Which is funny, because when they started that cop drama I had a brief flicker of hope it'd be Fury and his Howling Spy Unit...

So bring him in as Thing

eddievercetti: Hey Dean, did you take the name from the SHIELD show?

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*shakes tiny fist*

"Hey, let's ignore all of that Mars stuff and just call the film John Carter!"

Oh I see how it is... They let this piece of crap on TV, but they cancel Firefly????????????

*grumbles*  Assmonkey, jerk off, farking bastards from HELL!!!!

I'M FINE!
Why? Why? did they have to kill Wash off??? They could have come back.  Now, Mal took a job as some kind of writer. Zoe is trying to hide from the Alliance as someone called Jessica Pearson. Inara turned into an alien.  Jayne, is pretty much still Jayne but his name was changed to protect his true identity. Kaylee got married and barely writes home anymore.  River totally freaked out and became some kind of cyborg and her brother quit being a doctor so he could have kids with his wife, Paul. I'll be over in the corner weeping.

On the far cooler note: GUNN is coming back to TV.

/bring back Amy Acker

Groan.

The synopsis makes this sound like it's going to be Buffy/Firefly on Marvel Cinematic Earth. It has all Whedon's usual archetypes. I bet they'll all talk like him, too. They will hang around and banter half the time, throwing in pop culture references and practically winking at the camera every time they tell an in-joke.

I REALLY hope there are some smart people at Marvel Studios who realize that it's okay to say "no" to Joss Whedon every once in a while. He's great, but like George Lucas, he's only great when he has people around him who are capable of saying, "Uhh... That's not such a great idea."

I loved The Avengers. That's the kind of Whedon we need. We do not need him to rehash the same shows again. It seems like so many of his projects have the same vibe-- the same group, the same conversations, the same circumstances but in a different setting-- and I really want to see S.H.I.E.L.D. succeed, unlike Firefly. I really don't want the S.H.I.E.L.D. gang to go all adolescent on me, and start calling villains "the big bad".

This is why I think Whedon should have been given a RUNAWAYS show, instead of a S.H.I.E.L.D. -- With the Runaways, his TV style is PERFECT. With S.H.I.E.L.D. it's going to be the wrong feeling if he sticks with his usual bag of tricks.

I'd watch the hell out of a Whedon Runaways show. I'm wary about a Whedon S.H.I.E.L.D. show.

GGracie: Why? did they have to kill Wash off???

Because Alan Tudyk wouldn't sign a contract committing him to a second movie.

OniExpress: NeoCortex42: Ringshadow: I have an Agent Coulson tumblr RP account so I'm waiting on this with somewhat bated breath.

But seriously guys. Can we let it have a chance? It's Clark Gregg, there are reasonable odds of it being awesome.

/also setting up a crossplay
//I have four suits now

Have there been any spoilers yet about how Agent Coulson is leading this team?  Life Model Decoy?  I know there's probably plenty of other possible excuses available.

And am I right in thinking that due to the film rights of X-Men, mutant powers are off the table?

Yup, anything mutant-related, spiderman-related, fantastic four-related, (probably) ghost rider-related, and a few other ones are off the table.  Hmm... I guess that probably also includes Blade, Punisher... I'm sure there are more that have the rights sold off on lease but haven't actually had anything made yet.  Personally, I think the X-Men license is too broad with including any x-factor/mutant gene content, but them's the breaks.

Personally, I think that they're either going to go LMD or just plain "Nick Fury Lies".

I do hope that they use the show to work in a few "fringe" characters that could fit into the power-level they're going for.

I'm 100 percent behind them in the opening scene just having him on the bridge with:
"I thought you were dead"
"Ah, you know Fury is an asshole with those fake death lies right."

That's all I need to hear.

Iron Nacho Melt: The cringe moment for me was in seeing that Jeph Loeb has a credit attached.

The dude wrote "The Long Halloween" and "Commando."

What's your beef with him?

Iron Nacho Melt: My immediate thought was that he turned out to be a toxic element in both Heroes and Smallville, doing damage that others had to try to overcome. The former show never recovered from it.

The WGA strike killed "Heroes." Executive meddling killed "Heroes." By the end of the third season, none of the writers knew which plot points were still valid and which ones had been nixed. It was like the goddamn "Clone Saga" all over again.

Summer Glau's Love Slave: NeoCortex42:

At least the computer hacker isn't played by Summer Glau. The show might have a chance.

Because no show in television history had ever been canceled until Summer Glau came along.

Summer Glau doesn't cause shows to get canceled, she just gets casted in sci-fi shows and sci-fi shows are notoriously bad at staying on TV.

OniExpress: Yup, anything mutant-related, spiderman-related, fantastic four-related, (probably) ghost rider-related, and a few other ones are off the table.  Hmm... I guess that probably also includes Blade, Punisher... I'm sure there are more that have the rights sold off on lease but haven't actually had anything made yet.  Personally, I think the X-Men license is too broad with including any x-factor/mutant gene content, but them's the breaks.

Personally, I think that they're either going to go LMD or just plain "Nick Fury Lies".

I do hope that they use the show to work in a few "fringe" characters that could fit into the power-level they're going for.

If I'm not mistaken, Marvel Studios got Blade and The Punisher back recently. I'm not 100% certain about which of the two they have, or if it's both, but they've been trying to snap up their film rights for Marvel characters where they can, and since there hasn't been a Blade movie in many years, and the last Punisher flick bombed, I believe they were both back on the table for Marvel to take.

Unfortunately, the shiatty contract for Spider-Man that they pounded out while going bankrupt gave Sony the film rights to Spidey  in perpetuity  as long as they make a Spider-Man movie ever so-many years (seven, I think). They're never getting Spider-Man back.

The X-Men have been so mangled that I think it's a good thing they're not part of Marvel Cinematic Universe continuity. It's nice to have a Marvel universe  without  fricking mutants.

The MAJOR loss, aside from Spidey, is the Fantastic Four. They're very important to Marvel mythos, as are many of the characters that go with their package, such as Doctor Doom and Galactus. Losing these characters simply sucks, and the contract is similar to the Spider-Man one. They're not getting the FF back unless Fox wants to let them go--- And Fox doesn't want to let them go.

So what did they do at Marvel? They made Tony Stark the biggest brain in that world, since they didn't have Reed Richards or Hank McCoy. They do have Hank Pym, but it remains to be seen how smart his Marvel Cinematic Universe counterpart is (I hope smart enough to create Ultron).

I think that world still needs a "first family" of superheroes. If they can't have the Fantastic Four, then why not take advantage of the fact that Hank and Janet aren't Avengers by making them the Reed and Sue of the Cinematic Universe? Add in an elemental hero (Firestar? Toro? Crystal?) and a strong hero (Mettle? She-Hulk? Red Hulk? Skaar? Hercules? Namor?), and you've got a great replacement team. You can't call them the Fantastic Four, but you could probably get away with calling them the Future Foundation.

Or maybe just make a grown-up version of Power Pack, but make Alex a genius.

Either way, there's a lot of room to move. I'd love to see them do something here.