Agents of Shield Season 2 Episode 1

Well since the new TV season is upon us the next month or so will be writing about the premiers of several shows. Due to the fact that I don't have cable many of my reviews will be written a day late. So today I watched the first episode of the second season of Marvels Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (MAS), and I am here to say that this is looks like it is going to be a very promising season. I'm going to start by saying that like many people I didn't think last season picked up until after Captain America Winter Soldier Came out.

From this point on there will be *****MAJOR***** spoilers. Which shouldn't matter because if you don't know some of this information you have no business reading this review. 

When S.H.I.E.L.D got disbanded in the Cap movie I was very shocked I couldn't believe that HYDRA had infiltrated the best spy organization in the world. My first thought was how will this effect the show, and boy did it effect it in a positive way. MAS picked up so fast after that movie came out it would make your head spin. When it turned out that Grant Ward was a HYDRA agent I was in disbelief. I spent the remaining time of the season trying to convince myself that it wasn't true, and he must be working an angle. I'm glad that Marvel stuck to their guns, and kept him a bad guy though.
So when the new season started I had high hopes. I couldn't wait to see where this season was going to go, and I get the feeling it is going to focus a lot on Skye's parents. It starts out with a flash back to the 40's, and Agent Carter, this was more than likely so people are used to seeing her again before she gets a new show this winter. It then went into the introduction of new Shield members orchestrating the sale of some powerful object that you say earlier in the episode during the 40's flashback. As the episode progresses you learn that Director Coulson (if you don't know why he is director than shame on you, quit reading this review and go watch the first season of MAS) has been flying around trying to recruit new agents, but not on "the bus", but on regular planes. You see Fitz talking to Simmons, and you can tell that their is some lasting brain damage from the season finale last spring. This leads to the best surprise of the episode, but I will get into that in a minute. I liked that MAS decided to keep Ward around. I may not like him as a person, but he makes a damn good villain. It looks like he will be taking on a Hannibal Lector type role in this season by consulting with the team on Hydra's inner workings. Skye seems to be a full agent in the new season also. According to Ward she is being trained by  May. You don't get to see any of this in the first episode, but I think it will be an interesting aspect to look at in future episodes. There was the introduction of a new super powered villain in the episode too. I believe they said his name was Crash I could be wrong on that though. Anyway Crash has the ability to change his molecular structure when he is touching a certain object. For example at one point in the episode he touches a tire, and he makes his hand into the same materiel as the tire. I think that they need to bring Deathlocke back to deal with this new threat seeing as how nobody else is really a match for him. Now the best part of the entire episode was the twist ending. The whole episode you saw Fitz and Simmons interacting with each other, but it turns out that Simmons had actually left the team months ago. Fitz had been talking to himself the whole time. He apparently has more brain damage than we were lead to believe early on. I really can't wait to see where the show takes this angle. It really makes me wonder why Simmons left. To me it seems like a shitty thing to do as a friend but maybe she has a good reason. I am very excited to see how this season plays out.

Gotham: Pilot

What do you get when you take the most corrupt fictional city in existence, the most incorruptible fictional cop, an unethical alcoholic detective, and a young grieving boy? If you guessed the best new show on TV, you would be right. I am speaking of course about Gotham. I may be biased because I love Batman, and anything to do with Batman. I essentially watched the show with Batman goggles on, and in my mind, it could do no wrong. I have been waiting for this show since I first heard about it last year.
The premise for Gotham is pretty awesome; it follows a young Jim Gordon as he tries to clean up the streets of Gotham. Jim isn't alone in this quest, though. He is accompanied by his alcoholic partner Harvey Bullock. Part of the thing that really drew me to the show other than the universe that it takes place in, is the fact that it is going to introduce us to the Batman villains that we have grown to love, but before they were full blown super villains.
This is definitely the most anticipated show of the new television season. It was so anticipated that Netflix is going to pay two-million dollars an episode for the streaming rights. For that kind of money, you would expect the episodes to play the very next day, but they don't. Netflix is paying that much an episode for the future streaming rights. I hope this means that Fox will want to make a little extra money, and give the season an even longer order of episodes than they normally would. While it is almost a sure thing, the show hasn't even been picked up for a full season order. That is how much faith Netflix has in it.

