The show is not awful, but it's super cheesy and campy. It'll air it's first season but I don't expect much buzz around it by the time the season is through. I'll keep watching until it totally puts me off.
I hope they embrace the cheeseball factor like Chuck did. The monster of the week model cant sustain the tension from week to week to make a serious spy thriller work.
I enjoyed lasted night's episode. They seem to have a lot of "big picture" villains. Though it's probably the same person/group with all these plots.
The show runners have also set themselves up to have a permanent female "Nick Fury" with the character they introduced last night.
I'm wondering if it's going to end up being HYDRA as their main enemy like in the source material. This rising tide group seems to be just like Anonymous right now
I'm wondering if it's going to end up being HYDRA as their main enemy like in the source material. This rising tide group seems to be just like Anonymous right now
A.I.M.'s origins began late in World War II with Baron Wolfgang von Strucker's creation of his subversive organization HYDRA. Under the code name of T.H.E.M., he created two HYDRA branches called Advanced Idea Mechanics and Secret Empire.
Seems like each episode gets progressively better. I really enjoyed tonight's episode. The whole big picture unfolding while maintaining good episodic stories is starting to feel very Whedon-esque.
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Nitpicking out this episode but I really wish TV and movie producers would take a bit more time doing fact checking and hiring people appropriate to the region to play roles. Hong Kong scene was awful with clear American Chinatown signs and god awful fake Chinese accents.
Same thing happened with Pacific Rim. Asian cities are not full of weird voodoo shops selling animal parts run by Ron Perlman, fortune tellers, and American tourists. It's like portraying Paris as a city of mimes and Vespas with baskets full of baguettes and every Parisian was wearing tight pants with berets laughing at tourists bad French. It's simply not realistic and all it would have taken to fix the issue was a different camera angle and slightly different casting choices. Production laziness like this drives me nuts... /rant
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Nitpicking out this episode but I really wish TV and movie producers would take a bit more time doing fact checking and hiring people appropriate to the region to play roles. Hong Kong scene was awful with clear American Chinatown signs and god awful fake Chinese accents.
Same thing happened with Pacific Rim. Asian cities are not full of weird voodoo shops selling animal parts run by Ron Perlman, fortune tellers, and American tourists. It's like portraying Paris as a city of mimes and Vespas with baskets full of baguettes and every Parisian was wearing tight pants with berets laughing at tourists bad French. It's simply not realistic and all it would have taken to fix the issue was a different camera angle and slightly different casting choices. Production laziness like this drives me nuts... /rant
It's entertainment, not a travel documentary. And clearly, you've never been to Paris.
Looks like they will be tying in the show with events from the movies. It might entice a few people to go see the movie in the first couple weeks so they don't get anything spoiled by the show.
Taking advantage of the inherent synergy between ABC series "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." and the Marvel Studios feature films, the Nov. 19 episode of the TV show is set to pick up on the events of "Thor: The Dark World," in theaters on Nov. 8.
The official synopsis for the upcoming episode, titled "The Well," reads, "In the aftermath of the events chronicled in the feature film Marvel's 'Thor: The Dark World,' Coulson and the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. pick up the pieces -- one of which threatens to destroy a member of the team." It's not yet clear how deep of a connection the episode will have to the film, but it's an example of the show again tying-in directly with the broader Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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