"Making Friends and Influencing People" - Coulson and his team race against HYDRA to get to Donnie Gill--a dangerous gifted with the ability to freeze objects--while Simmons is caught in the crossfire on Tuesday, October 7 (9:00-10:00 p.m.ET) on the ABC Television Network.
"Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." stars Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson, Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May, Brett Dalton as Grant Ward, Chloe Bennet as Skye, Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz, Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons and Nick Blood as Lance Hunter.
Guest starring are Henry Simmons as Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie, Reed Diamond as Daniel Whitehall, Dylan Minnette as Donnie Gill, Simon Kassiandes as Sunil Bakshi, Adam Kulbersh, as Kenneth Turgeon, Maya Stojan as Agent 33, David Diaan as Elias, Jarrod Crawford as Lead Hydra Agent, Nicholas Roth as Second Hydra Agent, Mo Darwiche as Ship's Captain, and Jesse D Goins as Theo.
"Making Friends and Influencing People" was written by Monica Owusu-Breen and directed by Bobby Roth.
"Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." stars Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson, Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May, Brett Dalton as Grant Ward, Chloe Bennet as Skye, Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz, Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons and Nick Blood as Lance Hunter.
Guest starring are Henry Simmons as Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie, Reed Diamond as Daniel Whitehall, Dylan Minnette as Donnie Gill, Simon Kassiandes as Sunil Bakshi, Adam Kulbersh, as Kenneth Turgeon, Maya Stojan as Agent 33, David Diaan as Elias, Jarrod Crawford as Lead Hydra Agent, Nicholas Roth as Second Hydra Agent, Mo Darwiche as Ship's Captain, and Jesse D Goins as Theo.
"Making Friends and Influencing People" was written by Monica Owusu-Breen and directed by Bobby Roth.
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Oh no, Jemma! I hope she doesn't get hurt.
ReplyDeleteso the hunt for those who escape "the fridge" remind me of Nikita season 3 dirty 30
ReplyDeleteReturn of Donnie, like they hinted at! Jemma in danger! Still no mention of Fitz! AHHHH! (6 days...6 days...6 days...)
ReplyDeleteYay, Dylan Minnette is back! He's awesome as Donnie. And how funny I just finished watching Seeds when this was posted XD
ReplyDeleteThey're not mentioning Fitz or Ward and it's freaking me out a little but I'm trying not to panic. LOL.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet, both Fitz and Ward are in the press release in the "stars" section.
ReplyDeleteTrue but their storylines aren't being mentioned. They're being kept top secret and it's a little terrifying.
ReplyDeleteOh im glad he is back, his powers are cool
ReplyDeleteIf anything the Hydra twist helped this show!
ReplyDeleteIt gives them a constant antagonist to fight and race against.
yeah but we never really saw him using it we just know at the end he has developed them.....
ReplyDeleteI'm loving this week its like an AOS spoiler fix everyday several times a day. Now were getting future episode synopsis, yay! They are really keep Fitz and his storyline under wraps though aren't they? I'm starting to suspect they may go big or go home with his story at this point since they seem to be doing everything in their power to not mention him in any episode synopsis (besides in the credits of course) and they have made no mention of his struggles to come really.
ReplyDeleteProbably just because the producers want their status kept secret until the premier airs. Fitz had a personal connection with Donnie Gill in 'Seeds' so I would expect him to play an important role in this episode.
ReplyDeleteI tend to agree with you on that. I'm excited but nervous for Fitz (and Iain too). If they're going to such lengths to keep his storyline so hush hush, they must have something really big in store for him.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad they are bringing Donnie back, there were quite a few potential villains last season that they team accidentally helped create like Doctor Franklin, I thought we would have seen him again already but hopefully we will this season.
