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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [US] ** Spoilers **
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And that's my cue to leave. I was actually hoping the last two episode would ramp up the pace, tension and at least create some stakes and antagonists to make me want to return. It's a standard trick of shows to keep a holding pattern until the season breaks, when they just throw the money and drama into a thrilling finale. Instead Agents... petered out with the same ambling, hamfisted and ultimately monotonous pace that defined much of this half-season.
'Dull' doesn't even begin to cover just how unambitious that finale was. And cheap: god it's even boring to look at. Centipede and the return of Peterson reeks of a show that is utterly constrained by Marvel, demonstrating a reluctance to let Agents... use the mythology from the comics, just in case the studio wants to use it later in their movies. Why else would they invent an otherwise forgettable group like Centipede or pointless character like Peterson when the comics bulge with random heroes and acronym-based evildoers? Instead we get rent-a-badguy having a stand off on a bridge. Yawn.
Add to that, there's not a single situation or character I care about, no matter how much the show tells me I should. And while the Ward / May conflict is actually kinda interesting - I never would have said that about Ward initially, so credit there - Skye is an albatross dragging the whole ensemble down with her awful delivery and lines that make her sound like snarky 10-year old. Fitzsimmons aren't far behind but at least they get some decent lines and show a bit of zest; Skye is possibly the worst audience-surrogate I've seen in years.
Just in case I'm being too subtle here - I'm done
Life's too short to be wasting it on sub-mediocre TV shows. If people are enjoying it, then fair play, but I can't take any more 
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And that's my cue to leave. I was actually hoping the last two episode would ramp up the pace, tension and at least create some stakes and antagonists to make me want to return. It's a standard trick of shows to keep a holding pattern until the season breaks, when they just throw the money and drama into a thrilling finale. Instead Agents... petered out with the same ambling, hamfisted and ultimately monotonous pace that defined much of this half-season.
'Dull' doesn't even begin to cover just how unambitious that finale was. And cheap: god it's even boring to look at. Centipede and the return of Peterson reeks of a show that is utterly constrained by Marvel, demonstrating a reluctance to let Agents... use the mythology from the comics, just in case the studio wants to use it later in their movies. Why else would they invent an otherwise forgettable group like Centipede or pointless character like Peterson when the comics bulge with random heroes and acronym-based evildoers? Instead we get rent-a-badguy having a stand off on a bridge. Yawn.
Add to that, there's not a single situation or character I care about, no matter how much the show tells me I should. And while the Ward / May conflict is actually kinda interesting - I never would have said that about Ward initially, so credit there - Skye is an albatross dragging the whole ensemble down with her awful delivery and lines that make her sound like snarky 10-year old. Fitzsimmons aren't far behind but at least they get some decent lines and show a bit of zest; Skye is possibly the worst audience-surrogate I've seen in years.
Just in case I'm being too subtle here - I'm done Life's too short to be wasting it on sub-mediocre TV shows. If people are enjoying it, then fair play, but I can't take any more
Vaild points....but i feel Jed and Maurisa know the problems, and are working on it...albeit slowly. These two delivered in spaights on Dollhouse and Spartacus.
They need fresh blood, Jane Espenson would be a good start....at the start we all :rolleyes: at the predicatble coupling of Skye and Ward, but thankfully they've turned this around showing that Ward is a very mature man and SHIELD agent.
Skye is a girl...May is a woman, and i give the show kudos for defying tv coupling trope. The Hub showed it *can* gt a decent budget...but admit it does look cheap overall, MARVEL probably are holding the show back.
I am taking it one at a time, its giving me enough to come back...just about. I disliked May and Ward for half the season, now i see strong growth.
Hopefully they dont go down theLife Model Decoyon Coulson....too obious, but it needs to be something good!
I'd at least wait to see if the team go rouge and what Tahiti is about 0 -
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Patty O Furniture wrote: »Simmons is the only one delivering the witty lines in her own self deprecating way!
When does the show come back as i need a break after all that excitement, i hear Tahiti is good this time of year
Early January....as for Tahiti, well.....
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Vaild points....but i feel Jed and Maurisa know the problems, and are working on it...albeit slowly. These two delivered in spaights on Dollhouse and Spartacus.
I don't agree they do - or at least, that they're working on it; at first I thought there was an upward curve on the quality of the show in general, but the end I realise it was just sleight of hand. There hasn't actually been any real, tangible improvement. Like I said, Ward has turned out different to what most expected, but in fairness the guy was so badly written and acted at the start there was nowhere to go except up.
Everything else in the show has been static or else moved backwards. Skye is just a horrible character from every angle and emblematic of the problems with the show as a whole; inconsistent, illogical, immature and utterly grating. The episode in The Hub was the moment for me when I walked away thinking "f*ck this show" as the characterisation was so ham-fisted, so irredeemably amateur and all over the place I didn't actually believe the writers knew what they were doing. I've said it before but remove the name 'Joss Whedon' and 'Marvel' from this project and I'd guarantee people would be less forgiving of its faults.They need fresh blood, Jane Espenson would be a good start....at the start we all :rolleyes: at the predicatble coupling of Skye and Ward, but thankfully they've turned this around showing that Ward is a very mature man and SHIELD agent.
What they need is Marvel to stop suffocating their own franchise; with all these announcements about Netflix making Marvel TV shows and the general increase in cinematic adaptations, the obvious question is why Agents... is being held back from using the varied mythology you would have thought was available to it. The writers have nothing to fall back on, no templates to use as reference so instead have to invent all these banal tropes and archetypes that excite & interest nobody, coming off as awful scripting-by-numbers instead.I'd at least wait to see if the team go rouge and what Tahiti is about
The Tahiti thing isn't that interesting, not when the writers kept having Coulson remind us all the time that he died in The Avengers. Yeah Phil, we know, stop talking about when you died. It was clear something was up from episode 1 yet they dragged it out for 10 episodes; more really as we got no indication of what was up in that boring finale. How on earth do you manage to botch a climax where the team leader gets kidnapped? And considering the aforementioned hamstrung mythology, I'm going to guess the answer to his ressurection will be Asgard/Chitari tech.0
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