Board Thread:Television/@comment-1713281-20131004113215/@comment-1895174-20140117005416

So this show has some problems. And 12 episodes in, it doesn't seem like it's really going to be changing on any of this:
 * 1) Reluctance to use actual Marvel supervillains or supporting characters. Who gives a crap about Edison Po or Ian Quinn or Raina? Rename those guys Johann Fenoff, Alexander Lukin, and Whitney Frost repsectively and they're significantly more interesting. Hopefully the Clairvoyant is, like, MODOK or something, and not a completely original character.
 * 2) The supervillains they actually use are nothing but teases. Of course Donnie Gill isn't going to be Blizzard until the very end of the episode as just a coda; they did the same thing in Episode 3 with Franklin Hall. I wouldn't be surprised if Bill Paxton's John Garrett doesn't become a cyborg until the very end of the season. More conventional adaptations like Mike Peterson and Scorch are too insignificant in the comics to really matter.
 * 3) Skye is still annoying, and isn't getting any better. No show has put so much behind a character the audience clearly isn't going to like.
 * 4) Preference for telling backstories through exposition-y monologues rather than showing us them through flashbacks. And the "reveals" are too vague to reveal anything. Skye was special as a baby. We already knew that! Coulson was dead, than he wasn't. We already knew that! At least with his we got a look at that machine playing with his brain, but the meat of the "revelation" was still delivered through Dr. Streiten's monologue.