Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D

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**Compel**

I've got to agree, it's a bit like they're afraid of doing so.

Whereas, conversely, Arrow is plunging headfirst into it. - The recent episodes have been introducing The League of Assassins, Ra's Al Ghul, Brother Blood, Bronze Tiger, Amanda Waller, Black Canary, Isabel Roschev and very strong hints to The Flash turning up later on in the season.

**AlexHolker**

One of the most frustrating things about this series is the incredulity of the characters when it comes to unnatural events. When the team learns about Hannah Hutchins’ current situation, which on the surface looks like the manifestation of telekinetic powers, their first reaction is that telekinesis just isn’t possible. These are people that live in a world where a man turns into a giant rampaging green monster when he gets angry. Just a week ago they were cleaning up the fallout of an attack on London by alien dark elves. I imagine the agents’ befuddlement is fairly confusing to Marvel fans who don’t know that Fox’s ownership of the X-Men means mutants are prohibited from appearing in the MCU, but worse than that, it’s just plain silly for these seemingly highly intelligent agents to find natural superhuman abilities implausible in an environment where the extraordinary happens all the time. Telekinesis is totally wacky, but a man that teleports through an alien dimension is conceivable? It’s a strange double standard that frankly doesn’t need to exist on this show.

Oh yes. Flat Earth Atheism is not an endearing trait.

And it's frustrating that they had the perfect opportunity to introduce Luke Cage in the first episode but didn't (just replace the actor and swap the character's name to Carl Lucas), but then gave us an F-lister like Graviton. I was reading the Thunderbolts comics when he was in them, and I still had no clue who he was. Luke Cage means Heroes for Hire, which means Luke Cage and Iron Fist starting the superhero version of a private investigation slash private military company, which offers a ton of interesting story opportunities. What does Graviton offer?

**H.B.M.C.**

To be fair, Marvel are doing a Luke Cage and Iron Fist series on Netflix along with Daredevil and Jessica Jones.

**AlexHolker**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
To be fair, Marvel are doing a Luke Cage and Iron Fist series on Netflix along with Daredevil and Jessica Jones.

Sure, for the Defenders. The premise of the Defenders is significantly less awesome than the premise of Heroes for Hire.

**Hulksmash**

I hadn't watched Shield in two weeks and went back and caught up. It's getting better. Not amazing or anything but better. I hope Whedon ramps it up faster than Serenity or Dollhouse. Not that I think NBC will cancel it based on it's current veiwership and the money being put in to keep "The Avengers" in everyone's minds. Just that it would be nice for it to pick up like the second season of Dollhouse did.

And next week Gunn....I mean that dude from episode one...is back. Which could be interesting.

**bbb**

It would be nice if when they cast new people for the films, their contracts stipulated they had to be in at least one episode of AoS. That would be a nice way to introduce Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver without them just showing up in Avengers 2.

I also hope they use AoS to lead into Ultron because it seems like going into Avengers 2 without prior build-up would be a waste and I'm not sure how Cap2 and GotG are going to add to it.

With Avengers, they used Thor and Captain America really well to build the set-up, but for Avengers 2, there doesn't seem to be anything Ultron related going on in the movies.