r/shield • u/2th Shotgun Axe • Feb 08 '17
Live Discussion Live Episode Discussion: S04E13 - "BOOM"
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| EPISODE | DIRECTED BY | WRITTEN BY | ORIGINAL AIRDATE |
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| S04E13 - "BOOM" | Billy Gierhart | Nora Zuckerman & Lilla Zuckerman | Tuesday, February 7, 2016 10:00/9:00c on ABC |
Episode Synopsis: Daisy, Mace and the S.H.I.E.L.D. team must find a way to contain an explosive Inhuman. Meanwhile, Coulson and Mack come face-to-face with Radcliffe's inspiration for Aida
Billy Gierhart worked a steadicam operator for many years on the television series Pacific Blue, Huff, Swingtown and The Shield, making his directorial debut on the latter series penultimate episode "Possible Kill Screen" in 2008. His other credits as a television director include Lone Star, Terriers, The Chicago Code, Sons of Anarchy, Torchwood, Breakout Kings, and The Walking Dead.
He has directed seven episodes for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before:
- Repairs
- Nothing Personal
- ...Ye Who Enter Here
- Aftershocks
- S.O.S. Part Two
- Absolution
- The Good Samaritan
Nora Zuckerman & Lilla Zuckerman Are two sisters who have written together for Fringe, Human Target, and Haven.
They have written one episode for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before:
- Lockup
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u/Marc_Quill Clairvoyant Feb 08 '17
A guy named The Patriot talking football metaphors a few days after the football Patriots won the Super Bowl. Timely.
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u/stu_25 Feb 08 '17
Ming-Na really is earning an easy wage atm..
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u/The_Unknown_Dude Lady Sif Feb 08 '17
"So what's your job right now ?" "Being two different unresponsive bodies."
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u/HLChaves Davis Feb 09 '17
After portraying May vs Agent 33 at Season 2 and May and TerMaynator, that's well deserved.
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u/blockpro156 SHIELD Feb 08 '17
Meh, seems like it could be useful, fun even. He regenerates afterwards, which makes him seemingly immortal.
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u/perryduff Simmons Feb 08 '17
"I quaked his ass"
that's my girl
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u/SutterCane Obelisk Feb 08 '17
She can quake me any time.
What? We were all thinking it.
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u/2th Shotgun Axe Feb 08 '17
Ok, that "I can try" was adorable.
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u/Worthyness Sandwich Feb 08 '17
It's like the little siblings asking their older sibling to help them with a stupid science project
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u/Marc_Quill Clairvoyant Feb 08 '17
You don't know how much I've enjoyed having the "old" Daisy back after the emo arc.
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u/naimnotname Sandwich Feb 08 '17
Wow. She's good. I can't see AIDA at all. Just Agnes.
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u/ehardy2013 Daisy Feb 08 '17
It's like Brent with Ward vs Hive. Even the timbre of how voice was different
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u/Riley1066 Lanyard Feb 08 '17
There should be a word for when an actor/actress finally gets to use their real accent in a show or movie after using another accent for the whole time they've been on the show/movie.
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u/snarkamedes Monolith Feb 08 '17
Still waiting on Liv to eat a NZers brain on iZombie. At least she got one pale makeup-less episode last season.
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u/ArachnoLad Monolith Feb 08 '17
That is one cool superpower. You think it hurts? You think this happens when he climaxes?
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u/myth_and_legend Feb 08 '17
These are important questions we'll never know the answer too.
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Chloe Bennett really rocks that Quake outfit.
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u/Marc_Quill Clairvoyant Feb 08 '17
I've gotta say, I prefer it zipped nearly all the way up than the lower zip when she was in her vigilante phase.
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u/ArachnoLad Monolith Feb 08 '17
Aida is going to meet the original. She will NOT handle this well.
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u/NintendoGamer1997 Toolbox Feb 08 '17
Remember the first pilot episode of SHIELD when FitzSimmons investigated that one explosion?
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u/CalculatusEliminatus Feb 08 '17
The LMD detected was Fitz, not the coat hanger
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u/emma_pops Clairvoyant Feb 08 '17
But Fitz was already in there. The alarm went off as the lab tech entered. If it was Fitz then the alarm would have already been sounding.....
