Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents of SHIELD TV series for ABC - General Discussion - LEVEL 9

[Doppelganger]

I really can't wait to see what you all think of Winter soldier and How it's going to effect AoS.

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Fury and Hill stepping down really caught me off guard. I am confused as to their intentions (at Marvel). They are going to rebuild Shield, I think. But only because renaming the show would be.... odd. I mean someone is going to have to handle the stuff they do at UNIT Shield. There will be a lot of Hydra cleanup actions I guess depends a lot on who the clairevoyant actually is. Honestly, I expected a bigger change. I don't know what I expected but Shield still seems to exist. Hydra is there but small. So... *shrugs*

 

[Dr. Evil]

Sticking with my theory on Melinda May:

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That she's reporting to Fury or Hill. That's obviously going to change in the next few episodes if that's the case. They both know what happened to Coulson and by next week's episode, neither will be with SHIELD anymore.

 

[Shikamaru]

I couldn't help but chuckle a bit and feel sorry for Skye when she finally became a SHIELD agent. All that time, work, and effort for that badge [BLACKOUT]and SHIELD will be gone in 2 days from now [/BLACKOUT].

 

[Dr. Evil]

I couldn't help but chuckle a bit and feel sorry for Skye when she finally became a SHIELD agent. All that time, work, and effort for that badge [BLACKOUT]and SHIELD will be gone in 2 days from now [/BLACKOUT].

They don't know that yet.

 

[Shikamaru]

They don't know that yet.

I know, but we as the viewers know that in foresight.

It feels very realistic, in a good way. Life is often full of dreams that get ruined as soon as they are fulfilled, usually due to the status quo being changed for the worse.

 

[Dr. Evil]

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So Coulson and his team may be what is left of SHIELD when all is said and done?

Also, big cameos have been teased again.

Should we expect more fun cameos in the final episodes of the season?
Whedon: There will be some faces popping up.
Tancharoen: You will be happy to see these faces pop up toward the end of the season.

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Agents-SHIELD-Whedon-Tancharoen-Spoilers-Clairvoyant-1079952.aspx

 

[Intouch]

does anyone knows if the ratings are good enuff to have a second season?

 

[BoredGuy]

I don't know if it's been talked about but just in case...

SPOILERS!:

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Seems a rather large reveal for a promo pic
and I was so happy to see him play a good guy for a while, dang...

 

[Dr. Evil]

I don't know if it's been talked about but just in case...

SPOILERS!:

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Seems a rather large reveal in a promo pic
and I was so happy to see him play a good guy for a while...

Well, Paxton has been killed by a Predator, Terminator and Alien so it's noly natural that he gets killed off on this show.

 

[Dr. Evil]

One thing I don't understand:

- Why do people want Don Cheadle to make a guest appearance as Rhodey? His only interaction with SHIELD was when Romanoff gave him control of the War Machine armor. He's never met Phil Coulson nor has had any interaction with Nick Fury.

Is it because Cheadle does TV?

 

[AquamanOS]

Probably because Cheadle is cheaper than RDJ.

On the other hand regardless of either of them showing up I don't think the show has the budget to use an Iron Man suit, which is mostly CGIed in in every scene that isn't them standing there.

 

[Crimson King]

does anyone knows if the ratings are good enuff to have a second season?

Yesterday's episode tied a series low, but I don't think they're in danger of getting cancelled. It'll probably get picked up.

 

[BoredGuy]

yeah it's still ABC's like, what, second highest rated show?

 

[Sawyer]

yeah it's still ABC's like, what, second highest rated show?

Not even close.

 

[JC00]

yeah it's still ABC's like, what, second highest rated show?

Based on season averages it is the 4th highest rated show .

 

[Huddsy]

http://www.digitalspy.ca/ustv/s227/...ptimistic-about-season-2.html#~oAjgpzhAkihhIM

The creators of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD are "optimistic" about the show's chances of landing a second season.

