Johnny Ringo said:

The show is just fantastic, that is really what I think

oh by the way, which one's Fitz?

The Scottish guy with a model TARDIS in his room.

I agree the show is great and I think the early episodes were needed,the episodes we have had over the past few weeks would not have had nearly as much impact(For me at least)if we hadn't been given time to get to know the characters and if a normal pattern for adventures had not been set up first. Once you have that pattern then when you shake things up it has a real impact. For instance The Best of Both Worlds is one of the best Star trek stories ever but would have had nearly as much impact if it had been the pilot instead of an episode at the end of season three? I don't think so. The reason these stories have the impact they do is because they shake up what we were told to expect,if you don't know the characters then it really has no impact when their world is shaken up. Some people may think the first 12 episodes or so were filler but I see them as fun adventures and needed set up for what we have now and so far I have enjoyed every episode of the series to some degree. Some episodes are stronger then others but I have yet to see one I would score below a five out of ten and that is an impressive feat for a show that has to set up it's own universe for viewers that have not seen all the movies,set up it's own characters that don't come from comics,and tie into movies two of which came out while the series was airing. I can't think of any other show that has ever had to do that and I am impressed that the writers and producers of AOS were able to pull it off at all. I went in half expecting them to crash and burn because of all the baggage so I think they have done a good job.