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Kristen K. wrote:ZapperZ wrote:Did people watch last night's episode?
While the tie in to Age of Ultron is intriguing, I must say that it isn't as clever and as intricate as when they made the tie-in with Capt. America - Winter Soldier.
Zz.
Really? I thought that they had done a great job of "prepping" for the movie over the past few episodes and got several little nods to coming things. There's been the whole building with the inhumans, the nod to the twins and what's they've been going through re: experimentation, the reveal to SHIELD that Fury is alive, and then finally the bit at the end with Raina's vision.
I wasn't planning on seeing Avengers this weekend (I was going in a couple of weeks), but after seeing that episode I decided that I had too in order to watch things "in order" so I can watch SHIELD next week. That's pretty slick marketing if you ask me.
But it is more of a passive tie-in.
Compare that to what happened with Winter Soldier, where the action actually started in SHIELD series, went over to Winter Soldier, SHIELD got destroyed, and then it continued into the SHIELD series. You will miss the entire scenario with Nick Fury if you did not see both the movie and the TV series.
I expect ramifications from the movie will be on display in next week's episode, but otherwise, the TV series doesn't play much of a role in the Ultron movie. Josh Whedon even insisted that for Ultron, Coulson will remain "dead" to the Avengers, which I find is hard to believe since he's in contact with someone connected to the Stark Industry in the last episode.
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