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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I thought it, but figured the show has fans, and it might be Too Soon.
I expected this, but I want at the very least a TV movie to wrap up all the loose ends from season 2. (Still p... that they spend more time to set up a future story in season 2 instead of focussing to tell the story at hand, I think that lost them more viewers than anything else).
It is too bad, because the first season was really amazing, and I fear that Ao S will now end after a (perhaps shortened) forth season...they will keep the show exactly to syndication, not one day longer. I also would have liked to see Most Wanted, but the negativity towards it was too strong.
That was the general problem...the audience was so disappointed with the start of Ao S that they keep ragging and ragging on the ABC Marvel shows, even though they really didn't deserve this. Bad Wo M killed them.
Damn. It's not that I didn't expect this, but, still. Damn.
Thing is, you didn't even need to know much about superheroes or the MCU to understand and enjoy it. It was a really great Martini Flavored spy show.
I say the show was great because the characters were functionally handled well enough to be called great. Peggy, Jarvis, Dottie, Daniel, etc never bored me nor felt lifeless. That's all what matters, not all the replaceable world building behind it. If you watched for how AC for how it connected to the larger verse instead of Peggy and company's lives only to leave then you failed just like if you wanted superheroes. Yeah strengthening internal consistency helps flesh out the verse but without anything to invest in these characters... well there's no point in watching. I don't care Zero Matter ties into Dr Strange. I care.about Peggy's journey around it. NOW I CANT HAVE ANYMORE
Also the era made it different from any other show in the superhero genre. It's a shame when the unconventional stuff gets thrown away. Things not part of the norm, especially Peggy as a heroine
edited 13th May '16 10:51:22 AM by FictionWriterKing
To me it looks like ABC has decided to do a big clean up and get rid of the Marvel shows...which is NOT a good thing. I like the Netflix shows, I really do, and I will at least give the notion of Cloak and Dagger on Freeform a fair shake in the hope that the result will be not too much like a CW show...but I need the contra-programming the ABC shows offered, those smart shows which required the audience to think and surprised me at every turn, and that without having to worry that someone will ram a fork in his own eye the next second.
"and that without having to worry that someone will ram a fork in his own eye the next second. "
That actually sums it up really well! I like Daredevil and I love Jessica Jones, but Agent Carter... that show spoke to me on a completely different level. It was light without being too fluffy, but still could deal with important topics - sexism, racism in S2 to a degree. It was so good at invoking a specific time and feel, and the characters just sparkled.
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To be clear, it's not only Agent Carter that's being canceled. Castle, the new Muppets series, Galavant, Nashville, and The Family all got canceled as well.
Regarding Most Wanted, my guess is that ABC didn't want to commit to a spin-off when Agents of SHIELD's current ratings (which aren't great, but it's competing with coverage of a highly contested primary). If the ratings rebound next season, which is fairly probable, then I think there's a future for ABC Marvel shows.
I don't think it had anything to do with them wanting to get rid of their Marvel stuff. This is an instance where unfortunately, it made complete sense from a business perspective. Agent Carter had low ratings to begin with and they got even worse in Season 2. AOS had series low ratings this season, so the spin-off not happening probably had less to do with an anti-Marvel plan and more to do with them realizing it didn't make much sense to split one show people are already not watching into two shows people won't watch.
Agents of SHIELD is in a good place because they're far enough along that the network probably wants to give them at least one more season so they can get to syndication.
Jessica Jones will be filmed side-by-side with the Defenders, which is more or less the earliest which is possible for a second season, considering how full the plate for Netflix already is.
In the case of Damage Control, Ao S went out of its way to name drop the show a few episodes ago, which tells me that someone behind the scenes delayed something which was already planned out.
edited 13th May '16 7:39:21 AM by Swanpride
it would still matter to you obviously
It wouldn't erase the fun and or resigned inertia you had watching it
Forever liveblogging the Avengers

Did anyone make the "This is the second time this month Peggy died" joke?