Agents of SHIELD and Reign

[osprey_archer]

I've been watching season one of Agents of SHIELD, and I'm not sure why the internet hates this show so much. Maybe it's because I went into it with my expectations suitably lowered - I can see why it would be a disappointment if you went into it hoping for the second coming of television - but it seems pretty solidly entertaining to me. It's nothing special so far, but then I'm only a couple episodes in; and I can already tell all the characters apart, which is a lot faster than it took for me to tell apart the characters in, say, Reign.

I've given up on Reign, by the way. The surface is very glittery, but none of the more solid qualities I was hoping for ever materialized: neither coherent characterization nor the ability to plot one's way out of a paper bag, on the part of either the characters or the writers. (I knew better than to hope for a take on history that was either accurate or interesting.) When even Queen Catherine (who is quite the best thing on the show, unless the ridiculous fashion counts) became an incompetent schemer, I gently drifted away from the show.

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[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I've watched Agents of Shield when I've stumbled on it and have wanted to zone out with a TV story. The thing I've objected to is that the team is always imprisoning someone or torturing someone, or abandoning its own members. Seriously. I've seen it like three times, and each time, one of those elements (or more) has featured.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I haven't gotten to an episode where they've tortured anyone yet, but they did just kidnap a guy and then abandon him in Hong Kong. And I was like WHAT.

I used to be able to enjoy secret agencies stories a lot more, but now they always make me think ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY, you are showing us this process on the screen as it plays out and yet you seem to think your agency is still the good guys. So we'll see how that dynamic goes here.