From this point on you should be warned that there are spoilers in this review.


The first episode of Gotham was exactly what I thought it was going to be. It starts out with the murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne. I know a lot of people think that this should have been later on in the season, and the Wayne's should have been supporting characters, but I think in the long run this will take us quicker to Batman. Bruce is supposed to see his parents die when he is a kid. If they waited any longer people would probably complain that Bruce was too old. If Bruce was any older when he saw his parents die, he probably would have become some emo cutter instead of the worlds greatest detective. I also think that trying to solve the case of who killed the Wayne's is a great case to start Gordon and Bullock on. What other great crime can you think of that needs to be solved in the Batman universe? Their deaths rock the whole city, and you need to establish Gordon as the great cop/detective that he is by "solving" this crime. Not to anyone's surprise, they don't solve this case in the first episode, even though they think they do. It seems most of the episode was spent introducing us to the many supporting characters in the show. While some may think that Gotham blew its entire load in the first episode, I think that it was just setting up a universe that people will come back and watch every week. I could be wrong, but I doubt that The Riddler will be in every episode, and even if he is, I doubt the episodes will focus on him. When I saw that he was a CSI person I was like: 'mind blown'. I never even realized that that would be the perfect profession for him. I do have to say that Bullock telling him to not talk in riddles was kind of a slap in the face. It was like the people who wrote the episode thought they needed to spoon feed the audience with who each person becomes in the future. This also shows later on when they introduce a young Poison Ivy. She is shown tending to plants every time we see her. She is shown in two different scenes, if I remember right, and somehow I doubt a little girl is going to just stand in the same place wearing the same clothes tending to a plant. I don't care who she grows up to be. It was also pretty irritating that her name isn't Pamela, but that is neither here nor there. It was also pretty pointless to keep calling Oswald Cobblepot 'penguin'. We all know that he grows up to be The Penguin, but I don't really see what they mean when they tell him he looks like a penguin. Is it because he wears a tuxedo everywhere, or because of his nose? The ending to the show didn't really make any sense to me. Why did Oswald kill that old man? Was it just to kill a man? Did he really want his sandwich, because he wasn't really in the water that long? Am I supposed to assume that he was starving? I just wish the show would have explained the motives for this killing.
I thought the casting of the two leads in this show was pretty awesome, too. The only person that I knew from the cast was Donal Logue. When I was a teenager I loved him in Grounded for Life, and I love him in this show. I have never seen Ben McKenzie in anything, but I think he was perfectly cast in this role. He looks very innocent, but can be a real hard ass when he needs to be. I can't wait to see some of the other actors that make appearances in this show.
 Other than those few complaints I talked about, I absolutely loved this show, and I can't wait towatch it every week. Please let me know in the comment section what you thought about the pilot episode.

Revamp

So I started this blog a few months back, and I haven't posted anything to it in months. I learned that it was rather expensive to go to movies all the time, and when I could make it to movies, I really didn't feel like writing about them after. So my new plan is to write about more than just movies. I tend to spend much of my time watching TV because it is much cheaper, and more fun to watch. Where a movie will end after two hours, a tv show will go on for years and may add up to several hundred hours. The best part is this TV season is promising to be one of the best ones that I have seen in a long time. I absolutely love comic books, and it seems like television is now being tailored for people like me. On top of the returning shows like Arrow,and Marvels Agents of Shield, and the Walking Dead, there are new shows such as Constantine, Gotham, The Flash, I Zombie. My new goal is to watch as many of these shows as I can, and put out a review as soon as I can. We will see how well this goes, but hopefully it will go better than my effort to review movies. So I hope you enjoy my revamped blog, and I hope you help contribute to the ratings this season. Have a nice day