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Road to Avengers Doomsday: Agents of SHIELD Season 1
Agents of SHIELD is the beginning of Marvel Studios venture into television, or specifically broadcast television. The series always kind of carried me over with my MCU cravings. But it also did some unique things that tied in to the movies and went off on its own storylines and ideas. The first season is good, kind of quaint watching through it all again.
There are tons of interesting characters with Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) leading the series. Again, he is fantastic and I would like for him to return to the MCU someday. But there are other characters like the SHIELD team (Skye, Fitz, Simmons, May and Grant Ward) who are also very compelling and have their own interesting arcs and developments as the series goes on. The series weaves in and out between films (at least in the first 5 seasons) so the series was initially considered to be a dud by some due to the fact that “nothing was happening”. It was just secret agents in a comic book world investigating strange incidents. It sort of reminded me of the television series Fringe in that regard. But all of that changed properly with the Winter Soldier tie in. There was a reference to Iron Man 3 (Extremis) and an episode that dealt with the aftermath of Thor The Dark World, cameos by Jaime Alexander as Sif, Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill, Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury, Titus Welliver as Felix Blake, and Maximiliano Hernandez as Sitwell from the films (further proof that this show is canon despite the argument by some on the internet) but it is the Winter Soldier tie in episode that changes this series forever with the revelation that SHIELD is Hydra. It made the slow buildup of the season really pay off and really hit some emotional points with some of these characters. Which is greatly appreciated and is actually a tactic used in broadcast television shows (big events that change the season/series). The show does a good job showing the everyday aspects of the MCU. The blue collar characters and plotlines as opposed to the fantastical stuff we see in the films. And I really enjoyed the intrigue and mystery (Coulson’s resurrection, the Guest House, etc.) all of these things are answered in future seasons (some satisfactorily and some not so much) but it’s really good writing and set up.
Now, this being broadcast television there are some drawbacks, but they are all the usual drawbacks from broadcast television on ABC. And a limited budget makes some of these things worse (dodgy effects, and production design). I will admit that I found some of the villains in this season to be a little underwhelming (Ian Quinn mainly), the real villain shows up closer to the end of the series (Bill Paxton’s John Garrett) and he was fitting, deranged and great. But I will say that the antagonists get better as the series goes on.
I stuck with this series from the very beginning. One of the few television shows that I did this with and probably the last broadcast television show I did this with. Also, as I stated before, I maintain it is still canon despite what some people on the internet would like to insist.
Rating: 3.5/5 I know I said I wasn't going to do this, but I want to hold off on giving it a higher rating as the show improves. Again, it's still good.
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Agents of SHIELD is the beginning of Marvel Studios venture into television, or specifically broadcast television. The series always kind of carried me over with my MCU cravings. But it also did some unique things that tied in to the movies and went off on its own storylines and ideas. The first season is good, kind of quaint watching through it all again.
There are tons of interesting characters with Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) leading the series. Again, he is fantastic and I would like for him to return to the MCU someday. But there are other characters like the SHIELD team (Skye, Fitz, Simmons, May and Grant Ward) who are also very compelling and have their own interesting arcs and developments as the series goes on. The series weaves in and out between films (at least in the first 5 seasons) so the series was initially considered to be a dud by some due to the fact that “nothing was happening”. It was just secret agents in a comic book world investigating strange incidents. It sort of reminded me of the television series Fringe in that regard. But all of that changed properly with the Winter Soldier tie in. There was a reference to Iron Man 3 (Extremis) and an episode that dealt with the aftermath of Thor The Dark World, cameos by Jaime Alexander as Sif, Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill, Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury, Titus Welliver as Felix Blake, and Maximiliano Hernandez as Sitwell from the films (further proof that this show is canon despite the argument by some on the internet) but it is the Winter Soldier tie in episode that changes this series forever with the revelation that SHIELD is Hydra. It made the slow buildup of the season really pay off and really hit some emotional points with some of these characters. Which is greatly appreciated and is actually a tactic used in broadcast television shows (big events that change the season/series). The show does a good job showing the everyday aspects of the MCU. The blue collar characters and plotlines as opposed to the fantastical stuff we see in the films. And I really enjoyed the intrigue and mystery (Coulson’s resurrection, the Guest House, etc.) all of these things are answered in future seasons (some satisfactorily and some not so much) but it’s really good writing and set up.
Now, this being broadcast television there are some drawbacks, but they are all the usual drawbacks from broadcast television on ABC. And a limited budget makes some of these things worse (dodgy effects, and production design). I will admit that I found some of the villains in this season to be a little underwhelming (Ian Quinn mainly), the real villain shows up closer to the end of the series (Bill Paxton’s John Garrett) and he was fitting, deranged and great. But I will say that the antagonists get better as the series goes on.
I stuck with this series from the very beginning. One of the few television shows that I did this with and probably the last broadcast television show I did this with. Also, as I stated before, I maintain it is still canon despite what some people on the internet would like to insist.
Rating: 3.5/5 I know I said I wasn't going to do this, but I want to hold off on giving it a higher rating as the show improves. Again, it's still good.
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