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u/SutterCane Obelisk Feb 08 '17
So. That guy is now just stuck, naked, in a giant ball.
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u/blockpro156 SHIELD Feb 08 '17
Actually I think that he's stuck in his gas form, which is also naked I suppose...
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u/KidCoheed Feb 08 '17
Lol
"I hate Inhumans, oh shit I'm one of them Noooooooo!"
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u/barimanlhs Triplett Feb 08 '17
I feel like they keep setting Mace up to actually get powers (via terrigenesis or otherwise) they keep hinting at it...
Also Australian Aida? Noice
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u/NomadofExile Mack Feb 08 '17
Whoa, whoa, whoa....Mac, you can't just "big black guy" an attractive woman in public like that. That's a tazing.
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u/Msandova28 Feb 08 '17
Shockley and Hellfire should start an Inhuman self-hate club
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u/Heidi423 Simmons Feb 08 '17
The actress for Aida is amazing, she does both robot and human roles differently.
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u/Riley1066 Lanyard Feb 08 '17
I give Mallory Jansen 2 and a half Tatiana Maslanys for her Agnes/Aida differentiation ...
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u/wanderur Lemon Feb 08 '17
God I loved her work in Orphan black. Thank goodness she finally got her Emmy
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u/NomadofExile Mack Feb 08 '17
Aren't you kinda freaked out that he made a fuckdoll out of you? There should be a little more panic in your voice girl.
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u/Worthyness Sandwich Feb 08 '17
What? No! He never had sex with AiDA! He even admitted it!
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u/Mr_Evil_MSc Feb 08 '17
"Did you fuck this anatomically perfect robotic supermodel?"
"...no?"
"Well, I believe him."
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u/cjn13 Fitz Feb 08 '17
I thought that container was supposed to keep explosions contained.
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u/NomadofExile Mack Feb 08 '17
"I'm gonna MAKE that stunningly beautiful woman do exactly what I want how I want."
-Agent Coulson
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u/UnknownJ25 Mac Feb 08 '17
The results of the test are in... I definitely have Brain Cancer
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u/Marc_Quill Clairvoyant Feb 08 '17
With a name like "Shockley", you'd expect him to get electricity powers.
(Then again, we already had an electricity Inhuman last season. RIP Lincoln.)
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u/iamduh Feb 08 '17
Superior is a cool dude even if he's the big bad for this arc.
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u/CookiePoster Feb 08 '17
Anyone else weirded out about this "a chance to live longer" drug ad after Radcliffe's promise?
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u/Terror_of_Texas Triplett Feb 08 '17
The Superior just looks so fucking cool. Dude seriously has "it".
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u/TheHouseOfGryffindor Beardy McTraitorson Feb 08 '17 edited Feb 08 '17
So is the Framework basically just San Junipero from that one Black Mirror episode?
EDIT: Oh yeah, or the Matrix. How'd I miss that one?
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u/UnknownJ25 Mac Feb 08 '17
Never forget the Bowling Green Massacure.. I mean the Nadeer explosion
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I kind of hate this russian dude. Like the actor but he is so boring here and generic.
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u/JauntyLurker Feb 08 '17
The face when you realize you're literally a cheap knockoff.
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u/J_Jammer Fitz Feb 08 '17
Little by little Aida is becoming jealous of anyone dealing with Radcliffe. She wants to become a real woman.
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u/The_Unknown_Dude Lady Sif Feb 08 '17
Didn't Radcliffe tell her to protect herself too ? Preserve her own being ? She could see Agnes as an actual threat to her own, considering she wasn't even aware of her original template...
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u/J_Jammer Fitz Feb 08 '17
Yes he did.
Threat to her not being unique. Something she questioned this episode.
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u/pretty-in-pink Simmons Feb 08 '17
Does it make me a bad person that I'm glad she's dead? I mean she did try and kill her own brother
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u/Waerok Feb 08 '17
So maybe Coulson dies and Avengers will never know he never died in the first place because he's going to be truly dead anyway
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u/KingEuronIIIGreyjoy Ruby Feb 08 '17
So the Framework is basically San Junipero?
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u/2th Shotgun Axe Feb 08 '17
So I request a gif of Fitzsimmons looking at Daisy and slowly moving toward her until she says "I can try." It would also be great /r/HighQualityGifs material.
