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It is a classic Whedon move that doesn't need to be over-analyzed. It's the subversion of a trope, mostly played for laughs, but also to close the book on bringing back the bad guy. Think of Loki getting ragdolled by the Hulk in The Avengers, as far as the humor.

The other thing you could try is to seek out the trade paper publications. These collect a story arc across one line or several lines if it's significant. That's how I do most of my comic reading now, courtesy of my public library.I just finished reading Avengers: Age of Ultron, which I think...

Depending on what you're after, you may be better off reading the Handbook to the Marvel Universe, which are encyclopedic entries on all Marvel's characters. Or reading Wikipedia. http://amzn.com/0785158316

I got the same vibe, her smirk was a nice touch, saying "I'm in control now." But I'm still not entirely sold on the immutability of Ward's motivations, mainly because we don't know where they originated. We just know he "owes Garrett everything." So what happens when Garrett is out of the...

I guess I really don't want to see him have real feelings for Skye and that she somehow "makes him a good man."

Hmm...I hope they make Ward an unredeemable character. That would take some guts.

I agree that the show has improved a great deal since it's tie-in with Winter Soldier, but by its very nature it's a "B" story to the events unfolding in Marvel's films. On one hand it's cool to have that crossover and potential synergy, reflective of what's been going on in comics for decades...

They just need to cast Tamlyn Tomita and it will be a veritable Joy Luck Club reunion!

Which is now over and done, making two Nikita shows you need to check out sometime. :)

Really as in 'this term exists' or as in 'that was a rhetorical question?' Or as in Skye is a Mary Sue?

Mary Sue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sue

I've had the exact same feeling about the show. It's interesting (but not exactly surprising) that the show would get more compelling as it approaches the Captain America film. It still hasn't gotten to "I want to own this" status for me, since so far it just amounts to last week's episode and...

The Marvel Universe is so big, with multiple timelines and realities, MAoS can pick and choose elements or go off on a whole other track and not be beholden to anything but the cinematic/TV universe being created. So even if someone is a walking Marvel Universe Encyclopedia, it doesn't really...

Nostalgia can be a powerful thing.

Yeah, I didn't really get the "you have to let go" thing, when they didn't even establish the nature of his condition or what was exactly making him phase in and out. Based on that, it was just sheer willpower fueled by his stalker obsession with the safety inspector? :huh: And while getting...

I was a bit surprised by the realistic sound effect when Simmons conked Fitz with the extinguisher. The soft "thud" (as opposed to metallic "clang" that's more common) actually made it seem more painful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa0TjiHiWeY&safe=active

Ming Na does know Cantonese, but – like me – bears the marks of being an ABC (American Born Chinese) or someone who came over to the US when very young. Her Canto was way better than Louis Ozawa Changchien's; she at least showed some base understanding of the pronunciation and tone.

My wife suspected he was a native Japanese speaker. A native Mandarin speaker would have a different accent than what we heard when he was speaking both English and Cantonese.But based on his Wikipedia article he's an American of Japanese and Taiwanese descent, born in New York. So he might have...

I had no idea either until whedonesque posted it. I thought she was part Latino. :-D

Chloe Bennet (née Wang) in her previous incarnation as Asian pop star.

Scorch's Cantonese was just awful. The exchange between him and May was the most humorous. May: [There's no going back!] Scorch: [I don't plan to change the topic!] Well, actually, you just did change the topic because you botched the pronunciation, dude! :lol: