Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25366250-20161110181906/@comment-27929601-20161113161710

Blizzard1289 wrote:

SinSaber2016 wrote:

Blizzard1289 wrote: To be honest, I don't think it's as grim as you're making it out to be.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is ABCs only superhero show and has the power of the MCU to back it up. I doubt that ABC is gonna be so quick to bounce off the one superhero show they have. Especially when most shows on the network are are soap operas and/or family sitcoms, they need to appeal to the teen male demographic somehow. There's also the fact that the series has been meet with really strong critical reviews and all the talk of spinoffs. It also seems like ABC wants to expand it's Marvel content, not phase it out.

They moved it to a later time so they might've expected a ratings drop but just thought the show could handle it. Not to say it's 100% going to have a season 5, I just think (hope) it's not that hopeless to think the network would still be interested in continuing this awesome series. Yeah, but they can't get their story straight. They dropped Graviton, Deadlok, Mockingbird, Eden Fesi, and other stroylines with zero indication of what happened. You can argue Mockingbird, but there's not good reason for her not to come back. Every show does that, though. In Gotham what happened to Montoya and Allen? What about the Suicide Squad in Arrow? Or The Mist in The Flash? At least Bobbi and Hunter got an explanation, some of the ones I mentioned were literally just never spoken of.

I agree it's pretty lazy to just write character out of the series and not even have a passing comment of what happened to them. Especially if the character has some potential. As you said, sadly, every show just writes acharacter out or just forget that they even exist, sometimes without giving any explanation, some of them couls have been great if expanded upon.

Also, there are other forgotten characters in the series, such as Blizzard, who sinked into the bottom of the ocean and we don't know if he is alive; the Koenigs; Angar, was just imprisoned; the rest of the fridge prisoners; and as mentioned before: Deathlok; who went into repairs to never be seen again, nothing about him; Graviton and Ian Quinn, I am pretty sure a corrupt bilionaire with a probably sentient rock that can control gravity must be up to something in 2 years; Mocking Bird and Lance Hunter, they were written out to have their own show, but it never aired; and I'm pretty sure Eden Fesi was just a name drop.

And a lot of missed oportunities to bring them back: Blizzard as an Inhuman that suffered Terrigenesis in the ocean; Deathlok to expand upon this "biomechanics" subplot with Radcliffe(we are still at the stard, but this season is more focuded in magic); and Graviton could just return given the fact that an evil billionaire has him.

Well, ABC doesn't have the best record when talking about keepin superhero shows, Most Wanted never went past the pilot, Agent Carter got cancelled still having good reception, and we haven't heard anything about Damage Control in years, so there is that worry that they might cancel the AoS, seeing as they have another series incoming: Cloak and Dagger.