Both AoS and Agent Carter have been slyly putting in comics references, but it's more like a wink than sticking to comics canon.
I didn't know until I was looking up something else that in the comics, Eric Koenig was originally written as a Nazi who began to question his loyalties when Hitler invaded Poland. Then he ended up being put in charge of guarding Nick Fury, who convinced him to switch sides and help him escape. He eventually became a Howling Commando (those were Nick Fury's in the comics), and later a SHIELD agent.
In the MCU, Koenig is a SHIELD agent with two identical brothers (so far), with a little wink-nudge that they might actually be Life Model Decoys.
Things may change on the use of "mutant" in the future. A deal was just cut to finally bring Spider-man into the MCU, so anything can happen. Though at least for now, the X-Men version of a "mutant" can't be used, but they can use some of the characters by tweaking them to gain powers in other ways.
Denial is a wonderful place. I visit there often. Especially when Whedons are involved.
I don't pay attention to when most stuff airs, but Tuesday was so stacked I literally had to make a spreadsheet of what was on various channels in each time slot because the DVR kept giving me error messages about conflicts.
I theoretically have three tuners. One is routing my local broadcast channels into my DVR, the other two are for Dish channels. Before we got the antenna tuner into the Dish DVR, I paid for a local channel package, but stopped paying for it over a year ago... yet I'm still getting them. I'm not telling. :) If I didn't have that, I'd have to use my old standalone DVR to record some stuff from broadcast channels on Tuesday.
I love May and Coulson, and really want to see their history. I loved that great May vs. May fight scene, but also loved her deadpan delivery when she had to dress up with heels.
Phil Coulson: This is fun, right? Isn't this fun? Look. Cuff links. Melinda May: [sternly] I will pay you $500 right now for a pair of flats.
I also have a soft spot for Fitz, and though I hate to see him dealing with permanent problems, I think it's good that the show had him acknowledging the risk before he blew the glass and actually going through with it and having lasting damage. Most shows would have had him come out fine, or there's a miracle cure or even long-term treatment as a fix, but that didn't happen and you have to see his friends expecting the "old Fitz" and not knowing how to deal with the Fitz they have.
I adore Mac coming in with no preconceptions and just listening to him, figuring out his intelligence is still in there, he just can't always get the words out, especially when his teammates are waiting expectantly for an answer. And yes, I ship them. ;)
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Date: 2015-02-15 05:27 pm (UTC)I didn't know until I was looking up something else that in the comics, Eric Koenig was originally written as a Nazi who began to question his loyalties when Hitler invaded Poland. Then he ended up being put in charge of guarding Nick Fury, who convinced him to switch sides and help him escape. He eventually became a Howling Commando (those were Nick Fury's in the comics), and later a SHIELD agent.
In the MCU, Koenig is a SHIELD agent with two identical brothers (so far), with a little wink-nudge that they might actually be Life Model Decoys.
Things may change on the use of "mutant" in the future. A deal was just cut to finally bring Spider-man into the MCU, so anything can happen. Though at least for now, the X-Men version of a "mutant" can't be used, but they can use some of the characters by tweaking them to gain powers in other ways.
Denial is a wonderful place. I visit there often. Especially when Whedons are involved.
I don't pay attention to when most stuff airs, but Tuesday was so stacked I literally had to make a spreadsheet of what was on various channels in each time slot because the DVR kept giving me error messages about conflicts.
I theoretically have three tuners. One is routing my local broadcast channels into my DVR, the other two are for Dish channels. Before we got the antenna tuner into the Dish DVR, I paid for a local channel package, but stopped paying for it over a year ago... yet I'm still getting them. I'm not telling. :) If I didn't have that, I'd have to use my old standalone DVR to record some stuff from broadcast channels on Tuesday.
I love May and Coulson, and really want to see their history. I loved that great May vs. May fight scene, but also loved her deadpan delivery when she had to dress up with heels.
Phil Coulson: This is fun, right? Isn't this fun? Look. Cuff links.
Melinda May: [sternly] I will pay you $500 right now for a pair of flats.
I also have a soft spot for Fitz, and though I hate to see him dealing with permanent problems, I think it's good that the show had him acknowledging the risk before he blew the glass and actually going through with it and having lasting damage. Most shows would have had him come out fine, or there's a miracle cure or even long-term treatment as a fix, but that didn't happen and you have to see his friends expecting the "old Fitz" and not knowing how to deal with the Fitz they have.
I adore Mac coming in with no preconceptions and just listening to him, figuring out his intelligence is still in there, he just can't always get the words out, especially when his teammates are waiting expectantly for an answer. And yes, I ship them. ;)