![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deird1It's supposed to be hot today. Being aware of this, I am currently sitting in my freezing cold house, shivering, and reminding myself that turning the heater on would be a boneheadedly stupid thing to do.
Saw Agents of Shield the other night. It... reminded me of Torchwood.
By which I mean that it had the central leader guy who knew exactly how to handle the other characters and did nothing wrong, and a whole bunch of other characters whose entire personality could be summed up by their jobs. There's "tech guy", "kung-fu chick", and "secret agent man" – but, so far, I know nothing else about any of them. Are they sarcastic? Do they like chocolate? Have they ever been really bored? It's a mystery.
So far? Not intrigued. Not enough to keep watching. I like investigation-of-the-week shows, but every show like that that's ever drawn me in has done so through the characters – and, so far, I haven't seen any of those.
(Yes, still planning to fic... Rather delayed by life...)
Saw Agents of Shield the other night. It... reminded me of Torchwood.
By which I mean that it had the central leader guy who knew exactly how to handle the other characters and did nothing wrong, and a whole bunch of other characters whose entire personality could be summed up by their jobs. There's "tech guy", "kung-fu chick", and "secret agent man" – but, so far, I know nothing else about any of them. Are they sarcastic? Do they like chocolate? Have they ever been really bored? It's a mystery.
So far? Not intrigued. Not enough to keep watching. I like investigation-of-the-week shows, but every show like that that's ever drawn me in has done so through the characters – and, so far, I haven't seen any of those.
(Yes, still planning to fic... Rather delayed by life...)
no subject
Date: 2013-10-09 01:37 pm (UTC)I'm not seeing his characteristic dialog. This saddens me. What I am seeing is a team of people who come across as a little flat, giving them room to grow. At the end of Episode 2 there is a Hint of Bigger Plot to Come.
Remember, Babylon 5 had a rather rocky start as well. :)