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ponygirl2000, I'm convinced that SHIELD is really supposed to be a kids' show. So is Sleepy Holllow. But where I find Sleepy Hollow's silliness somewhat endearing, I find SHIELD just blah. As Pony says about SHIELD, there is inappropriate material for kids in Sleepy Hollow. But I think in both cases the biggest fan base is going to be 18 to much younger.
My big impression of SHIELD last night was 'This is A-Team without personalities.' Instead of a brash cigar-smoking George Peppard as the leader, you've got Marvin Milktoast, the mid-level bureaucrat, already promoted one level beyond his competence. If reality crept in at all last night, it was wondering why this guy wasn't furloughed with the rest of the nonessential government workers yesterday. May is the anti-Mr T. Instead of a stereotypical loud mouth, bling addicted, big black guy, SHIELD has a stereotypical tight-lipped, martial arts expert, Chinese Dragon Lady. Like Mr T, she has a certain charm of her own. But she's hardly enough to make up for the all the nonentities around her, which Mr T didn't have to deal with. Like Holmes on Elementary the Bobbsey Twin scientists insist on speaking in an undertone all the time, which means I can't understand half of what they are saying. (I do keep the volume of my TV rather low. I'm not going to turn up the volume for one or two characters in a week's worth of TV just to get blasted out of the house during the commercials!) On Elementary it was infuriating, on SHIELD I mostly don't care. Bret Dalton who plays the pretty boy, Grant Ward, is a dead ringer for Eric Knight who briefly played the handsome DA on Moonlight a few years back. Both of them seem a far better fit for daytime soaps than prime time drama. Skye is no more memorable than the rest. Gotta wonder why the casting with the exception of Ming Na was so lame.
With the exception of a rather mild twist at the end, there wasn't much resembling a plot in last night's episode. There was some stagey action in there. Otherwise it was just blah.
In Sleepy Hollow the idea of the hyper Ichabod having an energy drink is fun all by itself. Teasing Marvin Milktoast about Lola, the early 1960s Vette, as a sign of mid life crisis is just belaboring the obvious. There was a point in the show where Grant Ward asks Coulson if he slept with the beautiful bad lady in the old days. Stereotypically Coulson doesn't tell. But from what I've seen of him, I'm thinking the answer is no, and an uninteresting no at that.
ponygirl2000, I'm convinced that SHIELD is really supposed to be a kids' show. So is Sleepy Holllow. But where I find Sleepy Hollow's silliness somewhat endearing, I find SHIELD just blah. As Pony says about SHIELD, there is inappropriate material for kids in Sleepy Hollow. But I think in both cases the biggest fan base is going to be 18 to much younger. My big impression of SHIELD last night was 'This is A-Team without personalities.' Instead of a brash cigar-smoking George Peppard as the leader, you've got Marvin Milktoast, the mid-level bureaucrat, already promoted one level beyond his competence. If reality crept in at all last night, it was wondering why this guy wasn't furloughed with the rest of the nonessential government workers yesterday. May is the anti-Mr T. Instead of a stereotypical loud mouth, bling addicted, big black guy, SHIELD has a stereotypical tight-lipped, martial arts expert, Chinese Dragon Lady. Like Mr T, she has a certain charm of her own. But she's hardly enough to make up for the all the nonentities around her, which Mr T didn't have to deal with. Like Holmes on Elementary the Bobbsey Twin scientists insist on speaking in an undertone all the time, which means I can't understand half of what they are saying. (I do keep the volume of my TV rather low. I'm not going to turn up the volume for one or two characters in a week's worth of TV just to get blasted out of the house during the commercials!) On Elementary it was infuriating, on SHIELD I mostly don't care. Bret Dalton who plays the pretty boy, Grant Ward, is a dead ringer for Eric Knight who briefly played the handsome DA on Moonlight a few years back. Both of them seem a far better fit for daytime soaps than prime time drama. Skye is no more memorable than the rest. Gotta wonder why the casting with the exception of Ming Na was so lame.
With the exception of a rather mild twist at the end, there wasn't much resembling a plot in last night's episode. There was some stagey action in there. Otherwise it was just blah.
In Sleepy Hollow the idea of the hyper Ichabod having an energy drink is fun all by itself. Teasing Marvin Milktoast about Lola, the early 1960s Vette, as a sign of mid life crisis is just belaboring the obvious. There was a point in the show where Grant Ward asks Coulson if he slept with the beautiful bad lady in the old days. Stereotypically Coulson doesn't tell. But from what I've seen of him, I'm thinking the answer is no, and an uninteresting no at that.