The video quality is poor. It looks cartoonish. It's constantly buffering and stalling. But I can switch to Amazon and it works flawlessly.

I assume it's due to server demand in my area but maybe it's an issue with TWC.

That sucks. Netflix usually has outstanding picture in my experience. I wouldnt keep it either if the quality was poor.

Just out of curiosity, have you tried connecting from a non-TWC connection, like from work or some other hotspot?

I work from home. I have a terrible cell phone connection because I live in the hills, which are made of petrified granite.

Not liking Breaking Bad? You guys are broken.

I knew about it, just have not tried it
I\and I loved the character until the recent new 52 reboot
this new comic book sucks much

me and my son both noticed he always uses the phrase tahitti is magical
when ever his rehab is mentioned

i think it is some kind of brain block to make him forget what really happened
love to see him confront loki (pre dark world)

Yeah, they don't keep bringing Tahiti up for no reason.

Robots have already been mentioned enough for me to think he isn't an LMD.

Maybe it's backdoor way to introduce magic to the marvel universe, of the dr strange variety.

Checked out the first two episodes of Arrow on Netflix. Not bad! It definitely has that Nolan feel to it. I'll give Shield a few more episodes but I am definitely into Arrow.

Arrow gets better too, IMO. The last episodes of the first season were quite good..and so far I'm liking the second a lot more (I wasn't really a fan of the whole "list" thing..pretty lame, and the flashbacks are a bit more interesting now too).

Arrow: watched and enjoyed the first season, fell behind on season two and then the DVR filled up so I had to kill it. Might get back to it at some point

SHIELD: I don't mind the slowness. I like Coulson (the character and the actor), Skye is hot, I like the ass-kicking female pilot... Yes, it's a bit derivative ("X Files", "Warehouse 13") and would benefit from more superhero (does Chris Evans make so much money they can't nab him for an episode?). Still better than most TV drivel.

Netflix: I'm also three weeks into my free trial month. Unimpressed by the limited film selection but have no image issues (using my iPhone via WiFi and my HD TiVo, though, not my computer). It's cheap enough that I'll probably keep it for its occasional usefulness (allowed me to refresh my memory of "Thor" before seeing "Thor 2", kept me occupied one night with insomnia when I rewatched some of "Buffy" Season 4, seems to have a lot of anime which I went to get more into, plus has some lesbian softporn, LOL).

OK, somebody explain what just happened.

Best guess seems to be that the blue guy was a Kree.

Not sure what that thing was yet, but I thought that was one of the better eps in the series.

Stop watching this months ago. decided I'll just read the spoilers if there is anything I need to know that ties I to the movies. I don't feel like sitting through this week after week. :)
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lol me too. They basically made Ollie to be more like the Smallville Ollie and then Arrow made Ollie to be more like.. Nolan's Batman ROFL

I do not blame you. I am having a real hard time watching network dramas. 20+ episodes a season is too much. There is so much filler and plots take forever to wrap up because of it. Cable has the right idea when it comes to dramas.

Plus, SHIELD feels super generic aside from a few characters.

Two things that bother me with all these network dramas, no matter how good or bad the show is.

Commercials - I just can't deal any more, and every show now has 5 minutes of show, then almost 6 minutes of commercial.

The season breaks - I get the holiday break, take a couple weeks off because of low ratings, but then to come back and air episodes for 1 - 2 weeks then 2-3 weeks off, rinse repeat till season finale. It's just irritating and I end up losing interest in the show.

Netflix is doing it right, no commercials, entire season out at once, so you can binge watch or not, your choice.

I think the only time I ever watch commercials is when I'm unable to dvr something and I have to watch it on demand. Oh for the halcyon days before the networks began to disable the fast forward button. But even when I'm watching something "live", as I occasionally do, I usually hit pause right at the time the show begins, then start watching for real at 20 after the hour. Synchs up right at the end of the hour.

I watch so much tv, really too much, that the breaks during the season are good for me because it allows me to catch up with the recording backlog on my box.

Yeah, I think that was a Kree.

I agree with you too a point. I had purged my TV viewing habits based on two things: I was taking night classes then after that I built a gaming computer. Why the **** am I watching Two Broke Girls, which I really don't even enjoy when my time can be doing something much more productive or enjoyable.

At this point, I would much rather skip a new show and then catch up with it later on Netflix than sit week in and week out waiting for a show to get better.

I think so as well.. it would stand to reason since Guardians comes out in August and features at least two Kree characters in it.

I have a strange feeling that Guardians may end up a bigger hit than people are thinking right now. For the people who didn't like the first trailer (I thought it was great) the Director even said he didn't like it but he had to make one that introduced the character's first before he made a trailer he REALLY liked.

This.

I love the main characters. I'm a huge Marvel (comics) fanboy.

