tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875687369844272582.post3790247014678068835..comments2023-06-11T03:51:12.872-05:00Comments on Incremental Catastrophe: Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, season oneBenjamin Blattberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03163091516093037765noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875687369844272582.post-25106545373270831252015-01-01T09:59:57.904-06:002015-01-01T09:59:57.904-06:00I definitely think you're right that the logis...I definitely think you're right that the logistics of the tv-show-as-tie-in hamstringed (hamstrung?) the show in a way that was unavoidable in the current media ecology. (Whoo! Buzzwords!) And you're right (again!) that, in the changing media landscape (ecology? landscape? make up your mind!), there might be a better place for it. <br /><br />For instance, post Captain America 2, you could release a trimmed version of the series all at once, a la Orange is the New Black. Everyone would know SHIELD had Hydra sleepers, but that would maybe increase the drama (in my version).<br /><br />Or maybe SHIELD is just a bad idea for a tv show? Why make a tv show (lower budget, less effects) about superhero fights when you could make a tv show about something superhero-related but more low key. Superhero comedy about the construction crew that has to fix things after all the fights; superhero courtroom drama about someone suing Captain America (a whole season all about one court case!); etc.Benjamin Blattberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03163091516093037765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875687369844272582.post-59106704979840258272014-12-29T10:29:54.469-06:002014-12-29T10:29:54.469-06:00I put Agents of SHIELD on my watchlist for Netflix...I put Agents of SHIELD on my watchlist for Netflix when it went up, and I've only watched a couple episodes so far. I'm aware of the Hydra reveal mid-season, though I don't know any more specifics than that. I did see an interesting point somewhere about how the show's approach to doing storytelling in synthesis with the larger cinematic universe is ambitious, but it creates weird logistical problems in terms of making sure that big reveals that tie in to other things (like Captain America 2) don't wait too long simply because of marketing synergy when the rhythm of the story would be better served at an earlier point. I'm going to guess that the big misstep with SHIELD is that it's still bound to a standard network television schedule; though it might present some challenges in terms of marketing, I think an ongoing series that really wanted to intersect with the movie franchises would do better in a nontraditional production model that involved a delivery schedule that coincided with major movie releases (like, say, making the show available through an on demand internet service with a release schedule that's timed with summer blockbusters instead of the typical fall-spring schedule of most network shows)Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00709933159668934406noreply@blogger.com