplants. Or they could just murder her straight up. She's clearly more trouble then her eyes were worth, and now they are worth nothing.
This storyline makes no sense.
Think of it like she was a suicide bomber. Nu Battlestar Gallatica did a similar thing. She might not win, but neither will the other guy. Also losing an eye gives her more leadership credentials when she is thrown back into the Fish Tank dungeon, She is not just ordering the preemptive killings of other victims but she has shared in the risk.
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So Barbara is the one that teaches Poison Ivy and Catwoman to use their sexuality to their advantage. She can stay with them, they make her interesting. I do love that Selina keeps laying down the truths to Barbara. If a 14 year old street kid can see through your BS, it's time to take a look at your life choices. I also liked that she was going to clean up, she's a squatter with manners.
It looked to me as if Selina already knew and she is gearing up to protect herself from being raped by Barbara.
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After weeks of recreating music videos and Eddie laying out the red pumps and water hose to shot a Nicole video it is a sexual harassment tape causes this? It seems so weird this must be one of Hwang's real life stories
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LL Cool J, crossing networks with I Need Love as Eddie was trying to entice in Nicole into a music video.
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Fish is a fascinating character, but did they intend for her to be so prominent or is it a reaction to how popular the character became? Her prison drama is interesting, tho far-fetched - but she's a merciless killer and not exactly someone I'd root for in a fight. Are we supposed to root for lesser monsters versus larger monsters?
In the end isn't that what the Batman is? We just trust his judgement as he goes vigilante more than the corrupt Gotham justice system.
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Is Chevrolet still a sponsor? First Chin Ho traded his bike for a vintage Mustang and in the last episode it seemed as if The Lincoln Lawyer Matthew McConaughy was in a different Lincoln telling us how he always drove them
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Scott has said he prefers the "character" stories to the "procedural" stories. So that may be 1 reason why he was shot separately from the team; they've done it in other eps, as far back as S1, where Danny had a "character" driven story vs. the usual "procedural" story in an ep.
Plus, I guess Scott's been on something of a different shooting schedule for awhile now, compared to, say, Alex & some others on the cast, which is why Danny isn't in some eps at all now.
The actress who played the ATF Agent was Melina Kanakaredes. She's American, of Greek origin. I'm pretty sure she was in a (long-cancelled, & taped in New York City) CBS soap years ago. She was also in the NBC series Providence a few years ago, & previously/most recently worked with H50 showrunner Peter Lenkov when she starred in the 1st 5 (I think) of the 9 seasons of his previous show, CSI: NY, on CBS.
It was only on the TV Guide blurb that I saw the ATF agent promo, I was half expecting Detective CSI Bonasera for the grand linked CBS universe
Yes, I'm assuming that was the case too but I think it was a poor directorial choice not to actually show that shot. We only saw Amber/Melissa's face. It would either have given an added layer to their relationship or simply given an explanation. Maybe TPTB imagine they will return to it at some point but I doubt it'll happen.
Much as I lovelovelove Hurt!Danno, I can't help feeling it was rather wasted with absolutely NONE of the team present or even very involved. Another episode where Danno was separated - I just don't understand it. Also - shouldn't they have grabbed a towel, a tablecloth, a cushion...something, to stop the bleeding before running for the car?
The way they showed her doing the stop thinking a moment and the secondary running over of her ex husband I am half expecting a prosecutor to come back at her causing yet another break up for Danny.
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IIRC, the flack came because she played a nurse who lived in an expensive high rise not because she was a nurse. But the other things came because the story lines were a tad bit unreal for a Black woman in this society at that time. Happy to say I wasn't one of the flackers but I certainly understood what it was all about.
15 years later I noticed the fancy Marina Del Rey digs of CHP officers Jon and Ponch and just about every other TV character outside of Hill Street Blues living the high life. In any case Julia was a bit before my time
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I always enjoyed it more than its parent The Cosby Show, many days as I am getting ready for work I will watch it. Like The White Shadow and Freaks and Geeks for school based shows it holds up.
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I'll agree to disagree on the race isn't binary thing. Thinking on it further - given the one drop rule, the history of biracial/mixed actresses portraying non-biracial black female characters, and those who can't pass for white automatically declared/assumed black, I think race can indeed be binary. I understand where you're coming from on the matter of skin tone, though.
It isn't binary, However those perceived to have "one drop" of an African's blood where subject to extra special treatment from the government(s) only Blacks were segregated in the armed forces except for the special Japanese case for a federal example, as well as the genral population.
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Zola was captured on the mission where Sergeant Barnes was lost presumed dead.
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So we know SHIELD was experimenting with a Kree serum to save Avengers before Stark escaped from the Ten Rings. My call is Chief Dooley calling for Agent Carter to avenge him is the beginning of the Avengers Initiative.
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Gender is binary in the sense that there are two genders (I'm talking only about TV, where things like which gender a person display as is almost always their anatomical gender and their desired gender). That's why I used gender instead of sex -- the different types of sexuality is a whole 'nother discussion.
Race on the other hand is several continuums. Zoe Saldana is not the same color as Viola Davis (just to pick two random examples.) The amount of browm, red, yellow and other colors is wonderfully wide-ranging.
I wasn't talking about how people react, just how gender and race are perceived.
Curiously as a late baby boomer I would consider Zoe Saldana and Viola Davis as being in the same race. Hearing my grandmother use colored her entire life and using Negro, Afro American, Black and African American in my lifetime and seeing white flight and their return to my childhood neighborhood I and still amazed at the changes made in our perception
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I just read--in the last couple of days--S. Epatha Merkerson is apparently now attached to star in the upcoming Chicago Med spinoff that's in the same Dick Wolf universe started by Chicago Fire & Chicago PD, in which SVU also apparently exists since the Chicago shows have done crossovers with SVU.
