The Cracks in “Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD”
Well first off, the title alone is a crack, but we’ll get to that in a bit. “Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD” had a lot of hype in both mainstream and geek-oriented media following the pilot’s premiere at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con. How could it not? It was not only a Marvel TV series, but an hour that tied directly into the MCU. Joss Whedon was attached and he directed the first episode personally. The storyline was an epilogue to “Iron Man 3”. It had lots of fun references that the audience enjoyed. And then the show debuted. And the ratings have fallen since the exceptional debut numbers considering it’s up against the titan otherwise known as NCIS. The low point was a 2.2 in the 18-49 demographic following episode 7, “The Hub”, along with 6.63 million total viewers. The ratings have slowly gone up since then. But what could be causing the viewers to hemorrhage since the show premieres? And what would give viewers the opportunity to see more?