I'll try to keep this as neutral as possible, mostly because I both enjoyed and didn't enjoy this first episode of AoS. The kid in me loved it, but that was purely from the fact that it was about superheroes, or at least about heroes in general. The rest of me thought it was poorly written and the acting was not as good as I would have expected from a blockbuster TV series.

Throughout most of the episode it seemed as if different people had different ideas of what should happen or how. This caused it to play out like badly written skits thrown together. There were more than a few instances of really cheesy one-liners (some funny, some not). Yet the parts that were supposed to be funny seemed to lack something in the delivery. Whether that was due to the actors, directors or writers I'm not sure. There were also a few instances of horribly obvious sexual innuendos, which felt really out of place.

When it comes down to it, it seems as though even the show doesn't know what it should be. Comedy, action or drama... It tries to do them all yet fails on all accounts. Yes it made me laugh a few times, but it was like laughing at a bad joke. The action was short and looked as though they spent very little time with a choreographer. And the drama just felt flat, mostly because they broke it up with the attempts at trying to be funny.

I'll continue to watch it; I suspect it will get better. But I'm not going to hold my breath. For right now, this show will pale in comparison to The Blacklist.