The Legends Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Stargate Pioneer, Agent Haley, Agent Lauren, and Consultant Michelle discuss the Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. season five premiere episodes ”Orientation” Part 1 and Part 2. They also run down the Marvel news roundup and discuss listener feedback. Specific topics include: A general excitement and geeking out over the return of the show, The Documentary Sharknado, Michelle’s Mom’s Reaction, Speculation on where Fitz is, The Expanse connection in the episode and a Dark Matter theory from Michelle.

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Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. “Orientation”
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AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. “ORIENTATION” [3:26]

AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. ORIENTATION”

ABC aired the Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. season five premiere episode on Friday December 1st, 2017 to a rating of 2.54.

Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 5 ShowRunners: Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jeffrey Bell

Jed Whedon (“Spartacus War Of The Damned,” Spartacus Gods Of The Arena”)
Maurissa Tancharoen (“Spartacus War Of The Damned,” Spartacus Gods Of The Arena,” “Dancelife”)
Jeffrey Bell (“Angel” and “Alias”)

Episode 1 of Season 5 Aired Friday December 1st, 2017 after an 8 episode run of The Inhumans in the same timeslot in the fall, 2017

Part 1 Directed By: Jesse Bochco
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1061992/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1#director
5th Discussion Appearance on Legends Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Previous Discussions Included:
Episode #66 Agents of SHIELD 2×14 “Love in the Time of Hydra” (Director)
Episode #96 Agents of SHIELD 3×05 “4722 Hours” (Director)
Episode #114 Agents of SHIELD 3×14 “Watchdogs” (Director)
Episode #159 Agents of SHIELD 4×11 “Wake Up”
16 Directing Credits Since 2002
10 x NYPD Blue
2 x Commander In Chief
1 x John From Cincinnati
2 x Prison Break
8 x Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
– Girl in the Flower Dress (2013)
– Heavy Is the Head (2014)
– Love in the Time of Hydra (2015)
– 4,722 Hours (2015)
– Watchdogs (2016)
– Deals with Our Devils (2016)
– Wake Up (2017)
– Orientation Part 1 (2017)
ALSO Produced: a few other series, but nothing directly related to Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Part 2 Directed By: David Solomon
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0813313/#director
2nd Discussion Appearance on Legends Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Previous Discussions Included:
Episode #67 Agents of SHIELD 2×15 “One Door Closes” (Director)
34 Directing Credits Since 1989
1 x Firefly (Out Of Gas)
19 x Buffy The Vampire Slayer
2 x Tru Calling
1 x Burn Notice
1 x Chuck
1 x Knight Rider
6 x Dollhouse
1 x Fringe
5 x Once Upon A Time
3 x Falling Skies
5 x Grimm
1 x Powers
3 x Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
– One Door Closes (2015)
– Chaos Theory (2015)
– Orientation (2017)
ALSO Produced: Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Dollhouse and Nikita

Part 1 Co-Written By: Jed Whedon
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1871590/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1#writer
16th Discussion Appearance on Legends Of S.H.I.E.L.D. (at least)
Previous Discussions Included:
Episode #16 One Shot Paleyfest Panel (Showrunner)
Episode #25 One Shot Iron Man (Showrunner News Point)
Episode #27 One Shot Iron Man 2 (Noisemaker Voiceover)
Episode #63 Agents of SHIELD 2×11 “Aftershocks” (Written By)
Episode #74 Agents of SHIELD 2×21-22 “SOS” parts 1&2 (Part 2 Written By)
Episode #92 Agents of SHIELD 3×01 “Laws of Nature” (Written By)
Episode #99 Agents of SHIELD 3×08 “Many Heads, One Tale” (Written By)
Episode #100 Agents of SHIELD 3×09 “Closure” (News)
Episode #115 Agents of SHIELD 3×15 “Spacetime” & Jessica Jones 1×07 “AKA Top Shelf Perverts” (Agents Of SHIELD Written By)
Episode #122 Agents of SHIELD “Absolution” and “Ascension” (Ascension Written By)
Episode #144 Agents Of SHIELD 4×01 “The Ghost” (Written By)
Episode #163 Agents of SHIELD 4×15 “Self Control” (Directed and Written By)
Episode #169 Agents of SHIELD 4×16 “What If…” (News)
Episode #175 Agents of SHIELD 4×21 “The Return” (Written By)
Episode #200: Agents Of Shield 1×01 “Pilot” (Written By)
11 Credits since 2008 including….13 x Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
1 x Ax Men
2 x Spartacus War Of The Damned
16 x Dollhouse
14 x Agents Of Shield
PRODUCER FOR: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot, Spartacus War Of The Damned, Spartacus Gods Of The Arena

