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Same here.

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He's not going to be in more episodes. Definitely just a guest star of the week.

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What?

But..but that's crazy! Where did you read that, if you don't mind my asking?

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Didn't need to read it anywhere - it's pretty obvious from the episode that I watched.

J August plays a laid-off factory worker who does a experiment for money, the experiment gives him super-powers but also turns him into human time-bomb and makes him crazy. Skye locates him first. SHIELD finds him through her. The way SHIELD helps J August's character, who by the way doesn't even have a name. Skye is impressed and joins up.

In short, he's just there to introduce us to Skye (the rebellious Faith/Echo character) and the Agent team. ie. He is the "monster" of the week.

But if you want a link ...go here:http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0724124/

I don't know why people think he's a series regular or even recurring, it's fairly clear from the episode and credits and the reviews that he's not.

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Hi. I couldn't read or answer your comment before because it was very spoilery and I hadn't seen the show.

Watched it now, and I see what you mean. I think they have left it open, so to speak. They can bring him back if they want. Why he's not a regular, though, is a complete mystery to me (not the character, I can see why he's not, but the actor).

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Eh, I don't really see how they can bring him back. (His powers were permanently removed in the pilot. What could he bring to the story or team?)

I agree, he should have been playing a bigger role. They should have cast against type and a wee bit more colorblind, like Sleepy Hollow did. I would have cast him as Agent Ward, and made Brett Dalton the monster of the week. Or made Skye the monster of the week.

Although, to be fair...we don't know why he wasn't cast for a regular or recurring role - they may have wanted to and he just wasn't available for more than that one role in the pilot.

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Eh, I don't really see how they can bring him back. (His powers were permanently removed in the pilot. What could he bring to the story or team?)

Were his powers permanently removed? I don't remember anyone saying so.

But I did say in my comment above that if that was the case, I didn't see the character having any longevity. Maybe you didn't see that.

ETA: Apologies for that, you wouldn't have seen it, of course, as it's in another post. I thought I'd said it in my comment.

I agree that the Agent Ward actor is awful. If Joss wants to do the usual and kill someone off, I elect him.

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Yeah - the Fitz portion of the Fitz-Simmons science team stated that they had to remove all his powers in order to save him, it was the only way. It's an easy bit to miss, unless you have a DVR and can rewind, which I do. She says it when she checks to see if he's alive and if it worked. The comment is repeated as a throw-away line in the discussion between Skye and Coulson at the end - also very easy to miss.

I was paying close attention because, alas, J August was the best thing in the episode and I wanted to know if he'd continue. (He's not. My last hope for his joining the team was the super-powers. But no. He's been completely disarmed.)

I really wish Brett Dalton had played the August Richards character and August Richards had played the Agent Ward Character.

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I really wish Brett Dalton had played the August Richards character and August Richards had played the Agent Ward Character.

Agreed. J August would have made a far better hunky leading man.

On the other hand, the block of plastic would never have convinced as a desperate jobless father down on his luck.

I'm grumpy now that they gave J August a guest slot and that's the best they could do with him.

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The casting choices in this series make me wonder who is behind the wheel.

I'll be surprised if the series does well. It's cast is not compelling. Once the curiousity factor drops off, the ratings may slide.

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It's the only reason I'm watching it to. It's one interesting face in a sea of fucking mannequins.

Yeah I saw about the Hour. The BBC are such arseholes when it comes to spotting talent these days.

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It's one interesting face in a sea of fucking mannequins.

God, yes. They look so boring! Especially the one who's supposed to be the good looking one. He looks like he's made of plastic.

Yeah I saw about the Hour. The BBC are such arseholes when it comes to spotting talent these days.

They should at least do a TV movie to finish the story off, like Peter Capaldi said. But I bet they won't.

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Agents of Shield...

*sigh* In theory, this show should be right up my alley, but the thing is, I don't trust anything Whedon further than I can spit.

I think I may be a little too famliar with his crutches. He gives great dialog quips but the chances of the overall arc being crafted (as opposed to being tossed against the wall) are low. Fans (and probably he) will take it all too seriously. Fans will OVER analyze the meta. And, he will milk unearned emotion by killing someone whenever drama is lagging. Oh, and no flaw in the production will ever be the producers fault. Ever.

I just don't know.

The genre I like. Whedon? Bloom is off that rose. Let's see if he can rise above his own tropes (I guess it'll depend on who he places in charge of the day-to-day stuff. We've seen how that works. Results may vary (wildly)

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From what I gather on Whedonesque (which isn't actually that much, because the subject bores me) Joss is writing the pilot. After that, he's left his brother and sister-in-law to showrun.

