Marvel Has A Nick Fury Problem

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  • Опубліковано 14 вер 2023
  • Looking back, Agents of Shield may have just been Marvel's attempt at claiming territory in the network television space, but after 7 Seasons it proved to be more than a flash in the pan. Though one glaring issue with Agents of Shield is the complete disconnect from the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. One major casting choice could have fixed all of that, by casting Samuel L Jackson's Nick Fury as the lead of Agents of Shield instead of Clark Greggs Agent Coulson.
    #agentsofshield #nickfury #marvel #nerdstalgic
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  • @skysthelimitvideos
    @skysthelimitvideos 9 місяців тому +206

    Agents of Shield has more heart than most of the shit that’s been made for Disney+. Yeah it had limitations but those limitations allowed it to grow into something off-beat and great that we’ll never get from Disney+ marvel shows.

    • @mr.iiconic
      @mr.iiconic 4 місяці тому +1

      They're both mid.

  • @erickmunoz1378
    @erickmunoz1378 9 місяців тому +365

    I'd never disagreed so much with Nerdstalgic. SHIELD "rebooting" itself was part of what was amazing about it. It was never stale, it was never the same. I tuned in every week because I legitimately couldn't believe the places the show had gone to and the wild storylines it committed to. This show was fantastic.

    • @Clean_Shirt
      @Clean_Shirt 9 місяців тому +42

      Ikr. It was a masterpiece. From, hydra, framework, LMDs, supernatural(monolith), superhuman,space, time travel etc.
      Peak television.

    • @nope53926
      @nope53926 9 місяців тому +23

      That season that takes place in the future is freaking wild.

    • @erickmunoz1378
      @erickmunoz1378 9 місяців тому +41

      The LMDs storyline was a better Secret Invasion than Secret Invasion. And the little we got of Ghost Rider was INCREDIBLE.

    • @Clean_Shirt
      @Clean_Shirt 9 місяців тому +11

      @@erickmunoz1378 lol and secret invasion has Samuel L Jackson haha

    • @zero1188
      @zero1188 9 місяців тому +4

      Samuel jackson cost too much money, its simple as that lmao

  • @cianoreillycork
    @cianoreillycork 9 місяців тому +230

    Couldn't disagree more! 🤣 While the show definitely has its ups and downs, Agents of Shield has some of the most riveting character drama in the entire MCU, seasons 3 and 4 especially, the 4,722 hours and the framework story arcs are both incredible. Honestly if asked my favourite Marvel characters its this team without a doubt. I understand it may disappoint if you want pure connections to the MCU but as its own narrative, its one of my favourite series I've ever seen. :)

    • @Clean_Shirt
      @Clean_Shirt 9 місяців тому +20

      I will never forget the reintroduction of Fitz as the doctor. I was bamboozled by that whole reveal. It was beautiful!

    • @fedezero55
      @fedezero55 9 місяців тому +2

      totally agree

    • @chuchmaster23
      @chuchmaster23 9 місяців тому +2

      Just finished watching aos for the first time that was a super solid show I mean season 7 u see they first look at the quantum realm so many elements in this show that where used in other marvel shows and movies

    • @user-zl2vp3ez7n
      @user-zl2vp3ez7n 6 місяців тому +1

      Yes, it started out as more of the Joshoverse but it became it’s own ‘ life form’ with characters constantly put in peril against a world almost beyond comprehension. When the MO of the show is to humanize extreme people; geniuses become fam, trained killers face remorse, and super hero’s are all to human.

  • @dannyganelin9777
    @dannyganelin9777 9 місяців тому +104

    The show was better than it had any right to be, with the Film studio basically dropping huge narrative bombs for the writers to deal with, a shoestring budget and the fact that they can't really use a plot or a character that's already in the MCU, it's a miracle that it lasted this long.
    Also, compared to the shows we got now, AoS is a friggin masterpiece.

  • @SpiritLife
    @SpiritLife 9 місяців тому +183

    It was still much better than the current Disney+ shows!

    • @pendaco
      @pendaco 9 місяців тому +12

      Truth!

    • @trentonwindom9897
      @trentonwindom9897 9 місяців тому +8

      PREACH!!!!

    • @pythagorasabc
      @pythagorasabc 9 місяців тому +12

      Wandavision was pretty good, besides that though...

    • @SpiritLife
      @SpiritLife 9 місяців тому +5

      @@pythagorasabc true, WandaVision was actually good. Why couldn't Secret Invasion or She-Hulk be the same quality?

    • @jokerz7936
      @jokerz7936 9 місяців тому +4

      WandaVision, Loki, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Hawkeye, Ms. Marvel, Secret Invasion, GOTG Holiday Special and Moonknight were all good.
      Werewolf by Night was Fantastic.
      Even with one or two wonky episodes She-Hulk was good it was a blend of a David E. Kelley show like Ally McBeal or the Boston Legal mixed with the John Byrne run of She-Hulk.
      Agents of Shield was decent with Post Hydra reveal season 1 and season 4 being it's high points and the Inhumans being the low points.

  • @Clean_Shirt
    @Clean_Shirt 9 місяців тому +313

    Once the show took its own path. It became way better imo. The restrictive nature of trying to keep in line with the movies would have probably killed the show. Also imo the whole dynamic of having a different theme each season at the time kept things fresh imo. For example; The framework story line was the peak of the show.

    • @politereminder6284
      @politereminder6284 9 місяців тому +12

      Agreed.. and it finished strong👍

    • @trentonwindom9897
      @trentonwindom9897 9 місяців тому +13

      Exactly. It's still one of my favorite Marvel shows to this day. I wouldn't change anything about it.

    • @hefoughtabear118
      @hefoughtabear118 9 місяців тому +15

      Its so stupid that this guys complaining that the show did something new every season.

    • @Clean_Shirt
      @Clean_Shirt 9 місяців тому +18

      @@hefoughtabear118 some the talking points on this video can easily be talked about as the shows main strengths.
      But what is slightly irritating (for lack of a better word) is the whole notion that the show needed Samuel L Jackson according to the OP of the video.

