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It's the winter break for most TV shows, so I thought I would post some thoughts:

( Spoilers for the current season of Castle, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Arrow )

I didn't pick up any other new shows. Maybe once the season is over and shows get renewed I'll check some of them out.

And Sherlock is back on January 1st! YAY!!!

In honour of it's return and Doctor Who's approaching Christmas special, have a Wholock vid:

It's quite good overall but there are some bits that look a little weird. Shame this will never happen in real life.

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I saw this on io9.com and thought it was pretty awesome:

So much Superman history in just two minutes. I adore Bruce Timm. His animated Batman series was a huge part of my childhood. Also, deep down, I'm a DC girl. I grew up reading my mom's Silver Age comics that she collected and read when she was a kid. Somewhere in my grandmother's house are boxes and boxes full of cheesy Lois Lane comics, among other DC series. Entertainment Weekly has a short, but cool, article about the short.

Also, there is no greater Superman theme than John Williams' version. I think Bruce Timm said this in one of the commentaries for the animated Superman series and he's totally right: a great Superman theme has "Superman" built into the music. Just listen to the theme to Bruce Timm's animated Superman series. Later on in the short it cuts to the Man of Steel theme and it's just not the same. It just lacks, I don't know, presence. It's just not dynamic enough for me.

And further on the DC front: Arrow!

( Mild spoilers for Arrow 2x01 )

On the Marvel side, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was better this week than last week. I'm getting distracted by the settings, though. Obviously they're not travelling all over the world, so they're using back lots. I swear the one they used this week was the same one MacGyver used 25 years ago. :-)

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- So fed up with work right now. Too many things to do and not enough time to do it all. Plus there are people at work who are stubborn and don't listen and we're getting zero support. Our manager is supposed to stand up for us, but that's not happening. Sigh.

- Thank god for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Okay, so the second episode wasn't super awesome, but the whole point of it was to see the team working together and in that sense it worked.

( Spoilers for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 1x02 "0-8-4" )

- 30 days until Halloween. The costume is progressing, but with my lack of sewing skills it's going to take time. And I have to make two! I'm seriously going to have to work full out on every weekend to get everything done.

- Arrow's back next week!

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So happy to see the Mutant Enemy guy running across my screen again. : -)

Awesome start. The episode felt a little slow, but it's a TV show, not a movie, so it can take its time to set up things. I have to say that a lot of the plot was in the trailers, though, so some of the great lines I had heard already. Oh well, that's what you get when you have a major network and a major studio backing your show. Exposure by the boats load. Still, there were things in the pilot that I hadn't seen so it's great the episode still managed to surprise.

( Spoilers for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 1x01, "Pilot" )

Joss Whedon is back, baby!

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I think I'm right in saying the new TV season starts next week. A few shows are premiering next week with a major roll out the week after.

Shows I will be watching for sure:
- Castle
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Arrow
- Sherlock

Castle I watch purely for Nathan Fillion. I'm not sure I agree how last season ended. The show also needs to make better use of the supporting cast. Yes, it's great and all following Castle and Beckett, but the rest of the team deserves some time in the spotlight, too. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is a no-brainer. Joss Whedon + Marvel Cinematic Universe + Coulson = awesome! I'm excited to have Joss back on the television. It's about time he had a show that's a big hit and lasts longer than a season or two. Arrow's not back until October, but it'll be great to have it back. It got surprisingly good as the season went on. Summer Glau's the villain for the season so that should be great, too. And I still have no idea when Sherlock is back. Come on, BBC!

Shows I might be watching:
- CSI
- Almost Human

I'm really tempted to give up CSI. It's sort of my guilty pleasure show, ironically. I'm not a big fan of the police procedural so CSI is my one allowance. As for Almost Human, I'm on the fence. On the one hand, Karl Urban. On the other, FOX and JJ Abrams. :-P FOX doesn't have the greatest track record with sci-fi shows and I'm not a huge fan of JJ Abrams. He tends to slap his name on a show and then just watches it from afar.

There might be other shows I'm interested in. I just have to make an effort to read about the fall schedule.

Honourable mentions:
- Doctor Who's 50th anniversary special
- "An Adventure in Time and Space" (the docudrama about the show)

( Title of Doctor Who's 50th anniversary special behind the cut and some thoughts )

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Yay, only, like, a month to go before the premiere! Have a Coulson promo:

This is so a Joss show. Drama and humour and all perfectly balanced. All big movie franchises should have a TV show in the same universe. You get to tell stories that are more personal but they still have the same energy as the movies. And obviously you can get more stories, too.

I don't need Tony or Steve to show up, but it'll be cool if they make references to their movies as they come out. Nice way to do tie-ins and marketing, if you're in to that stuff. And this isn't something they could do right off the bat, but it'd be neat if they eventually have flashbacks to Peggy Carter's era, when S.H.I.E.L.D. was in its infancy.

And apparently Joss is on the cover of this week's Entertainment Weekly, but my copy hasn't been delivered yet. My mail carrier is so reading it...

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Yeah, Melinda May is so going to be my favourite character on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Well, after Coulson, of course. :-)

Is it September yet? Also, I need some Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. icons...

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In the mean time, I'm so happy people film the panels. Sure, you don't get to see the footage from yet to be released movies most of the time, but that's fine for me since I don't like spoilers.

A bunch of good videos, so I'm going to put them behind a cut. All of these are via io9.com. Actually, io9.com is linking to a good deal of videos from Comic-Con, which saves me from seeking them out. :-)

( Videos for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Arrow Season Two, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. )

I'm excited now. A lot of good stuff in the pipeline. :-D

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I still have no idea what S.H.I.E.L.D. does, but look! A shiny trailer:

And now Joss is on Twitter. If I was on Twitter, I'd totally follow him.

