Board Thread:Television/@comment-1713281-20131004113215/@comment-3545644-20140515021906

LoveWaffle wrote: Exactly. What we've found out has just opened another set of questions, but we still know a heck of a lot more than we used to. And by setting up all of these other questions, of course they haven't told the full story yet. I'm okay with these threads continuing into the next season. No, not exactly. We don't know much at all. We have more unanswered questions now than we did at the beginning of the season. If the reveal of the Guest-Host was the final shot of the season, it would be a different story, but they've been letting us sit on that reveal for 8 episodes now. Inexcusable. You don't need to have seen the Captain America films to understand what Hydra is though. They pretty much explain it on the show. Having seen the Captain America films gives you a much greater depth of understanding of what Hydra is, but it's not that necessary. They don't. They drop Hydra on the viewer followed by a rushed explanation of what Hydra is. All we really need to know is that they're an evil organisation that has been hiding within SHIELD, but we've been told more stuff on top of that. Which is why you need to see The Winter Soldier, because Agents of SHIELD doesn't explain that.

I guess it's a matter of personal reference. Marvel is creating as cohesive a mythology in the MCU as Sony and Fox will allow them to. There are far drier subjects to study, trust me. So as far as I'm concerned, I don't mind a little "required reading." Besides, I never looked at AoS as a standalone work. I always looked at it as "let's fill in the plot holes of what happened in-between each movie, so the gaps in time aren't quite so confusing." For things not covered by the show that still happen in-between the films, there's always those MCU tie-in graphic novel releases at Barnes and Noble and Schuler's. One important note about those, however: they do tend to get minor continuity details wrong. Like Iron Man playing the wrong AC/DC song during his first encounter with Loki. Otherwise, pretty solid.