“It’s a Magical Place” — (1×11) WTL7031

It’s the return of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., “It’s a Magical Place”! But is the return of Coulson and co. really magical?

NEWS

* Star Wars comics are returning to Marvel comics

* Edgar Wright’s blog post leading to Ant-Man speculation

* The THOR: THE DARK WORLD Marvel One-Shot is “All Hail the King,” but is the king Loki or The Mandarin?

* More Agent Carter rumors: The Mirror

* Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD is not on the schedule in the UK: Bleeding Cool

* David Hasselhoff’s NICK FURY: AGENT OF S.H.I.E.L.D. is coming to DVD: Amazon.co.uk

* Stan Lee will appear on a future episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Hollywood Reporter

* ABC has a new policy for online viewing.

Our commentary on this policy: An Open Letter to ABC About Access to Their TV Shows

ABC’s FAQ about the issue: http://abc.go.com/faq

EPISODE DISCUSION

For this episode of Agents of SHIELD, Ben and Daniel talk about and spoil:

* This team is acting like a team!

* Coulson lives, but how and why?

* Why is Coulson so important to Fury? We still don’t know, but we’re not the only person asking the question. So is Agent Hand.

* Melinda Mae works the system! Her teammates think she’s a jerk for most of the episode, but it gets the needed results!

* Ward is getting to be a team player, and calls it “his team”?

* FitzSimmons do their part, and part of that is getting grumpy about people invading their space. But they have a disagreement in this episode!

* Seems that Po is not the Clairvoyant. So who is?

* Raina gets promoted!

* Poor Mike Peterson.

FEEDBACK

Not a lot this week, but it’s still pretty good — and some of it is actually about THIS episode! Who gets the “No Prize” this week?

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