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  • #16
    Originally posted by DA_Champion
    You know that episode when Shield sent two of Coulson;'s agents into central Asia, why did they send two of Coulson's agents including Fitz who had never done field work before? Did they have no one better? It doesn't add up. It would add up better if the show was like Buffy or Dollhouse where it makes sense to send agents from the only team available. They are using the storytelling of Buffy and Dollhouse, without using the world-building of Buffy and Dollhouse.

    Yeah so I had not noticed this before, but this is the first Whedon show (Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, AoS) where the scooby gang isn't unique. It's one scooby gang out of many, but it's not written that way.
    Hard to argue with this, especially since it's not like Coulson's team even covers one specific territory. They just go wherever.

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    • #17
      I think the basic idea is that Coulson's group contains specialists for different areas, and they're learning how to cooperate. Fitz and Simmons had presumably never left their lab prior to the first episode, and Skye's a civilian. Ward's primary skill is weaponry, while May specializes in physical combat and aviation. Coulson himself is a "jack of all trades", having been with SHIELD for quite some time when Pepper first meets him in "Iron Man".

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      • #18
        I'd have to agree with the Huffington Post review. I don't feel invested in the fates of their characters as much I do with other shows. This has to be a factor in their ratings drop from the pilot.

        Only lately has FitzSimmons shown (small) glimpses of character growth and Skye ... with all the time invested in her story, I'm just not that intrigued with it, or with her. Mike Peterson has only been in two episodes, yet I'm more interested in his fate than Skye's. May's character is the only one where I sense that there's more beneath the surface and I want to find out what it is. Coulson seems to be that way too, but so far it's more teases and little in revelations (maybe the second half).

        I think the 'Is it a superhero show or not' argument is a non-issue. It's not a matter of the show somehow not fitting expectations of viewers who wanted a superhero show vs. those who didn't. You could throw a guest Avenger a week into the show -- and the character and story issues would still be there. The material itself is not as riveting to watch as it could be.

        I still have hope for the show, but it needs work.

        One would think having both Marvel and Whedon's brand attached to it would have given the writers the sort of comfort zone other shows don't enjoy and push the envelope with the series. The issue with the show is: it doesn't.

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        • #19
          Initially I went into the show wanting to hate it, but in my heart secretly I knew I would like it.
          But after episode 1, I knew I could live without it and subsequently every episode I watched got lousier and lousier. Its like I'm waiting for it to be good but it hasn't, so I stopped watching in episode 4 and true enough, many viewers got so disappointed with the show they left.
          I believe everyone felt the same way, everyone wants the show to get better and we're still waiting for the show to get better, but I'll say vote with your time, if the show isn't good, stop watching it, so show runners can either a) cancel the show and produce better ones or b) change the show radically and make it better.

          Even good reviews like this is constantly talking about how they want the show to be,

          Without their leader holding them together, we might just see some of Marvel’s trademark teammate infighting happen, hopefully along with the team splitting from their all-powerful S.H.I.E.L.D. bosses.
          Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/news/5-ways-to...AAqGm3IB7Iy.99
          When it comes to comic book adaptations, nothing will be able to stop fans from searching for Easter eggs – and fans get mad when their baskets stay empty.
          Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/news/5-ways-to...AAqGm3IB7Iy.99
          There are all sorts of artifacts and locations that make the Marvel Universe feel like the Marvel Universe, and "S.H.I.E.L.D." should use some of them.
          Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/news/5-ways-to...AAqGm3IB7Iy.99
          It’s a show set primarily in an airplane that houses six adults full-time – yet the plane is pristine and void of all the messiness that befalls every "Real World" house. It’s time for this show to start looking lived in.
          Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/news/5-ways-to...AAqGm3IB7Iy.99
          Judging by the midseason finale, "Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." is close to becoming the Marvel Universe show fans wanted it to be from the beginning. Here’s hoping 2014 gives us a more Marvel-ous "S.H.I.E.L.D."
          Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/news/5-ways-to...AAqGm3IB7Iy.99
          You can tell that this writer really like the show and wants it to be good, but thats just it, even good reviews like this, you can read their subtle undertone that they're still craving for more and wanting it to be better.

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          • #20
            I am worried that TV execs will take the wrong lessons with respect to why the show failed. They will assume it failed because it isn't about superheroes, when in fact it failed because the writing is bad. I like to believe that we (those of us posting here) would be perfectly ok with watching a well-written show about "regular" people operating in superhero world who are not superheroes themselves.

            It may simply be, in fairness to the studios, that non-experimental shows are easier to write, and thus more likely to be "well-written", and thus it makes financial sense to follow a formula.

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            • #21
              Originally posted by DA_Champion
              I am worried that TV execs will take the wrong lessons with respect to why the show failed. They will assume it failed because it isn't about superheroes, when in fact it failed because the writing is bad. I like to believe that we (those of us posting here) would be perfectly ok with watching a well-written show about "regular" people operating in superhero world who are not superheroes themselves.

              It may simply be, in fairness to the studios, that non-experimental shows are easier to write, and thus more likely to be "well-written", and thus it makes financial sense to follow a formula.
              I agree. I'm really okay with it being a show about regular people, but I think they need to majorly rethink how they want to approach that angle and do something about it.

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              • #22
                It would be too embarrassing for ABC to cancel this after one season, a very likely outcome is that they hire some new writers to "help" (replace) the old ones, and they repackage the show as a generic superhero narrative.

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