SHIELD Pilot

[holdouttrout]

Meh.

I dunno. I have never been entirely sold on Coulson--I mean, I loved his character, but as I told grav_ity, I never quite understood how his death was supposed to motivate the Avengers. I accept that his narrative role was to die to band together the Avengers, and I can even enjoy fic where his death profoundly affected them, but I just really didn't get that level of connection from the movies themselves.

Still, I enjoyed him in the show! I thought his trick with the truth serum was particularly good.

I just wasn't blown away by the pilot. I try not to judge based on pilot episodes, but if there was a cage match between Sleepy Hollow and SHIELD so far... Sleepy Hollow would win hands down for me.

Comments

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If he'd killed him, I probably would have been angry for different reasons. I am very difficult to please.

(That's a lie: I am dead easy to please. I'm just REALLY BITTER that Coulson is alive, and I'm taking it out on the show.)

You're right, though. It was still an annoying plot.

OMG, Fitz Simmons. I want a set, I think.