Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Yeah they at least addressed the magic cell phone battery.

Malkav_sl said:

Regarding the cell phone battery, she said Fitz modified to last a long time at some point. That plus I assume she just shuts the phone down whenever she is not using it. I really doubt it stayed on the 6 months.

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The point made earlier was that if Fitz could modify a cell phone battery to last for that long, he's in the wrong business and should be making bank selling batteries.

It's a stupid argument though. This is the same universe as Iron Man, the Hulk, and Thanos. I'm just picking on this episode because there were a lot of points where you have to suspend your disbelief. It's all to move the story forward and explain why she's acting like she does after she escapes, so I get it -- it just doesn't change the fact that it's a little annoying.

At least teleports appearing on a planet are within reason.

I think one of them said a short line at about the time they were getting ready to see the sun that they were probably on one of the poles. I'm pretty sure that's what I heard at least. So that should have something to do with the long period of time without sunlight I guess. I could be remembering it wrong though.

They said the sun appears for a few minutes every 14 years. That's why they went out to that area and had the wine (that was actually vinegar).

Technically, they said "This only happens every 14 years.", but we learned that it was the sun appearing.

Over the first two seasons they've shown Gemma with above average medical skills. If I remember correctly it was her that stabilized Daisy when she was shot in season one.

Xarpolis_sl said:

They said the sun appears for a few minutes every 14 years. That's why they went out to that area and had the wine (that was actually vinegar).

Technically, they said "This only happens every 14 years.", but we learned that it was the sun appearing.

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She did say 18 years, and yeah Gemma does a lot of hands on medical stuff. She needs to with all the show protagonist being almost killed every week. There is no doc

Neph_sl said:

The point made earlier was that if Fitz could modify a cell phone battery to last for that long, he's in the wrong business and should be making bank selling batteries.

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There is a million things that he's developed in SHIELD labs that would be moneymakers in the real world, but that's really besides the point.

A cell phone battery that lasts 6 months while powered off is not really as impressive as it's being made out to be.

The whole 'no sunlight' thing was the most believable of anything in that episode. Alaska gets something like a full month of darkness every year, and then during the rest of the year the sun just kind of glides along the horizon, and that's on OUR planet. It's totally conceivable to have a planet, especially the poles, be dark for years at a time. Or, it could be the moon of another planet (or vice versa) and they were on the dark side/it's always blocked by the other planet there.

The cell phone battery was a LITTLE bit ridiculous. Especially since she's watching videos on it every few days. A month? Two? sure, that's within the realm of belief that Fitz engineered it to last. 6 months was pushing it a bit much. But, whatever, I could have lived with that as well as a kind of 'lolz comics!' moment, but as others said, it was just the culmination of a bunch of similarly outlandish things that kind of wears on you.

Poor Fitz, the look on his face when he realizes she fell in love with the guy. Fucking live or death situations man..

About the bamboo, while not said, I think it's reasonable to assume it has been brought there by the NASA people. If you don't care about ecosystem purity, bringing bamboo sounds like a good plan as it grows very quickly and provides some material that can be used very efficiently for a number of things.


EDIT: For plot reasons, having the NASA guy rape Jemma would be a problem, unless you want to add some creepy Stockholm syndrome stuff in there.

That's really what suspension of disbelief is about though. How believable, how internally coherent, is the fictional world that is presented to us. So it's not because there are people with super powers that it's A-Ok to have anything and everything happen in this fictional world.

lanx_sl said:

a hot 20 something just falls in his lap doesn't immediately Tarzan her. Or ok, maybe the planet already tricked him w/ a previous hot young girl years ago, thats why he caged Gemma for a while to make sure. Even then after a month, no Tarzan? or 3 months? she had to be the one to initiate it and make it ok?

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She went Tarzan on him! cause really, how can she resist that slow passive aggressive way that he talks, its mesmerizing!

lanx_sl said:

someone explain planets to me, that planet never gets any sunlight? (which is why solar power is worthless) but don't all planets rotate around the sun and eventually they'll be hit with sunlight no matter what? also while maybe they were on the "dark side" for a bit, he's been presumably in the same spot for 14 years, so i'd guess he'd make a full rotation around the sun or something.

i mean is there a planet that exists that is just black and barren cuz its so far away from the sun?

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To me it seems like a moon to that big planet in the background. I was thinking it gets so little sunlight because it's slow rotation or tidally locked so one side never faces the star for a good chunk of the episode.

Wingz_sl said:

To me it seems like a moon to that big planet in the background. I was thinking it gets so little sunlight because it's slow rotation or tidally locked so one side never faces the star for a good chunk of the episode.

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Hell until they actually showed the sun, my assumption was that it was a deep space planetary system that orbited each other instead of orbiting a star. With the essentially infinite size of the galaxy, I'm sure something like that exists or has existed somewhere.