Board Thread:Television/@comment-1713281-20131004113215/@comment-1895174-20140117045553

Spencerz wrote: 1. It's set in a universe of characters with blockbuster-budget powers, but is working on a silver screen budget. Even if they put out the cash for, say, a cool as hell MODOK--a giant-head-in-a-robosuit, practicality-be-damned MODOK--the budget and returns from the show wouldn't allow them to do it multiple episodes a season. He'd be limited to the end of episode cameos or an adaptation into an original character we've come to expect. The counterpoint is Arrow, and the careful selection of characters its used. Not every character is going to require the CGI budget of a Hulk or Iron Man; some are just mercenaries, vigilantes, mobsters, corrupt politicians, dangerous people with no powers to speak of. Extensive CGI work isn't needed for Baron Zemo or Frank Simpson. Or they have very easy to create abilities (called coconut powers) that don't require that much work. Would Ghost be any more difficult to put in this show than Tobias Ford? Arrow has realized that, and that's why every episode of that show is littered with DC characters. We're lucky if there's one Marvel character in any episode of Agents of SHIELD. There's no way Marvel couldn't do the same. 2. It's essentially an appendix to a multi-billion dollar blockbuster franchise. Cool, recognizable characters are not going to be utilized (or squandered, depending on your outlook) on the show when they could be used in the next installment of the film franchise. And that's a big problem. They need to realize that not every character is going to be holding down their own movie someday. Until they realize that, it's just going to be the unimportant background adventures of unimportant background characters who will never be seen or heard from again and Phil Coulson. It doesn't need to be Iron Man 3, what it needs to do is matter.