So what did you think?
I got hit with a thought while watching it.
The whole "He can't ever know." is foreshadowing. He learns he is not real, goes nutso and becomes the Avengers biggest foe.
Mainly because Joss Whedon likes to crap on characters that fans like, that he is not excited about. Killing Coulson probably won't be enough, he also has to destroy his legacy.
Aw, crap, this came on tonight? I meant to DVR it.
I'll need to look it up online, it seems.
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I thought it was great! My theory on Coulson? Think back to how Nick Fury avoided getting assassinated in the earliest issues of S.H.I.E.L.D.
I thought it was good.
Does anyone remember any female made scientist villains in the marvel comics?
Was ok. I liked the tie in to Ironman 3 and avengers.
Things i didnt like
1. the 2 scientists on the team were to crazy, happy, etc
2. The girl in the van. Even more unrealistic than the comics. Felt a lot like saturday morning disney tv
Things i did like
1. Old "angel" cast memeber returns. hopefully whedon brings in more
2. future technology
3. has potential if we get real marvel villians
I thought it was great! My theory on Coulson? Think back to how Nick Fury avoided getting assassinated in the earliest issues of S.H.I.E.L.D.
My thoughts exactly!
And I loved the Bond-wannabe's "Someone really wanted the initials to spell shield?"
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Sure--LMD, and doesn't know it. My short reactions: Coulson's good, but everyone else has some work to do to settle into ensemble mode; they're kind of generic at this point. Whedon never has gotten the hang of doing pilots. But I did like seeing Shepherd Book again.
I really liked it - the show has potential.
Had the right amount of humor, and wasn't stupid-violent.
And I like the scientists.
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I liked it.
There is plenty of room for character development and depth to be added.
I liked the 2 scientists. They seemed to love the adventure of it.
I also liked the girl in the van. She was smart and snarky.
The only one I didn't like is the Bond-wannabe. He came off as a douche, but that was obviously intentional.
I'm encouraged that they seem to have some character development plans for just about everyone.
-Skeld
I like the two scientist.
I like the girl in the van.
I like seeing old Buffy/Angel cast members and hope for more.
I hope to see actual super powered people that didn't get there powers from tech(alien or otherwise).
I liked it a lot... just one issue here.
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I thought it was good.
Does anyone remember any female made scientist villains in the marvel comics?
There have been a few, but the one who immediately comes to mind is Monica Rappaccini, A.I.M. Scientist Supreme. A.I.M. was featured in Iron Man 3 and the tech used in the episode was derivative of the Extremis from the film. Maybe they're setting A.I.M. up as S.H.I.E.L.D.'s opposite number, but I won't be happy until I see beekeeper suits. Also, George Tarleton, but I think we're a long way off from seeing M.O.D.O.K.
My thoughts on the show? I pretty much hate all the characters except Coulson and May (and I only don't hate her because she didn't do anything worth mentioning during the episode.) I thought the best way for the first episode to end would have been with just about everyone dying in a fiery explosion. If they could at least kill Skye and Agent Ward by the end of the next episode that would be super. I really really hate those two.
Other than that, the humor fell flat, a lot of the dialogue was awful and the special effects were, well, not great. I'm going to give it a few more episodes, but the first episode didn't do anything to allay the low expectations I had going into this. It's not even like I want the show to be bad. Just the opposite. I hope it gets awesome but, so far, I think it's more likely to get cancelled.
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Ok here is my issue
PS: Thanks pres man.
I think she lets her fangirl side win her over. That or she actually is a double agent.
Surprised no one mentioned seeing Shepard Book as well....and in a role that at least implies reoccurring character.
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I had high hopes, but I thought it was kind of ridiculously loaded with cliches.
At the end, I half expected Coulson to say "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads." I'm betting they wrote it out of the draft script after the levels of cheese were becoming unbearably high.
I did like that Shepherd Book and Camille from SG:U are in it. Quite a lot, actually. For a minute I also thought Chloe Bennet was Summer Glau.
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Seen it, liked it a lot. Not a bad pilot all in all.
I'm hoping for some big guy or girl cameos. Now that would be A-Awesome.
@ Avatar...dude, she is Mulan first and foremost.
I like cheese. Cheese is good.
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I'm not a huge supers guy so take my review with a grain of salt. Pretty sure I'm not the target audience for this.
The show has what seems like a good production budget. While it makes sense to make Shield a supers CSI I really didn't dig it. There are way too many forensic crime shows on TV right now. Didn't really see anything new with this story wise. Typical cast introduction, predictable plot, boldly goes where thousands of shows have gone before. Mediocre show riding on a huge IP so will probably be around for several seasons.
