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Fitz and Simmons were both geniuses, true, but experts in different fields. Fitz covered engineering and was the weapons tech, while Simmons covered life sciences and served as the team's de facto medic. I found the pair of them much more realistic than having one scientific genius on the team that has all the answers.

As for Skye, her expertise is in information technology, which is also outside of both Leo and Gemma's respective fields.

EDIT: And in my eyes, all of the S.H.I.E.L.D. team members were already qualified field agents (again, in different areas). To do the "training to become a field agent" plot, Skye was the only choice available.

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Originally Posted by Iceman

Telling a show in advance it has another season or two before it goes off the air it just canceling it in advance, typically because they think that's the most they can milk out of a concept.

Now who's arguing semantics?

With HIMYM specifically, the show's staff chose to end the series when they did, not the network. CBS actually had to throw more money at them to get the 9th and final season done, as the cast and crew originally planned on doing no more than eight.

So if cancellation is when a network decides to stop production on a series, then I am correct when I say HIMYM was not cancelled.