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

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

You're right, having the young white guy kill the crazy black guy would have been extremely problematic. Some more non-white people in general would be very welcome!

[lolmac]

I did grin a lot at there being two Asians! I grinned even more at DudeBro -- oops, Ward -- coming across as an idiot.