ReplyDeleteI'm really hoping for the return of Lorelei! And not because of Sif or anything (althought that would be a bonus), but only because she was an amazing and dangerous villainess! She could cause a lot of trouble, maybe as a recurring villain? She could be season 2's Deathlok easily (by this I mean not the main villain but one of the main villain's strongest ally)? Or even if she's again a one-time deal, I do wanna see her return and be all seductive and evil! ^_^
ReplyDeleteDamn, it's like they waited purposely for the last 10 to 7 days before the season premiere to start bombarding us with sneak peeks, promos, press releases, posters and other AoS goodness. Or am I giving them too much credit and they just neglected promotion until the last minute? Just seems weird that we went from almost nothing to a huge swarm of spoilers so quickly.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, glad to have Donnie back. I've enjoyed Dylan Minnette in Lost, Nikita and AoS. And it's always nice to have someone like Blizzard in the mix to shut up the "THIS SHOW SUCKS, IT DOESN'T HAVE COMIC CHARACTERS!" crowd.
P.S. Proof-read your stuff, ABC. "[A] dangerous gifted with the ability to freeze objects" - last I checked, "gifted" wasn't a noun.
Let's hope they do a better job of tying the individual Fridge escapees to the main plot than Nikita did with the D30. I'm glad that HYDRA is after Donnie as well, which means his appearance is a part of the big picture.
ReplyDeleteThis episode definitely planted the "seeds" for later in the series/MCU: Donnie, Skye randomly mentioning Bucky Barnes, the reveal that Skye is an 0-8-4*, and the scene near the end where Coulson voice-overs about "evil and lies and pain and death" while the camera foreshadowingly (that's totally a word) pans over to Ward.
ReplyDelete* And the funny thing is that in episode 1x02, titled "0-8-4", Coulson actually tells Skye that an 0-8-4 is "an object of unknown origin, kind of like you." Then we find out she's literally an 0-8-4. Sneaky little show! The Season 1 rewatch has enabled me to pick up on little things I didn't see the first time around, and appreciate the weaker early episodes more.
Since they're trying THIS hard to keep a lid on whatever happens to Fitz, I'm beginning to suspect there's more to it than we realize... like, there's some big surprise coming. We all expect his cognitive functions to be damaged but maybe Coulson does to "fix" him that has consequences, or whatever. They have to be covering something up with all the secrecy - it's not merely the fact that Fitz is alive because we know that full well.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny, I was thinking of submitting a USD poll like "Which one-episode villain would you like to see again" with the likes of Donnie (not a villain yet but we know he's destined to become one), Graviton, Lorelei and a somehow-alive Blackout as options... looks like we're getting at least one.
ReplyDeleteI don't think anyone has ever suggested otherwise...
ReplyDeleteI know that but I'm still going to complain. LOL.
ReplyDeleteI hope we never see her again because she's a rapist and no thank you. Although I do hope Sif returns soon because I love her.
ReplyDeleteWell, Clark Gregg did joke that Fitz could be in TAHITI, so...
ReplyDeleteNot really expecting that, but you may be on to something. There has to be more to the Fitz situation than they're letting on. Otherwise, why all the secrecy? If it was only a coma and a loss of cognitive function issue, I don't think they'd be THIS determined to not reveal anything. They must have some kind of big twist up their sleeves.
I'm more curious about Simmons being caught in a "crossfire" than anything else.
ReplyDeleteShe may be a rapist but that makes her easy to root against unlike Donnie who is just in bad circumstances constantly. Sometimes I wan a villain / anit-hero to sympathize with, sometimes I want a villain to just get their butt kicked because they are evil. I'd like to see her come back and see Skye/Jemma take a swing at her.
ReplyDeleteWard deserves that chance too, considering he was the one she raped. Maybe all three of them can do it together?
ReplyDeleteI'd be down for that :)
ReplyDeleteI hope Fitz isn't in TAHITI. They shouldn't put half the team through that. Not to mention, it would become a deus-ex-machina that can save everyone and that's never good.
ReplyDeleteMy thing is that once you've brought a several-days-dead Coulson back to life and had Skye completely heal from a double gutshot after 2 episodes, to suggest that Fitz could never recover from a little brain damage simply doesn't hold water. They've already pulled the rabbit out of the hat; they can't put it back in now. I agree that Fitz's recovery shouldn't be quick or easy (that would feel like a copout), but it shouldn't be hopeless either. This is Marvel we're talking about here. The very idea that there's no way to fix what's wrong with Fitz's brain when much crazier things can and have happened already is just silly.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if she may turn up in Thor 3, but who knows anything is possible
ReplyDeleteI hope the others turn up as well, I think Blackout is alive still yeah, seems like a hard one to kill
ReplyDeleteAs long as the show doesn't pretend she's NOT a rapist and try to tell us she's a "good guy" (I'm looking at you, Vampire Diaries and Damon), why not? She's a villain, she's supposed to do bad things.
