Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Chloe Bennet IS Skye

[Just_Human]

Dat tan

 

[Xeno]

Uggghhh..... You and sam are so... ugghh.



Why must you make up stuff to fit what you want rather than accept what Joss has presented? There's nothing to suggest that Fitz is any better at what he does than Skye is at what she does. In fact, it has been well established that Skye is master hacker.


Possibly somewhat


... and you lost me.

Joss has presented an explanation, but since it's a stupid-ass explanation I've chosen to ignore it.

 

[cherokeesam]

Some pics of an upcoming episode:

Sweet mother of God.

 

[Hyde]

I would.

 

[Mysteryman]

I feel like you guys are just making stuff up based on what you want. It's well established that she's a skilled hacker and was hired by Coulson for that reason. There's nothing else to it.

Also, if he doesn't need a hacker than why does he need an engineer, a bio-chemist, a pilot, and a black ops specialist? Are there not plenty of those to go around? Skye wasn't hired to be "a hacker" she was hired to be Coulson's hacker, just like May is Coulson's pilot and Fitz is Coulson's engineer. This team is Coulson's team.


"Wow... yeah. Was that a mistake? Or am I now sitting in the center of your secret headquarters? I got inside, and by now you've discovered you can't beat the inscription on my equipment, so you got nothing."


Thank you. It's amazing how people try to complicate things that are so simple. Skye is a hacker and she was hired to be a hacker.

Coulson also pointed out the fact SHIELD didnt know about her.
Skye stayed off their radar .
Coulson seemed impressed by that , and worried .
So there was a little more than she has great hacking skills .

 

[Mysteryman]

Joss has presented an explanation, but since it's a stupid-ass explanation I've chosen to ignore it.

Was this explanation in the show or did Joss say it somewhere else?

 

[The Question]

Coulson needs all of those specialists from within SHIELD itself because their skills are essential to the mission. Sure, there may be plenty of them inside SHIELD, but why wouldn't there be? Those are exactly the type of highly-trained individuals SHIELD recruits. There would also be many computer experts at SHIELD, with as much talent as Skye if not a helluva lot more. Looking at what Fitz was able to accomplish in the pilot, with his mini flying robots and holographic CSI setup, he's definitely a genius and better with computers than Skye. It doesn't make much sense for Coulson to have brought her into his team when he's got people like Fitz right at hand, and with much less questionable backgrounds.

I think it's pretty clear that Coulson has a "comic book super team of fundamentally idealistic and honorable misfits" approach to recruitment, which feels pretty in character for him to me.

 

[Mysteryman]

If Fitz was better than Skye ,
He would have tracked her long before the pilot.
She was operating in a van under SHIELDS nose .

 

[Xeno]

The end of the second episode gave me some ideas about what Coulson is doing with Skye on the team. "Spoilers" for the show will be discussed so skip this if you haven't seen it.


Skye was contacted by her Rising Tide cohorts and relayed back that her status was: "I'm in." So now we know that she was angling to get herself on the inside with SHIELD all along. Having been on a successful mission with Agent Coulson's team, Skye now assumes that she's accepted and in the clear, enough so to openly use a cellphone to contact her cronies.


While Skye thinks she's in unsuspected, I think that Coulson's plan all along was to recruit her, get her on the inside, lead her to believe that she has put on over on him and ultimately use her to uncover and track her Rising tide handlers. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, as the saying goes. Eventually she or her masters will do something that exposes their scheme so that SHIELD can root them out. It won't be that easy or straightforward, of course, but that's probably the gist of it. If we're lucky, this will all end in a season finale change of heart and fatal act of self-sacrifice for Skye. t:

 

[jaqua99]

^ this, except for the fatal part.

 

[Mysteryman]

Ditto this.
I hope she doesnt die either.

 

[herolee10]

Me Luv Skye....lol

 

[Raiden]

The end of the second episode gave me some ideas about what Coulson is doing with Skye on the team. "Spoilers" for the show will be discussed so skip this if you haven't seen it.


Skye was contacted by her Rising Tide cohorts and relayed back that her status was: "I'm in." So now we know that she was angling to get herself on the inside with SHIELD all along. Having been on a successful mission with Agent Coulson's team, Skye now assumes that she's accepted and in the clear, enough so to openly use a cellphone to contact her cronies.


While Skye thinks she's in unsuspected, I think that Coulson's plan all along was to recruit her, get her on the inside, lead her to believe that she has put on over on him and ultimately use her to uncover and track her Rising tide handlers. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, as the saying goes. Eventually she or her masters will do something that exposes their scheme so that SHIELD can root them out. It won't be that easy or straightforward, of course, but that's probably the gist of it. If we're lucky, this will all end in a season finale change of heart and fatal act of self-sacrifice for Skye. t:

I think the expression on Skye's face after the text seems to me like she was already regretting the whole operation already, after spending some quality time with her new SHIELD friends. And Fury appears to know what she's up to as well, with the way he described her as trouble to Coulson. I think it's gonna get alot more interesting later on, and I hope Rising Tide isn't just a group of geeks and nerds, but people who can actually give SHIELD some headache to deal with.