Jed Whedon told TV Guide that the ABC drama's first season finale - airing May 13 in the US - will not wrap everything "up in a little bow".


"We're very much teeing up season two," he said. "We're optimistic that we'll have a chance to tell more stories."

Co-showrunner Maurissa Tancharoen added that she and Whedon would still continue Agents of SHIELD in some form if the series is axed by ABC.

"We'll do a Kickstarter project to do a special movie or something," she insisted.

Whedon described working on the first season of the Marvel series as "a quick and crazy learning experience".

"We know that coming out of the gate, people were expecting a Marvel movie every week," Tancharoen said. "That's just logistically impossible as far as us being on that scale. But I do feel like we are living up to that model a little bit."

 

[Crimson King]

http://www.digitalspy.ca/ustv/s227/...ptimistic-about-season-2.html#~oAjgpzhAkihhIM

That whole "expecting a Marvel movie" comment he makes is a straw man argument at its best. Who was expecting that? The criticisms I've seen haven't come close to mentioning that as the problem.

 

[Huddsy]

That whole "expecting a Marvel movie" comment he makes is a straw man argument at its best. Who was expecting that? The criticisms I've seen haven't come close to mentioning that as the problem.

I do know some people who stopped watching cause they thought Stark and Hulk and so-on would be on the show...

I think there is a group out there that expected it. We tend to be a bit more knowledgeable and knew what to expect coming in.

 

[Heretic]

I wish it had been planned as a one year show (and with character names from the comics). It could have added to the story of Thor:TDW and Captain America: TWS, introduced a few background players who might appear in other stuff, given us a new hero here and villain there...and then gone away, making room for another maxi-series to replace it showing yet another corner of the Marvel Universe.

EDIT: And the Defenders could have had to fight guys like Graviton

 

[Loki882]

I just wanted compelling characters, interesting stories, and proper pacing. The show is getting much better in that regard, but for the first half of the season, it only had mixed success on all of the points that I mentioned. I don't expect "Avengers every week," I expect a good show. Also, SHIELD was kind of in the background of a show with their name in the title, which was disappointing. This would have been a great pace to explore the inner-workings of this morally ambiguous massive organization that is willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish their goals (and is 70 years old). The show hasn't done that nearly as much as I would have liked and with

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SHIELD being essentially destroyed in TWS,

it doesn't look that that will happen in the forseeable future. And yes, complaining that "people expect Avengers every week" is a strawman argument. Most of the people that I talk to don't want that. Their problems with the show are in the plotting, pacing, and characterizations.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

So glad there won't be anymore breaks. Hopefully with the movie tie ins and stuff they can make a nice little push in the ratings and close out strong. I'm also sure it will go to Netflix asap so people can do the obligatory marathon and catch up

 

[Silvermoon]

Yesterday's episode tied a series low, but I don't think they're in danger of getting cancelled. It'll probably get picked up.

As has been common with the majority of the episodes, final numbers adjusted up (this time .2 instead of the usual .1) to end up at a 2.0 - doesn't tie the series low anymore.

 

[JB-the-Hunter]

Also, SHIELD was kind of in the background of a show with their name in the title, which was disappointing. This would have been a great pace to explore the inner-workings of this morally ambiguous massive organization that is willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish their goals (and is 70 years old).

The show is called Agents of SHIELD, not just SHIELD. I'm happy we got a show about a select team of agents that all represent different aspects of SHIELD (Espionage, science, technology, secrets) rather than a show about what we're going to see in Captain America 2, the inner workings of SHIELD as a whole. It would have been kinda redundant and less personal. Agents of SHIELD affords us the opportunity to see what a group of morally sound agents would do in the midst of Captain America 2's happenings of conspiracy and betrayal.

 

[iambranded]

yeah it's still ABC's like, what, second highest rated show?

your right...sometime..maybe in season 2 they need to experiment with another day or time slot....depending on who they go up against....right now CSI is killing the ratings with like 15 million?

 

[Dr. Evil]

A special movie via kickstarter if no season two.....interesting.