Agents of SHIELD 'revelations' at the series break.

[lil_shepherd]

I've been catching up with 'Agents of SHIELD' over the past few weeks, mainly because of promised impacts on the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe and so here they are. I am more than a little underwhelmed. I am trying to avoid spoilers here, but one or two things may be considered as minor such so let us cut...

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[stevegreen]

Coulson is a good supporting character, but Agent Hill would have made a better leader for the tv show.

[lil_shepherd]

You bet she would! Hill is a far more interesting character and the logical person to take over, but pressure from fans (and probably Disney) prevailed.

The problem with Coulson, from my point of view, is that his introduction in Iron Man and his subsequent appearances established him as mild-mannered, baddass normal, but nothing spectacular in respect of SHIELD agents, though slightly mysterious. Fans liked him, as I did, because he was so, well, normal.

Once they brought him back from the dead, thereby establishing that trope in universe even before the arrival of the Winter Soldier) and it, as usual, reduced tension. Once past how that happened, interest was reduced again. Gregg struggles to convey internal conflict and that does not help either.