    • @ultrabrian8151
      @ultrabrian8151 9 місяців тому +3

      It was always in line with the movies

  • @TomPK7
    @TomPK7 9 місяців тому +29

    "Get ready for a large file transfer!" - "Ok how big of a file are we talki"- *Filing cabinet crashes to the ground from second story*

    • @NeiyonSpyder
      @NeiyonSpyder 4 дні тому

      Easily one of my favorite moments from the whole show. Makes me crack up laughing everytime 😂😂

  • @Crocogator
    @Crocogator 9 місяців тому +209

    Clark Gregg and his chemistry with the entire cast is what made SHIELD so good. I love Samuel L Jackson, but... It would not have been as good with him instead.
    Okay damn. The movies didn't do anything to influence the show after season 1. They did their own thing, and it was beautiful. I can't believe you guys would call the show 'bland'. It's wacky, goofy, and captures the vibe of the comics WAY more than the more modern marvel TV shows. Not to mention the action choreography. Ming-Na Wen even does the sword pose that she did in the ANIMATED Mulan movie.

    • @dinajonaky4796
      @dinajonaky4796 9 місяців тому +12

      Agreed 💙

    • @YuzuMelodious
      @YuzuMelodious 9 місяців тому +17

      Indeed, the show kinda ups itself as it went along. Never thought we would see a Ghost Rider on a live action tv show. And the design for him looked pretty cool. Wonder how high a budget they had for the 4rth season.

    • @bizarreisland
      @bizarreisland 9 місяців тому +8

      Pretty sure Age of Ultron did influence the show and that is in Season 2 so not "after season 1". The Sokovia Accords also influence AoS in season 4, where Yoyo and later Daisy had to be registered as enhanced individuals.

    • @chasethecolors
      @chasethecolors 9 місяців тому +6

      Agree except the events of the movies always had an influence on the show, at least the first 5 seasons anyway. They constantly reference events from the films, even if they don’t have a massive impact on what goes on.

    • @jspettifer
      @jspettifer 9 місяців тому +4

      How much would it cost to bring SLJ as a lead in a network TV show? He got $20 mill for 6 episodes of Secret Invasion. So at least $50-$75 million a 22 episode season.
      And it couldn’t have been materially better.

  • @JeremyTepper
    @JeremyTepper 9 місяців тому +148

    If viewed as the initially pitched MCU tie in show, then yes it may be disappointing. But AOS was able to find its niche with its great cast and really fun sci-fi premises every season. Having to stay up to date with all the MCU phase 2-3 projects would've really dragged the show down, instead they are able to focus on what works for their medium while staying loosely in the MCU continuity. I would say Season 4 is top tier Marvel/superhero TV, up there with Daredevil and S1 of Jessica Jones.
    Additionally the show was expected to be cancelled after Season 5, so they wrote that season finale as a series finale. Seasons 6-7 are shorter and disconnected because they were not supposed to happen at all, so the show approached them one season at a time.

    • @Clean_Shirt
      @Clean_Shirt 9 місяців тому +3

      Facts🤝

    • @Clean_Shirt
      @Clean_Shirt 9 місяців тому +3

      @@SeeThomasHowl are you calling me a bot hahahha?

    • @madnessarcade7447
      @madnessarcade7447 9 місяців тому +1

      Season 7 made a lot of Mcu references

    • @achimdemus-holzhaeuser1233
      @achimdemus-holzhaeuser1233 9 місяців тому +1

      I have to try again then, I think I never made it past Season 3 because those feel a bit like chewing gum

  • @clayongunzelle9555
    @clayongunzelle9555 9 місяців тому +171

    Watched this again recently and it holds up pretty well compared to marvel tv shows now, all those problems you listed are only problems for those who are deep into the comics, for someone like me who barely watched any of the movies beforehand and didn't read any of those comics you mentioned everything that happened with coulson felt right

    • @dabeerdsgamer7763
      @dabeerdsgamer7763 9 місяців тому +20

      I too recently rewatched AoS incorporated into a rewatch of the entire MCU in chronological order. and I thoroughly enjoyed the 7 seasons of AoS in that rewatch (in fact I sometimes broke with what I was "supposed to watch" next when the site I was following said "watch episodes 1-19 of AoS then watch X, Y, and Z Netflix series"; I wanted to see what happened with the AoS team. I caught the movie tie ins when they happened (and they happened more often than this video made out; just one example, as late as season 6 "the destroyer of worlds" was in response to the fact that Thanos was coming).

    • @NadeemShekh-uy9zn
      @NadeemShekh-uy9zn 9 місяців тому +7

      Yeah a solid seven seasons

    • @kennethsmith6367
      @kennethsmith6367 9 місяців тому +9

      I read the comic’s growing up and his “observations” still don’t hold up. The show was great and it didn’t need everything to revolve around the movies storylines. The Marvel universe is vast and even the comics don’t work that way.

  • @Matthaeus0
    @Matthaeus0 9 місяців тому +237

    I thought this show was great, and was a great supplement to the main mcu

    • @GothPaoki
      @GothPaoki 9 місяців тому +8

      It absolutely wasn't. Granted it did get better but it's first seasons were horrible.

    • @gcarsk
      @gcarsk 9 місяців тому +5

      The pilot season was a rough (we now know it was much better than the average marvel content, but it was well below the quality of the movies at the time). Of course, yeah, the show overall is very good. And much, much better than almost every other marvel show (behind 2 Defenders shows, and 1-2 D+ shows. Tho, not a reasonable comparison to put a multi-season show up against the D+ single season limited series. Those are just chopped up movies).

    • @ninjanibba4259
      @ninjanibba4259 9 місяців тому +12

      Better than anything Disney plus has given us for sure

    • @aquacamel
      @aquacamel 9 місяців тому +2

      I thought this show was mid, for mid people

    • @brandonscott5544
      @brandonscott5544 9 місяців тому

      SAMUEL L, JACKSON DID CALL AUDIENCES INCEL.

  • @StephenLeGresley
    @StephenLeGresley 9 місяців тому +83

    Someone didn't watch Secret Invasion... I don't think Fury would've made Agents of Shield all that better. By that point Coulson was a more popular character and I think Clark Gregg was terrific in the role.
    To say that a show would've succeeded or failed because of just one character is reductionist and spits in the face of the contributions of the other actors.

