Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [US] ** Spoilers **

ABC in america have ordered a S.H.I.E.L.D pilot that Josh Whedon will write and could possibly direct,

http://ie.ign.com/articles/2012/08/29/pilot-ordered-for-abcs-joss-whedon-marvel-tv-series-and-its-shield

this is a big risk for Marvel to take, but seeing at how successful the Avengers franchise is this could expand even further on the Marvel universe, and the series could be used a vehicle to lead us into each film, with Marvel releasing a film practically every 6 months for each individual character, and it looking like a single Avengers film every 3 or 4 years,

this could be epic if done right, and with Whedon himself involved in the pilot, it could easily go to series, and with his vested interest in The Avengers franchise he could have a lot of involvement in the series,

Fingers crossed that this will be good, but then Joss Whedon is involved, so there probably isn't any need for that.

whedon is more or less saying hell drop by from time to time if the show gets picked up to series, hes not gonna be the show runner, he does have another film to get to work on like:D

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/08/30/joss-whedon-talks-s-h-i-e-l-d-tv-series-plus-the-avengers-back-in-theaters-labor-day-weekend/

pixelburp wrote: »

I said it already in another thread, but this will be an interesting acid-test of just how much stomach audiences have for the superhero genre. It's one thing to get bums on seats for thrill-rides in the cinema, another to get them behind a TV show. 'Proper' superhero telly is practically non-existent - the costumes, capes & operatic variety that is - and when they have tried it with shows like The Cape, they've tended to be garbage. I'm presuming though that the sheer calibre of money, clout & names behind the pilot will give it a better chance than most.

Given it'll be focused on SHIELD, I guess the arc of the show will be more along the lines of Fringe or the like: following a crack team of agents investigating various Marvel-related threats & shenanigans, maybe bring in friends & foes from the comics that are too B-list for the cinema.

smallville was extremely successful and ran for 10 season :o,

but yeah i could see something along the story telling of fringe possibly working, its gonna be a big ask, not only to get a solid cast and a good writing crew together but imagine how much itll cost to make also,

DeWitt wrote: »

Amy Acker. Amy Acker. Amy Acker.

she's currently the bad guy in Person of Interest

any word on an actual air date for this yet, are we gonna see it at some point in 2013

pixelburp wrote: »

Better spoiler this, just to protect the overly sensitive:

Well that announcement leaves two possibilities really, doesn't it? Either Coulson wasn't actually dead, in which case Whedon is committing a fairly cheap, cardinal sin of storytelling, or else it's a prequel of some kind. I hope it's the latter because the former just undercuts a lot of the movies pathos.

not much need for spoilers, cause we know noting about how the show is gonna play out, and your giving your opinion,

it would make sense for it to be a prequel, that way when you get a big bad guy the S.H.I.E.L.D team will have to deal with the problem themselves, and not just give stark a buzz to take care of it, im more interested in whether hawkeye or black widow will make an appearance if it is a prequel,

In the Avengers, Fury lied about Colson having the trading cards on him when he died. So its not impossible to think lied about his death as well. Even if Whedon does say he IS dead in the commentary.

Clone anyone?

So long as he doesn't hire Summer Glau we'll hopefully get a few seasons out of it.

Kirby wrote: »

People just assume that because everyone loved the Avengers that this show has an audience but I wouldn't be so sure. Everybody saw the film but I would wager 99% of the viewing public don't know or care who Whedon is.

Whedon is clever and good at what he does but his involvement doesn't automatically make this a hit or even any good. Whedon had "Valve" like status a few years back with audiences. Even if it got cancelled, it would still be a quality show. You knew going in it was going to be excellent.

He doesn't have that any more. Dollhouse, in my opinion, was quite poor and didn't deserve the second season it got. I hope its good but it will definitely be a "wait and see" show.

its not just about having whedon on-board with this, im glad someone like him is heading up this project, but i don't think hes gonna be in complete charge of the show, his job will be to get it off the ground and then hand the duties off to someone else so he can go and work on phase 2 of the avengers,

the main reason i like that whedon is involved is that he always creates good characters in his shows, he generally doesn't create two dimensional cardboard characters,

his input will most likely be like JJ Abrams input on Fringe, as an executive producer, its highly unlikely it will be like Abrams role on Alias where he was the show-runner, or he could also do what Abrams did on lost, get the show going and then more or less abandon it and pop up randomly to spice it up a bit,

marvel haven't really done much wrong since they went head first into the avengers series, and with phase 2 currently in progress, and most likely a 3rd phase after that, a show like this could end up having interlacing stories for at least 3-5 seasons,

the show has a lot going for it, but i do agree it is questionable if the success of the avengers films on the big screen will translate to the small screen,

networks have struggled to make good high concept action shows the last few years, weve mainly been restricted to shows like Nikita and Arrow on the CW, i would expect this to be a big step up from them shows, as much as i enjoy them i think it time to take it up a level, and i think this is the show that can do it, or get cancelled trying;):p:p:p