Joss new show Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D. What do you think of it
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UPDATED: Saturday, October 26, 2013 02:47
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I started watching on HULU and the video froze. I went straight to ABC's site and watched it there with no problem.
I enjoyed it. It reminds me of "Buffy", one of my favorite shows from Mr. Whedon. So that's a thumbs up. Also hope to see more of Ron Glass. 
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It was ok IMO. Nothing special about it. The actress who plays Skye worries me. She couldn't pull off Whedon dialog IMO. Her delivery was too heavy handed. Whedon whit should be somewhat subtle and it should always seem like something the person would naturally say instead of a punch line.
Simmons is cute and I wanted to like her characters a la Fred on Angel, but I had trouble understanding her half the time. Her accent and quick rate of speaking left me in the dust way too often.
Joss definitely knew what he was doing bringing in Coulson. He anchored the show big time. He nailed his lines and kept the whole thing interesting. I put him or the veteran female agent (I forget her name) as the first to die. They both seem to have something in their past that they have to come to terms with. Once that happens they're in deep trouble.
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Originally posted by Bup:
S.H.E.I.L.D. had the strongest pilot I have seen in a long time. I like Sleepy Hollow too. But I think Sleepy Hollow is going to have to work harder than AoS to keep the audience.
I dunno. I'm kind of bummed to admit it, but I'm liking Sleepy Hollow a good deal more than AoS. The acting is first rate. The writing is clever without being 'cute'. And, most importantly, they're creating characters I can really care about, with interesting conflicts and motivations.
It took me a couple of episodes to swallow the fantastical premise, but for my money they're doing Buffy/Whedon better than Joss - at least for now.
MYOB
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I'm liking it.
Devout Keeper of Jayne's Lunchbox
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Originally posted by Bup:
S.H.E.I.L.D. had the strongest pilot I have seen in a long time. I like Sleepy Hollow too. But I think Sleepy Hollow is going to have to work harder than AoS to keep the audience.
I dunno. I'm kind of bummed to admit it, but I'm liking Sleepy Hollow a good deal more than AoS. The acting is first rate. The writing is clever without being 'cute'. And, most importantly, they're creating characters I can really care about, with interesting conflicts and motivations.
It took me a couple of episodes to swallow the fantastical premise, but for my money they're doing Buffy/Whedon better than Joss - at least for now.
MYOB
Right there with you. Sleepy Hollow, which as I noted above, I expected to be really lame, has hooked me completely.
SHIELD, which I wanted to like for a variety of reasons (supporting Joss, the return of Mutant Enemy, being a fan of the MCU, and I flippin was a SHIELD agent, if even for just one night) - and while Ive enjoyed it well enough - if it weren't for the Joss/Mutant Enemy connection, I think I would have bailed.
Its just so.... bland. It doesn't help that Joss' shows have always worked best when they're the underdogs - having a team with unlimited resources and the full backing of a huge shadow agency strips it of that entirely. Coulson and to a lesser degree Mae are still the only characters I care about - Im actively hoping for the deaths of most of the others, who I find flat and'or outright annoying (Fitz and Simmons either need to get better or go away - just casting what is essentially the same character with one of each gender strikes me as pandering, not clever).
I did find the last episode to be a bit of an improvement - especially for the Ward character (the fact that he only became interesting when pretending to be someone else doesn't instill me with a great deal of confidence in this area, though). But Im hoping the uptick in quality continues.
But boy... a couple months back, there was a blind item on Defamer claiming that the first several episodes of SHIELD had terrible scripts that ABC was unhappy with, and that Joss had to swoop in to "salvage" just before shooting. I balked at the idea at the time.... now, Im kinda buying it.
"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"
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I'm kinda tired of the mostly white people VS vaguely black people thing....I still get the feeling he didn't get final approval on the characters or even who played 'em. They just aren't human enough to me. I dunno... it's... just missing something! They are just soooo very bloody WHITE!
Crap, even Star Trek let the black girl handle the phones..
But then, he seems to really really like the whole black vs white thing, with Jubal Early and the Operative??
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Ming Na Wen is distinctly Oriental and not White...
Devout Keeper of Jayne's Lunchbox
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Yeah, I did notice that. 
But you line everybody up it's still a pretty white-washed bunch. And the SHIELD logo already looks a wee bit Nazi-like...
Am I really the only one who likes it when not everyone on a show looks like an underwear model for whites-r-us?
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Originally posted by Storymark:
But boy... a couple months back, there was a blind item on Defamer claiming that the first several episodes of SHIELD had terrible scripts that ABC was unhappy with, and that Joss had to swoop in to "salvage" just before shooting. I balked at the idea at the time.... now, Im kinda buying it.
"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"
Yep, I'll buy that one completely...
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Originally posted by Wishimay:
They are just soooo very bloody WHITE!
Because his other shows were so racially diverse?
He created a universe where China had as much cultural influence as any other country - and had, what - one Asian extra in the whole series (and movie)?
Its one of the biggest failings in his work, IMO.
"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"
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