10-11-2013, 08:54 PM
Incidentally, one thing that bothered me with episode 3:
What, exactly, did any of that have to do with anything about the premise of the show?
Unless I missed something, nothing about the gravity generator was alien. Some smart guy figured out how to make it, figured out what element he needed for it, found that element by digging a whole lot of mines around good old earth, then brought in another smart guy to figure out how to perfect it.
I mean other than the fact that he was a bad guy, it could have been a project by the European Union or NASA or Dupont or something. It could have just as easily happened pre-Thor.
I guess the premise is that SHIELD is not specifically anti-alien but really just a watchdog for dangerously advanced technology, even if it's just developed by some engineers at Exxon. They are the Men In Black who show up and wreck your shit if you get too outta hand by like inventing an antimatter bomb or a light bulb that's just a bit too good.
Still, I thought it was odd that it had no apparent connection to superheroes or aliens of any sort and would have worked just as well in the X-Files universe. (Whereas the tech in episodes 1 and 2 was based on alien technology.)
What, exactly, did any of that have to do with anything about the premise of the show?
Unless I missed something, nothing about the gravity generator was alien. Some smart guy figured out how to make it, figured out what element he needed for it, found that element by digging a whole lot of mines around good old earth, then brought in another smart guy to figure out how to perfect it.
I mean other than the fact that he was a bad guy, it could have been a project by the European Union or NASA or Dupont or something. It could have just as easily happened pre-Thor.
I guess the premise is that SHIELD is not specifically anti-alien but really just a watchdog for dangerously advanced technology, even if it's just developed by some engineers at Exxon. They are the Men In Black who show up and wreck your shit if you get too outta hand by like inventing an antimatter bomb or a light bulb that's just a bit too good.
Still, I thought it was odd that it had no apparent connection to superheroes or aliens of any sort and would have worked just as well in the X-Files universe. (Whereas the tech in episodes 1 and 2 was based on alien technology.)