I don't know what an LMD is but if the tv series is set after the movie then I don't see how I could see that scene as anything but fake.
I mean, what causes one to "miss" and mourn?
Absence. If he's not absent, everything else is semantics. I think I would feel they were being less insulting if they inserted a scene into the "director's cut" where Coulson says, "I'm not dead yet," while Thor and Hulk gallop along clapping coconuts together.
Life Model Decoy is a robot duplicate used by SHIELD in the comics to infiltrate and pull 'in two places at once' stunts (so that Director Fury can appear at a UN conference and that ends up being his alibi for why he couldn't have been leading that operation in Brussels). Other than the brief mention by Stark of being an LMD (to Coulson, no less) at the beginning of Avengers, there's been no mention of them in the Marvel cinematic universe, that I know of.
I never liked Coulson, and felt nothing when he died, so my only quibble with him 'coming back' is that I didn't like him anyway, and it feels cheap to stunt-cast him (or his robot double, whatever) to tie the new show to the movies, just because they couldn't afford Sam Jackson or Cobie Smulders or Stellan Skarsgaard or Gwyneth Paltrow or Powers Boothe or SHIELD Agent #27 Who Likes Galaga or whomever as their 'bridge' character between the properties.
Like Miles O'Brian on Deep Space 9, he is tossed into the new uncertain spin-off show to provide a link to the very successful other property. (And, like O'Brian, who was only there because Michelle Forbes turned down the 'bridge character' job and they had to scramble for a Next Generation secondary character to toss into their new series (thank Zeus it wasn't Barclay!), I feel like Coulson is only there for the same reason, because he was the last one to say 'not it!' and got the job every other secondary character's actor in the cinematic Marvel universe turned down.)
Did a bit of reading. Saw one article that thought they were going to say it was the LMD that got killed. I think that would be even worse.
Jackson faking the bloody cards to "motivate" the Avengers I thought already the weakest part of the movie. Haven't seen any positive response to the means of un-doing Coulson's death.
I suppose it's one of those things that will get forgotten if the character continues to be popular in the series but I still can't imagine that scene in the movie meaning much. They'll have to come up with something pretty creative and sympathetic to overcome that I think.
^ If you're ever bored and have a lot of time on your hands, every season of Lost has EXTENSIVE threads where we went nuts week to week reacting to what we'd seen and speculating about what came next!
It remains among my favorite shows of all time, probably in the top 3.
I got the craving about a week ago to rent the music film that blew the mind of little middle-school me back in the day... "Krush Groove".
I hadn't seen it since that time, so - watching it again last night - I had the combined experience of being a 40 year old thinking back to how cheesy it all was, while - simultaneously - the 12 year old inside of me pushed his way to the surface to say how freaking awesome it was!
Feel a need to rave about Orange is the New Black.
Not at all a show I thought I'd like, particularly since it's the same person who does Weeds, a show I almost don't like at all. All the characters are interesting and most are nice, though I'm waiting for that sheet to hit the fan. I've got my suspicions about the Warden. He's got hints of not nice and he's Ukranian and one of the main characters is Russian so I wonder if that card is going to be played.
Oh, he's not a "warden." He's a counselor. And he's not nice or at the best, he's conflicted.
The counselor would be a good character to see through. It's a character I hope to see grow as opposed to become the nemesis. They already have a good nemesis but I can't see how they can let that character last long.
So...aside from waiting for The Walking Dead to come back on the air, I have started watching three shows. If I keep with them, this will be the most television I have purposefully watched in many a year.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Looks to be a fun show I can watch with the kids.
The Blacklist - Spader at his creepiest best. First episode was interesting enough to get me back for more.
Sleepy Hollow - I like it. I have seen a lot of people ranting about it, bu I think it is a fun way to waste some time and not think about life.
The Walking Dead - CAnnot wait for the new season.
4 shows. I do not think I have watched this many television shows at one time since I was a teen...maybe early twenties.
Arrow's back this Wednesday. Looking forward to it. This season will introduce the Flash, who will spin off into his own show, however dubious that sounds...
Arrow's back this Wednesday. Looking forward to it. This season will introduce the Flash, who will spin off into his own show, however dubious that sounds...
Forgot about this one. Did not watch the first season, but will catch up at some point. Want to see the Flash stuff, and check out whatever else happens.
Arrow's back this Wednesday. Looking forward to it. This season will introduce the Flash, who will spin off into his own show, however dubious that sounds...
With this new invention called wireless and it being on sale, I'm trying to join whatever century this is, but haven't like any of these new shows I'm supposed to like. This one I really like.
The characters actually have depth and are likable. The plots keep me guessing and the action looks real. I only Netflixed it on a whim because I basically had tried all the others I've heard of. Breaking Dead Weed Smoking Walkers. Blah. Burn Notice hit the bricks when they killed off my favorite non-lead. Anarchy went off the deep end and I ran out of Star Trek stuff.
The "7 up" series of documentaries/episodes just became available on Canadian Netflix. Someone here (Ex?) spoke highly of them, but search isn't working for me so I can't quote the post.
Anyway, we've only seen the first two, but they are enthralling. We're already waiting for tonight to see "21 up" and figure out what happened to these charming kids (although hopefully a few of them took a good ass-kicking along the way .
The "7 up" series of documentaries/episodes just became available on Canadian Netflix. Someone here (Ex?) spoke highly of them, but search isn't working for me so I can't quote the post.
Anyway, we've only seen the first two, but they are enthralling. We're already waiting for tonight to see "21 up" and figure out what happened to these charming kids (although hopefully a few of them took a good ass-kicking along the way .
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