    • @YuzuMelodious
      @YuzuMelodious 9 місяців тому +17

      Yeah, I wasn't big on this video for that critique. There's little evidence that the results will be that different if Fury was in the show.
      Coulson caught my interest as the first season went on & I desired to see how his relationships with his team played out. And yeah, I liked Clark Gregg in the role.

    • @derekbarcelo5479
      @derekbarcelo5479 9 місяців тому +8

      Yeah I love this channel but I can’t imagine anyone watching both shows and EVER having the take they had

  • @soadfacu
    @soadfacu 9 місяців тому +17

    The writer of the script didn't watch the show i suppose. Such a good show specialy season 4.

  • @anarchoiskunk
    @anarchoiskunk 9 місяців тому +114

    I strongly disagree. Coulson was a perfect front runner to the show, and his alien DNA/resurrection plotline perfectly explained his sudden jump to Fury level actions. I think if Sam Jackson was part of the show, it would have just become the Sam Jackson hour, and the character development we get from the supporting cast would have been pushed to the side. I think the true issue with the show was the plot lines, that w seemed to fit more into the Dr Who universe more than Marvels. Additionally, the CGI was awful, once again falling more in line with Dr Who over Marvel. These two issues together made the show feel campy and detached from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

    • @NadeemShekh-uy9zn
      @NadeemShekh-uy9zn 9 місяців тому +3

      Yup

    • @jasoningramx3731
      @jasoningramx3731 9 місяців тому +2

      I agree although I will say the CGI was more so hot or miss than outright bad expecally for a network TV show where the have less time to work on stuff they put in a lot of effort and when they wanted something to look really good like ghost Rider they did an amazing job.

    • @Gepap3
      @Gepap3 9 місяців тому +3

      The CGI was good for a network show.

    • @mydavegabicycle
      @mydavegabicycle 9 місяців тому +1

      ​@@jasoningramx3731was here to mention Ghost Rider. His reveal was soooo good.

  • @benwasserman8223
    @benwasserman8223 9 місяців тому +132

    Hot take: I’ve grown to like Agents of SHIELD more than the Netflix shows, DD and JJ season 1 aside. It just had great team dynamics and genre versatility. Especially after season 4.

    • @masterswordwielder
      @masterswordwielder 9 місяців тому +8

      Same, it's an exceptional show

    • @YuzuMelodious
      @YuzuMelodious 9 місяців тому +2

      Huh, that's quite a hot take. Don't blame you, though.

    • @andrewgarfield9898
      @andrewgarfield9898 9 місяців тому +6

      Yeah I legit grew up with this show

    • @bradastra6111
      @bradastra6111 9 місяців тому +3

      agree, after agents of hydra.. the show became quite good.

    • @Mwezi828
      @Mwezi828 9 місяців тому +4

      Not too hot actually, it was a great show

  • @wesleyshn1
    @wesleyshn1 9 місяців тому +63

    Clark Gregg actually made the show. If he wasn't in it I probably wouldn't have carried on all the way through.

  • @lifeofnothingness
    @lifeofnothingness 9 місяців тому +88

    I found that AoS had a lot of charm. Much of that can be attributed to the team's chemistry and how they developed over the seasons. The show worked well with it's limitations, especially after season 3 when they no longer needed to recycle one of the characters as the Antagonist. I find it's much better than the latest Marvel tv shows and movies, where comedy has been turned up to 11, emotional moments are consistently undercut by jokes, and the constant need for everything to be a setup that doesn't really pay off.
    If anything, the show that actually was supposed to focus on Sam Jackson's Nick Fury, Secret Invasion, was a complete let down in every facet.
    Also, I'm not really sure you've made a point for Nick Fury instead of Coulson. Nick Fury was already a leader of the Avengers and SHIELD. Where does he go from there? Leader a team of regular people? I think Coulson was a good fit because he wasn't Nick Fury, he was the everyday man. And it's hard for the everyday man to be the leader of a giant organization like SHIELD.
    Maybe Fury's arc could have been going from the leader of SHIELD, seeing it dismantled from the inside by Hydra, and then realizing he needs to step back as the leader?

  • @JREHangzhou
    @JREHangzhou 9 місяців тому +20

    Fitz Simmons were the best part of the show. A good will they won’t they relationship always makes for good tv and character, story development.

    • @MsGloomyLamp
      @MsGloomyLamp 9 місяців тому +3

      Agreed! Especially when it doesn't overshadow the plot and other relationships.

    • @paulbrown9328
      @paulbrown9328 9 місяців тому +1

      I’d argue that they are the second. The best dynamic/relationship in the show is Coulson and Daisy. Their growth and relationship was the actual heart of the show.

  • @anubusx
    @anubusx 9 місяців тому +23

    Sam Jackson was too expensive.

  • @MsGloomyLamp
    @MsGloomyLamp 9 місяців тому +47

    I feel like the writers have done an amzing job writing Coulson as a real person who changed from the 'every man' to a heroic man who would sacrifice himself. He's been traumatized by his ressurection, then SHIELD fell, and then things just kept on coming, while the core--the found family he'd found in all this mess--stayed true. Coulson never felt out of place, he was the heart of SHIELD.
    Honestly, the biggest problem of SHIELD is that this show is forced to exist in the shadow of the MCU. And it's a shame because it's a well-written, intelligent show with lots of heart (although sometimes it does get ridiculous, I admit it, but that's part of the fun)

  • @andrewgarfield9898
    @andrewgarfield9898 9 місяців тому +62

    The worst part is how the movies completely ignored the existence of the show all together for literally no reason. In the beginning it seems they were alongside the movies and it was fun watching a marvel movie then coming here to see the after effects of said movie. But to not see the show even referenced in the movies AT ALL was so disappointing to me.

    • @tiredox3788
      @tiredox3788 9 місяців тому

      ​@@PiflaTo be fair some events in the show doesn't really affected the movies all that much.

    • @vice2792ocl
      @vice2792ocl 9 місяців тому +9

      I blame the petty rivalry between Kevin feige and Jeph loeb. Jeph loeb wants the inhumans in his show, well guess who don't matter any more.

