Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 1 Episode 8 "The Well" Discussion Thread

[R_Hythlodeus]

What's silly is that Vishnu is one facet of the almighty God that we all believe in.

Please speak for yourself. I have nothing to do with this balderdash.

 

[fixxxer]

What's silly is that Vishnu is one facet of the almighty God that we all believe in.

Marvel contextualizing and putting Him in the same framework as Zeus or Hercules is quite stupid... It's the same as putting Jesus with Vishnu, Zeus or Hercules...Vishnu has absolutely nothing to do with polytheistic faiths. This is one of the biggest misinterpretations of Hinduism and it's pathetic until this date that people incorrectly perceive Hinduism to be polytheistic. It's one of the many silly things Marvel has incorrectly and stupidly done.

Nope. This is incorrect on almost every level, but I don't care enough about this topic to debate or even correct you. I'm technically Hindu by birth, as one might infer as statistically likely considering my location, but lie somewhere on the agnostic/atheist scale... probably tending toward the latter.

I think most people take religious mythology and the like to be abstract concepts rather than in the literal sense. After Thor, folks in the MCU questioning whether other religious iconography have their origin in some alien culture is both logical and a nice wrinkle. Not that I want to see a superhero version of Vishnu or any other non-canon "god" running around in the MCU.

As an aside, this post almost seems erudite compared to your standard "blue avatar chris evans skinny bah" fare. What happened?

 

[Endeavor]

Yeah echo, you're freaking me out with your intelligible English!
What's next? Pigs flying? Reality torn asunder?

 

[pr0xyt0xin]

Spoiler

she very well should have said "Jesus" I'd've loved it just the same.

 

[kaijunexus]

Spoiler

she very well should have said "Jesus" I'd've loved it just the same.

http://marvel.wikia.com/Yahweh_(Earth-616)

 

[Silvermoon]

Another clip from tonight's episode:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201582067771964&set=vb.421182894613231&type=2&theater

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Nice.

 

[ctsketch]

As an aside, this post almost seems erudite compared to your standard "blue avatar chris evans skinny bah" fare. What happened?

echostation likes to troll sometimes. If you look at his old posts most were intelligible... only when he is screwing around he talks like that

 

[ctsketch]

There's a difference, though, between white people getting stuff wrong about Christianity and white people getting stuff wrong about Hinduism.

Eh there are white people who practice Hinduism just like there are Asians who are catholic

Hell, there are East Asian Catholic Jamaicans

 

[Human Torch]

I just can't wait to read this week's complaints discussion about the episode!

 

[Vartha]

hahaha May thinks Thor's DREAMY hahahaha

 

[Donut]

I wonder how many times Thor's name is said tonight

 

[terry78]

A swastika. Some people.

 

[Vartha]

Wonder if this Blonde Chick becomes Valkyrie?

 

[T"Challa]

Wasn't that chick on Alphas?

I miss that show

 

[terry78]

The berserker staff, huh?

 

[TheFBI]

Ive counted 10 Thor's so far

 

[Vartha]

I'm surprised they're using the Lief Erikson Settlement actually

 

[T"Challa]

Now i know where i saw that professor dude before. the dr from Ghostbusters 2!

 

[Vartha]

He's been in a few films basically a guy that turns creepy in some way

 

[Vartha]

Told ya

 

[terry78]

Now you all see why Ward is so stoic.

He's Asgardian? Ha.

 

[cph9fa]

Told ya

Good thing, or that would have been embarrassing! t:

 

[T"Challa]

So wait, there are random Asgardians on Earth?

 

[Specter313]

That was a good twist, with the doc being Asgardian.