I think this is just marketing. Keep people close to the Marvel universe to increase sales when movies come out.

As a series, it's comparable to Avengers Assemble or Ultimate Spiderman (yes, I'm comparing it to cartoons), except it's 40min long and is not a cartoon. When it comes to comedy, plot and overall quality, that's where it stands: a show for kids.

Why do I say that? It sounds kinda mean. Well, I don't mean to be mean. It's fine if people like that. And the only way I can compare it to cartoons is if I watch them, right? When it comes to tastes there's no discussion, but here's why I'm giving a 5/10: When I watch cartoons, I expect cartoons and when I watch live-action shows, I expect interesting well-thought plots with good acting.

Let's start with the plot: - It starts OK, but parallel stories and the need to stay on par with the movies quickly introduces problems on the plot that question it's capacity to be believable. And here's why it's comparable to cartoons. - A movie comes out and the characters quickly change focus and forget what happened in the previous episode. - Some secondary actor from the movies finally agrees to make a cameo and everybody drops their pants to welcome him/her. Once again, lost focus and memory from previous episodes.

Let's move on to acting and focus a bit more on characters: - Fitz and the girl are a good pair. Much like those rapper style buddy autobots on the second Transformers movie. They're kinda funny, kinda emotional. They're OK. Not "real" agents as they're practically defenseless, but it's more interesting that way. They're the lab guys, like in CSI. Except CSI guys probably have more training and aren't just fresh out of high-school. Room to grow, I guess. Still, OK. - Ward and Skye... Jesus Christ, put some salt one those guys. They're tasteless. I mean, the Asian-American woman has that Romanoff (Black Widow) thing going on, but these guys make me yawn. They seem like nice people, I'm not saying it's the actor's fault. Maybe they need an interesting story and, just in case a writer for the show is reading this, making characters sleep together is NOT original and is NOT surprising. Unless you kinda build the tension or make it a weird situation. But there are none of those in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., so don't even think about it. - Let's just finish character analysis with Coulson. We all love this guy, but given the rest of the show, I kinda have the feeling this was all just to keep him alive. Just look at Loki and how much face time he got in The Dark World, just because he had lots of fans. After his first appearance in the Iron Man movies, Coulson was included in cartoons, games, the Avengers movie (has an important agent) and now this show.

Finally, and this is not necessarily a problem, but definitely a minus for me: the teasing. They tease so much about the core Avengers (Thor, Hulk, , Cap and even Nick Fury), but they're never delivered. "Look, Thor touched this, let's rub our faces in it and try to absorb some of his success". "Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! I can smell Hulk!". It's not like we can expect to see these characters or any major fighting sequences with them, but argh... I guess it works as a marketing campaign...