    • @kevin10001
      @kevin10001 9 місяців тому +2

      The reason that happened was around the timespan of age of ultron and iron-man 3 or a little after the chain of command was broken do to the demotion of isaac perlmutter to marvel television the chain of command was the fiege was to report to perlmutter and perlmutter was to report to Disney so the scripts would go through perlmutter before getting to Disney after his demotion to marvel television the script go from fiege directly to Disney and why they have gotten worse over time as much of a bad person perlmutter is he ultimately kept the humor in check and since his demotion the humor has gotten out of control

    • @CaptHayfever
      @CaptHayfever 9 місяців тому +2

      There's a few subtle easter-egg references in Age of Ultron, Civil War, Captain Marvel, and Far From Home, as well as in the series Falcon & Winter Soldier and the webseries WHiH Newsfront (which was made by Marvel Studios).

    • @madnessarcade7447
      @madnessarcade7447 9 місяців тому +1

      Not true
      The movies actually did make a few subtle references to the show

  • @pendaco
    @pendaco 9 місяців тому +42

    Looking at where we at now, and what we got now, I'm glad I watched all those seasons when they aired! It was always fun to see the little easter eggs and movie connections on top of the many great guest stars. Aside from that it was 10x funnier, wittier and more exciting than any of the Disney+ shows we got.. Just like the Netflix shows, Daredevil, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, I still highly regard Agents of Shield. Even though it might not be considered part of the "official" MCU, it is to me!

    • @ultrabrian8151
      @ultrabrian8151 9 місяців тому +9

      It’s officially part of the MCU

  • @TheFerg714
    @TheFerg714 9 місяців тому +17

    I don't think Nerdstalgic watched past the first episode.

  • @snoshio6043
    @snoshio6043 9 місяців тому +14

    Ngl I’m glad these comments are eating this video alive. Everything you said is something that 99.9% of fans say is a strength of the show. What about the characters? Why didn’t u go into them instead of talking about why Sam Jackson should have been in the show more for 5 minutes? Didn’t mention the actors?

  • @basickben
    @basickben 9 місяців тому +70

    One of the GREATEST SHOWS EVER, along with being one of the greatest shows to ever run parallel with their movie-verse brothers!

  • @lacrartezorok4975
    @lacrartezorok4975 9 місяців тому +22

    AoS was a good show by itself, and has even more merits if you take into account their hands where tied.
    They kept "rebooting" the show because it was never meant to be a spy thriller, it was a superhero show where most of the cast were ordinary humans, so inhumans, magic, space and time travel are common tropes of the genre.
    Also at least they were always trying new things instead of telling the protagonist he had to run faster every single season.

  • @jonathanmcintosh9258
    @jonathanmcintosh9258 9 місяців тому +25

    I think you’re missing a few things 1 joss Whedon didn’t create the show he only directed the pilot and his brother and sister-in-law took over 2. Shield isn’t just a ground level show it exits in a world full of superheroes and supernatural where anything can happen 3.after shield was destroyed the writers and show runners had to find a way to keep the show running and I think you’re misunderstanding what made the show good

  • @darkmyro
    @darkmyro 9 місяців тому +10

    I really disagree, the show was great and it did plot twists well, I really liked that it kinda semi-rebooted itself, cause I never knew what to expect, allies became enemies, enemies, became friends, and I think taking it on its own terms is great. I feel like maybe it was hindered by basically getting the scraps that the movies were either not gonna do, or gonna take forever to do, but I think they really did the best with what they could. its flawed, but its still good and maybe even great.

  • @ninjanibba4259
    @ninjanibba4259 9 місяців тому +19

    This show is so much more than any Disney plus show, itnhad lot of heart, stakes, charm, interesting characters and settings worth exploring
    So no, you're very wrong, Coulson is bettet than Fury of what he goes through during the show's run, the sacrifices he made especially for his team, they're family.....you don't get it

  • @janders79
    @janders79 9 місяців тому +4

    Coulson was never a stand-in for Fury. Him being the everyman is what made his whole thing work. He was just as impressed by the tech as we would be. Fury wasn't. When Ward was exposed, Coulson showed that he was as shocked and disappointed as we would be. Fury wouldn't've. In the Framework, Fury wouldn't have been able to make that public speech the way Coulson did, because Coulson collected Captain America trading cards the way we collect Captain America comic books. The closest Clark Gregg ever got to playing a Fury-type was the Sarge, and that was the neon gas bat party season, so... Anyway, the show was built on a half-season at a time arc, which actually made it feel pretty comic booky in its serialization. So, I don't know if you just didn't watch it, or you just didn't get get it, but you just didn't get it.

  • @grahamzediker4352
    @grahamzediker4352 9 місяців тому +8

    The best part was the LMD story arc with Aida and the framework. And also the Inhumans really worked. Overall a great addition to the MCU.

  • @sarahphillips9644
    @sarahphillips9644 9 місяців тому +6

    Did you watch the show or…..?

  • @rorylynch7775
    @rorylynch7775 9 місяців тому +5

    AOS was handled the table scraps of the MCU with a network tv budget and lots of restrictions, yet still managed to be a great show despite it

  • @oftheBlazingNinjas
    @oftheBlazingNinjas 9 місяців тому +18

    My favourite Marvel show of all time. It got better and better as it went on and people underrate it way too much.

  • @fatherofthenoo
    @fatherofthenoo 9 місяців тому +21

    Sorry guys but I totally disagree. AoS felt fresh and interesting with each season and it really grew with each one too. I came to really bond with the characters

  • @mydavegabicycle
    @mydavegabicycle 9 місяців тому +4

    As everyone else is saying, AoS is top-tier Marvel. Even the complaints a lot of fans have for the first half of season 1, on rewatch, show they were actually taking their time to build backstory. We learn that Coulson has changed. We see him build a new team from scratch. We learn all of the character's deep motivations and what they're good and not good at.
    Then the MCU kept throwing curveballs and they adapted and ran the hell with it. Fury never trusted people, and Coulson was the opposite, which is what made him stronger and more relatable. He was unflappable while also never trying to just be intimidating as seems to be Fury's big move.
    And by "reboots" every season, the MCU kept changing or they had to manage the stakes they kept putting up. With deep character arcs tying them together. When you try to sum up the entire series in a sentence, I agree it sounds ridiculous. But it was all connected. All of the characters maintained their growth throughout.
    And I think the "pod" format... having three major story arcs each season was brilliant. It kept the kinetic energy of the show going. I think people were fed up with being strung along for multiple seasons on one big mystery. Except, those still existed but it wasn't the crux of the show. The problems would be solved but new and bigger ones would show up and they'd deal with it. They were really big on ripping off band-aids and that was refreshing to me.
    The writing was fantastic and rewarded people who paid attention. Haven't watched it in awhile? Rewatch it. So many seeds dropped in earlier seasons that pay off, sometimes seasons later.
    And the acting talent they got... so much better than they should be. From Daisy's father, to Radcliffe, to Aida. And of course you can't forget Fitz and Simmons.
    If we just got Fury, it'd just be a goofball show with everyone acting like how Spider-man and Happy act around Fury in No Way Home. Intimidated by him and Fury just complaining about how incompetent everyone was. Or you get Secret Invasion. Blegh.

