Comments on: Agents of SHIELD – Your frown will be on the record https://cliqueclack.com/p/agents-of-shield-084-samuel-jackson/ Big voices. Little censors. Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:43:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Ronald Hill https://cliqueclack.com/p/agents-of-shield-084-samuel-jackson/#comment-48842 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 18:51:50 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=12818#comment-48842 Well I have to agree, I feel like a fan of the show already, though I kept feeling like “OK, we’ve seen Mal (Coulson), Jayne (Ward), Zoe/Wash (May) already.” I really felt like the episode was just Our Mrs. Reynolds again. That being said, I enjoy the show, and my honest fear is not of its relation to Firefly (other than Whedon’s trademark well written, critic beloved, nobody watched and quickly cancelled after casting a faint light on a crazy universe style), but of it becoming too much like Heroes. This episode helped allay that fear a little bit.
The problem I saw with the first season of Heroes was that it spent pretty much every episode after say 5 ratcheting up the tension for a final battle that it couldn’t possibly deliver on. Once that happened, my interest in the show fell to pieces. Part of what makes the Blue Sun group from Firefly interesting is that we never really found out what they were about. Sylar was an interesting character when he was sneaking around croaking supers in the dark, but once we learned he wanted power…because he wanted power, he lost his mystique. The reason I mention all that is because that’s the vibe I get from the Rising Tide. They looked like an evil group at the beginning of the first episode, then more of an Anonymous by the end of the pilot and beginning of this episode, now Skye is seeming shady.

]]> By: Tom Gardiner https://cliqueclack.com/p/agents-of-shield-084-samuel-jackson/#comment-48797 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 03:37:34 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=12818#comment-48797 I’ve yet to see the 2nd episode, but the first one didn’t hook me quite as deeply as I was expecting/hoping. That may be due to my expectations being so high and it wouldn’t be the first time, but I’m sticking with it.

Now “The Blacklist” hooked me immediately and I was pleasantly surprised by the cheesy charm of “Sleepy Hollow.” The latter never seems to take itself too seriously and the witty quips somehow remind me more of a Whedon show than SHIELD.

Please bear in mind that I am not only easily amused, but my mind wanders into traffic with alarming regularity. Any similarities in my comments to cogent thought are completely coincidental.

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