Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

The writers killed him off because he was also a regular in a different show (Being Mary Jane, I think) and his schedule wouldn't allow him to do both shows at once.

Technically, I think he was supposed to die at the end of Season 1, but they liked him so much, they kept him on for the first half of Season 2.

edited 27th Jan '16 9:35:35 AM by alliterator

I have a question....

why dry toast? I dont get that joke.

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"

Dry toast is an analogy for something bland or tasteless, since dry toast is toast with nothing on it. They were calling Ward boring.

Starring...

Boring character!

H.B. Ward

In defense of Marvel's repeated killings of black characters in television shows, DareDevil's was a Race-Lifted white guy and they mentioned that they wouldn't have killed him off if they knew at the time that Sony was about to make a deal for Spider-Man. This suggests to me that his death was planned before his actor was cast.

Meanwhile, Tripp's death was a scheduling conflict, Mack's basically the second-in-command at S.H.I.E.L.D., Luke Cage is off to start his own show after having a great and memorable role in Jessica Jones - which also had Malcolm, who became the heart of the show.

I really don't get the impression that Marvel's particularly trigger-happy when it comes to their black characters. Sure, one of the black guys died in Jess, but so did countless other people. Hell, the black guy didn't even die first.

edited 29th Jan '16 11:04:19 AM by TobiasDrake

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Well, they have to complain about something...they hardly can complain about the way the show treats females considering that the females of SHIELD have a great deal, with meaty roles and a lot of ass-kicking.

What amused me, with Daredevil and Jessica Jones, is they both killed older black men. And now Dominic Fortune has been cast as an older black man. Hence my joke that he's doomed.

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May's character arcs center around the problems she has with her then-lover (Ward) and her ex-husband (Andrew).

Skye's central character arc is her trying to rebel against her parents.

Bobbi... is... walking fanservice!

And this whole show fails the bechdel test!

I'M MR. MEESEEKS, LOOK AT ME!

Which show are you watching? Interns of FIELD?

May's arc also centers around her having a lot of PTSD issues thanks to having to kill an inhuman girl.

And the bechdel test is BS anyways. Apply the Mako Mori test to this.

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Why do you even bother? That was surely a post designed to get a ruse out of the fans since none of what was written in it was actually true. May's husband wasn't even introduced before the end of the second season, Skye certainly does not rebel against her parents and Bobbi is way more than just eye-candy. Also, nearly every episode passes the Bechtel test nowadays.

I... honestly don't think you're watching the show at all if you think Skye's central character arc is rebelling against her parents.

The most obvious reason for that being completely inaccurate, of course, being that Skye's parents didn't even exist as characters and she didn't know who they were until Season 2, and are no longer part of the series as of Season 3.

So I sincerely hope you're being sarcastic. But even then, excellent job making use of the tool that lets people know.

edited 29th Jan '16 7:45:48 PM by Khfan429

You...don't know what the Bechdel Test is, do you? 1) There are two women in a scene. 2) They are to each other... 3) ...about something other than a guy.

The show passed the Bechdel Test in the very first episode and often passes it each episode, merely for the fact that Skye/Daisy, May, and Simmons talk to each other about the mission.

Also, May's character again centers around her trauma in Bahrain, Daisy's arc centers around her parents (not a guy!) and her history and being an Inhuman, Simmons' arc centers around her relationship with Fitz, yes, but it also goes along with her expanding her role, going undercover, and eventually ending up on an alien world, and Bobbi is not walking fanservice, she is an awesome character who has her own doubts about SHIELD.

edited 29th Jan '16 7:46:19 PM by alliterator

Guys I think the post was a joke.

Oh Poe's Law.

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Does this Soble fellow even post on here much?

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Guys, stop. We refuted the argument, no need to bring the actual poster up. (Also, yes, he does post on TV Tropes quite often, I believe, so he's not a troll.)

edited 29th Jan '16 9:55:28 PM by alliterator

Yeah, we wouldn't want a post to get...

Thumped.

H.B. Ward

I also think it was a joke.

It might just be the inability to assert tone in text, but the impression I got from it was a sarcastic "Satire" post about how feminists bitch and whine about everything regardless of whether it has merit.

That might just be my conditioned defensiveness as a feminist, though.

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To be fair Bobbi is walking fanservice but this is only a fraction of her character. The same can be said of Skye and May

Trump delenda est

And very little of that fanservice is sexual.

BEHOLD! The beautiful and sensual fanservice that is Bobbi Morse!

And if I claim to be a wise man, well, it surely means that I don't know.

Do any of the guys get fanserviced? I don't remember right now, it's been a while since I watched the series.

Ward was probably. I can't remember.

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Well I mean, I think there was a bit of boobage with Sky in season 1...

H.B. Ward

That sex scene in Episode 3 nearly made me dislike the show forever...

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