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Dec. 2nd, 2014 03:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretOne thing I would really like Season 2 of Agents of SHIELD to be more about is the regrowth of the bureaucracy. Rebuilding SHIELD from scratch with new leadership should entail an awful lot of paperwork. I want May to be like "Coulson, you don't have time to draw those circles and lines, you have to sign these timesheets and approve these expense reports. Also, Mockingbird filed a sexual harassment claim against Lance Hunter."
I also want the money to be an issue. "Sorry, Hunter, we have to rent a beat up econobox for your assignment tracking Ward in Boston, because we don't have a blank check from the Senate Select Committee anymore." How is Coulson funding SHIELD? How is this working? Like, hasn't the Bus run out of jet fuel by now?
EDIT: Also, also, why isn't the show wrestling more with the legitimacy of SHIELD? Nick Fury points to Coulson and says "You're in charge of this secret illegal organization now." and suddenly Coulson has the ability to recruit former SHIELD agents to fight HYDRA? Nobody challenges Coulson's authority? Nobody tells him "I support what you're doing, but I'm going to fight HYDRA on my own"? or "I support what you're doing, but I think we need to do it within official US channels"? These are the stories that should be front and center, and at best we're getting vague background hints.
I also want the money to be an issue. "Sorry, Hunter, we have to rent a beat up econobox for your assignment tracking Ward in Boston, because we don't have a blank check from the Senate Select Committee anymore." How is Coulson funding SHIELD? How is this working? Like, hasn't the Bus run out of jet fuel by now?
EDIT: Also, also, why isn't the show wrestling more with the legitimacy of SHIELD? Nick Fury points to Coulson and says "You're in charge of this secret illegal organization now." and suddenly Coulson has the ability to recruit former SHIELD agents to fight HYDRA? Nobody challenges Coulson's authority? Nobody tells him "I support what you're doing, but I'm going to fight HYDRA on my own"? or "I support what you're doing, but I think we need to do it within official US channels"? These are the stories that should be front and center, and at best we're getting vague background hints.