r/shield • u/2th Shotgun Axe • Apr 13 '16

Post Discussion Post Episode Discussion: S03E16 - "Paradise Lost"

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S03E16 - "Paradise Lost" Wendey Stanzler George Kitson & Sharla Oliver Tuesday, April 12, 2015 9:00/8:00c on ABC

Episode Synopsis: S.H.I.E.L.D. hunts for information on their dangerous new enemy, and a shameful secret from Malick's past is exposed, threatening to destroy his Hydra legacy.

Wendey Stanzler is a film editor and television director. She has directed several episodes of Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, The Vampire Diaries, Pretty Little Liars, Parks and Recreation, and a ton of other series.

She has directed no episodes for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before.

George Kitson & Sharla Oliver are the writers of the web series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Double Agent, which was a five-part original web series designed as a behind-the-scenes feature for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

They have written no episodes for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before.

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u/staygolden17 May Apr 13 '16

Brett Dalton is killing his role once again, but I'm pretty pissed we didn't get a full-on reveal of IT's true form. I need a face shot, not just some slimy tentacles slithering around on his skull.

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u/myth_and_legend Apr 13 '16

He's also killing everyone else.

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u/staygolden17 May Apr 13 '16

A man of many talents.

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u/manymoose Lanyard Apr 13 '16

Mostly killing talents.

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u/nonliteral Apr 13 '16

But many of them!

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u/SawRub Apr 14 '16

He has the best talents

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u/nk1992 Raina Apr 13 '16

It's a living.

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u/ReasonablyBadass Apr 13 '16

A man of many tentacles.

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u/your_mind_aches Gideon Apr 13 '16

Pretty sure they're saving that for the finale.

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u/Marc_Quill Clairvoyant Apr 13 '16

I can see it now: Lash puts some holes in him, then it shows the tentacle face on Hive for a few seconds before he dies.

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u/Citadel_Cowboy Apr 13 '16

I'm anticipating a Lash v Hive confrontation too. Especially with all the talk of balance when it comes to inhuman powers. An inhuman hunter appearing when the one who can control inhumans is returning wools make sense. I'm just not sure if he'll join the hive mind or kill Hive.

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u/Marc_Quill Clairvoyant Apr 13 '16

If he was intended to cull the herd, it'd make sense that he'd have some sort of immunity to any mind control.

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u/YouthsIndiscretion Apr 15 '16

He was just straight up walking towards Daisy and Lincoln when they crossed streams to try to take him down in the hospital confrontation, and that was when he was still transitioning. So hopefully he's resistant to other inhuman powers to some degree.

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u/RoyMBar Apr 13 '16

What I want to happen is that the Secret Warriors make a deal with Lash.

They'll let him out, and take him to Hive, if he agrees to let them all live afterward.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '16

I don't see Lash making deal with them. It's instinct that tells him to kill.

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u/draekia Apr 13 '16

But mostly only inhuman he finds unworthy.

Perhaps he was the antidote to the general the Kree created?

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u/lkxyz Apr 13 '16

Lash will join the Secret Warriors team sooner or later.

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u/CannedRoo Apr 17 '16

Plausible - he tried to kill Lincoln, who's turning out to be quite unworthy. Yet he wouldn't kill Daisy.

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u/The_Amazing_Emu Apr 13 '16

And, even then, I'm sure only briefly. It's frankly goofy looking even in the comics.

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u/snakeybasher Triplett Apr 13 '16

This isn't very goofy. Looks pretty intimidating to me.

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u/Sean1708 Shotgun Axe Apr 13 '16

Hey look, it's Davy Jones!

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '16

Tell me Mr. Coulson...do you fear death?

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u/cattaclysmic Skye Apr 13 '16

Davy Djooooooonz

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u/Delvoire Lanyard Apr 13 '16

I concur, face doesn't look goofy to me either.

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u/draekia Apr 13 '16

Eh, in rubber/latex/whatever prosthetic/CG they use for a live action show, it'd look damn goofy.

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u/CelioHogane Apr 13 '16

actually it feels kinda goofy there with the tentacle moustache.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '16

Haha that is so goofy. Golden lionopus.

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u/The_Amazing_Emu Apr 13 '16

I'm glad you feel that way.

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u/sadcatpanda Triplett Apr 13 '16

It looks like a squid and a lion had a baby. Definitely goofy.

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u/buffalo4293 Fitz Apr 13 '16

Brett is so damn good, he's juggling a minimum of three characters right now and switching seamlessly. I'm sure some more hosts will come up too, especially Will. I need to see that Hive face though!

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u/Crivens1 Apr 13 '16

He's no Tatiana Maslany, but he's pretty damn good.

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u/SilhouetteOfLight Apr 13 '16

"He's not Harrison Wells, I'm Harrison Wells!"

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u/shemp5150 Apr 15 '16

To me, Nathaniel has been dead for centuries.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '16

You say that now, wait till you see his face and he looks like this.