yeah, I would've skipped it too if I'd watched it on broadcast. Instead I caught it on the local TV station's site and noticed the last segment seemed long enough to include at least a teaser.
Really? I liked last night's ep fairly well. Some good tension, relationships and characterizations beginning to develop . . . the show definitely has promise.
I felt the character "development" was shallow, hasty, and written very blandly. I don't see much chemistry between moley and he-man, which doesn't bear well for the future beyond this episode. And the gimmick of the week plots have already become tired. To break it down: I don't have the slightest idea why Skye has joined any of the three groups she's with, or what she wants. Nor do I know what her big guy 'instructor' wants, beyond placing himself as a Michael Weston mini. Nor has anything explained why Asian supersoldier decides to become active again in episode 3,when the pnly characterisation we had for her so far is that she refuses to do so, again for reasons unknown. Simmons managed to mess up her few lines, but all of the dialogue was uninspired anyway. All of it, completely perfunctory, and you'd need canned laughter to recognise any jokes.
"Nor do I know what her big guy 'instructor' wants, beyond placing himself as a Michael Weston mini." That guy is the weakness I see so far and yes, it's worse because he's doing a bit that's been done well already, and recently.
Got a full season order from ABC: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/64574 Have they explained how Coulson is alive yet?
Finally got to watch the latest last night. It struck me as sort of formulaic but not BAD per se. I think the problem here is I was hoping for "GREAT!" and what I've seen is "Eh, okay" I've given worse shows a lot more time though so I'm not going to give up on it any time soon. Basically i love Colson, I like the Asian girl and Skye a good bit, and i consider Fitz/Simmons to be supporting people I don't have to care about. So if they can make Ward an interesting character to me, I can forgive a lot else.
so far I'm getting what I expected out of what would be a C list comic book. Agree with much of what Packard has to say... Not enough establishment of characters yet and they're already trying to half assedly develop them-and in predictable directions. I thinl Coulson becoming the Vision by series' end (if not the next Avengers flick) is about the most obvious thing since everyone figured out Lost by the fifth episode.
I'm enjoying the show so far. Give it a chance. I'm sure they'll make some fixes through the season. Remember how bad TNG was the first year or so? I will say the male lead action hero guy is lame. Need some better casting on that one. But he's not as bad as the wimpy Prince Charming on Once Upon a Time.
So Coulson has been resurrected and everyone knows he was dead, but how he came back is a secret...even to HIM? I would think there would be some curiousity...
We haven't met anyone yet who knows they don't know. Coulson and most others who know he lives believe one story -- "Tahiti; it's a magical place." A select few know something else to be true. Nobody has any reason to be curious... except for us.
Fitz/Simmons have stopped being annoying, but yeah, scripting is till pretty weak. Magic gravity unobtanium could've been handled better - Fringe did something similar in a much more clever way (albeit bollixing it up a little in the final ep) - but now we have an origin of Graviton. It's flawed, but I am enjoying it so I'll keep watching until it stops entertaining me.
Not true... Ming Na makes a comment last episode under her breath after he jokes about being dead. She says, "You were". I'll have to rewatch the first one, but I seem to recall a comment in there as well between Fitz/Simmons alluding to it.
I've fucked up my sleep cycle with my October Halloween buildup blog series, and...I slept right through it tonight. Did I really miss anything?
the end scene had another teaser that Coulson isn't just another regualr human being. prodigal agent has x-ray vision implant and has seen through him... the conversation was essentially-"he's different" -"he nearly died" -"no...inside...(sees look of obliviousness) Never mind"
This one was better than the previous eps. Some character building, interesting guest character, well-written and well-shot.
They're hinting at a big bad, too. Some tech-heavy organization. I'm thinking AIM, myself, but it could be Hydra (which would tie in with the movies) or something made for TV. I hope it's not something made for TV. I would love it to be Doctor Doom, but those rights are tied up with the Fantastic Four.
