CHAPTER 9:
THE ABCS OF MARVEL
Before I begin, I guess I have to confess something. I have not watched these shows. I haven'thad the time. So If anything big happened on the shows and there are some facts or if there was a controversy about said shows, they probably won't be mentioned here (except the Inhuman thing).
Anyway, television was nothing new for superheroes. Smallville. Arrow. Hell, the only solo Hulk film in the MCU took a lot of inspiration from the '70s tv show. So why not make tv shows that can connect to your movies?
When Disney bought Marvel in 2009, they announced that they would create a television division of Marvel. Over the next few months, they announced potential shows. These shows included; A Guillero Del Toro-produced Hulk show, a Cloak & Dagger show on ABC Family, and A.K.A. Jessica Jones by Melissa Rosenberg (more on that later).
Cut two a few years later, it had been two months since the release of Avengers. Marvel Television began talking with ABC about Marvel shows. It would be set in the MCU,but manypeople didn't know what it wouldbe.
A month later, ABC ordered a piloit for SHIELD. Joss Whedon would direct and write along with his brother, Jed Whedon, and Jed's wife, Meauriss Tancharoen. Bob Iger, the Disney CEO, would go on to greenlight the show after he saw the Marvel One-Shot, Item 47. On April 2013, the show was announced as Agents of SHIELD and was picked up for a full season a month later. Because Joss Whedon was busy, he could not be a showrunner. Instead, the showrunners were Jed, Meauriss, and Jeffery Bell, who wroter and directed episodes of Angel, another Joss Whedon show.
When the show premired it started to recieve some mixed reviews. Some people say that this was because of how hyped up the show was. As the series went on, however, the show's reviews would start to pick up, espicially around the thrid season. When it comes to ratings, the show had the biggest debeut for a drama show in four years.
While the show was deemed as "okay" when it just started, that all changed when The Winter Soldier was released and revealed that Hydra was secretly a part of SHIELD the whole time. So from what I heard, the effect this had on the show was HUGE, and thus the show started gaining a lot more attention and praise (I also heard the episode with Sif was cool, but that's not important). The show could not get anymore popular, and then this happened...
The show gained even more attention when (Spoilers) when it was revealed in the second season that the character of Skye was an Inhuman. This idea was welcomed by many fans and some said the show was now finally an important part of the MCU. Which is good, because we had to get casual fans to care about the Inhumans somehow!
Since the first CA film took place in the 1940s, very few characters would reappear in MCU films. One of these characters was Peggy Carter.
At the SDCC Comic Con 2013, Marvel screened the one-shot, Agent Carter, andit was said that a tv series was a possibility.
On January 2014, ABC announced that the show was in development, and a few months later, eight episodes were ordered. Hayely Atwell was signed on to portray the character yet again.
Apperntly, there are alot of ties into the MCU. As the show introduced Edwin Jarvis, who was Tony's butler in the comics. He was changed to an AI in the films, but the show revealed that Edwin was an inspiration. Another tie was that, from what I heard, the first season revealed... the origins of the Winter Soldier and Black Widow Programs?
I don't think this gif gets my reaction across.
I believe this is more my reaction...
THIS SHOW HAS THE ORIGINS OF THE BLACK WIDOW AND WINTER SOLDIER PROGRAMS?!?!?
AND AGENTS OF SHIELD HAS INHUMANAS!!!!
WHY AM I NOT WATCHING THESE SHOWS?!?!?
But I digress. When the show was broadcast, it got great reviews. It also got good enough reasons for a second season to be odered.
So, this was not the best chapter of The History Of The MCU. I'm sorry. Hopefully, I'll better luck in the next chapter, where I talk about a show I actually watched and one I didn't watch because (as I'm writing this) it premired today.
TO BE CONTINUED...