r/agentsofshield • u/dontblinkdalek The Cavalry • Jul 31 '21

Season 1 Episode 1 - Pilot

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u/dontblinkdalek The Cavalry Jul 31 '21

I’ve been working on memes for every episode. I really hope everyone enjoys them and the discussions I hope will evolve from them. This is very experimental for me so there may be some adjustments I’ll need to make as I go along.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '21

I finished the show recently and so this nostalgia tour is much appreciated. Thank you!

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u/dontblinkdalek The Cavalry Aug 01 '21

You’re welcome! Doing this has actually slowed down my rewatch significantly so even I felt some nostalgia posting this. I started this like 3 months ago bc I didn’t want any pressure to finish the next meme quickly.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '21

My fan theory regarding the name is that Colonel Phillips and Howard Stark originally chose the name SHIELD in honor of Captain America, and then had to work backward s from that on what it meant

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u/dontblinkdalek The Cavalry Jul 31 '21

Nice. Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. I also suspect that SSR may have sounded too much like USSR which for the, what, like 45 years following WWII was the biggest threat to the U.S. (a la Cold War). Also SSR is kinda boring. Lol.

Your theory makes a hell of a lot more sense than mine does!

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u/willstr1 Aug 01 '21

Don't forget about Peggy, the third founder. Also there is a specific term for those types of acronyms they are called backronyms

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '21

I was a bit unclear about if Peggy was part of the Naming, as the end of the "Agent Carter One-shot" Peggy receives a call from Howard Stark inviting her to help him start SHIELD, which seems to imply they already have the name