Agents of SHIELD Star Breaks Down Season 5 Premiere’s Biggest Shocker

Tonight’s two-hour Season 5 premiere of Agents of SHIELD, “Orientation,” featured a big twist at the mid-point and then followed that up with another doozy as it came to an end. IGN attended a press event to talk to the cast about the big developments.

Warning: full spoilers ahead!

The team found themselves transported into space for unknown reasons by way of yet another weird, teleporting liquid-pillar. It wasn’t until the team explored the space station, called the Lighthouse, that they realized they were also in the far future and the Earth had been destroyed. The Lighthouse was drifting in space just outside the remains of Earth, close enough that chunks of debris and even a school bus could be seen floating by.

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First Look At Robin’s Live-Action Titans Costume

Ahead of its debut sometime in 2018, the first look at the upcoming live-action adaptation of Teen Titans has been released and it showcases a major DC universe character. Robin, otherwise known as Dick Grayson, leads the team in Titans, and his vigilante suit is an impressive one.

The first image from the series shows Brenton Thwaites (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales) in Robin’s suit, complete with his signature staff. The costume was designed by Laura Jean, who is no stranger to superhero looks with costume credits that include both Iron Man and The CW’s upcoming Black Lightning.

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Titans hails from DC Entertainment and The Berlanti Company, with Akiva Goldsman, Geoff Johns, Greg Berlanti, and Sarah Schecter serving as executive producers. In addition to Robin, Anna Diop stars as Starfire, Teagan Croft as Raven, Ryan Potter as Beast Boy, Alan Ritchson as Hawk, and Minka Kelly as Dove.

An official synopsis for the series reads, “Dick Grayson emerges from the shadows to become the leader of a fearless band of new heroes, including Starfire, Raven and many others. Titans is a dramatic, live-action adventure series that will explore and celebrate one of the most popular comic book teams ever.”

Titans is being produced exclusively for the still-unnamed streaming service DC is planning to launch in 2018. It’s one of three programs in the works for the service so far, along with a revival of the animated Young Justice series and a Harley Quinn cartoon geared toward adult audiences..

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5 Things You Need to Know About The Razer Phone

Razer’s phone isn’t a gaming phone per se, but it is a device built for gamers. As a result, it breaks unprecedented ground in a few areas but falters in others. Here are the top five things you should know about the Razer phone.

Display:

The Razer Phone uses a 5.7 inch 2560x1440p display. This is the same resolution that many high-end gaming monitors use and it looks really sharp. What really makes it unique, though, is the fact that it features a variable refresh rate, that’s similar to G-Sync or Freesync, and can scale up to 120Hz. Most other phones are locked to 60. It’s really refreshing to see Razer break into a mature market here and disrupt a bunch of leading phone manufacturers like Apple, Google and Samsung. One downside here is that it doesn’t use an OLED panel like many other flagships and opts to use an IPS LCD instead. This means that it doesn’t feature true black levels that OLED displays offer, which might be a deal breaker to some, but unfortunately they don’t make 120Hz OLED panels.

Specs:

The Razer Phone uses top tier Android parts. It’s equipped with Qualcomm’s leading Snapdragon 835 SOC coupled with a massive 8GB of RAM. To put things into perspective, that’s twice as much RAM as Google’s flagship Pixel 2 XL. It also has a HUGE 4,000 milliamp hour battery that is more than capable of lasting a typical day. While it comes with 64GB of built-in storage, it thankfully allows you to install a microSD card so you can expand it to 2 terabytes.

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Camera:

The Razer Phone has an 8 megapixel f2.0 front-facing camera coupled with 2 cameras on the back. One is a 12mp f.175 wide angle and there’s another 12MP f.26 zoom. The bad news is that the cameras are pretty bad. Overall, they make images look much too soft and lack image clarity. In addition, the back cameras oddly shoot almost everything in a forced portrait mode, so that only a certain part of the image will be in focus. Software updates could potentially address some of these issues, but if you’re looking for a great camera on your phone, I’d focus elsewhere for now.

Speakers:

The Razer phone has two large bezels at the top and bottom, but I don’t really mind them because the company has squeezed in some amazing speakers here. I’d say they are the best phone speakers currently on the market. They’re good enough to replace small, cheap bluetooth speakers.

Operating system:

The Razer phone is rocking Android Nougat 7.1.1 with a clean nova launcher skin. It also comes with different Razer themes you can download along with additional settings that allow you to optimize battery life over performance and vice versa. Razer tells me it plans to update the phone to Android 8.0 Oreo in Q1 next year, but hasn’t laid out an update roadmap beyond that.

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