Part 1 Co-Written By: Maurissa Tancharoen
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1315990/?ref_=ttfc_fc_wr5#writer
15th Discussion Appearance on Legends Of S.H.I.E.L.D. (at least)
Previous Discussions Included:
Episode #16 One Shot Paleyfest Panel (Showrunner)
Episode #25 One Shot Iron Man (Showrunner News Point)
Episode #63 Agents of SHIELD 2×11 “Aftershocks” (Written By)
Episode #74 Agents of SHIELD 2×21-22 “SOS” parts 1&2 (Part 2 Written By)
Episode #92 Agents of SHIELD 3×01 “Laws of Nature” (Written By)
Episode #99 Agents of SHIELD 3×08 “Many Heads, One Tale” (Written By)
Episode #100 Agents of SHIELD 3×09 “Closure” (News)
Episode #115 Agents of SHIELD 3×15 “Spacetime” & Jessica Jones 1×07 “AKA Top Shelf Perverts” (Agents Of SHIELD Written By)
Episode #122 Agents of SHIELD “Absolution” and “Ascension” (Ascension Written By)
Episode #144 Agents Of SHIELD 4×01 “The Ghost” (Written By)
Episode #163 Agents of SHIELD 4×15 “Self Control” (Directed and Written By)
Episode #169 Agents of SHIELD 4×16 “What If…” (News)
Episode #175 Agents of SHIELD 4×21 “The Return” (Written By)
Episode #200: Agents Of Shield 1×01 “Pilot” (Written By)
9 Writing Credits starting in 2003
3 x Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
1 x Drop Dead Diva
6 x Dollhouse
1 x Spartacus: Gods Of The Arena
14 x Agents Of Shield
– Pilot (2013)
– 0-8-4 (2013)
– The Asset (2013)
– Repairs (2013)
– Turn, Turn, Turn (2014)
– Beginning Of The End (2014)
– Shadows (2014)
– Aftershocks (2015)
– S.O.S. Part 2 (2015)
– Laws Of Nature (2015)
– Spacetime (2016)
– The Return (2017)
– World’s End (2017)
– Orientation (2017)
PRODUCER FOR: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot, Spartacus War Of The Damned, Spartacus Gods Of The Arena, Dancelife

Part 2 Written By: DJ Doyle
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2677260/
6th Discussion Appearance on Legends Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Previous Discussions Included:
Episode #69 Agents of SHIELD 2×17 “Melinda” (Written By)
Episode #93 Agents of SHIELD 3×02 “Purpose in the Machine” (Written By)
Episode #99 Agents of SHIELD 3×08 “Many Heads, One Tale” (Written By)
Episode #117 Agents of SHIELD 3×17 “The Team” & Jessica Jones 1×09 “AKA Sin Bin” (Written By)
Episode #169:Agents of SHIELD 4×16 “What If…” (Written By)
Only 1 Writing Credit since 2014
20 x Executive Story editor – Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
10 x Story Editor – Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
7 x Written By – Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
1 x Script – Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.

AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. “ORIENTATION” PART 1 AND PART 2

Meaning of “Orientation”

Creepy Alien Happy Time – Nothing’s Wrong

Who is this Alien/Aliens?
Skin suit

SHIELD Team Abduction

They just wanted Pie
Rae’s Restaurant
Fitz left behind. Not on the list – but imdb credit starting at episode 6
Different Monolith

SHIELD In Space

Time Component to the transition this time
Virgil greets the team
Roaches
Mack hits Virgil as hard as he possibly can
Space – it’s the ONE thing we haven’t done yet….well….not quite
Yo-Yo and Simmons fight
Dead Bodies

Starlord Dude

Good guy?Bad guy? We don’t know

May Never Gets A Break

Materialized with a pipe in her leg

Coulson Doesn’t Hand His Cool Hand

He’s not inspector Gadget
Not in the black box
No one hiding on the moon with “S.P.E.A.R.”