  • @kylemccormack1785
    @kylemccormack1785 9 місяців тому +6

    This is a weird video lol. Strongly disagree. I don't think they ever "pivoted" with his character at all, he was never trying to be the new Fury. I think that is just such a weird take.

  • @conradojavier7547
    @conradojavier7547 9 місяців тому +8

    Telos from MCU's Secret Invasion felt like a Bootleg Coulsen.

    • @YuzuMelodious
      @YuzuMelodious 9 місяців тому +1

      ....
      Shit, that sounds so accurate.

    • @vladthemad2
      @vladthemad2 9 місяців тому +4

      Whole secret invasion was a bootleg agents of shield

  • @dynaguy3
    @dynaguy3 9 місяців тому +5

    This show was actually fun unlike modern Marvel

  • @sgitancnsarenka3866
    @sgitancnsarenka3866 9 місяців тому +14

    Coulson always sees the good in people, that's why he's the heart and soul of SHIELD. Thank you to the best cast and crew. It’s been a phenomenal 7 seasons of tears and laughter and memories.

  • @n.s4122
    @n.s4122 9 місяців тому +16

    Agents of Shield does not need fixing. It does not need Nick Fury. It's fine with Coulson. It's a great show not a bland show. It's better than every MCU show.

  • @abasheddevil
    @abasheddevil 9 місяців тому +7

    I'm sure the reason that they didn't have Samuel L. Jackson as the lead of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is because Samuel L. Jackson is a lot more expensive than Clark Gregg. And that's why.

    • @jspettifer
      @jspettifer 9 місяців тому

      $20 mill for 6 episodes of Secret Invasion.
      $50-$75 mill for 22 episodes?
      That’s probably the whole budget of the show

  • @zangfang1
    @zangfang1 9 місяців тому +14

    Agent of SHIELD was friggin great and I have no idea what you're talking about. After a rough first half of a season it found it's footing and did great things. It's not perfect but it's easily my favourite MCU series by far

  • @Mercuie
    @Mercuie 9 місяців тому +5

    You can't call the show bland but then say if it was Nick Fury in there everything would have been fine. AoS was a good show that carved out it's own little space because the Marvel movies wouldn't let it go anywhere else. And it was hardly bland unless you only watched the first season where they had to twiddle their thumbs waiting for Winter Soldier to drop. This was a very weird take and it seems the comments agree!

  • @jorgegavino7458
    @jorgegavino7458 9 місяців тому +33

    Agents of Shield was GREAT! What ate you talking about? The fact that every season was basically it's own thing kept it fresh. It honestly didn't find it's stride untill they really started splitting off from the MCU events.

  • @NadeemShekh-uy9zn
    @NadeemShekh-uy9zn 9 місяців тому +5

    Agent carter and Agents of shield are great shows man

  • @darkorange835
    @darkorange835 9 місяців тому +8

    The show famously has the problem or luck that as the seasons progressed the crtic score reduced and the audienced score increased, i feel like the writers knew that they wre doing, they knew that the train which had nick fury and spy thriller weekly episode thing has left the station and they decided to just do everythin to tkeep the audience happy. And tbh it worked, in hindshight i dont need to thin khard about the show, in a way it has heart that it knows that its not deep, but it doesnt need to be deep to be good. Sometimes i just want couple of super heroes playing agents and kicking ass.

    • @alfonsohr02
      @alfonsohr02 9 місяців тому +2

      Critic score is rigged and skewed anyways, audience is what matters

    • @jspettifer
      @jspettifer 9 місяців тому

      @@alfonsohr02Audience score these days gets significantly influenced by people who haven’t watch the show

  • @Ep5ilion
    @Ep5ilion 9 місяців тому +5

    I dissagre - AOS was amazing,maybe not first half of first season but rest was amazing

  • @bakedmomo5693
    @bakedmomo5693 9 місяців тому +7

    i like how the majority of comments here knows that your video is a bad take. unanimously, we know S1 was bad, but they took that and turned it around for the next 6
    we also know that it successfully managed to carve its own niche, and thrived with it; the whole video read as someone who only saw the reviews, articles, etc. but never really saw the show, because the "reviews" told you it was 'bad' and you shouldn't even waste your time with it.
    hence i understand your bad take(s). decent talking points, but was wrapped with really bad takes. maybe next time; but not for this particular one, my boy.

  • @mareiramv
    @mareiramv 9 місяців тому +4

    I couldn't disagree more. The show didn't need Fury, because they had Coulson. You are treating him as Fury Minion or something, when, in fact, in universe, he was, like, Fury right hand man. He wasn't just a guy, he's a SHIELD agent devoted to the cause. Every storyline they used in the show was very well develop and made people that might never heard about Ghost Rider, for exemple, understand his character and what he was about. One of the things that makes SHIELD as good as it is is the amount of inovation that every season provided. You never know what to expect and that's very excting, especially because when it happened, it made sense. I can't say the same for Secret Invasion, who had a lot of Fury, but did things like stop him from calling super heroes because of a personal fight that he sends someone else to fight for him. He said that we can't be dependent of super powers and sends G'iah to go get some. If more Fury means lazy things like this, I much prefer see agent Coulson, or Daisy Johnson on my screen.

