US: Marvels Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (US timeline) *spoilers*

It feels unfortunately like a very cheap cash in rather than a plough money in and generate even more interest for the films. Gunn from Angel wasn't at all bad in Angel but his whole character was rubbish in this. "I want to be good, black hulk smash" and a irksome little catch phrase for his kid.

A Marvel tv show was always going to have amazing numbers when no one knew how good or bad it was, it's embarrassing that the BBC or anyone else would think it was an indication of how good it was. For something as big as Marvel with as many people who might be interested... I think there will both be a huge amount of disappointment, but also plenty of people who thought it was cool because it was shiny and had some people from the films in it.

I also think a lot of superhero fans will give it a few more eps. Some shows grow and get much better, others put everything into the pilot and get worse.... I think the numbers will dip a bit but stay high, 5-6 eps in I think they'll start to tank and we'll start to hear about season 2 being cancelled.

Ok the show could improve dramatically by next ep but.... I can't believe they got it soooo wrong.

EDIT:- anyone seen an interview with Whedon talking about it, the thing with after a name gets big their name gets slapped on EVERYTHING possible. Steven Speilberg has apparently executive produced about half of all media stuff filmed in the past decade :p So it's possible they put his name all over it to generate hype like they do with Speilberg's name on everything. I really can't believe he wrote or frankly had any part in the filming because it was devoid of decent direction or production.
 
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TBH not looking forward to this at all (still need to watch the first episode), regardless of the comments across the forums, most of the trailers just looked TERRIBLE with regards to the script, cast, plot, acting etc.

Should continue Buffy or/and preferably Angel!
 
I really can't see it picking up, IMDB only has 3 episodes listed, wiki has a 4th listed as TBA. Hmm, wiki says Joss Whedon wrote and directed the first episode......... but seems like Jed Whedon and a couple others will take over as the show runners though says Joss will be co-writing the series.

For Joss Whedon show it seems well below par.
 
Hmm, the concept is a good one, it would be nice to have the story of the people that have to clean up the mess of the avengers.. but.. as with most things, I am quite sure the networks will drop it pretty quick in favour of "my neighbours got talent" or something retarded like that.
 
MooMoo444 said:
I enjoyed it. I think most of you guys are going into watching it expecting more hollywood blockbuster level effects/script.

Lower your expectations a little.
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If that's what we were expecting then yes we would be lowering our expectations. TV shows generally outstrip movies in quality these days.
 
For me it felt like they were trying to hard to make people remember the films whereas they may have been better off having done their own thing altogether at the start. I also find it a bit hard to believe that Whedon was heavily involved in this, the only bit that felt Whedon-y when the girl was giving the speech about the rising tide and Coulson showed up at the van.

Hopefully the coming episodes show some improvement.
 
The entire thing felt pretty whedon-y.

it was natural they were going to try and show the link the with the films asap (because then it might get more of the film fans sticking with it. Need to give it a good 6 episodes or so to get it's identity and start setting up plot arcs.
 
MooMoo444 said:
I enjoyed it. I think most of you guys are going into watching it expecting more hollywood blockbuster level effects/script.

Lower your expectations a little.
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I think you need to re-read what people are saying, and that is it sucks and isn't remotely as good as Whedon's previous pilots to date, we're comparing it to tv shows, not films.

The complaints are the writing, and the writing is that of Joss Whedon, who is number 1 in his field of providing smart, witty sci-fi.

Our expectations are exactly where they should be.
 
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With all the superhero competition atm it needed to be better. Even the Tomorrow People remake that's starting soon looks better and it's from the CW channel, then there's things like The Flash, Constantine and Gotham that will be here next season.
 
watched it earlier and tbh it wasn't as bad as what I was expecting...... still nowhere near the quality of Buffy and Angel!

I can get past the flying car tbh (after all we did have a flying mega ship, oh and did I forget to mention that it could go invisible? :p) although it could have been done better....

Will continue to watch and see how it progresses as the first few episodes of arrow were terrible and in the end it turned out to be fantastic!

Oh and it is incredibly obvious that the agent guy (who died in avengers) is a clone or something.....
 
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