I'm fine with bugs, just lots of gore and ickiness, I don't like so much. OTOH I can cope with it if the show is good, and from your description it sounds as if it is at least interesting! Plus, who doesn't like explosions? :D With regards to history, I'm taking a module in American History this semester, so maybe it'll be interesting and add to my knowlede. I can totally use that as a reason to watch a show, right? ;)

Planning ahead and hashing out plot is *always* a good thing! I completely understand needing to write the angst and whump; after I wrote the Clint/Natasha post-apocalypse fic (not sure if you've come across the prompt that sparked it, it sounds like it's right up your street though), I planned out a whole universe and decided who was going to come from where and what was going to happen to them. If there's aliens and apocalypses, it can't all be sunshine and rainbows! The darker/more angsty stuff fits so well in those kind of situations. Happy fics are great but sometimes you need to have things going badly for people *sniffle*

/ramble also :)