12 Things Agents Of SHIELD Needs To Fix For Season 2

8. Have Better Villains

Now, as much as we all love Bill Paxton, it must be admitted that his Agent Garrett was a little uninspired when it comes to comic book villains. Yes, he was crucial to the show's plot following Captain America: The Winter Soldier and the reveal that S.H.I.E.L.D. was being controlled by HYDRA, but - some half-man, half-machine revelations and cosmic goop inspiring some rather insane outbursts aside - Garrett was more or less a guy with a gun and a pretty vanilla villainous agenda. The rest of the season's bad guys were much less memorable, either being flat archetypes like Coulson's Peruvian old flame-turned-traitor in "0-8-4" or the manipulative Asgardian the team goes up against later in the season. That's not even mentioning recurring baddie Ian Quinn, a corporate villain so bland even his hair seems bored of his lame threats and half-assed violence (seriously, the guy practically yawned when he gutshot Skye). What the series really needs is someone an audience can love to hate. The creators did a great job toward the end of the season in turning our ambivalence toward Ward into anger at his sudden (but inevitable) betrayal, and that kind of emotional involvement is dynamite for bad guys who might otherwise come off as one-dimensional. Someone who strikes fear into the characters and the audience would be great - if Melinda May doesn't know if she can take someone, then we know they're trouble. A continuous threat like the Big Bads from Angel and Buffy would work perfectly, as people would have time to get to know the villain almost as intimately as the heroes, and we all know: the worse a person you are, the more interesting you probably are too. Norman Osborn's role as the head of SHIELD replacement HAMMER would be a great arc from the comics to replicate, but if those rights are mixed up in Sony's Spider-Man movies there are still hundreds (if not thousands) of potential scumbags for ABC to pick from. Just make them fun, for Christ's sake, and don't waste any more Gravitons...