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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I'd be greatly entertained if Peter offhandedly mentioned his grandmother was a huge fan of Captain America and even got to meet him.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."@Shield: Count me as another that thinks it's the best superhero show on TV right now. The C Wverse isn't terrible but it has its ups and downs whereas AOS has been fantastic since season 1. I'd probably be fine with it continuing for at least another two or three years but I'll still be content if it gets a shortened fifth season to wrap things up.
Season one does get good in the later half but it's still a little rough around the edges. The main reason people say to stick with it is because of a really huge twist partway through and because it's important to get to know the characters.
edit: Sky and Fitz are big ones with this. If you just jumped in with season 2 some of the stuff going on with them wouldn't have the same impact.
edited 20th Apr '17 12:42:44 PM by Kostya
The main problem with season 1 were too high expectations and the usual "we have to set up a huge world somehow" problems. It is actually not worse than Arrow season 1 which started with really cheesy narrations and a lot of hooky set-ups. If you are not overly critical about the show, it shows its potential the first time in the episode Tracks, which also happens to be the start of the second season arc (and also the episode in which Stan Lee turns up and tells Coulson that he really should do better in the future). The second half of season 1 is so worth watching, especially once the winter Soldier kicks in. and from this point onward the show starts running and newer stops. There are next to no filler episodes (there are perhaps one or two per season which can be considered filler, and even those are still relevant for the overall storyarc) and you suddenly realize that a lot of stuff which seemed to be meaningless actually plays some sort of role later on after all. And because the show is broken up in different arcs, if you don't like an arc, well, you might like the next one.
The best thing about Ao S is that it is utterly unpredictable while still taking care to set up all the twists, and that the characters are actually allowed to develop. If you put the season 1 version of them beside the current versions, you will barely recognize some of them, and yet every step on the way made completely sense.
Someone recently said that Ao S is the show to which clichés go to die, and that is the most apt description you can use for it. It rarely does what one would expect and whenever it does use some sort of tired trope, you can bet that it will twist it around. Like, a character wanting to have his heroic sacrifice complete with charging towards the enemy, and then he gets captured because that was the plan all along.
During the montage in which Cap is on tour in the US, the actress of Meredith Quill turns up in order to get his autograph.
edited 20th Apr '17 2:03:58 PM by Swanpride
The Centipede arc isn't the strongest of the show but it does still have its moments. The pilot episode is still some of the best television ever made in my opinion. But it definitely grows its beard in season two.
Seriously, this is a show where they can cart out a giant Poke Ball to capture a seemingly unstoppable villain and present it in such a way that it makes perfect sense and you don't find yourself questioning why you are looking at a goddamn Poke Ball.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.The biggest flaw of the Centipede arc is the identity of the Clairvoyant. The show kinda forgot it's in a superhero universe for that one. It set up a supernatural mystery for the protagonists to solve, had a bunch of characters naysay the possibility of a supernatural answer, and then culminated it an the bland unmasking of a wholly mundane threat, confirming that there was never anything supernatural about it in the first place.
In a superhero show.
It's like if you did a story set in the Harry Potter universe about a bunch of muggle cops investigating a mysterious series of killings performed by impossible means. Slowly, they piece together the clues leading to the much-anticipated and suspenseful reveal of the wizard behind it all. And then they find him! And he's a totally mundane serial killer with a perfectly reasonable explanation for everything because everyone f*cking knows magic isn't real.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Scattered episodes don't work, you really need to work through them.
The biggest tear-jerker the MCU has ever done is in Ao S (Parting shots). Some of the best twists are in Ao S. The best take religious symbolism is in Ao S. Hell, the show does Robots better than Age of Ultron, Alternate realities better than Flashpoint (not that this is difficult) and deals with time better than Legends of tomorrow.
That was one of the better twists they did imho.
edited 20th Apr '17 2:48:39 PM by Swanpride
I gave up on Season 1 after a few episodes, eventually finished it via Netflix after hearing it got better, thought it was all right. Then I watched Season 2 and thought that was really pretty good. Then I started Season 3, and gave up about halfway through.
The episode with Jemma on an alien planet was awesome, but the rest ... it wasn't bad, but I could never really get invested or interested in the characters, so it was hard keeping my attention when there wasn't an action scene or special effect going on.
The first half of season 3 has its share of problems. The biggest being the conflict revolving around a villain who had long outstayed his welcome and had nothing interesting left in him.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.That is also true. Hive is one of my absolute favorite villains across the MCU. He was perfect. @.@
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I still don't get why people liked Hive so much. I think I just couldn't really buy into the performance. Seems like that's just me, though.
The Clairvoyant being an entirely mundane human was a great twist for a show about spies, especially since the other reveal, Deathlok, was so well handled and had such a great payoff. They earned the hell out of that bait and switch, and then to follow it up with the an ongoing arc detailing the fall of SHIELD, on a show called Agents of SHIELD? That was ballsy.
I think AOS in general has a problem with the first half being kind of dull. Season 2 wasn't too outstanding until the Inhuman arc began. Season 3 was better but the Hive arc still blew the first half out of the water. Season 4 has been more consistent but i think this still holds true to an extent with the LMD and Agents of Hydra arcs being significantly above the Ghost Rider arc.
Well, it does need some time to put all puzzle pieces in place, but saying that the start is weak is kind of misleading...it is weak compared to the outstanding stuff we tend to get for the mid-season and season finales. Or now arc-finales.
Some really good episodes have been at the start of the season...the one in which Bobbie got introduced for example. Or the one beforehand, in which Donnie Gill returned and Fitz confronted Ward. The blackout episode was also pretty awesome.

I expect Rocket to laugh at Cap's attempt to make a rousing speech honestly.
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