Agents of *curses and tears hair*

[promethia_tenk]

As the official last person on earth watching Agents of SHIELD, I feel it is my duty to let you know that season five continues to be EPIC.

EPIC.

I also need to repeat this regularly to myself because otherwise I don't actually believe it.

Comments

[promethia_tenk]

No, if you got to the simulated world, you've only got about a third of the last season to go, so you're only about a year behind, all told.

I totally know what you're talking about, though. This has been a very 'uh, life happened' show for me for, like, three years? And then season three was so lackluster I didn't watch season four for nearly a full year. When I finally got around to it, though, I was just so blown away, and season five is just as good.

I've never been much for superheroes, though? The harder sci-fi stuff they're doing in these seasons is much more my thing, and boy do they know how to use it to inflict maximum emotional damage. I was just telling Elisi, I can suddenly tell that these are the same people who wrote Dollhouse and I am all about it.

[kaffy_r]

I think I remember you and I touching on superheroes and why I love them and you're not so into them, in some previous conversation. Luckily, I love both superheroes and hard skiffy, so it'll be a win-win for me.

One of these days, I might want to take another look at Dollhouse. I tried for a few episodes, especially since one of my BSG faves, Tamoh Penikett, was in it, but ... maybe the writing hadn't gelled at that point?

[promethia_tenk]

I adore Dollhouse and wish everybody did as well, but it is a heavily flawed show. If you didn't get past episode six, you should definitely push through a bit more, because that's when things get interesting and more about what they're actually about, where the early episodes made the whole thing seem like it was going to be some kind of sadistic procedural. But the show was never really given the opportunity to gel. The pacing of season two is flat-out comedic because they basically knew when they were being cancelled and thus set out to tell the whole story arc they wanted to tell in the time allotted. The ideas are sublime, the execution less so . . .