  • @ThatOneVoiceInMyHead
    @ThatOneVoiceInMyHead 9 місяців тому +17

    I'm glad the comments are tearing it up in here.
    Agents of Shield was an awesome show.
    Could the show have been better with Nick Fury more present? Maybe. Nick as the protagonist? Probably, but it would be a completely different show.
    The show we got was fantastic, and the slander of "the show was bland" or bad in any way, is something I think is a take I strongly disagree with.
    The first season I'd say started bland, but once it dropped it's "super threat of the week" mentality and grabbed some focus, it got really good, and stayed good pretty much the whole way through.
    The final 2 seasons only happened because of how much people liked the show. Season 5 was supposed to be the end, but people wanted more, so they made a new end. Then they wanted even more, so they made another ending. S6 & 7 had problems, but even those seasons were good. Every season before those were great.

    • @marcosfern777
      @marcosfern777 9 місяців тому +2

      Oh man it had depth it was fantastic

  • @edgarsargsyan2672
    @edgarsargsyan2672 9 місяців тому +19

    The show sure has lows and highs. But I think everyone agrees seasons 4 and 7 are really good. I personally didn't like the ghosts in season 4, but everything that follows is amazing.

  • @lutilda
    @lutilda 9 місяців тому +4

    While I think seeing Fury a bit more in AoS would have been interesting, Colson and the team were way more interesting as characters! I loved that it was about a team that wasn't the top of the top. I think the issue, as you said, is that the show tried to go too big with its plots.

  • @kevinwheesysouthward9295
    @kevinwheesysouthward9295 9 місяців тому +6

    Coulson was fantastic. Agents of Shield was excellent. Whoever made this video obviously has no friends and bad breath.

  • @Timmyartificio
    @Timmyartificio 9 місяців тому +4

    AoS had a rough start but just like Buffy it found it's way and audience after a while. It's one of the very few Marvel shows I stuck with. I don't really care much for Nick Fury, but that show had me for the time it was on.

  • @supermedafighter
    @supermedafighter 9 місяців тому +3

    Honestly, agents of SHIELD was hampered by being to the rest of the MCU as season was kind of meh until the captain america sequel revealed that HYDRA had been inside of S.H.I.E.L.D. for years. Once they went on to do their own thing the show was great with amazing characters and chemistry. Sure there were a few issues I had with the show here and there but I still loved the show more towards the end of season 1 till the finale of season 7.

  • @zsoltbartus169
    @zsoltbartus169 9 місяців тому +5

    There is no problem with agents of shield. Its a nearly perfect show, and literally every single complainment that might be reasonable are directly grew from the ignorancy of nothing but marvel studios and feige who did not give a fking shit about this show.

  • @fudgemonkeyz69
    @fudgemonkeyz69 9 місяців тому +6

    What is this video?
    Seriously. If you’re watching this, go start this series. The fourth season is some of the best network television I’ve ever seen. Genuinely stunning stuff.

  • @pokalen4963
    @pokalen4963 9 місяців тому +18

    Im sorry but this is the worst take Ive heard of this brilliant show. It is a masterpiece with cleaver writing, great character-based storytelling and enough twist and turns to keep you engaged for 7 long seasons. Todays marvel tv doesnt come close to what this show accomplished. And of course it should not have been a story of the week-show that is suggested. To watch this series all the way and to not get it.... Wow!

  • @ReapTheWhirlwind
    @ReapTheWhirlwind 9 місяців тому +15

    Agents of Shield was great if you respected it for what it was. During it's run it was scorned by people and called non-canon and then those same people also hated the canon shows. 🤷🏾‍♀️ The biggest flaw was not picking the strongest storylines and expanding on them. Global terragenesis should have had more time to do something because there were multiple groups of Inhumans and we only met two of them. We have several minor Inhuman characters that were created as just in case placeholders and never used again after a few episodes. Hell, they created Mike Peterson/Dethlok and then he just faded into obscurity.

    • @kennethsmith6367
      @kennethsmith6367 9 місяців тому +2

      The everything sucks narrative started with the marvel movies. Then it got pushed harder on AoS. Now it’s expanded to everything. I have gotten to the point I ignore reviews again because of the trend.

  • @kevinwheesysouthward9295
    @kevinwheesysouthward9295 9 місяців тому +4

    AOS was awesome. Coulson was awesome. If you made a video about how Lincoln and Mack were insufferable, I’d be on board but I couldn’t disagree more with this video

  • @masterswordwielder
    @masterswordwielder 9 місяців тому +6

    Agents of Shield fans are praising the show for years and are trying to convince people to watch it, and then comes your video with such a negative conclusion.
    The writer of this video seems like they've seen the whole show, but why would they keep watching for so long. Mmm... 🤔

  • @user-hn1js5gf6c
    @user-hn1js5gf6c 9 місяців тому +2

    Coulson being an absolute gem the whole time.
    Feel what you feel, think what you want. Just don't be surprised if you are completely wrong. Always keep an open mind even when you "think" you know what is happening or might happen...
    That's what makes AOS so good. It gets us all with it's twists and turns.

  • @vyperii
    @vyperii 9 місяців тому +5

    I love Agents of Shiled. I'd at least like the cast reused-especaily Chloe Bennet as Quake. She was the real star!

  • @callumdrage5889
    @callumdrage5889 9 місяців тому +12

    Agents of SHIELD was actually awesome! Season 1 was rocky, but seasons 2-4 were honestly some of the best MCU content we ever got!
    Admittedly season 5 was a little lagging, and it did mean I didn’t end up watching seasons 6-7, but that is something I’d like to fix. I just find season 6 a slog. But that doesn’t take away from how great the show was in its peak! Definitely deserves to be watched.

  • @madnessarcade7447
    @madnessarcade7447 9 місяців тому +4

    The show didn’t reboot itself it’s called story arcs

  • @JoeNayDoh
    @JoeNayDoh 9 місяців тому +26

    I think you're gonna get a lot of push back on this video. Firstly we just saw what happened when Nick Fury got his own series, it didn't turn out so well. Secondly AOS started out extremely bland in the first season and was only after Captain America: Winter Solider that they were forced to pivot the show and became all the better for it. Lastly I would probably take the majority of the offerings from Marvel Television (with the exception of Inhumans) to what we are currently getting from the MCU Disney+ Shows. Which end up being a lot of shows that range from "fine" to just straight up bad.

