Note: Full spoilers for SHIELD: Season 2 follow.
For many, Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD has become a forgotten and/or overlooked series, which is too bad, and yet understandable. This was Marvel’s first TV series, coming off of an amazing run of movies and it just didn’t deliver when it debuted. The initial episodes felt unfocused and badly paced, and were asking us to buy into a would-be family dynamic involving a bunch of poorly defined new characters. Many people dropped out of the series early on and they haven’t come back, even as the end of Season 1 found SHIELD notably improving in the wake of Captain America: The Winter Soldier’s events.
Perhaps Season 2 will get some additional viewers when it hits Netflix next month, thanks to the more positive buzz on the series. Those who do will find a show that picked up things considerably from when it began. The pacing was hugely improved, with storylines no longer taking forever to bubble up again and secrets no longer being kept both from the audience and the characters that no one on screen seemed in a hurry to deal with. Instead, there was payoff to big plot threads happening consistently, as both lingering questions from Season 1 and newly introduced plotlines were deftly dealt with and tied up, while paving the way for new mysteries.
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For many, Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD has become a forgotten and/or overlooked series, which is too bad, and yet understandable. This was Marvel’s first TV series, coming off of an amazing run of movies and it just didn’t deliver when it debuted. The initial episodes felt unfocused and badly paced, and were asking us to buy into a would-be family dynamic involving a bunch of poorly defined new characters. Many people dropped out of the series early on and they haven’t come back, even as the end of Season 1 found SHIELD notably improving in the wake of Captain America: The Winter Soldier’s events.
Perhaps Season 2 will get some additional viewers when it hits Netflix next month, thanks to the more positive buzz on the series. Those who do will find a show that picked up things considerably from when it began. The pacing was hugely improved, with storylines no longer taking forever to bubble up again and secrets no longer being kept both from the audience and the characters that no one on screen seemed in a hurry to deal with. Instead, there was payoff to big plot threads happening consistently, as both lingering questions from Season 1 and newly introduced plotlines were deftly dealt with and tied up, while paving the way for new mysteries.
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