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" The first time I saw the pilot episode for Marvel&amp;#039;s Agents of SHIELD was in a screening room packed with excited press. Granted, the added buzz of watching Channel 4&amp;#039;s hot US import on the big-screen may have given us all a little boost, but the fact remains that as the series premiere unfolded, even us cynical journos cheered, laughed and - at episode&amp;#039;s end - heartily applauded. I was convinced that Joss Whedon&amp;#039;s Avengers TV spinoff was going to go down a storm. To me, the pilot felt like a near-perfect blend of Marvel&amp;#039;s merits - epic action, a rich fictional universe - and Whedon&amp;#039;s own strengths - endearing characters, snappy dialogue...  So I was a little surprised to see that the reaction to SHIELD&amp;#039;s debut from the online populace was in fact rather mixed. Everyone is absolutely entitled to their own opinion, of course, and I would never suggest that just because I enjoy watching Marvel&amp;#039;s Agents of SHIELD, everyone else with a TV set should. But what did bother me was people attacking the show for failing to be something that it was never trying to be. One DS user even admitted to being worried that SHIELD would be &amp;quot;light and frothy&amp;quot; - since when was that a bad thing?  Marvel&amp;#039;s Agents of SHIELD is, in inspiration and in spirit, comic book - and we&amp;#039;re not even talking the comic book of Christopher Nolan&amp;#039;s gloomy Dark Knight movie trilogy. This is the comic book world of The Avengers - a fun, frothy package. It&amp;#039;s popcorn entertainment, and like popcorn, it&amp;#039;s not intended to be particularly nourishing. It&amp;#039;s supposed to be a fun treat - something you enjoy at the time and then move on. It&amp;#039;s fast food television.  Some TV shows - take, as a current example, Breaking Bad - are supposed to be intense, nerve-shredding, ground-breaking character drama. But, as fantastic as it is, if all television programming was as relentlessly grim as Breaking Bad, we&amp;#039;d go mad. Some TV shows are just supposed to be big, broad fun - and, on that front, Marvel&amp;#039;s Agents of SHIELD absolutely delivers. Is Marvel&amp;#039;s Agents of SHIELD an enjoyable comic-book romp? Or simply childish trash? Share your thoughts below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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