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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D....this fall on ABC
Josh Whedon is involved. I'm in!
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/liv...-agents-520903 It's official: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is on the air at ABC. The Joss Whedon drama based on the Marvel Comics property has landed a series order at the Disney-owned network, ABC announced Friday. The ABC Studios project is based on Marvel Comics' secret intelligence organization that has appeared in countless titles, including Iron Man, Captain America and The Ultimates, since being introduced in the 1960s. The military law-enforcement agency's moniker stands for Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistic Directorate, which also has evolved over time in the comics. Whedon is on board to co-pen the pilot alongside his brother Jed Whedon and Jed's wife, Maurissa Tancharoen; the trio previously teamed on the three-part web series Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Avengers and Buffy the Vampire Slayer mastermind Whedon directed the pilot, which has had ABC social media accounts for months. S.H.I.E.L.D. is executive produced by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon, Tancharoen, Jeffrey Bell and Marvel TV's Jeph Loeb. ER's Ming-Na stars as Agent Melinda May, The Avengers' Clark Gregg reprises his role as Agent Phil Coulson, Killing Lincoln's Brett Dalton is set as gruff rising star Agent Grant Ward, Elizabeth Henstridge as science whiz Agent Gemma Simmons and Iain DeCaestecker as tech guru Agent Leo Fitz, with Nashville's Chloe Bennet set as Skye, a superhero-obsessed woman. Since the project was first announced in August, it has been a clear front-runner to land on ABC's 2013-14 schedule. ABC Entertainment Group president Paul Lee told reporters in January that the project was being fast-tracked and he was "very hopeful" that the entry with a "great script" would go "Marvel has the ability to bring the whole family around it," Lee said at the time. "Joss has great relationships around it. There's a lot of real funny male-female relationships and flirtations, but it's also Joss and Marvel, so there's a lot of action to it." "My boss Bob Iger buys Marvel, and how wonderful is it for ABC to be able to use the core talent from that and not use the Marvel brand but the Avengers franchise for a show that is not exactly about the Avengers but is attached to it?" Lee said, noting that Whedon was already working on scripts at the time. ABC will start a major marketing push for the high-profile project with a sizable built-in fan base Sunday, May 12, airing a first look at 8 p.m. ahead of the season finale of Once Upon a Time. |
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03-06-2014, 10:00 AM | #256 |
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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
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03-06-2014, 11:24 AM | #257 | |
Oh yeah..... you like that
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Plus, SHIELD feels super generic aside from a few characters.
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03-06-2014, 11:48 AM | #258 | |
Thats Right, Sniff the Glue!!!
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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. |
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03-06-2014, 12:56 PM | #259 |
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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. |
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03-06-2014, 02:29 PM | #260 |
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Yeah, I think that was a Kree.
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03-06-2014, 02:57 PM | #261 | |
Oh yeah..... you like that
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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.
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03-06-2014, 06:10 PM | #262 |
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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. |
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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...
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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 Posted via Mobile Device |
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Some stuff I just have to watch weekly. I don't have the impulse control to wait months. |
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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.
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Sif (Jaimie Alexander ) is in the next episode.
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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. |
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03-11-2014, 07:47 PM | #270 |
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Now that was a hell of an episode.
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