I love the premise.

It just seems like a very generic ride in a very Marvel Disneyland that no one is really enjoying...

I think alot of people are starting to do this.

Basically, if you took a year or two years off of watching TV, then just caught up on Netflix or some other online service, you have created a new timeline for yourself.

Its new to you and its basically a time saver overall without the commercials
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Yeah, I have actually cut out a bunch too.

Some stuff I just have to watch weekly. I don't have the impulse control to wait months.

I think it's been picking up steam for the last 4-6 episodes. It's gotten more serious (without losing its humor), it seems like it's going somewhere where most of the first half of the season didn't. And they've started to answer questions, which is really important.

It still has a little ways yet to go though, I think.

This last episode was kind of a mess. Plot holes and irrational character behavior. Coulson is making rash emotional decisions that don't make sense for him. They bust into a secret facility, and kill two guards and blow up the facility just to hopefully find something that might heal Skye? Really? Just leave those guards in the building while it explodes? Shield just randomly murders other government agents now while disobeying orders? Or the fact that Shield/whoever has a facility that holds alien regenerative technology and a robot surgeon that can bring people back from the dead. Which is easily broken into in a matter of minutes with a self destruct failsafe that then destroys all that awesome stuff. And why was Coulson hesitant to give Skye the GH 325 after he found out it was alien blood?

Just too much goofiness. Writing has been all over the place.

Sif (Jaimie Alexander ) is in the next episode.

I skipped a bunch of episodes and happened to catch this one. My wild ass guess is that the secret facility was either something run by Nick Fury in secret (his base in Antarctica) or its a S.W.O.R.D. facility. Finding the alien makes me lean towards that latter, especially since S.W.O.R.D. was introduced by Whedon.

Skye achieves powers by virtue of the GH 325, reveals (at some point) that her real name is Jessica Drew, becomes Spider Woman...so on and so forth.

Now that was a hell of an episode.

Yes. Yes it was. Really good. Hopefully they roll hard with this series.

If they do it right, it will be a fantastic piece of the Marvel Universe.

I know there is talk of it in the Batman/Superman thread, but they really should have pushed to get Lady Syph to be Wonder Woman, she would be perfect for the part.

HAHA not sure if that was intentional but that's funny.

this show get any better? i quit at like episode 4.

Slowly.

It took until this week to hit an episode that I thought was really good, but the show's had it's moments. It feels like it's starting to get its feet.

For sure.

I enjoy the show. The ladies are easy on the eyes, there's ass kicking, there's tech, there's Sci Fi, and the actor playing Coulson is a solid actor. It's not "Avengers" and can't be; a TV show can never have the kind of cash to pull that many SFX or big-name actors. But as far as TV goes it's decent.

It had to since ABC is balls deep with Disney/Marvel

Ill pass then. I got Arrow for that. I watch to many shows as it is and the new ones that just came out are pretty good. Maybe ill catch it when it hits netflix.

Probably all know already, but no shield tonight, instead it's some kind of hour long marvel promotional show.

huh?

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I forgot all about it.

Anything of note?...

I haven't watched it yet but I saw one piece of concept art that's right up your alley:

http://schmoesknow.com/wp-content/up...niverse_22.jpg

Finally caught up and watched this episode, but I think you're complaints may be answered in later episodes.

Regarding Coulson, they did seem to go to great lengths to explain away his actions as just being who he his. Seemed kind of forced after reading your comments, and unneeded actually. We've already seen that Coulson will do just about anything to learn about T.A.H.I.T.I, and his actions saving Skye could be viewed as being purely selfish and still fit his character. To me, combining the two justifications is more than enough cause for his actions.

They also explain the confusion about the facility and that no one seems to know who it belongs too. It may not even be another government agency. Or not a another US gov agency. And the tech may have lived out its usefulness? To be honest, when they said T.A.H.I.T.I. was the one thing the Clairvoyant couldn't see, I first thought off-world, different dimension, or some other explanation. Add in May's phone report at the end of the episode, and this is obviously not the end of the story. There is still a lot we don't know. I'm guessing we'll learn more that explain away many of your concerns.

I thought they said Coulson's time at T.A.H.I.T.I. was what the Clairvoyant couldn't see, not necessarily T.A.H.I.T.I. itself. Explained because Coulson was dead at the time. The Clairvoyant's interest in Coulson is due to the fact that he dropped off the radar and the Clairvoyant wants to know why. That's the way I interpreted it anyway.

Regardless, the last few episodes have been much much better, if you haven't caught up yet.

I think that's what they intend, but it's pretty crappy writing if so. The Clairvoyant can see everything, but doesn't know what happened to Coulson because he was dead. Well, why doesn't he just read the doctors mind or any of the other people that were in the room, or Nick Fury?

