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‘Agents of Shield’ most popular superhero show on TV

kirk55555 said:
Well, Buffy's fifth season was its worst in my opinion, and Buffy Season 6 turned out to be my favorite...

Yeah, no. Maybe if it was Joss Whedon and not the Whedon that likes to turn people into Nazi's and has an apparent obsession with the soap opera Dallas, the show might turn things around. But with Jed you're more likely to have Fitz become a pedophile or Coulson get resurrected as literally Frankenstein. It depends on whether the producers decide to be lazy or offensive. heck, maybe the next season will be literally be a dream (like how the last one was as pointless and inconsequential as one), so he can do both. Pedo Fitz vs Frankencoulson. Also, everyone will die except Mack, the one who deserves to die.
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What the fuck is wrong with you.
 
There's a Marvel Rising comic now where she has it. I can't say what came first. IIRC, she didn't have purple hair in the Matt Rosenberg Secret Warriors comics, though.
 
gblews said:
Pretty cool article on the show’s history and how it has somehow managed to outlast and outdo other more acclaimed Marvel TV shows. It even mentions the Parrot Analytics study. :)

https://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/marvel/277922/agents-of-shield-future-of-marvel-tv-universe
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Honest evaluation of the first season...
Unfortunately – decent pilot episode aside – Agents of SHIELD had the look and feel of any number of generic, seen-it-all-before, action-series, only this time with a sci-fi twist: The A-Team with ET-gadgets. Its maiden season was such a throw-back to the 1990s in terms of tone, look and budget that it practically opened up a time-portal at our feet and started spitting out stone-washed denim dungarees and copies of the Greatest Hits of Steps. Coulson's crew were walking, talking, stock-catalogue composites, with square jaws and shiny hair-dos, spouting out dialogue that was a mixed-bag of snappy, sassy, and saccharine sound-bites.

But then, at the eleventh hour – just when it looked like all hope was lost – the tide started to turn. And not just turn, but "Turn, Turn, Turn."
Season one episode seventeen was the point at which Agents of SHIELD's narrative dovetailed with the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, a synergy that arguably saved the show from bargain-bin obscurity.
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(Although I would mark the beginning in uptick in quality with S1.14, TRACKS)

Money quotes...

While Agents of SHIELD kept growing, maturing and evolving – taking us everywhere from ancient cities, to distant worlds, to deep space, to medieval castles, to Nazi-themed computer simulations – and turning out magnificent, breath-taking episodes like "4,722 Hours," "What If," and "Orientation," the Netflix Marvel Universe was demonstrating more and more that it wasn't ready for such rapid expansion, and might not have the staying power to shore up its early acclaim.

*****
Meanwhile, Agents of SHIELD pushed on, gaining confidence and garnering more and more acclaim with each passing season. And who said the show needed the brand recognition of a big-name superhero? It had Daisy Johnson, aka Quake, plucked from the comics, and placed center-stage in her very own origin/rise-to-prominence story combo. And a bloody fine story it is, too.

While many had dismissed Agents of SHIELD as hopelessly fluffy and light, in many ways it could be darker and more subversive than its Netflix cousins, with its severed arms, nightmarish dystopias, essence-eating monsters, immortal Nazis, unstoppable alien creatures, flaming skulls and madness of all types and stripes. The show also wasn't afraid to dirty its protagonists' hands, warp and torture them, sour and taint its central love stories, or even make established fan-favorites cross the line from cooly pragmatic to coldy monstrous.
*****
Because it pays to invest in Agents of SHIELD. Not because the show is endlessly inventive, witty, shocking, exciting, or funny, although it's all of those things, but because Agents of SHIELD has spent the last five years slowly assembling something that makes all of the good times, bad times, love, loss and hijinks experienced by the team hit home and resonate all the harder; something that makes you want to smile, stew, rant, rage, sigh, laugh and cry, sometimes all at once; something that neither the other shows of the MTU nor the MCU have managed successfully to replicate: a family.
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:techman:

And I totally agree with this...

Only one snag: "The End" was so fitting, so resonant, so damned perfect, how the hell are they going to top it for the 'real' series finale?
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Reverend said:
I don't need a set of statistics to prove to me that AoS is head and shoulders above most of the other comic book based shows around today. Consistently good writing, compelling character growth, a genuine affection for both the audience and the subject matter, a damn near terminal allergy to resting on it's laurels, reusing tropes or sticking to any kind of status quo, and of course: cast chemistry most other shows would kill for.
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I just started watching this show a few days ago, and think it's great. I'm not sure why so many people are saying it's bad. I'm genuinely confused. Of course, I don't care about the superhero angle or the MCU movies in general (I haven't watched any of the movies), so maybe I'm walking into it with different expectations.
 
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