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Are there rumors that the show is going to be cancelled?
If you look at the ratings it could but when you look at ratings in general for all broadcast TV, they aren't truly in danger as compared to shows Selfie.
Spoiler
There is supposed to be some Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. in Avengers: Age of Ultron with a possible return of Coulson o the big screen.
If you look at the ratings it could but when you look at ratings in general for all broadcast TV, they aren't truly in danger as compared to shows Selfie.
Spoiler
There is supposed to be some Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. in Avengers: Age of Ultron with a possible return of Coulson o the big screen.
I hope they keep them around for a while. They are starting a series based on the lady in the Capt. America movie. At least that's what it looks like from the commercials.
I hope they keep them around for a while. They are starting a series based on the lady in the Capt. America movie. At least that's what it looks like from the commercials.
Yes, the pilot of the show was basically in Iron Man 3 as the one shot Agent Carter.
I would be SHOCKED if this show were cancelled. Remember that not only is Marvel Comics owned by Disney, but so is ABC, and Disney is building a huge cross-media release of the Marvel movies. They are raking in the dough from movies, TV, toys, video games, comic books, graphic novels, T-shirts, snacks, etc., etc., etc. Agents of SHIELD isn't just a TV show for them, it's a 47 minute commercial every week for the rest of their products. As long as the show stays in its C-level in the ratings and as long as the movies, etc. are big hits, it will stick around.
In fact, if Daredevil is a hit on Netflix (as I think it will be), I would be very surprised if we don't get another Marvel TV show within the next few years.
The shame of it is: Marvel's cartoons are still really bad. Warner Brothers/DC is still putting them to shame in the cartoon department. Which is a tragedy, considering that Disney --- the most successful animation juggernaut in the universe --- now owns all the Marvel characters. DC manages to put out cartoons that appeal to both adults and little kids, while Marvel seems content for all their cartoons to be geared only for 8 year olds.
I think Hell's Kitchen (what Marvel is calling the Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Power Man Iron Fist and The Defenders Netflix series) is expected to be more HBO than ABC. Which knowing Daredevil, I think works much better for it. I think if anything, ABC would get a Spider-man spin-off (Marvel STILL has the TV rights to Spider-man somehow) from that with some crossover (just because Spider-man is much more popular and known to the public. I've also heard rumors of The Runaways being a series at some point as well.
As for the Marvel animated universe its problem is it is a mix of the serious Teen Titans with the more laughable Teen Titans Go, especially if you watch Ultimate Spider-Man and Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. Avengers Assemble isn't that bad of a show but it isn't Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. I am excited for what the next show, Guardians of the Galaxy where it can work inside the style of the different animated Marvel shows. As for Disney's animation tv shows, besides Phineas & Ferb, Gravity Falls and to an extent Fish Hooks, they are nowhere near what they had during the Disney afternoon as well as Kim Possible or Lilo & Stitch. That said, I wouldn't put those Marvel series in the same light as Phineas & Ferb or Gravity Falls and if anything on the same level as Fish Hooks.
I think if anything, ABC would get a Spider-man spin-off (Marvel STILL has the TV rights to Spider-man somehow) from that with some crossover (just because Spider-man is much more popular and known to the public. I've also heard rumors of The Runaways being a series at some point as well.
Spider-Man ought to be a TV series, not a movie franchise. The episodic nature of television is just much more suited to comic books. The problem is that a story like Spider-Man is very special effects intensive, and TV shows just don't have the budget for that. Spidey has been a cartoon staple for years, but Marvel still continues to produce Spidey cartoons geared for 8 year olds. The ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN comics are actually much more sophisticated. They're still kid-friendly for the most part, but well written enough for adults to enjoy. The ULTIMATE SPIDEY cartoons? No. It's like Pokemon in a Spidey suit.
Spider-Man ought to be a TV series, not a movie franchise. The episodic nature of television is just much more suited to comic books. The problem is that a story like Spider-Man is very special effects intensive, and TV shows just don't have the budget for that. Spidey has been a cartoon staple for years, but Marvel still continues to produce Spidey cartoons geared for 8 year olds. The ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN comics are actually much more sophisticated. They're still kid-friendly for the most part, but well written enough for adults to enjoy. The ULTIMATE SPIDEY cartoons? No. It's like Pokemon in a Spidey suit.
I don't mind Spider-Man movies so long as they don't cram too much into it. Spiderman 3 could have EASILY been two (if not three for a Carnage film) movies to flesh out Venom properly with the symbiote bonding with Eddie Brock at the end of 3 and in 4 it is Venom vs. Spiderman and if they wanted to bring back Sandman, they could have easily done that. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was just a case of including too many villains in. You had Electro who no one really could hate because he was a loser that "died" and he was covered up and you also had Norman Osborne who unseen in 1 die and Harry only becomes Green Goblin out of a way to heal the Osborne curse which he blames Spiderman for because he wouldn't let him try to use his blood to save him. The action in this was just too much and a lot of good stuff was just cut out of the movie like the awesome scene between Richard and Peter in the graveyard after Gwen's death.
As for a series, as we've seen with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and The Flash, I think Spider-Man can work as a live action series. They have rather high budgets for the CG with graphics and are actually shown on network television.
As for the cartoons, the 90's era on Fox with X-Men and Spider-Man were kid shows but they very much followed a comic story arc for the season often with multiple episode arcs. And when I say multiple episodes, try three, four or five episodes dedidcated to the fight against D'Ken getting the Mkron Crystal, Apocalypse trying to destroy time, the Dark Phoenix or in the case of Spider-Man, the return of Captain America from his coma during Six Forgotten Warriors. To be fair, Ultimate Spider-Man is doing a version of the Spider-verse storyline this season with the Drake Bell Peter Parker of the show (I agree, bad casting) going into Earth 2099 to meet Miguel O'Hara, Ultimate (Comics) Earth to meet Miles Morales, Marvel Noir and I think the earth of Spider-Ham as well as a few others I don't recognize.
I would be SHOCKED if this show were cancelled. Remember that not only is Marvel Comics owned by Disney, but so is ABC, and Disney is building a huge cross-media release of the Marvel movies. They are raking in the dough from movies, TV, toys, video games, comic books, graphic novels, T-shirts, snacks, etc., etc., etc. Agents of SHIELD isn't just a TV show for them, it's a 47 minute commercial every week for the rest of their products. As long as the show stays in its C-level in the ratings and as long as the movies, etc. are big hits, it will stick around.
I think this is a good point--it maintains fan excitement between movies. I suspect the rolling out of "Agent Carter" indicates they're happy with what they're getting from Agents of SHIELD.
I think this is a good point--it maintains fan excitement between movies. I suspect the rolling out of "Agent Carter" indicates they're happy with what they're getting from Agents of SHIELD.
I think that is also a way to build on the backstories of how the MCU got to the point it was at going into Iron Man, Iron Man 2 in the wake of Captain America. I'm all for that because you can only have so many villains in the movies and this way you can get the look into how HYDRA initially infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. heading into Winter Soldier. I'm sorry for spoiling that but if you read this thread, I imagine you know those events happened by this point.
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