lol me too. They basically made Ollie to be more like the Smallville Ollie and then Arrow made Ollie to be more like.. Nolan's Batman ROFL

I do not blame you. I am having a real hard time watching network dramas. 20+ episodes a season is too much. There is so much filler and plots take forever to wrap up because of it. Cable has the right idea when it comes to dramas.

Plus, SHIELD feels super generic aside from a few characters.

Two things that bother me with all these network dramas, no matter how good or bad the show is.

Commercials - I just can't deal any more, and every show now has 5 minutes of show, then almost 6 minutes of commercial.

The season breaks - I get the holiday break, take a couple weeks off because of low ratings, but then to come back and air episodes for 1 - 2 weeks then 2-3 weeks off, rinse repeat till season finale. It's just irritating and I end up losing interest in the show.

Netflix is doing it right, no commercials, entire season out at once, so you can binge watch or not, your choice.

I think the only time I ever watch commercials is when I'm unable to dvr something and I have to watch it on demand. Oh for the halcyon days before the networks began to disable the fast forward button. But even when I'm watching something "live", as I occasionally do, I usually hit pause right at the time the show begins, then start watching for real at 20 after the hour. Synchs up right at the end of the hour.

I watch so much tv, really too much, that the breaks during the season are good for me because it allows me to catch up with the recording backlog on my box.

Yeah, I think that was a Kree.

I agree with you too a point. I had purged my TV viewing habits based on two things: I was taking night classes then after that I built a gaming computer. Why the **** am I watching Two Broke Girls, which I really don't even enjoy when my time can be doing something much more productive or enjoyable.

At this point, I would much rather skip a new show and then catch up with it later on Netflix than sit week in and week out waiting for a show to get better.

I think so as well.. it would stand to reason since Guardians comes out in August and features at least two Kree characters in it.

I have a strange feeling that Guardians may end up a bigger hit than people are thinking right now. For the people who didn't like the first trailer (I thought it was great) the Director even said he didn't like it but he had to make one that introduced the character's first before he made a trailer he REALLY liked.

This.

I love the main characters. I'm a huge Marvel (comics) fanboy.

I love the premise.

It just seems like a very generic ride in a very Marvel Disneyland that no one is really enjoying...

I think alot of people are starting to do this.

Basically, if you took a year or two years off of watching TV, then just caught up on Netflix or some other online service, you have created a new timeline for yourself.

Its new to you and its basically a time saver overall without the commercials
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Yeah, I have actually cut out a bunch too.

Some stuff I just have to watch weekly. I don't have the impulse control to wait months.

I think it's been picking up steam for the last 4-6 episodes. It's gotten more serious (without losing its humor), it seems like it's going somewhere where most of the first half of the season didn't. And they've started to answer questions, which is really important.

It still has a little ways yet to go though, I think.

This last episode was kind of a mess. Plot holes and irrational character behavior. Coulson is making rash emotional decisions that don't make sense for him. They bust into a secret facility, and kill two guards and blow up the facility just to hopefully find something that might heal Skye? Really? Just leave those guards in the building while it explodes? Shield just randomly murders other government agents now while disobeying orders? Or the fact that Shield/whoever has a facility that holds alien regenerative technology and a robot surgeon that can bring people back from the dead. Which is easily broken into in a matter of minutes with a self destruct failsafe that then destroys all that awesome stuff. And why was Coulson hesitant to give Skye the GH 325 after he found out it was alien blood?

Just too much goofiness. Writing has been all over the place.

Sif (Jaimie Alexander ) is in the next episode.

I skipped a bunch of episodes and happened to catch this one. My wild ass guess is that the secret facility was either something run by Nick Fury in secret (his base in Antarctica) or its a S.W.O.R.D. facility. Finding the alien makes me lean towards that latter, especially since S.W.O.R.D. was introduced by Whedon.

Skye achieves powers by virtue of the GH 325, reveals (at some point) that her real name is Jessica Drew, becomes Spider Woman...so on and so forth.

Now that was a hell of an episode.