It was also noted that 'seismic activity' had damaged the Guest House facility in the 1950's. Do y'all reckon that's just random descriptive flavor, or did something crash/get loose and wreak havoc?
WOAH!!!
I hadn't seen that screenshot before, WT. There's a MAJOR Easter Egg there regarding Skye's origin! Here's my line-by-line transcript. Item 2c. is particularly interesting.
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[...inactive were?] found by the Joint Task Force to be still in use, in
[direct?] violation of
[REDACTED]
[REDACTED]. These facilities are listed below by their
[most recently used?] [code name?].
2a. COVENTRY. A former Royal Air Force base built in 1942, located approximately
[illegible]
south of
[REDACTED]. This facility was believed to be
[turned over?] to the
[illegible]
Security Forces in 194
[8?], but the JTF determined that it
[continues?] to be a
[illegible]
S.H.I.E.L.D. operations, including
[REDACTED].
2b. GUEST HOUSE. A heavily fortified facility located inside a mountain, approximately 17
miles northwest of
[REDACTED] the Guest House was used as munitions bunker during
World War II and later upgraded for use as a
[REDACTED] by the SSR.
This facility was never formally decommissioned, although it was damaged by seismic activity
in the mid-1950s, and
[REDACTED].
2c. SHANGRI-LA. This base in China's Hunan Province was officially abandoned shortly after
the People's Republic of China
[REDACTED] in 19
[68?]. As was widely
known among S.H.I.E.L.D. inner circles, it continued to be
[an active?] base well into the 1980s,
with the
[tacit cooperation?] of PRC officials.
[REDACTED]
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Specifically, note that SHIELD had a secret base (Shangri-La) in
Hunan Province in the
1980s -- which is exactly when and where they recovered an 0-8-4 (Skye). It seems rather possible that this 0-8-4 may actually have originated at Shangri-La (even though a 0-8-4 is supposedly of "unknown" origin. After all, Shangri-La was supposed to have been abandoned by this point).
Unsurprisingly, there is a
Shangri-La in Marvel 616, but reading about it I doubt it has much to do with this TV show. It's really kinda weird. As would be expected, it was a mythical hidden kingdom in the Himalayas. It was apparently founded by a 40's hero called
Aarkus, aka the Vision (a "Smokeworlder"??? --
not the familiar Android), and it housed an artifact called the "
Pillow of Life and Death" which could heal mortal wounds (
*ahem*) and grant eternal life.
Assuming all that gets stripped away, and in light of a probable Kree body, a case could also be made for correlating Shangri-La with Attilan -- both are canonically hidden societies in the Himalayas. However, in real life, Hunan Province is actually nowhere near the Himalayas. But it
is 80% covered with mountains and hills, so it still kinda works.
).
