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Aug 29, 2012 3:42:43 GMT -5
Post by Black Sam on Aug 29, 2012 3:42:43 GMT -5
So they announced the new Marvel tv show: SHIELD! Hope it's cool. Whedon and his brother and sister-in-law signed on to write/direct the pilot, so could be fun...
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Aug 29, 2012 7:00:02 GMT -5
Post by takewithfood on Aug 29, 2012 7:00:02 GMT -5
I just heard about this, too. Looks like Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen (who both worked on Dr. Horrible) will also be on board. Interesting.. definitely going to keep my eye on this, as wary as I am about live-action comic book shows.
~TWF
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Aug 29, 2012 7:24:51 GMT -5
Post by WildKnight on Aug 29, 2012 7:24:51 GMT -5
Meh.
They couldn't have picked a Marvel property I'd be less interested in watching as a TV show.
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Aug 29, 2012 8:27:34 GMT -5
Post by Black Sam on Aug 29, 2012 8:27:34 GMT -5
Meh. They couldn't have picked a Marvel property I'd be less interested in watching as a TV show. Oh, come on, of course they could! Like, say, "Spider-Ham & His Amazing Friends"...hold on, that sounds pretty cool actually... I don't know; I like spy-type shows (loves me some Burn Notice!), so putting that in a superhero setting could work. It will be interesting to see what their take is, at any rate.
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Aug 29, 2012 8:38:23 GMT -5
Post by WildKnight on Aug 29, 2012 8:38:23 GMT -5
My problem is this; I'm 95% certain that it WON'T be in a super hero setting, or that it won't touch on super heroes very much at all. They'll make the same BS mistake that has been destroying super hero movies and shows for years now; they'll try to make it "gritty" and "realistic"...
Besides, there's a host of other problems, starting with "if Fury is in it, people will bitch because he's not Sam Jackson. If Fury isn't in it, people will bitch."
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Aug 29, 2012 9:13:25 GMT -5
Post by Pope Mega Force on Aug 29, 2012 9:13:25 GMT -5
I'm with WK on this one. This sounds like Torchwood all over again. I can see them having very gritty and "unsolvable without the heroes" type of problems and the problems turn out to be just that. Without the heroes, they end up worse off than they were before because they can't punch a villain to the moon. Consequently, that's all Torchwood was. Doctor Who without the Doctor at which point, you see what happens when the problem isn't fixed but exacerbated.
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Aug 29, 2012 9:30:01 GMT -5
Post by takewithfood on Aug 29, 2012 9:30:01 GMT -5
They say it's in the same continuity as the Avengers film, so supervillains will be few and far between.. or perhaps that will change in the show. I don't know.
All I know is that I remember being really skeptical when I heard about Firefly. The name threw me off, and I thought "spaghetti western in space? won't work". And now it's one of my favourite shows of all time. So I guess anything is possible, though it's no more likely.
~TWF
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Aug 29, 2012 11:29:57 GMT -5
Post by Silentking Alpha on Aug 29, 2012 11:29:57 GMT -5
I read somewhere that Marvel is planning an one hour Punisher series. I think they can get away with no superheroes in that setting. And to tell the truth, I wouldn't mind a Punisher show.
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Aug 29, 2012 12:00:06 GMT -5
Post by WildKnight on Aug 29, 2012 12:00:06 GMT -5
I read somewhere that Marvel is planning an one hour Punisher series. I think they can get away with no superheroes in that setting. And to tell the truth, I wouldn't mind a Punisher show. If done properly, Punisher would make a great show. My fear is that they'd try to surround him with a bunch of "identifable" side characters to reduce the sense of isolation that the character exudes, and that would bum me out. I mean, sure, throw Microchip in there and all that, but keep Punisher distant and impersonal. Really play up that pathos.
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Aug 29, 2012 22:27:04 GMT -5
Post by Dhark on Aug 29, 2012 22:27:04 GMT -5
Whatever. Could be ok... The premse of SHIELD minus the Heroes would mak for decent. Jackson could be left as a faceless 'Director' off screen. An Agent Colson show? I'd be alright with that.
Not much faith mind.
Less than a month until SoA and Dexter returns, less than two for Supernatural!
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Aug 30, 2012 16:29:08 GMT -5
Post by Hypester on Aug 30, 2012 16:29:08 GMT -5
It's a TV show. It can't afford to do superheroes. It'll be a spy show, like a 24 or a Chuck or an Alias or a Burn Notice except with Buffy-Firefly-Avengers level character arcs and dialogue and they'll deal with MCUish stuff like Item 47s and Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stark Enterprises, probably with Sam Jackson and others showing up during pilots and sweeps and finales.
They'll probably have as many superhero special effects as Heroes did, except they won't have to explain why none of these 12 people use their power effectively and consistently. It could be like Torchwood, if it were written by those creators, but the people involved with the MCU seem to show certain special agents as quite capable of handling super powered issues, they just aren't capable of finishing off the main bad guys.
If they include people like Carol Danvers and Jessica Drew then you have the added bonus of these people possibly becoming Avengers after the end of the second season. There's really not a better bet for a successful television show than SHIELD, imho.
I'd love Heroes for Hire, but limited feats of strength and TV-SFX-level glowing hands don't make for the most compelling action or drama, imho.
As an added note showrunners Jed and Melissa also both worked on Dollhouse, Spartacus and uncredited work on Avengers.
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Aug 30, 2012 19:30:34 GMT -5
Post by takewithfood on Aug 30, 2012 19:30:34 GMT -5
I can see them taking on the likes of AIM and HYDRA, maybe some competitive spats with SWORD (Joss Whedon created SWORD and Abigail Brand after all), etc.
~TWF
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Aug 30, 2012 19:33:01 GMT -5
Post by Beacon on Aug 30, 2012 19:33:01 GMT -5
I’d love a SHIELD movie but a TV show just feels wrong especially since they’ve already said the Avengers characters won’t be in it. Once you remove the big guns* there are only two SHIELD agents who can carry this show for more than a half season. One of them is dead and the other is played by someone who is already a cast member in a hit TV show.
*I love Clay Quartermain and Jimmy Woo as much as much as the next guy but someone coming off the movie doesn’t want to see this unless they get Fury, Widow, and Hawkeye.
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Aug 30, 2012 19:53:20 GMT -5
Post by Silentking Alpha on Aug 30, 2012 19:53:20 GMT -5
Wait, who is dead? (If you mean Coulson, didn't Whedon say Coulson is still alive?)
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Aug 30, 2012 21:29:36 GMT -5
Post by WildKnight on Aug 30, 2012 21:29:36 GMT -5
There are other Marvel characters who could easily be plugged into SHIELD though... Wyatt Wingfoot, John Jameson. We might even see some stripped down version of Spider-Woman.
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