Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ended its first season recently,
and with that I’d like to take a moment to look back on the season from a fan's
perspective. I’ve been into comic books for most of my life, and it was fantastic when comic book
movies started to explode onto the big screen. It only got better, however, when Marvel began their Cinematic
Universe and interconnected all their movies. Just when I thought it couldn't get any better than this, Marvel began releasing comic books that filled gaps
between movies as well as One-Shots that appeared on the Blu-rays. As most of my friends know, I was very excited about this.
Last September Marvel took it to the next level and
introduced Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., a television series that connected with the
movie universe that Marvel had been building for years. This was a gutsy move from Marvel, since nothing like this had ever really been done before and at the beginning it was
unclear if it would work or not.
A lot of people felt like the show started off a bit slow, but after a few episodes it picked up the pace and even got to the point
where even the naysayers were beginning to see how fantastic the show was. At the beginning I really enjoyed Agent May’s character, and by the end of season one I cared about all the Agents. They did a wonderful job at
building up every character and their relationship with one another and by the
finale you really felt for them and what they had been through.
The fact that Marvel was able to build up S.H.I.E.L.D. and
then in the course of one week air an episode that sets up all sorts of plot
points for The Winter Soldier, and then just days later have The Winter Soldier
released in theaters, and follow up days after that with an episode of AoS that
ran parallel with the movie was amazing. The planning and timing that had to go
into that had to be crazy and they pulled it off flawlessly.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episodes were always fun to watch,
but I really started to geek out hardcore when all the twists started happening every week. I enjoyed Agents of
S.H.I.E.L.D. more than any other show on TV and it’s because it’s different in
that it’s not just a TV show, but part of a huge interconnecting universe
that is always changing and growing. If you gave up on AoS or never watched it,
I HIGHLY recommend that you go back and give it a shot.
With the success of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Marvel is once again upping the stakes. In a few months, the year of Marvel will begin. We’ll get another season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the beginning of Marvel’s new show Agent Carter, Guardians of the Galaxy, Ant-Man, and Avengers 2 hitting the big screen, and Marvels Netflix programs begging their run. I’m a huge fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and it looks like it’s about to explode into territory that no other franchise has done before. I can’t wait.