However actor continuity does not exist in the Law & Order Universe with about 40 TV seasons worth of content most of the New York acting community have played multiple roles being hoods, lawyers or witnesses before being hired as an ADA or detective. Connie Rubirosa and Sergeant Munch being among the few to regularly play the same role in multiple show's of the extended universe which extends to Homicide Life On The Street and Dr. Emil Skoda being in New York Undercover
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The commercial for aos that aired was all of a sudden saying 'you like shows about strong women? Look at all the women on our show?' It's like they just realized people might be watching this show who have zero interest in watching theirs!
But they still ended with Skye so I'm not sold.
Yes, I loves that she just laid it out and it all just true and she didn't pull any logical punches.
You beat me to the props for the switchboard operator and her gun--loved that!!
Loved the support Peggy eventually got from both Sousa and Thompson after she busted all their asses on how they perceived her from the start. That scene was really well played by all four of them.
If you put item 17 into bomb form it would be pretty much the most effective weapon ever. No risk to soldiers as the enemy tears themselves apart. And if someone by chance escapes, they will spread the tale of Americans inducing incurable madness in Russian soldiers. That's a pretty big Boogeyman. Heck, you could put it in anything, make it into gift perfumes to wives of important leaders. Figure out how to put it in cigars and hand them out like candy. Even a noncombatant is dangerous if they're attacking with absolutely no regard for their own life.
Good grief, Howard. Some ideas you just shouldn't try out. Of course, we'll probably find out he was trying to make a happy gas so they just dissolved into the giggles for a few hours. The heat suit makes no sense. Why would you set it to warm up faster if someone's trying to take it off? And make the clasps so difficult to open? He needs the old timey version of a human-computer interactions person to work on his user interfaces, cause they suckkkk.
I love how the phone lady had her gun at the ready when talking to D'Arcy. And how their jaws all dropped when he said "written confession".
But of course the phone operator with her revolver at the ready like
the old lady with the Thompson submachinegun in the First Avenger
serving the point security role distracts from the entire theme that the men did not trust the women to fight that Agent Carter has used. That theme became useful in drawing in non fans for cross promotion with Agents of SHIELD where the best fighter is the Calvary being a fifty year old woman, Mockingbird being able to hold her own with Spiderman for a time and now we have a
super powered Quake/Daisy/Skye
I am not sure the mad gas was Howard Stark's baby it was tested in Russia perhaps somehow the wartime SSR got word and Stark brought back an artifact as in Ironman 3
where it was a plot point for his son to destroy his prototypes
I don't think Stark is the destroy for safety type. Thinking that science will eventually overcome any obstacle.
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I'm not buying SnakeBoy as Joker. He's got the laugh down, but no way does Gotham have the stones to introduce a character that canon this soon.
Judging by the way the promoted the episode there is no way they can survive as honorable people and have other promos work if he wasn't The Joker on his way to Arkham
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I still don't understand why this forum is not on the main page. Anyone know how to fix that?
I think the moderator in charge originally confused the forum request with the Jack Lord classic version
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Detectives work only one case and stay with it all the way to the end of the trail. Detective Brisco was working a case and putting in his retirement papers yet was there to clean out his desk after the killer was found not guilty at trail and then pleaded out on conspiracy when her partner was going to testify that she was part of her murder.
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The saddest part was it played as if Nick didn't have any friends from his long stay in Las Vegas, just workplace friends most of whom had moved on. In that case going to San Diego is a no brainier.
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The case with the Flash is... interesting, because there seems other minority characters (Joe West, Cisco) don't seem to have a problem getting good storylines. I think bias can certainly play a role, when it comes to love interests of color.
My problem with The Flash story line is that they were presented as siblings growing up, well the white lead was a foster child, and now she is to be the eventual love interest. So there is the not quite incest angle with the opening premise that has to be backed away from. So a writer is left with how do we make this work. Like the other comic franchises, Gotham, the Marvel Universe included race seems to make no difference at all to the characters, whether it is 1940's maybe the 90s in Gotham or the present day
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HYDRA had no loyalty to Hitler by the time we met Red Skull in CA #1. "Hail HYDRA". They were apolitical (beyond dreaming of world domination);
thus, they would be able to co-exist with like minded Russians / Soviets in 1946.
However they still were nominally part of the Axis Powers and the Soviets came in looking for vengeance. Just as the US used ex Nazis and ex Hydra for SHIELD the Soviets may have taken in ex Nazis and ex Hydra for Leviathan. And the same secret Hail Hydra salute in the shadows of Leviathan as with SHIELD, US Senators... but not in the open.
From the Winter Soldier and other shorts and post credit sequences I can only think the reemergence of Hydra, even inside a crumbling Soviet Union was secret until the helio-carriers were about to launch when the US/SHIELD head of the many headed Hydra went public.
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Race And Social Issues: The American Dream
in Fresh Off The Boat [V]
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On the other hand when the internet started and we could post with people around the world lo and behold British people were still using Oriental. On many threads in those early days of the net Americans would give what I learned in 1979 after using Oriental as a racial description . "oriental refers to objects and Asians are the people. To which the Brits would call us daft because how do you separate Asians, meaning folks from the Indian subcontinent and their immediate neighbors from those from the Orient
Sounds like my junior high school experience even though the Japanese were twice the number of the combined Chinese and Filipinos. It was only in senior high with a larger area serviced that we started to draw some Korean Americans from further north that I started to here the Nisei throw the "FOB" at Koreans