Virgil Meets The Team

Fitz Intentionally Didn’t Make The Trip
SHIELD is there to save humanity

Daisy Saves The Team From A Roach

May And Starlord Dude (Deke) Fight

May uses the pipe that was in her leg as weapon
Gravity Button

Ghost Rider & Framework Transition

Magic
Zapped through space by Stonehedge

We Should Split Up

This has to be the coolest we’ve ever looked

May is Tagged / Metric

Vacancy is first used

Simmons and Coulson Trying To Figure It Out

80’s Howard Stark Reference
May’s jacket
Frozen Oceans
Kree!!!!

22 Rotations

Team is incarcerated
Mack and Yo-Yo are hanging
Kree Axe
Kree don’t speak Spanish
Spanish was mandatory at Hopes School —- IN THE FRAMEWORK
Fighting In The Crater
Kasius mention
Yo-Yo arms frozen

Team Meets Deke…and May

The “Gallery”
Deke talks them free. Transfers

Team wants Deke’s Help

Daisy sorts of takes charge

May and Simmons sees how big the Outpost IS

INVASION….nope

Trawler AL15

Daisy rescues Mack and Yo-Yo / May and Simmons In Trawler / Coulson and Deke

Spaceship key
Humans built the bunker
They aren’t from processing
Mack Axes a Kree
Daisy icicles the other
90 years ago minim
Filtration systems repurposed
Postcard message from Fitz
Traveled through time
Bus floating in space
They are at Earth!

Part 2

May and Simmons

Trawler is malfunctioning
First rule of IT. Turn it off and on again

Simmons is a biologist, but give her a minute. She’ll invent time travel

Deke offers tags / metrics
Team meets Tess
Matching buttons on clothes
No metrics

Deke Finds Two Dead Kree

What happened to the Earth

No idea for sure
Kree destroyed all historical data (But not in the Gallery)
Welcome to the end of the world

The Lighthouse

Underground survival bunker
Elders are gone
Value Of A Life
Humans serve the Kree

Kree on top of elevator

Sharknados

They have pieces

Coulson meets the crime boss

Roaches take the Kree

Virgil liked artifacts

Coulson finds Virgil’s notebook hidden in a V-8 engine block

Simmons / May meet the female Kree Enforcer

North Korean dictator level of creepy / “kreepy”
Dog food

Spheres kill man

Simmons heals stabbed servant
Simmons taken

Simmons At The Kree Spa

Forced to clean herself

Kasius prunes trees

Daisy follows Deke

Finds the “Gallery” / Framework

Kasius Interrogates Simmons

Make you happiest in the end (Superior Answer)
Orders a renewal

Yo-Yo steals a tablet

You should see your go face in slow motion

Daisy and Deke talk in the Framework

Metric Inspection and Renewal

Coulson trades Metrics installed for work

A life spent is a life earned

Gang boss is called “Grill”

Kasius Servant is flawed. Stomach and forehead

Simmon’s hearing is restricted to only Kasius

Mankind is a blink away from extinction

Deke finds that Daisy is the person that destroyed the Earth (his view anyway)

Visitors are coming for Kasius. Simmons is dressed as a servant

NEWS [51:27]

NETFLIX SERIES

Amber Rose Revah on The Punisher & creating a character without a comic book counterpart
http://collider.com/the-punisher-amber-rose-revah-interview/

Deborah Ann Woll doesn’t rule out a Frank/Karen relationship
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/11/24/the-punisher-season-1-deborah-ann-woll-doesnt-rule-out-a-frank-karen-relationship/

BLACK PANTHER & BEYOND

Infinity War trailer breakdown
https://io9.gizmodo.com/all-the-hints-and-details-hidden-in-avengers-infinity-1820817197

Will Ant Man and The Wasp be Marvel’s first Rom-Com?
https://www.themarysue.com/ant-man-wasp-romantic-comedy/

FEEDBACK [58:35]

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VOICEMAIL

From Black Adam

OUTRO [64:04]

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