    • @derekbarcelo5479
      @derekbarcelo5479 9 місяців тому +4

      Right, I’ve never disagreed with Nerdstalgic more. SI has been one of the most disappointing Marvel shows and imo SLJ’s acting didn’t do much for me at all (I find Gregg more compelling). I thought it was weird too how at ~6:00 it was mentioned that the show should have been an adventure-of-the-week with an overarching hydra plot when that’s exactly what the first season was - and like you said it was the pívot away from that formula that made the show more widely loved. I’ve got loves of love for this channel but I think I it’s such a strange take and feels like they either didn’t watch the whole series or got a wildly different experience than other fans.

    • @kennethsmith6367
      @kennethsmith6367 9 місяців тому +7

      @@derekbarcelo5479This nerdstratic take feels like the real life personification of “Tell me you didn’t actually watch the show, without telling me you didn’t watch the show.”!🧐

  • @tsutsuji1
    @tsutsuji1 9 місяців тому +13

    Despite it all AOS is infinitely better and much, much more interesting than the Disney Plus MCU shows, which IIH have done so much more damage to the Marvel brand.

  • @SkarrGaming
    @SkarrGaming 9 місяців тому +16

    Usually agree but in this case I think you've got it wrong. Yeah it had some low points and got off to a slow start but for the most part it was actually a really good show. Much better than the Disney+ shows of late. I watch this over She-Hulk any day!

    • @kennethsmith6367
      @kennethsmith6367 9 місяців тому +1

      I’m a huge AoS fan and think it’s better than every other Marvel TV show(Yes that includes Daredevil), but back off She-Hulk. That show was unfortunately among the best and most rewatchable that Disney+ has made. I say that with a heavy heart and regret.😢

  • @itsbehindyou9820
    @itsbehindyou9820 9 місяців тому +9

    This is probably one of the most underrated shows of that era. There were issues in some of the middle seasons but it had some of the coolest storylines ever towards the end. My only issue with this video is that I never thought Fury should have been the main character. Half of the conflicts would be nullified if he was at the front of this show.

  • @BevYMoSS
    @BevYMoSS 5 місяців тому +2

    I was watching this thinking “Am I the only one that disagrees with this?!” Then I read the comments and see I’m not by myself. lol

  • @_birdie
    @_birdie 6 місяців тому +2

    for me, agents of shield joins daredevil and jessica jones as the best TV shows marvel has ever made. both are light years better than anything they've put out on Disney+.

  • @yaxontkutic9953
    @yaxontkutic9953 9 місяців тому +9

    if an actor is famous it does not mean that he is better and only he should have acted. Coulson was great as a leader! Clark Gregg did an excellent job in his role. The whole cast was great.
    Impermanence in the story and characters is what drives our love and attachment to the show.We probably won't ever see anything like it again.

  • @JerkWarlord
    @JerkWarlord 9 місяців тому +15

    Like others have said. I have never disagreed more with Nerdstalgic. Production wise it's as good a video as any of your others but I have to dislike. AoS is brilliant. It never gets stale or boring or tired or any of the things you said because it reinvented itself. That's its strength, not a weakness.

  • @saranshgautam6551
    @saranshgautam6551 9 місяців тому +3

    Never disagreed more with Nerdstalgic. I was disheartened after watching the video but it's good to see most of the comments agreeing with my view :D
    This was by no means a bad show; which the video seems to imply

  • @ultrozz222
    @ultrozz222 9 місяців тому +3

    I get the show could have been better in some ways, but I personally really enjoyed it and would watch it again without hesitation.

  • @xenon8117
    @xenon8117 9 місяців тому +8

    The show kept doing new things, the characters grew, relationships evolved and everyone was amazing in their parts. To say the show didn’t work is to be woefully ignorant of the stories it told as the most certainly did work well. I wish Fury had shown up a few more times but aside from that I don’t think having him head it up would have made it better. Usually I hate that US tv has so many episodes in a series but AoS used that time to build our hatred of Ward, to flesh out a story so it didn’t feel rushed, to explore more than one idea in a single series and to have the relationships and characters grow naturally as time passes. Series 4 is a great showcase of doing more than one plot as an arc with Ghostrider, the LMDs and the Framework all coming together in the best series AoS had. All the disney+ shows have had fatal flaws and I don’t really care to revisit any of them but AoS I have seen multiple times.

  • @chrishansell3427
    @chrishansell3427 9 місяців тому +5

    I dunno, a lot of the stuff you pointed to as weaknesses of AOS are things that IMO make it great. The season to season pivots always kept things fresh, and once you're invested in the characters seeing them grow through all these weird journeys becomes super rewarding.
    I think it was probably oversold at the beginning. We were never going to see Sam Jackson or RDJ show up as recurring characters, and once AOS figured out it was better off being its own thing then it actually got really good. Given the way a lot of the Disney+ shows have felt short and underdeveloped, I think we're due a reappraisal of AOS and the Netflix shows in the popular consciousness as a benchmark of what Marvel television can look like.

  • @paularized1
    @paularized1 9 місяців тому +7

    I always hated how Fury did Coulsen so dirty after his death. Not by bringing him back but by taking his prized possession, his Avenger cards, smearing blood all over them so they’re ruined just to add a little extra effect. I wonder what Coulsen’s reaction was when he got back to his locker and thought “where the f*ck are my cards?!”

  • @ArchOfWinter
    @ArchOfWinter 9 місяців тому +2

    Fury doesn't needs to be a lead, but having him at least twice per season would be good. He doesn't even need to share the same space as the main cast, he can appear on a screen or as a hologram.
    The most disappointing thing about AoS is the last season. While every season before hand can believably happen in the background of the film, the last season doesn't fit into the Infinity War and End game timeline. I really like a lot of the concepts and characters and I do hope they'll show back up in the main MCU proper, even if they need to do a bit of reconning.

  • @SchmergDergen
    @SchmergDergen 9 місяців тому +2

    Looking forward to the superhero-less problem with Secret Invasion video.