ReplyDeleteYeah. He should have to go through some stuff first, have some growing experiences, hopefully learn to not completely define himself by his intellect, and so on, THEN get his big brain back.
ReplyDeleteBut here's my question: How long do you think that should take? What would be an appropriate amount of time for him to do all that? Until the season 2 finale? Season 3 or 4? I suppose it depends what kind of stories they can get out it, but at some point, the team is going to need him back at full capacity.
The show already did try to pretend that she wasn't a rapist right after it happened (her rape of Ward was never acknowledged) but if she does other bad things, then I'd be all for it.
ReplyDeleteI think one season would be enough for his recovery arc, yeah. Also, the audience will probably get impatient if it takes too long because they want to see Fitz doing his thing and providing cool gadgets for the team and whatnot.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry, but I really don't see the ''rape''. Yes, she used her power on him. But what is her power? Mind-control? Hypnosis? Nope. Her power is seduction. A power every women on Midgard possesses in some degree. When a woman, an Earthling woman, seduces a guy and sleeps with him, is she raping him? I don't believe so. Now, there is an argument to be made that, unlike Earthling women, Lorelei's seduction never fails, and maybe to you that makes all the difference in the world. But it doesn't to me.
ReplyDelete'doesn't mean I'm saying she a good guy, thought! She did tried to use every men she encountered to create an army and invade Midgard, not to mention using Ward to kill off the rest of the team. But I don't see her as a rapist, I see her as a seductress; there's a difference there. Anyway, this is why she'd be an interesting villain to come back in my opinion: The power of seduction, probably the most dangerous power someone could possibly have! And she wants to use it to take over the world! Not to mention her physical strenght, of course. With no female Asgardian to stick around, she'd be really dangerous.
Yes, she is 100% a rapist. You know why? Because she was controlling men - using powers - just like she controlled Ward. Ward couldn't consent to the sex because he was under her control, thus it is rape. There is no argument here because that is a fact.
ReplyDeleteSure, but like I said, her power is seduction. And that's a power every women have! A woman seduces a man, she uses her power on him, too. Lorelei's power is just a large-scale version of a power every women in the world possess, really. And I don't see how Earthling women using this power are rapist, and thus, I can't see why Lorelei using it make her a rapist, just because her seductive powers are stronger than that of Earthling women.
ReplyDeleteLorelei doesn't use seduction. Just because her powers are limited to men, doesn't change the fact that she uses mind control.
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing magical about it! It's a power and, yes, real world women to possess that power, just not to the scale Lorelei does.
ReplyDeleteYou want to convince me it's rape, you'll have to convince me her power is more than just large-scale seduction. But why does it only work on men? What's the ''weakness'' only men have that Lorelei take advantages of? What's so magical about becoming the ''embodiment of everything [he] desires''? What's so different between Lorelei's seduction and any other women besides the fact that Lorelei's is just too strong to ever fail? How comes the men she seduces keep their personality, their memory and, to some extend, their choices (it was Ward's idea to attack the team)?
If you can give me answers to those questions that would suggest her power is anything different than large-scale seduction, I'll be on board with you. Until then, sorry, I can't. Just because her seduction power, unlike real world women, never fails, that's not enought to claim it's more than just seduction.
Okay, wow. There's so many things wrong with this I'm speechless.
ReplyDeleteWard was raped, plain and simple. Accept it and move on.
Like I said, I'll accept it when you can convince me her power is more than just large-scale seduction. Right now, I'm far from convinced...
ReplyDeleteShe is an alien from another world who has magical powers that lets her control men. This isn't our world so everything is different.
ReplyDeleteLorelei raped Ward because she was controlling him and he had to do what she said. He couldn't say yes or no because she wouldn't let him. She just did what she wanted. That is rape, and Ward is an abuse and rape victim. It's canon.