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Saw Iron Man 3 this weekend and with the news that Joss' S.H.I.E.L.D. TV show got picked up, I thought I would make this a Marvel themed post.

First, yay, Joss is returning to television! Frankly, it was a no brainer. It's Joss and the Marvel cinematic universe rolled up into one. And with Iron Man 3 making a boat load of money, why wouldn't you want to have a TV show to cash in on that? Of course, just because Joss is producing it and it has Clark Gregg as Agent Coulson and it's set in a very rich fictional universe doesn't mean that it's going to be a runaway hit, but I bet ABC will stick with it. Plus we need another superhero TV show. There's only Arrow. Another plus: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has an Asian in the cast and it's Mulan herself!

Now, on to Iron Man 3. Way better than Iron Man 2. I saw it in 2D, because I'm like that, but I'm sure it was still awesome in 3D.

I can't quite put my finger on why Iron Man 2 was bleh. Maybe it was the villains? In Iron Man 3, the villains are pretty good, and there's a great twist, but I think the most interesting roadblock was Tony himself. What happened to him in The Avengers really shook him. You don't really picture him as a guy having panic attacks. But it makes sense. He nearly died trying to save Earth and that's got to leave you a little shell shocked. But this is Tony Stark so instead of being a blubbering mess in the corner, he builds more Iron Man suits because that's what he does. The guy's like MacGyver but with a stylish goatee.

And that was pretty cool, seeing all of those Iron Man suits flying around at the end of the movie. The new one, the Mark 42, was pretty cool, too. Since the pieces can come flying to Tony at his will, they got to do some different things with it. And it's not perfect, either, which makes the suit a threat as much as an asset.

But what I really liked was that Pepper wasn't just the damsel in distress this time. I mean, she was, since she gets kidnapped and tortured just so the bad guy can irk Tony, but in the end, she takes out the bad guy. Whoo! Actually, the first neat bit with Pepper is that she gets to wear the Mark 42 briefly. Tony puts her in the suit to protect her when the baddies blow up his mansion and she gets to play the hero. Sure, it's for only a minute, but she gets to save Tony from being hit with chunks of debris and she gets Maya out of the house. The fact that Pepper has no obvious troubles with the suit leads me to wonder if Tony has her put one on before. Part of the reason he's been obsessively building suits is to protect Pepper, so I wouldn't be surprised if he suggested to her to try one on just for emergency purposes. And the suits reacts to her commands, too, so Tony has coded at least the Mark 42 to her specs. But Pepper taking out Killian in the end was great to see. She does some ninja move, takes down an Iron Man suit to get one of the hand blasters and she blows up Killian. Can Pepper be a part-time Avenger or something? She has her own suit in the comics. Or maybe Pepper can be the new Iron Man?

That was an unexpected twist that. Tony destroys all of his suits and he gets the shrapnel in his chest removed so he doesn't need the arc reactor anymore. He can still be Iron Man, obviously, but just from the way the movie ends, it feels like Tony has moved on. He's going to rebuild his life but that doesn't necessarily mean Iron Man will be a part of it. It'll be interesting to see Tony when Avengers 2 rolls around. Will we find him and Pepper happily running Stark Industries and he has no desire to put the suit back on? I doubt it. If Thanos is coming to destroy Earth or whatever, then Tony will definitely suit up again.

Random: The Mandarin twist. Oh man, that was hilarious. From all of the trailers, you're expecting Ben Kingsley to be this bad ass villain and he's just some washed up actor pretending to be the bad guy while the real bad guy plots and schemes. I don't read the Iron Man comics, so it was a sly piece of storytelling, but I'm sure the real fans were kind of annoyed that they messed with the Mandarin's origins. It was nice to see Happy being an actual character and not just a walking joke. I mean, he's still treated as a joke, but he was investigating when no one else was and he nearly gets blown up for his troubles. It was neat to see how The Avengers changed the world. Tony's an even bigger celebrity and all people want to talk about with him is about the invasion. And I love how at the very end of the movie, Tony goes back to his destroyed house to pick up the remains of his robots, Dummy and You. Oh my god, I love those robots. They're so cute. Tony insults them, but he clearly loves them if they are the one thing he goes back for. I hope Dummy and You get re-built and then they get installed in the Avengers' tower.

But wait, Tony returning to his house and throwing away his arc reactor and him salvaging Dummy and You isn't the end of the movie. This is a Marvel movie. There's always something after the credits. I couldn't believe that people actually left while the credits were still rolling. Do you know nothing people?! But anyway. Tony's been narrating the movie the entire time, but who has he been narrating to? OMG, it's Bruce! There's Bruce Banner, completely bored by Tony's story. I loved it. It doesn't set up anything for Phase 2, but it's great to see some of the Avengers hanging out. Out of the entire team, Bruce would be the one that Tony would talk to the most. Because Thor is off in Asgard, Steve is adjusting to the present day, and Fury, Hawkeye and Black Widow are busy with S.H.I.E.L.D. And Hulk isn't getting his own movie anytime soon, so he's got to show up somewhere.

There was a trailer for the Thor sequel before the movie. I'm really not sure what's going on, but Christopher Eccleston plays the villain, under a lot of make-up, so that alone should be worth seeing.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. won't premiere until the fall but I'm sure ABC will promote the heck out of the show. I foresee the cast showing up at Comic-Con this year with footage.

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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Character Profile: Melinda May
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Entries tagged with agents of shield

Mid season TV thoughts

75 years of Superman and other comic related stuff

Thank goodness for TV

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Yay, it's finally here!

TV time!

"Sorry, that corner was really dark and I couldn't help myself."

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Character Profile: Melinda May

One of these days I will go to San Diego Comic-Con...

"Don't touch Lola."

Iron Man 3 review and squee! about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

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