And I don't want to hear "Skye" and "Self Sacrifice" in the same sentence.

 

[Mr. Dent]

Skye working for Rising Tide and being a double agent makes the Jessica Drew theory more plausible to me now. Though I still think she's more of a Jessica Jones the way her character is portrayed. So I'd rather she be Jessica Jones for comic book accuracy in terms of the character's personality.

 

[TX85]

I hated her in the pilot so bad but she was much better in episode 2,I really hope she keeps evolving while being more like this than in the pilot

 

[cherokeesam]

Skye working for Rising Tide and being a double agent makes the Jessica Drew theory more plausible to me now. Though I still think she's more of a Jessica Jones the way her character is portrayed. So I'd rather she be Jessica Jones for comic book accuracy in terms of the character's personality.

Yeah honestly, Skye is almost textbook Spider-Woman.


And "hell no" to Skye "self-sacrificing" or doing anything else to get kicked off the show. I'm sick of the Skye-bashing already.

 

[Golgo-13]

Didn't she play Masuka's daughter on Dexter?

 

[Quasimod0]

I hated her in the pilot so bad but she was much better in episode 2,I really hope she keeps evolving while being more like this than in the pilot

She was a lot better in this episode

 

[Loki882]

I'm pretty sure that The Rising Tide is actually HYDRA in disguise, which could tie into TWS. That would also give the Jessica Drew theory more credibility.

 

[Destructus86]

This is Whedon...there could be a twist anywhere. For all we know she could be one of the big bads for the show and Coulson wants her on the team to keep her close where he can watch her.

 

[Mysteryman]

You know, I wouldnt be surprised if a lot of new SHIELD members are recruited by Hydra or other such organizations,
And they dont all crossover,
Maybe even Coulson himself was recruited by Hydra or somebody else like that in his younger days .
I doubt we will see a story like that on the show .
But, I wouldnt be surprised if it was true .

 

[Xeno]

Yeah honestly, Skye is almost textbook Spider-Woman.


And "hell no" to Skye "self-sacrificing" or doing anything else to get kicked off the show. I'm sick of the Skye-bashing already.

If Skye "takes one for the team" after betraying them, it'll be a classic redemption arc. The very best, most intense redemption stories involve the treacherous character making the ultimate sacrifice to defeat the evil she served. Skye will be totally redeemed with one laser to the head or swan-dive out of the Bus to save her team and humanity. She might even be forgiven for being so damned annoying. And of course death would bring her the popularity she lacks in life. Dying will be a complete win for her and the show.

 

[cherokeesam]

If Skye "takes one for the team" after betraying them, it'll be a classic redemption arc. The very best, most intense redemption stories involve the treacherous character making the ultimate sacrifice to defeat the evil she served. Skye will be totally redeemed with one laser to the head or swan-dive out of the Bus to save her team and humanity. She might even be forgiven for being so damned annoying. And of course death would bring her the popularity she lacks in life. Dying will be a complete win for her and the show.

lolno

Killing off the villain-turned-hero isn't "redemption" at all --- it's conveniently throwing the character under the bus. (But that's exactly what you want, isn't it?) A true redemption arc shows the villain actually *earning* good-guy status. You don't do that if you're dead (sorry to all suicide bombers out there). Besides, Skye isn't a villain; she's convinced that she's doing good deeds. And by golly, she *is* doing good deeds, because she's so darn cute and Disney-princess. Whatever villainy the rest of Rising Tide does is lost on her; she thinks they're all really nice people.

Skye's story arc will revolve around disillusionment, not redemption. She's not done anything evil enough to *require* redemption. Hell, not even "betraying" SHIELD, because she still thinks they're Men In Black bad guys who work for the eee-vil guvmint, and she's doing a good thing by rising up against them. Eventually, her naivete will crash into a brick wall of reality when Coulson and Ward reveal how truly evil her handlers really are (I'm sure they're up to no good), but that might even happen *before* she gets a chance to turn traitor.

 

[cph9fa]

throwing the character under the bus.

I see what you did there...

 

[Xeno]

I don't propose throwing Skye under the bus, just kicking her off of it. At 30,000 feet.

Some redemption stories are quite tragic. A last-minute change of heart inspired by the sudden realization that one has been (unwittingly) aiding evil sometimes ends in a sacrificial death. That definitely happens in the comics and in films. Simon Williams sacrificed himself to save the Avengers from the Masters of Evil, for example. Humpty Alexander Dumpty did it in Puss In Boots. It is a major fictional trope. Skye Nolastname would simply be following a long a noble tradition.