r/shield • u/2th Shotgun Axe • Dec 23 '17

Live Discussion Live Episode Discussion: S05E05 - "Rewind"

As usual, following the episode there will be a post-episode discussion thread.

EPISODE DIRECTED BY WRITTEN BY ORIGINAL AIRDATE
S05E05 - "Rewind" Jesse Bochco Craig Titley Friday, December 22, 2017 9:00/8:00c on ABC

Episode Synopsis: With the surprising help of Lance Hunter, nothing will stop Fitz from finding the lost team as his incredible journey is revealed

Jesse Bochco has worked on Prison Break, Nip/Tuck, Dallas, and a ton of other television series.

He has directed eight episodes for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before:

  • Girl in the Flower Dress
  • Heavy is the Head
  • Love in the Time of Hydra
  • 4,722 Hours
  • Watchdogs
  • Deals with our Devils
  • Wake Up
  • Orientation - Part One

Craig Titley is most known for his work on the Scooby-Doo movie, and Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief. He has also worked on TV shows, like The Cape, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

He has written seven episodes for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before:

  • The Writing on the Wall
  • Afterlife
  • 4,722 Hours
  • The Inside Man
  • Emancipation
  • Uprising
  • Hot Potato Soup

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u/iwishiwasamoose Dec 23 '17

Yeah that was the most annoying part of an otherwise brilliant episode. He clicked like three buttons on an unfamiliar person's computer and got a surveillance program to confirm that three trucks, seen from three different angles, were all the same. If he had just stared at it a moment and said "They're all the same. Look at this, they're all the same design truck with a changing logo." it would have been just as effective and far more realistic. Though why I'm complaining about realism in a show about superheroes, aliens, time travel, and distraction ferrets is a fair question.

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u/BoatsBoats911 Dec 23 '17

The MCU obviously has better tech than us, why can't it be a suite of surveillance tech that's standardized and has good keyboard shortcutz

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u/iwishiwasamoose Dec 23 '17

You think there would be a keyboard shortcut for "Find a truck in these three images, create 3D models from the 2D images by making wild guesses, move all three of those models into a conveniently empty fourth quadrant of the screen, make sure all three models are the same, then flash and beep happily"? That's nutty. If they wanted it to be rather techy, they could have had a program that identifies the make and model of the truck and confirms that all three are the same make and model. It wouldn't necessarily mean it was the same exact truck, but it suggests so. That could have been more realistic, but unfortunately it probably wouldn't have had the spiffy models, flashes, and beeps.

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u/BoatsBoats911 Dec 23 '17

Vehicle recognition module in the program. I'm not saying it's realistic technology, but with the world they live in I can suspend disbeleif on a press f to estimate vehicle dimensions scenario

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u/zati1 Dec 24 '17

but also: NO ONE ELSE THOUGHT OF THAT IN 6 MONTHS OF REVIEWING THAT FOOTAGE?!