And so, some sources, such as ‘Entertainment Weekly’, have given
us already some further information about the upcoming AoS S6. However, what exactly?
Firstly, that on average, 3.6 million people viewed an AoS
episode. Okay, here is my take on it:
if you take all of the numbers for
all of the AoS episodes, and divide the resulting sum by the number of all the AoS – i.e., 110 by now –
maybe you can get a 3.6 something; I do not know, I didn’t run this experiment.
What I do know is that the numbers
for all 110 episodes of AoS have varied greatly, the S5 numbers are much lower
than the S1 + S2 numbers, for example, (though there was an occasional reversal
of trend, but it does not make that much of an impact). Thus, talking about any
numbers, even average numbers, is not the smartest topic to talk about, I
reckon.
Secondly, the upcoming S6 will have only 13 episodes, as
opposed to the usual 22. This makes it what? 45% shorter than the first five
seasons? Hopefully, it will not be dealing with 30-minute – as opposed to a
full hour – episodes too. Yet this isn’t exactly surprising either, because of
the third point: S5 finale was called ‘The End’ because the writers intended it
to be the end of AoS; this show had technically ended, and-
And it isn’t really surprising, and we’re talking about the show’s
plot, for enough people with enough Marvel™ knowledge figured out that on one hand, AoS tried
to follow the ‘Secret Warriors’ comic, which talked about Fury assembling a new
team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and travelling the world, fixing the wrongs left in
the wake of an alien invasion of the Marvel™ world, and on the other… it didn’t. If the second
half of AoS S2 caused some sort of derailment in AoS plot, then the second of
the third season – ‘The Fallen Agent’ story arc – completed the job. The initial
‘Secret Warriors’ plotline got completely destroyed, as the actual Secret
Warriors of the show got disbanded for good, and yes, just how the show dealt
with that was done badly, but this isn’t the point right here, the point is
that post Lincoln’s death in S3 finale, the original plan got thrown out of the
windows, and what was left were bits and ends that the AoS crew were unable to
fit into the first three seasons, because reasons. It does not take much
thinking over to figure out just how AoS was supposed to go as a show originally, but it does not matter,
because that did not happen, and instead we got what we got. Yay. Not. The
numbers plummeted, and while we are getting an AoS S6 after all, it will be
something else yet again. Why?
The fourth, and the last, point was that AoS was MCU’s first
TV show. Sadly, this doesn’t explain the disrespect that the show gave its’
characters and its plot; the last got twisted and turned time and again until
it didn’t resemble anything that it was at first, and its’ actors weren’t
particularly happy being there – and we’re talking secondary, recurring actors.
By now, all of the characters, (and the actors playing them), are killed off or
just gone, and all is left are the ‘big seven’ who include Coulson and May, who’ve
retired, and Fitz, who is killed-off/trapped in space…but that is another
story.
For now, let us just wave good-bye to AoS, S5 in particular,
and to the show in general. It could have been great. Hopefully, it will not
become a sitcom romedy in the manner of ‘Friends’, but we will just have to
wait and see…
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