Marvel: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Just Cancel It.

Caught and episode of SHIELD last night. Take bland, stereotypical characters, add dull talk and boring action, stir in a screenplay that was, apparently, written by a 10-year-old and you have...MAOS. This is so bad, I think Marvel needs to pull the plug before it taints their movie franchise.

After 10 episodes, none of the characters have any personality or arc; they have a mishmash of action movie and Whedonesque tics and traits, but that's it. The actors, are generic, going through the motions, without bringing any depth to to roles. To be fair, they are given little to work with.

Which is the main problem with the series; the writing is terrible. The scripts are jammed full of cliches. In this episode we have the character saying something insulting about another character, then saying "he's right behind me, isn't he?" How original! This kind of laziness is endemic in the series.

Ultimately, the show is just too dull and unoriginal to watch. This is the first failure in the Marvel shared universe; let's hope subsequent films and the Marvel/Netflix partnership learns from this miss-step. Marvel can work on the small screen; but only if the creative teams involved don't turn out dull, cliche-ridden stories.