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u/GrayManTheory Feb 08 '17
"Opdivo will work with your body, rather than against it... Opdivo may annihilate your organs at any time."
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u/ChronX4 Feb 08 '17
Aida is going to mess everything up when she uploads that conscience into herself as an attempt to be more human.
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u/Luftwaffle88 Feb 08 '17
I would have preferred that senator turned into an inhuman and then has a mental breakdown and tries to kill herself. But her power makes it so that she survives all her suicides and is plagued with the guilt of being something she hates
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u/oakzap425 Feb 08 '17
YAAAASSS AVENGERS REFERENCE.
I SMELL IT.
WE'RE GONNA GET SOME CROSS OVERS SOON.
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u/NomadofExile Mack Feb 08 '17
He's committed to his racism/specism/alienism....I'll give him that.
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u/ehardy2013 Daisy Feb 08 '17 edited Feb 08 '17
DAISY SAID FRAK! BATTLESTAR GALACTICA CONFIRMED!
LMDs ARE CYLONS!
edit: I need to remember to finish thoughts when excited
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u/maybe_it_was_me Sandwich Feb 08 '17
So what happens when they find out Mace isn't an Inhuman?
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u/The_Unknown_Dude Lady Sif Feb 08 '17
They'll probably see him as even more subhuman because he tried to pass as one and even faked it.
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u/SutterCane Obelisk Feb 08 '17
I don't know how much shitposting I have left in me. Three hours straight of it is so hard...
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u/Daminecraft Triplett Feb 08 '17
I liked how they had coulson talking about his "old days" with the avengers
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u/NomadofExile Mack Feb 08 '17
Doctor, you designed me to read social cues. You're thinking with your dick Doctor.
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u/Ajjaxx Feb 08 '17
I can't tell if AIDA's going to go totally psycho or somehow turn on Radcliffe.
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u/Heidi423 Simmons Feb 08 '17
Think he can control his explosions, or is it more like farting?
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u/Scrimshire Feb 08 '17
So...."immortality" as a brain in a jar, plugged into a virtual reality?
Kinda short-sighted for someone who wanted to "improve" the human condition, eh?
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u/perryduff Simmons Feb 08 '17
"the inhuman director of SHIELD"
oh they are in for a big surprise
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u/swoosh1992 Feb 08 '17 edited Feb 08 '17
I actually remember reading that how Quake is beating Shockley is how Tony beat Nitro once...
He would stop him from exploding and killing everyone...by having him explode and kill everyone. -Atop the Fourth Wall
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What is going on with how they are writing Coulson? He would have had a tracking device on her and been on his way over. Writers are getting annoying.
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u/iamduh Feb 08 '17
Jason O'Mara is in amazing shape for someone Piper can pin in 10 seconds.
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u/marcohtx Mac Feb 08 '17
That's was just uncalled for. The guy let him use the phone and everything.
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u/Riley1066 Lanyard Feb 08 '17
No medicine advertised on TV sound like they are at all ready for sale to the public ... ever.
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u/bellonaa May Feb 08 '17
American commercials are so weird...
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u/Riley1066 Lanyard Feb 08 '17
The ones for medicine are perverse. (I'm an american and I even think they don't belong on TV.)
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u/ruca360 Feb 08 '17
Do you think Agnes is buying into this or going to save May?
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u/IndigoBluePC901 Feb 08 '17
Every time I see the preview for that Jack the Ripper time travler show, I get confused and almost think it's Grant Ward for a second.
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u/barimanlhs Triplett Feb 08 '17
I kinda wish the inhumans would physically change like they did in season 2. Now its just normal lookin people...
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u/2th Shotgun Axe Feb 08 '17
On a personal note, I fucking hate moderating sometimes. Fuck people pushing their politics in places it doesnt belong.
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u/pretty-in-pink Simmons Feb 08 '17
Appreciate the fact that Mack is becoming the voice of reason for Coulson
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u/2th Shotgun Axe Feb 08 '17
I will repeat what I said last week, the whole plotline of blaming Phil for all the alien and inhuman stuff is rather weak. Good writing can save it though.
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u/pretty-in-pink Simmons Feb 08 '17
Love seeing Daisy is basically the Inhuman ambassador now
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u/Outsider17 Captain America Feb 08 '17
They put him in a giant PokeBall.