So Patton Oswalt is the lasted name brought onboard. Constable Bob becomes Eric Koenig.

But Coulson died in New York. And from the sound of it, he was dead a long time before they brought him to T.A.H.I.T.I (BTW, did I miss them explaining this acronym anywhere?). Anyway, you may be right. A lot of questions still.

As far as why Coulson was worried about giving the blood to Skye, after just doing a quick seach for Kree blood side effects (lol), I remembered Skye is not human! Remember her back story was that she was an "Object of Unidentified Origin". Also, found this little bit...

http://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/wh...231726171.html

I don't know who Ms. Marvel is/are, but apparently there were several. One version has ties to Ronan the Accuser (Guardians of the Galaxy) and had a "Binary" form? Don't understand it much, but hackers with electromagnetic super powers aren't an uncommon pairing. Probably way off base, but thought it was interesting.

http://marvel.wikia.com/Carol_Danvers_%28Earth-616%29

Oswalt is ****ing awesome. His Star Wars filibuster improv was hilarious.

the comics crack me up in the way they have women wearing close to nothing half the time.

Which is half the time too much!

Another solid ep. Interested in seeing how they tie it in with Winter Soldier next week, as SHIELD is apparently falling apart (which has been reflected on the show) during the movie.

Interesting. It could give them an opportunity to "reboot" the show.

And two separate characters were ordered to Triskelion during the episode - one of which had to go to Lemurian Studies, or something like that.

Also, a dropped line mentioned Canada's Department H, for those who realize that significance.

Lemurian Star. I believe that's the ship at the very beginning of Winter Soldier.

Found an article on it: https://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/-...042227998.html

Ah! Lemurian Star, thanks. I thought that came out of nowhere; I didn't realize it was the name of the ship.

Having just watched "CA: TWS", I immediately wondered how/when they would comment/alter the TV storyline. They can't ignore it. Too much happened.

Department H was a branch of the Canadian government that sanctioned, supported, and monitored superhuman activity in Canada. It also oversaw the country's officially endorsed superhuman team, Alpha Flight.

http://i.annihil.us/u/prod/marvel//u...Flight_new.jpg

Many members came and went but these were the mainstays

In the comix the Age of Ultron storyline had a lot of time travel/rebooting.

To be honest I wasn't a big fan of it and thought it a very poor rip off of the Days of Future Past idea...

I never really thought about it because Alpha Flight spun out of X-Men, but Marvel probably has the rights to Alpha Flight. Though they probably have to share Northstar, Aurora, and Puck because it seems like Fox can use any mutant they want.

I don't think they're rebooting anything. I think it's all been tied into the events of Winter Soldier all along, and we're just starting to see where all the plot strings that everybody was complaining about during the 'slow' first half of the season lead. Supposedly a ton of stuff happens during these final 6 episodes (no more breaks, all new eps until the season finale).

Hasn't been renewed yet, but I would be surprised if Disney didn't keep it going. Especially with all the actors involved toward the end (Paxton, Patton Oswalt, etc).

Nice, my UVerse haas the last 4 episodes available on demand, starting with TAHITI. Think I'm gonna have t catch up to get prepared for Cap 2 this weekend.

Agree. So far it has been decent. It is shaping up to be epic.

It will get a season 2 no matter the ratings.

They (Disney) own Marvel.

They want the analog audience dialed in...

None of those three are mutants, for starters - in fact, none of the major characters are. Also, AF is led by someone in a powered suit, which could easily fit in with Iron Man, and they have a Dr. Strange-like Shaman, and a goddess very much like the Canadian version of Asgardians. They could easily put it in the Marvel movie universe - easier, most likely, than they could in X-Men.

Northstar and Aurora are mutants.

I always forget that Puck isn't a mutant, but Northstar and Aurora definitely are. Northstar has been an X-Man off and on for the past 10 years.

There is a storyline in which they are revealed to be, in fact, half-elves. I had forgotten that that turned out to be a lie perpetrated by - surprise surprise - Loki. So ya got me there - but, in my defense, they could easily envision them in the movie universe as elves, which would fit in nicely with a) Thor, and b) the current popular fascination with fairy tales.

Did not know that! Was probably way past my comic book years.

That would be why I said I would be surprised if Disney didn't keep it going...

Well, it does appear that the events from Cap 2 will be carried over to this show.



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Have they said that if there will be a Fury or Cap cameo during this period?

We've known that for months, that next week's episode would tie-in.

Not sure how they can even keep the show going as "Agents of SHIELD" anymore, since of course .

Be interesting to see how it all plays out. I've even seen one (very far fletched) theory that maybe they go into space (or rather, into orbit) and become Agents of SWORD, somehow tying in with Guardians next season, connecting back to the Kree corpse that saved Coulson and Skye.

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