Abso-f-ing-lutely. Armchair Critics were like “Focus! Where’s the focus?!” It wasn’t that hard: 3 Veterans and 3 Noobs. Coulson and Skye were the leads. The show had to address how and why Coulson was alive. They got there by ep 10—5 one-off character-build episodes ... 5 mythology episodes. Simple. How else should…

They set up “the Cavalry” backstory right away in season one. They knew they would get there eventually. Plus Season One May kicks a lot of ass. 

I would say with “084" that your “kinda sucks” and my “kinda fun” can exist in the same review. It was a “the new team bonds in a crisis” episode plus Phil flirts with a sexy Peruvian Juntanista. 

It’s fun to watch the weird one-off bottle-episodes now. Also the first half of season one had the gang flying all over Europe. Like ABC started them out with a big budget, then cut back—while conversely people started watching more and more when Bill Paxton joined the show and that’s when the show gained it’s rep for…

Second on the Magicians. The trope went well enough but it really gave Hale Appleman his best episode of their last season.

Reposted from yesterday’s “What’s on Tonight?”

Was that when Lash went after Hive? That scene was short but oh-so-sweet. People hated Lincoln back then but like Deke now, it took eight-some episodes before people started to warm up to him. (Well, Deke took two seasons...) Linc reached acceptable tolerance fifteen minutes before he bit-it.

I think Legends of Tomorrow clocks in at 16/18 per season, which seems more in-line.

The only thing that bummed me about season one, being a fan of the comics, is that Victoria Hand wasn’t developed as much of anything. 

I’ve always thought the knocks against Agents of SHIELD Season One seemed ... fueled by anger in the immediate caused by disappointment that ABC TV couldn’t draw in any of the Avenger’s A-Listers—that they promised some sort of symmetry that never materialized. But did they promise that exactly... or was it assumed by…

Check Out M. Bison’s John Wayne Gacy inspired painting in the background. Evil masterminds need hobbies, after all.

I had to look up the actor who played Li ... Byron Mann is his name.

I think the Shieldies are just better at character based comedy than situational comedy. Character quips fly like thrown roses from Colson, Fitz, Simmons, Deke, and good God - Enoch ... Mac, Yoyo, Daisy, and May try, but they’re playing characters who just don’t get that many yucks.

... which I would watch, tbh.

This is kinda okay. The Aunts and her cousin could have gotten a fuller work-through, but they moved Sabrina into such a position of power so quickly, that there aren’t a lot of places left to go for her. “Sabrina: Queen of all Time and Space” would be the next logical step.

I agree it was ludicrous, but if a show writes a character with an unrequited crush on another character ... then at some point during the creative process, someone in the writer’s room was putting down the groundwork for a future hookup. In the end, the show put the kibosh on it, which is good.

Deke has evolved, at least. He’s no longer insufferable. The show dropped shipping Daisy and Deke (knock wood) and now ... I’d be ok, I guess, with a Daisy & Souza relationship ... I think, though, I’m more into just tight coworker & team respect. Daisy doesn’t need a love interest, esp after seeing what all the other…

I wish they had pushed Connery for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Last Crusade. 

That preview, though. This was one of the films that started the whole “let’s put out a preview in November for a summer movie” phenomena. It had no music. And it popped to life with the flame jet at the back of the batmobile. You’d go to the theater and hope—pray that the Batman preview would play. “Who are you…

Looking forward to Swamp Thing’s return.