User blog comment:ProfessorKilroy/Agents of SHIELD - First Look/@comment-821254-20130526022937

My only real experience with Joss Whedon is Firefly and Avengers, and I thought he had something amazing with Firefly and the Avengers movie was better than I thought it'd be.

But this series... IDK. It worry it could get a little hammy, like a cross between Covert Affairs and Mutant X. I think being as realistic as possible will carry this show farther than a geeked out show of powers and futuristic tech.

I'm not happy with the cast for several reasons, but primarily because they're all white. Yes I saw Ming-Na and J August Richards but that's it. This isn't based on the comics, entirely, the agents don't appear to be from the cannon so why do they resemble the comic's team line ups from the start of Silver Age. The movies had to find ways of inserting people of color, because of the monochromatic origins of teams but in this series, which isn't bound by continuity they seem to have gone whiter than the women John Mayer prefers to date.

What's more I don't think J August Richards is very good actor, I just don't. He only seems to know how to do one thing well and that is act pissed and the rest of the time it's like a watching a high school production.