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10-10-2013, 04:11 PM | #1 |
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With the exception of Firefly, all Whedon shows have taken a while to get their legs underneath them. Hopefully they'll get into a season arc soon, assuming ABC is letting them do one.
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10-11-2013, 04:09 AM | #2 |
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Firefly was a mess at the time. I'm not sure if you watched it back in '03, but for the people who didn't the first episode to air was "The Train Job", not the pilot ("Serenity"). Because Fox didn't like the pilot. Which eventually ended up nominated for a Hugo award. And that was just the first scheduling screwup by Fox. They aired a bunch of the episodes out of order. Which made it difficult at times to follow what was going on (characters would sometimes allude to things the audience hadn't even seen yet...).
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I just looked up the aired order and 3rd through 5th episodes aired were Our Mrs. Reynolds, Jaynetown, and Out of Gas, so yeah. I remember there were references you didn't get in those episodes, but nothing that prevented you from following what was happening. It didn't really get confusing until after Out of Gas, when they jumped back to show the episodes they skipped. |
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and here is how it happened I was pissed fox canceled the dark angel (jessica alba) series buy never took the record of my VCR we went to the drive in every friday to see what was ion one night I came home interweb was out and a started watching what was recorded saw the evil german catch and torture mal and walsh so went to bittorrent to catch up fell in love when crow got kicked into the engine and now I am waiting for that magic to happen on shield they have got a full season bring on the calvary( i do not know her name) as lead and as coulson realizes he is an LMD he will go renagade and let the team figure out his private agenda
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My problem with this show is that most of the characters aren't very interesting. Coulson was a great supporting character in the movies, but they're overdoing him here - granted, they've toned it back a little since the first episode, where every line he had was a smartass quip, but he's coming across as really contrived. Fitz and Simmons are glorified props, the same quirky, childish, idiosyncratic tech support/comic relief characters that so many police procedurals (Criminal Minds, NCIS, Hawaii Five-O) seem to have these days. The main dude character is dull, and his actor isn't very good. Melinda May isn't doing anything. Sky(e?) is as good as it gets, and even she's too much on the cutesy side.
I do like the tone, the setting, the special effects, the action scenes, most of the dialogue, how it fits in with the Avengers world, and even the simplistic plots. They all more or less work for me. It's been picked up for a full 22; I predict major cameos and the giving-away of Coulson's 'secret' for November sweeps. |
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The quality of this program is dropping from week to week. Even though ABC picked up the option for a full season, the numbers will drop if they don't increase the quality of the writing.
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The VFX in this week's episode where laughable, IMO, as was the acting. It's so rote. |
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10-11-2013, 10:04 PM | #11 |
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This show will make through season 1. They'll add Summer Glau to the cast in Season 2 and then the show is doomed. The only exception would be if she was Chloe Bennet's love interest.
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10-11-2013, 10:50 PM | #13 |
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that just means she'll be free to kill season 2 when it starts filming!
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Yeah, I groaned when I saw her show up in the first ep.
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