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"The Laws of Inferno Dynamics" has brought us to this year's mid-season break for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and the episode was everything it needed to be; it brought events to a dramatic climax, pitting Ghost Rider against Eli Morrow but finding the time to give every team-member a chance to shine.
By Tom Bacon9 years ago in Geeks
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s mid-season break left the series moving into new, uncharted territory; the "Ghost Rider" arc was over, and the "LMD" arc was about to begin. We were left with Ming-Na Wen's Agent May unconscious, replaced by an android duplicate — just as Clark Gregg's Agent Coulson finally decided to take the first step in a potential relationship between the two!
We're partway through the tremendous "Heroes Versus Aliens" event, the DCTV crossover that runs through all four CW shows. While we're all enjoying the team-up - not least watching everybody's reactions to #Supergirl - we've already had teases that the event is having a lasting impact on DCTV's status quo.
The mid-season finale of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. set up countless new arcs, with a strong focus on the "LMD" plot. But, in doing so, it also brought an end to one of the most popular arcs the series has ever seen. Gabriel Luna's phenomenally successful Ghost Rider vanished to another (likely Hellish) dimension along with his uncle, but nobody believed he was dead; Coulson even decided to keep the car around just in case.
We'd been promised an exciting reveal as part of yesterday's mid-season finale of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and we certainly got one: the promise of a fantastic new web-series, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot! Starring Natalia Cordova-Buckley as Yo-Yo Rodriguez — or Slingshot in the comics — it looks to be a fun miniseries to tide us over until Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. returns. But it's also a radical new approach for Marvel...
Much to the delight of Marvel fans everywhere, 2017 sees Marvel and Fox working together on two X-Men TV shows. Perhaps the most unusual of these is Legion, an 8-episode series that stars Dan Stevens as a powerful mutant with multiple personality disorder. With Noah Hawley (of Fargo fame) as showrunner, it's proving to be one of the most promising and inventive superhero shows to date!
Just a month ago, we learned that #Marvel and Hulu are working together to bring Marvel's Runaways to life! The catch is, Marvel TV has a lot of projects in the works, and often they seem to go very quiet. We've not heard anything about Cloak and Dagger since April, for example, and Damage Control doesn't seem to have gotten off the ground. So Marvel fans know to keep their ears to the ground for news before they get too excited about a series.
Spider-Man may be the world's most marketed superhero, but there's no denying The Punisher's subtle-yet-pervasive presence across our cultural landscape. Comic book writer Nathan Edmondson — who briefly penned an excellent Punisher series — observed:
Project Cadmus. We first heard the name in Season 1 of Supergirl; a dark and shadowy organization who poached science and technology from the Department of Extra-normal Operations. In a shocking twist, Cadmus were also revealed to be holding Supergirl's adoptive father captive. From the get-go, it was clear that Cadmus was being positioned as the main villain of Supergirl Season 2.
Superhero fans worldwide reacted in surprise when Marvel announced the Inhumans — a TV series that, uniquely, would initially launch in IMAX theaters worldwide on September 1st! Now, Marvel's kicking up the marketing a notch, and as they do we're beginning to realise this is going to be one comic-book-accurate TV show!
DC TV is in a strong place right now, and fans are watching with curiosity as Syfy works to expand the DC TV slate. Their first DV TV project is Krypton, which tells the story of events on Superman's homeworld two generations before Krypton's ultimate fate.
2012's The Hunger Games set the ball rolling for a whole new range of Young Adult dystopian fiction — and one of the best, in my view, was 2014's Divergent. Unfortunately, the years haven't been kind to dystopian movies; while Divergent grossed $288 million at the box office, the third instalment — Allegiant — only grossed a disappointing $179 million. Going purely by the domestic box office takings, it didn't break even on its $110 million budget.
