User blog:Lover of the Muse/Agents of SHIELD rant

Agents of SHIELD is the most controversal part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Every single person I've talked to or listened to about this show has a different opinion on it: nobody is satisfied with Agents of SHIELD, but nobody can agree on exactly what the show is doing wrong.

Is it getting better or getting worse? When exactly did the show go downhill? Was there ever an uppoint to start with?

I sincerely hope that season4 will be the final season of Agents of SHIELD as I feel the show has outlived its usefullness.

I personally enjoyed the goofy episodic nature of the 1st season and I also enjoyed the more serious and storydriven 2nd season. In the third season however the show started to lose me. As far as I'm concerned the season4 premier was when the show officially jumped the shark.

Was I the only one who felt bored watching "the Ghost"?

I don't care who the new director of SHIELD is. I'm confused by the fact that SHIELD is run by the government again (maybe I missed something in season3) but I don't find the new status quo exciting.

I enjoyed every moment that Robbie Reyes was on screen and if it wasn't for him I might not have watched the entire episode. Oddly enough this only made me realize how little I cared about the old main characters.

Fundemental problems with the show
Agents of SHIELD had a lot of haters right from the beggining since nobody was clear on what the show was supposed to be. A lot of us built up our own image of what this show was supposed to be and were disappointed when it wasn't what we expected.

At it's inception Agents of SHIELD was supposed to show what was going on in the background of the Marvel Universe inbetween the movies and showcase superhero scenerios on a smaller scale. The series could bring in minor heroes and villains and give them a time in the spotlight that they would never have otherwise. In these respects I think the Netflix shows have made Agents of SHIELD obsolete.

One problem that Agents of SHIELD has had since the beggining is being influenced way too much by the plots of the movies and not feeling like it's own story.