Why Run to the TARDIS: Agent Koenig

Friday, January 13, 2017

Patton Oswald Returning to SHIELD

Entertainment Weekly has revealed that Patton Oswalt (who plays the Koenig brothers) will be returning to Agents of SHIELD. He will be in the January 31 episode, Hot Potato Soup. The producers told EW that we will learn the Koenig family secret, whatever that is. They've also released this photo from the episode.

Friday, December 5, 2014

Ye Who Enter Here Review

I suspect the reason the city was built so close to the water's edge with air ducts leading to the ocean is that it dates to the ice age. Back then, sea levels would have been lower so that part of the seafloor would have been dry land. Whether or not there were any humans there at the time is another question though. I don't know when Native Americans colonized the Caribbean, so it may not have been until centuries later. However, perhaps the Kree kidnapped humans from elsewhere and decided to take them to a deserted island to experiment on them.

I was actually half expecting the city to be alive and bustling. I mean, in the comics, there are actually people living in Attilan. That means either A) this isn't Attilan, B) the writers aren't following the comics that closely, C) this section is deserted, or D) there's some sort of perception filter. It could be that this isn't the city in the comics books and is actually a different Inhuman city. Perhaps they migrated out of there when sea levels rose. They might not even have a city anymore if the Kree left and didn't build them a new one. They may have just dispersed to the corners of the Earth. It could also be something like an abandoned section of the city or some sort of cloaking to deter intruders. However, those infectious symbols on the ground seem to have done a fine job at that.

I don't get why SHIELD didn't just take out Grant right then and there. They outnumbered the Hydra agents who were on the plane and could have just shot them. If they hit them all with night-night rounds at the same time, they wouldn't have been able to radio for back up. Also, at the other Quinjets really going to blow them up with Hydra still on board? Grant's working with Whitehall personally and those pilots probably would have gotten in trouble if they killed him. Plus, they would have lost a Quinjet and they probably have a limited supply of those. I certainly would have tried at least something rather than letting them take Skye and Raina.

Okay, but how many Koenigs are there, really? I sort of suspect they're not actually brothers are a secret SHIELD cloning experiment a la Orphan Black. Also, why are they obsessed with lanyards? One of them wanted to give Raina a lanyard even though she's a bad guy. Do you need one just to be allowed on base? Maybe there's some sort of special lanyard for prisoners.