Agents of SHIELD TV series for ABC - General Discussion - Part 2

[Endeavor]

Ron Glass?
G W Bridge maybe?

[Sawyer]

Originally Posted by JB-the-Hunter

Noooo. She has long hair?
The short hair is Maria Hill's defining physical feature.

She didn't have short hair in The Avengers either, though...

[JB-the-Hunter]

Originally Posted by Sawyer

She didn't have short hair in The Avengers either, though...

At least she had it tied up though. It resembled her comics hair.

[xeno000]

Hill's hairstyle doesn't matter as much as her characterization does. In TA I thought Whedon nailed it with the writing for the part, but Smulders' performance was weak. Hopefully she has improved in the interim.

[JB-the-Hunter]

J. August Richards has extremis.

[T"Challa]

Lola is an old SHIELD hover car!!

[Lord Valumart]

Well at least you guys are spoiler tagging them. Twitter is full of "ZOMGZ HOVER CAR!!!"

[kaijunexus]

Originally Posted by JB-the-Hunter

J. August Richards has extremis.

Awesome. Love that.

But, I wonder...does that place this pilot episode before, after, or even during the events of Iron Man 3?

Is that even covered in the episode?

[xeno000]

Originally Posted by T"Challa

Lola is an old SHIELD hover car!!

I thought she was! Yay! That's just what I wanted to see!

[Donut]

If this gets a second season. I am sure that Robin Sparkles will get upgraded as a regular member. After How I Met Your Mother ends

[T"Challa]

AGents of shield is blowing up on twitter

[flickchick85]

Loving all the Twitter reactions!

And I don't care about Maria Hill's hair in the slightest. Just glad to see she's in it. But that news about Lola made me the happiest.

[Chewy]

The reaction has been pretty great. It is comic-con but still a good sign

[marcvader]

Tomorrow's big Marvel event will be crazy.

[Crimson King]

Seriously, I can't wait. It's going to be bonkers.

[Sawyer]

Not enough info getting out of SDCC. I NEED MORE!!!

It'd be nice if ****ing G4 wasn't abandoning it's geek roots. I need coverage, you bastards!

[Lord Valumart]

The coverage is stupidly low this year. Fwoosh has all the toy stuff, but I couldn't find the X Files panel, the TMNT panel, the Eastman panel, or the SHIELD panel at all.

It sucks.

[Sawyer]

It's pissing me off.

[T"Challa]

full length reviews should be popping up soon. Comingsoon.net and screencrush were very impressed

[eddy]

Originally Posted by JB-the-Hunter

Why does it look exactly like her? Nobody's answered that yet. It could just be a person that looks just like her, that's definitely possible, but when I see that person in that featurette I see Cobie Smulders.

Originally Posted by JB-the-Hunter

720p, full screen, face up to the screen... how much closer can I look? Can someone explain to me why that's not her? Because I'd know Cobie's face anywhere.

Originally Posted by eddy

I don't think its her. If its a secret they wouldn't have put the scene in the promo. If its not a secret they'd use it as part of the marketing (AVENGER STAR IN PILOT!) Guys, they're not going to do hidden cameos in a series premiere. They want people to watch the show.

I'm totally willing to admit when I'm wrong. I was wrong

[flickchick85]

Originally Posted by Sawyer

Not enough info getting out of SDCC. I NEED MORE!!!

It'd be nice if ****ing G4 wasn't abandoning it's geek roots. I need coverage, you bastards!

I know, I hate that it seems like all the professional coverage is from each outlet's own custom press room. I miss all the footage from the floor! That was my favorite part, stupid as it sounds. I've been searching the last couple of days for any live coverage for the floor, but to no avail.

[Anubis]

Originally Posted by Sawyer

Still ain't her.

[JB-the-Hunter]

[eddy]

Originally Posted by Rorschach2012

After seeing the trailer I gotta say this looks pretty bad.

but I'm definitely not tuning in for the first episode.

I'm excited for what this show could do and how it could expand the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

[xeno000]

EW has a sort of non-review review up now: http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/07/19/sh...#disqus_thread

The writer said that the official review of the pilot will be posted later. He liked it, with some odd quibbles about how "accessible" the show will be to the audience.

– The dialogue was, to give a shout out to a certain fan site, Whedonesque. It was the best aspect of the pilot, and precisely what you expect from this team. Smart, witty, self referential, with lines playing off your expectations (such as a riff on Spider-Man’s “with great power comes great responsibility” line).

– Clark Gregg grounds the drama. I’m not a fan of bringing back firmly and explicitly killed-off characters. But watching the pilot you realize the wisdom of having Agent Coulson. Though a minor role in the films, he’s a very TV-friendly presence here. The character believes he was only dead for eight seconds or so after Loki shot him in The Avengers then spent time recovering in Tahiti. But we’re told by his colleagues, “He really doesn’t know does he?” and “He can never know.” So, it’s a nice tease for the ongoing storyline. Also, as EW.com reported earlier today, Cobie Smulders has joined the cast too.

– The rest of the S.H.I.E.L.D. cast: There’s several young actors who are relatively new to TV audiences. Chloe Bennett as a “pseudo anarchist hacker type” Skye seemed to pop the most. I suspect her hyper-sexy adorkable-ness (think Olivia Munn back in her Attack of the Show days) will have plenty of young male fans thinking “yes, a girlfriend like that would do nicely,” while perhaps annoying some others. The rest of the cast didn’t have as much of a chance to really define themselves, so it’s tough to say, but there is potential here.

– Action: Trying to pull off a cinematic idea on a TV budget is one of the show’s big challenges. If anything, S.H.I.E.L.D. was less lavish and action-driven than I expected (Fox’s Almost Human looked more pricy). That’s not necessarily a bad thing. It can be a mistake to make a costly pilot if it means that regular episodes look dinky by comparison. You want the first episode to impress, but not set expectations too high.