new show: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Thorin · May 23, 2013, 01:49:57 PM

The new show "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." is supposedly starting this fall. I can't wait!

trailer: http://youtu.be/yFn-VQbkPSM

Darren Dirt · May 23, 2013, 02:04:51 PM

http://forums.righteouswrath.com/index.php/topic,9001.msg71667.html#msg71667

Tom · May 23, 2013, 02:16:22 PM

No RDJ no watch.

Thorin · May 23, 2013, 02:21:45 PM

Quote from: Darren Dirt on May 23, 2013, 02:04:51 PM
http://forums.righteouswrath.com/index.php/topic,9001.msg71667.html#msg71667

Hmm, maybe I should've done a search before posting.

RDJ? Sorry, I'm not a very knowledgeable Avengers fan yet. Oh, wait, Robert Downey Junior?

Tom · May 23, 2013, 02:29:06 PM

Quote from: Thorin on May 23, 2013, 02:21:45 PM
Quote from: Darren Dirt on May 23, 2013, 02:04:51 PM
http://forums.righteouswrath.com/index.php/topic,9001.msg71667.html#msg71667

Hmm, maybe I should've done a search before posting.

RDJ? Sorry, I'm not a very knowledgeable Avengers fan yet. Oh, wait, Robert Downey Junior?

Yeah.

Mr. Analog · May 23, 2013, 03:00:04 PM

I'm stoked for this, it's got Agent Coulson man!!

Also it has Chun Li

Darren Dirt · May 23, 2013, 03:25:22 PM

Quote from: Mr. Analog on May 23, 2013, 03:00:04 PM
I'm stoked for this, it's got Agent Coulson man!!

Don't you mean Special Agent Michael Casper?

Mr. Analog · May 23, 2013, 03:46:07 PM

I heard he was dead!

lol

Thorin · May 23, 2013, 03:50:30 PM

Nope, Casper's from a different universe.

Also, that took me a bit to figure out the connection, as I've never watched the West Wing.

Darren Dirt · May 23, 2013, 05:01:17 PM

Quote from: Thorin on May 23, 2013, 03:50:30 PM
Nope, Casper's from a different universe.

Haven't tried myself, but wouldn't surprise me if not much work is required to prove otherwise.

... and going deeper with that thought, see: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kwgow/crossovers.html (simple text list here ; i.e. starting at St. Elsewhere and you've instantly got connections to long-running shows like Cheers (and thus Wings/Frasier) and Homicide: Life on The Street (and thus every single Law & Order franchise) ... and it would just take a single repeated character to get to The West Wing ... and although this is obviously pure speculation right now, it would not exactly be surprising if somewhere in the S.H.I.E.L.D. series there's a cameo-like reference/connection to the rest of the Whedonverse! (BUFFY is in the text list linked above, so that would be all that is needed ... or some reference to "West Wing" in the new Arrested Development episodes maybe?)

Any WW fans who also remember Sorkin's "SportsNight"? cuz SN is on the TWU map too. #soClose

Thorin · May 23, 2013, 07:34:27 PM

I wonder how many other Marvel Universe characters will make an appearance. Most of them I probably wouldn't recognize.

Summer Glau needs to show up as a character. That is all.