Personally, I didn't think that worked out so well with Dollhouse, but I daresay there was a lot of stuff going on the background with Fox there that we don't know about.

But yes, I'm very cynical about the show for the same reasons as you. Not to mention some of the characters just seem re-cycled from Whedon's earlier work.

Oh well, anyway. J August pretty.

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The BBC have always been hopeless at keeping good shows going, while merely average shows they keep flogging forever. I often wonder why.

Agents of SHIELD sounds like a clone of about ten other shows, none of which were particularly good. I guess I'll give it a miss. Not that that need be an active choice since I doubt it will be coming on a channel I get any time soon.

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It's being shown on Channel 4, so you can watch it whenever you like.

ETA: Also, it starts this coming Friday.

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I was gutted that The Hour won an Emmy - what a slap in the face!

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In the article I linked to, Peter Capaldi is talking about a TV movie to finish the story off. But I'd be very surprised if we even get that.

The BBC are idiots.

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I'm more interested in the inevitable fan drama that will ensue. If it sucks/underperforms, who will get the blame? ABC? Joss? His brother?

It's up against NCIS which owns the demos. I think the pilot will probably do well, but I don't know if it will keep it up against your typical cop/med serial, especially an established one, in the long run.

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Joss won't get the blame. He never does. And I doubt his brother will either. If it tanks, it'll be all the evil TV execs' faults.

What time does it air in the US? Channel 4 over here are showing it at 8pm. Which is an improvement. The last Joss show they aired was AtS and they messed that up so badly! They wanted to show it at the same early evening slot that the BBC were showing BtVS at, so they just cut it to ribbons. And when people complained, they just took it off.

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Tonight at 8 on ABC.

NCIS premieres tonight, too, which I didn't know. I thought it would be next week.

Interesting.

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Oh well, Channel 4 should have no reason to cut anything, then.

Though they still might. US TV is a lot more violence-tolerant before the watershed than we are, whereas this side of the Pond we're more sex-tolerant

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I'm more interested in the inevitable fan drama that will ensue. If it sucks/underperforms, who will get the blame? ABC? Joss? His brother?

You know the second is NOT an option, right? ;)

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Because damnit, Joss should know by now these network plebs could NEVER understand his brilliance!

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And everything would be fine if he could just have more robots and/or hookers!

*snerk*

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4.6 in the demo. Third in viewers. Not bad, but probably not what people were hoping. Response from people not Joss stans seems pretty tepid.

It's all Jed's fault from here on out, though.

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I expected it to do relatively well ratings-wise. Avengers was a huge movie, there's been a lot of hype, pre-reviews were mostly positive. It should turn out good numbers at the start, if it didn't it would have been a vast disappointment ~~for the network~~.

It's going to be question of trajectory over the course of the season though. Can it live up to its billing/price tag that's what the execs are looking to.

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Given the cost and hype? I don't think 4.6 is all that good, tbh. It was third in overall viewers behind The Voice (also 4.6 in demos) and NCIS.

Meh, it'll hang around for a season or probably.

Haven't watched it. Don't plan to either. I'm just Whedon'd out. When they rolled out the characters months ago I honestly thought they were joking. But no, he really did just rehash them from other stuff.

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I read an article somewhere (was it EW?) that seemed to think the show had done terribly well.

Likewise, a lot of people - even on Whedonesque - were complaining about the blandness of the cast.

Shall see for myself this evening.

ETA: It wasn't EW, it was TV Guide.

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Dunno. 4.6 is not great. Certainly not terrible, but it was nowhere near close to running away with the night, not when a reality show ties with it and a show entering its 20th year is on its heels.

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Channel 4 over here were calling the show all America is talking about, or words to that effect, before the pilot aired over here.

Seen it now. Terribly not impressed. It wasn't bad bad, but it wasn't good either, except for J August, and he was only a guest star. The majority of the cast are so bland and boring you can't tell them apart. The 'leading man' character in particular is a big block of plastic.

They should ditch him asap.

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Well, they're trying to sell it. Of course they're going to say that. :P It was easily the most hyped new show of the year and it did solidly, but nothing spectacular, not for a 12 million dollar pilot. Wasn't even the #1 new show of the year, ratings-wise.

It's not like it's going anywhere, though, unless it nose-dives. Which I guess is possible 'cause it seems a lot of comments I've seen resemble yours... But meh. It's all on Joss's brother and his wife now.

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