  • @saviordream
    @saviordream 9 місяців тому +2

    While the first couple of Agents of Shield seasons were pretty bland, I stuck with it and found that about the mid-point of the run it started getting enjoyable to watch, and then I seemed to like each subsequent season more and more. It still wasn't great, but I found myself looking forward to each new season and was genuinely sad when it finally wrapped up.

  • @sgitancnsarenka3866
    @sgitancnsarenka3866 9 місяців тому +1

    It’s very good that they didn't choose Fury. Coulson was amazing! Thanks to him, the show turned out to be so soulful.

  • @kyndrawalker2592
    @kyndrawalker2592 8 місяців тому +1

    "Baby Fury"? "New Fury"?Colson is his OWN character, Fury could NEVER have the depth and charisma that Colson had.

  • @firerun777
    @firerun777 9 місяців тому +4

    First: Do your Marvel comics research. The white Nick Fury is Nick Fury Sr. The Samuel L Jackson Fury is Nick Fury Jr. Also Nick Fury Jr. Is based from The Ultimates comics, just like the MCU.
    Secoundly: there wasn't a problem with the show, there is a problem with the viewer

  • @Demonsquirrel420
    @Demonsquirrel420 8 місяців тому +1

    Fury literally ranked up because of Skrulls all of his career, gets to the top because of them, messes with a powerful alien relic which caused the battle of NYC and allowed Coulson to die during the battle, he let S.H.I.E.L.D fall, let Talos die and almost allowed an alien invasion to happen. Coulson slowly rose the ranks “in the dark”, wasn’t even given details of his own death by Fury and saved the world 4 different times after Fury just kinda bailed when the agency collapsed. Coulson is the man who oversaw the construction of the helicarrier which Fury took and was the star at the end of ‘Age of Ultron’ and gave Coulson zero credit for it and the Avengers still think he’s dead, then Coulson legit became Ghost Rider to take out a man that can create matter which basically killed him at the end of season 5. Kinda resurrects in season 6 but not really. Then he became an android and saved the world again from a different alien race far superior than the skrulls and created one of marvels best strongest female characters of all time besides maybe Captain Marvel. Coulson deserves to be more on the big screen than Fury does. Coulson is the legitimate definition of a ride or die.

  • @Schneiderrrrrrrr
    @Schneiderrrrrrrr 9 місяців тому +6

    Best marvel show ever. Overhated in my opinion

  • @danggood
    @danggood 9 місяців тому +6

    this video was built on the premise that AOS wasn't good. but it was good. so..... no need to make this particular video.
    but it's fine. could have been an AI generated script for all I know.

  • @mmgen1711
    @mmgen1711 9 місяців тому +16

    I love that show as it is

  • @loganbigmo
    @loganbigmo 9 місяців тому +2

    Man, this is such a Nerdstalgic L. Agents of SHIELD was a better Marvel "MCU" show than anything Disney+ produced, with a possible exception made by fans for the creativity of _WandaVision_ and/or _Loki_ aside. Sam Jackson doesn't automatically make a show great; _Secret Invasion_ proved that.

  • @LN031
    @LN031 9 місяців тому +1

    Tony thought he invented time travel but Phil has been doing it 😂

  • @cungten
    @cungten 9 місяців тому +4

    Love your vids but gotta disagree with this one chief. AoS has cemented itself as not only a great superhero show but a great show in general. Season 4 is one of the best season in all of television imo and this video does not do it justice whatsoever.

  • @georgefotisdramesiotis9061
    @georgefotisdramesiotis9061 9 місяців тому +2

    The best part is when they went vacation to tahiti, I literally cried

  • @gardenerofthegalaxy
    @gardenerofthegalaxy 9 місяців тому +2

    Strongly disagree, couldnt disagree more really. The show started out pretty meh, but with potential. When the hydra reveal came it got good, and by season 2 very good. Season 3 was even better and the forth season was incredible. The show had a lot of heart, and with lovable, smart characters and some really great dialogue. It was capable of ripping your heart out at times. No Disney+ show has even come close to its worst seasons, let alone its best. Agents of Shield was and is an underrated gem of a show that I'd highly recommend to anyone.

  • @ctcentralinfo
    @ctcentralinfo 7 місяців тому +1

    It was on for 7 years. How exactly was it a flash in the pan?

  • @acmiguens
    @acmiguens 9 місяців тому +2

    I'd recommend watching the One Shot movie that predates Coulson's arrival in Thor's movie. That's the "transition". Because then you see he's mild mannered, but he can get things done when needed.

  • @ak-ub1ym
    @ak-ub1ym 9 місяців тому +1

    Coulson is basically Us as the audience as if we were in his spot leading a secret organization or team.

  • @cosmicjaybird
    @cosmicjaybird 8 місяців тому +2

    Fury is an ass and tbh after watching Secret Invasion im kinda glad that Agents Of Shield didnt make him the more of a central figure. If he popped up a bit more now and again across the seasons then maybe (i thought they might have brought it back round to the SWORD stuff at the end) but i dont think it should have been a super important thing.
    Agents of Shield though doesnt really need fixing, Coulson is great and still very much embodies the everyman as the series continues and shows he has way more heart and likeability than Nick Fury ever had. Shield was actually fun and inventive despite the restrictions placed on what they could do amd had some of the best character development in Marvel across the seven seasons.
    I would rather have another 5 seasons of Shield than something like Secret Invasion anyday. And it seems like Marvel are learning their lesson now as they turn back to more traditional TV models.
    Imagine what they could do with a show like Shield now? A multiseason show, where reinvention is part of the DNA and they are ACTUALLY ALLOWED to touch all these different corners of the marvel universe and see it from a different perspective. And give it the disney+ budget. I want more of that please... Not half baked superhero spy shows that doesnt want to invest time into its characters (secret invasion)

  • @JOVONO
    @JOVONO 9 місяців тому +3

    I absolutely loved the first two seasons of the show
    They had cool mysteries and could get quite creepy at times
    Season 3 wasn’t as grounded and but it did move to the next step of have Inhumans as a bigger focus and then season 4 didn’t really feel too connected but it was cool to see Ghost Rider but then the seasons after that went to over them top

  • @madnessarcade7447
    @madnessarcade7447 9 місяців тому +2

    Tell me u didn’t understand the assignment without telling me u didn’t understand the assignment
    U clearly watched like one episode and then googled the rest and it shows