On a side note anybody watch that craptastic sitcom that follows Shield? 80's kid with a camera filming his family. /puke I was glad my time on the treadmill at the gym was up I couldn't turn it off fast enough.
I liked it. Hope it lasts.
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Loved all the little inside jokes and references. Liked pretty much all the characters (especially "Preacher") and Gunn, except that hacker girl. Far too over the top, and she full on kicks a random innocent guy in the groin just because. Really just didnt like her at all and hope they ditch her soon.
Shes an asset, and we know what happens to "assets" once the missions over. :)
she full on kicks a random innocent guy in the groin just because.
"Just because"?
Just sayin'.
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Never was a fan of Coulson, who seemed to be perpetually promoted by whatever movie he was in *Care about this guy!* which kind of turned me off to him, 'cause I'm contrary that way and tend to knee-jerk against whomever the director is screaming at me to 'love this character, dammit!'
But, so far, I'm liking *all* of the other characters, and hope to see more of 'Shepherd Book' as well.
Although, Fitz and Simmons cutesy talking over each other routine will get old *very* fast if that keeps up. Too cute by half.
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Never was a fan of Coulson, who seemed to be perpetually promoted by whatever movie he was in *Care about this guy!* which kind of turned me off to him, 'cause I'm contrary that way and tend to knee-jerk against whomever the director is screaming at me to 'love this character, dammit!'
This.
Plus, all the whining about how Joss Whedon loves to kill characters as evidenced by Coulson's death has gotten very old, very quickly. You might as well complain that the deaths of Uncle Ben or Martha and Thomas Wayne were arbitrary. Having a supporting character die to spur the heroes to action is a trope that pre-dates Whedon. The only way Coulson' death could've been more obvious is if he had talked about how he was going to sell his Captain America cards to fund his retirement, scheduled to occur the following week.
"You know what Mr. Stark, I'm getting too old for this sh.t. I have 3 weeks till retirement."
Also, here's a picture of my newborn baby.
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"Did I tell you about my childhood or retirement plans?" -said any character who has had zero characterization ever, two minutes before they die.
Such a cliché. Watching Hunt for the Red October, when Sam Neill's character started talking about wanting to see Montana, my roommate said out loud, 'Dead!'
I'd like to see that in a comedy, where a support character talks about how it's their first week on the job, but they're already looking forward to retirement next month.
I'll have to rewatch that then. I remember some of that... did that character keeping hitting the tropes, but surviving horrible accidents?
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I thought it was pretty bad. There were hints of inspired writing, mostly in the form of clever dialogue, but otherwise the whole thing was meh.
Maybe it will grow into something better.
Tried to watch it on ABC
Error, you are not in US. thus you cannot watch. Blah blah blah international law blah blah bullcrap.
Now i either have to wait for one of our own channels to pick this up (hah fat chance) or i have to do illegal stuff.
In the UK will be on tonight at 8pm on Channel 4 and repeated tomorrow on the same channel at 7pm, hope that helps!
Never was a fan of Coulson, who seemed to be perpetually promoted by whatever movie he was in *Care about this guy!* which kind of turned me off to him, 'cause I'm contrary that way and tend to knee-jerk against whomever the director is screaming at me to 'love this character, dammit!'
This.
Plus, all the whining about how Joss Whedon loves to kill characters as evidenced by Coulson's death has gotten very old, very quickly. You might as well complain that the deaths of Uncle Ben or Martha and Thomas Wayne were arbitrary. Having a supporting character die to spur the heroes to action is a trope that pre-dates Whedon. The only way Coulson' death could've been more obvious is if he had talked about how he was going to sell his Captain America cards to fund his retirement, scheduled to occur the following week.
then maybe he should stop tossing them into the meat grinder. Just saying.
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Comics Alliance has a review up.
It's a good review. One of the points in it (needs to dig deeper into Marvel's bag of weirdness)...is fine but I think the show needs to stage it out nice and slowly. Give time for the weird to sink into new fans.
I mean, if I pulled out Dark Hawk on them. Well, damn there would be a while to understand the body swaping going on.
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Decent enough start, and it'll be interesting to see where it goes. I'm hoping that we get just a bit of moral dubiousness, given the whole 'secret government agency given infinite money and no legal oversight' thing that SHIELD has going on, but I'd be surprised if we got any of that.
I'm expecting a lot of monster of the week stuff, at least to begin with.
I like the fact that both Ward and Skye had valid points. She was stirring the pot without regard as to what would happen, but that doesn't negate her point about self-appointed saviors hiding things from people.