This past week, I’ve run some quotes from the Entertainment Weekly Joss Whedon interview.  I held a couple of my favorites back as they pertain to his latest television interest: Agents of SHIELD.  A quote from the interview about serial storytelling:

. . . the thing I brought to the other shows is the thing I still try to do: Have a different reason to tell a story every week and not just have a different story.

It will be interesting to watch the show evolve.  First seasons are always a bit tricky, especially when they can easily become “villain of the week” stories (which is okay for a while).

But it was four simple words used in a series in the short article on SHIELD itself that makes me want to see the show even more.  Not sure if the quote is from Maurissa Tancharoen or Jed Whedon.  The article calls it “the behind-the-scenes mantra” of the show: Funny, sad, wondrous, and beautiful.

Any show that can pull those four things off on a regular basis will be amazing.

And the already-seen-by-millions trailer makes me think they just might do it.