IMPORTANT QUESTION

[hafital]

Is Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D worth it? Do I need to watch it in order to greater appreciate the Marvel Cinematic Universe? I get a sort of indifferent vibe about it on my friend's list - most of you seem kind of just okay with it, not over the moon. But that's just a cursory impression. Should I bother? Do I need to? Are important things revealed? I do love Agent Coulson, but not so much that I need more of him or anything, so I have been mostly uninterested in Agents of SHIELD. But, then I get curious.


Also, and this is probably just my own thing, but I kind of find it irksome that he's dead in The Avengers but then he's apparently doesn't really die. I don't know, I think it cheapens the emotional payout of The Avengers, but I realize that makes me a bit of a hypocrite since I've been fully on board in other instances when formally dead characters are retconned into aliveness. Whatevs.

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In other words, things are NUTS over here, but in a generally good way. Most of it isn't even book stuff, just regular life/work stuff. OY.

Still rewatching The X-Files. Mulder is a goober. Scully is lovely. And watching MCU! Fun! Not reading much, though. No time to read! argh!

Also, rewatching Highlander, which is like coming home. love love love. I am sort of working on my hl_shortcuts story? Sort of? If thinking really hard is working? Isn't it? I say it is.

I had minor dental surgery for receding gums (not graft, but pinhole/collagen fibers whatever) last week and it was HORRID. Successful, but lord it was uncomfortable and like 2 hours of torture. And 6 weeks of recovery. WHUT? We still have to do the upper gums, but I am going to put that off for a while considering I can't do a 6 week recovery thing for the early part of the year at least. ugh.

Comments

[hafital.livejournal.com]

No, I thank you so much! See, I'm also a completionist at heart, and I don't know if I can honestly set aside that need to complete even knowing that I will probably be annoyed with the show. I can already tell I will be annoyed with the show, although to be honest it doesn't take much for me to be annoyed! So there's that. But I do not read comics, so maybe without the background it won't twang as wrong to me.

As for Coulson, I don't know who the man in the series is, even his body language has changed and yes they've explained all that ad nauseam, but it doesn't work for me.

hmmm. I thank you again! If I do watch this, then at least I am forewarned.. :)

In conclusion let me say this, I've watched all the Highlander movies and none of them have been as painful to watch as AoS is and we both know how bad some of the HL movies are.

Hah. Well, maybe I need to take back my completionist title because I have NOT watched all the HL movies. lol. Er, well I think I did watch all the theatrical releases way back when, but have managed to avoid the last tv movie. I don't even know anything about it at all! And I like it that way. IMO, the canon in HL ends with Endgame. At least so far.

[slb44.livejournal.com]

Yeah I kind of suspected that we shared that completionist gene. To be honest if you're merely annoyed it'll be a win. To clarify it's the bits that refer back to the comics that make the series bearable for me. It's those tidbits that keep me hanging on.

No worries re the last HL movie. It's much better not to have seen it. Trust me. *g*

If memory serves I think someone posted a list of the episodes of AoS you need to watch if you can't bear to watch the entire series to date. I'm tempted to say it was on io9 but I can't swear to it. Yup, here's a link,

http://io9.com/which-episodes-you-must-watch-to-catch-up-on-agents-of-1572676925

And there's also this list as an alternative,

http://www.themarysue.com/must-see-agents-of-shield-s1-eps/

I hope this helps.