SED 3: Agents Of SHIELD
May. 3rd, 2015 11:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lightofdayeSo I was going to write this yesterday, since I last watched AoS on Friday. Then cooking disasters happened and I decided to write about that instead. Now I've forgotten most of what I was going to say.
Agent of Shield was Marvel's first TV Series in the Marvel Cinematic Films, that is it's supposed to exist alongside the films Like Iron Man, Thor, The Avengers etc. It stars Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson despite that character being killed off in the Avengers. He forms a team of specialists and wanders around the world dealing with problems and the strange powered people that pops up in the Marvel Universe.
To me. Agents Of SHEILD is an okay program. It's fun, don't take itself seriously when it doesn't have to but does when its warranted. It's not a brilliant program. They can't do much spectacle on a tv budget and that hurts them. The references to movies and Avengers characters always feel real clunky. And it has people raising its eyebrows at them at first for a pretty white cast and casting PoCs as villians.
But ultimately it's harmless fun to me. It's also good in that it gets broadcast here on free terrestrial tv, relatively soon after US broadcast, most big US shows go out on paid Sky tv first and you're lucky if it ever gets to terrestial.
A couple of things I want to say though. Why is 'it's okay' so rare a thing? It seems like all series have to be super-awesme-best-telly-ever or they're crap these days.
And the other. When did arcs become such a thing? When did standalone episodes become 'boring filler'? I like the potential on the monster/mysterry/weird thing of the week format. It's sad that everything has to be the same. (I say this because AoS only really got traction with the audience when it became much more serialised after the impacts of Captain America: The Winter Soldier)
Now as I said in a previous post this is one of my things that I am a fan of but not really in fandom of. By which I mean I'm not writing fic for it anytime soon. I think its the fact its live action. Mostly I tend to write for books.
Agent of Shield was Marvel's first TV Series in the Marvel Cinematic Films, that is it's supposed to exist alongside the films Like Iron Man, Thor, The Avengers etc. It stars Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson despite that character being killed off in the Avengers. He forms a team of specialists and wanders around the world dealing with problems and the strange powered people that pops up in the Marvel Universe.
To me. Agents Of SHEILD is an okay program. It's fun, don't take itself seriously when it doesn't have to but does when its warranted. It's not a brilliant program. They can't do much spectacle on a tv budget and that hurts them. The references to movies and Avengers characters always feel real clunky. And it has people raising its eyebrows at them at first for a pretty white cast and casting PoCs as villians.
But ultimately it's harmless fun to me. It's also good in that it gets broadcast here on free terrestrial tv, relatively soon after US broadcast, most big US shows go out on paid Sky tv first and you're lucky if it ever gets to terrestial.
A couple of things I want to say though. Why is 'it's okay' so rare a thing? It seems like all series have to be super-awesme-best-telly-ever or they're crap these days.
And the other. When did arcs become such a thing? When did standalone episodes become 'boring filler'? I like the potential on the monster/mysterry/weird thing of the week format. It's sad that everything has to be the same. (I say this because AoS only really got traction with the audience when it became much more serialised after the impacts of Captain America: The Winter Soldier)
Now as I said in a previous post this is one of my things that I am a fan of but not really in fandom of. By which I mean I'm not writing fic for it anytime soon. I think its the fact its live action. Mostly I tend to write for books.
