A mostly good episode and I was sadden (but unsurprised) by Mack's decision (although the "I can't live without Hope" was a bit too on the nose). Like
spinnerlys, I hope this is not the conclusion for his story.
Lovely farewell to Trip and B.J. Britt but it was odd Ward was nowhere to be seen. Felt like a glaring omission.
The Coulson and May wake-up scene was a nice tender moment between the two of them, particularly the "I was a little squirrelly on the other side"/"It was kind of cute" part. Glad it didn't go any further than that at that moment, but I can see a deeper relationship working between in the future if there's another season.
Good to see that the Framework personalities were mostly left behind, although Leo appears to have some unfortunate lingering feelings for Ophelia/AIDA. Unfortunate mostly because we have to deal with yet another diversion from the Jemma/Leo relationship. That being said, I am intrigued to see how they handle Leo's psychological fallout for being partly responsible for Agnes' and Mace's deaths.
(On a side note, I still find it
very weird that Jemma refers to Leo as Fitz, which made for a brief awkward moment with Fitz Sr., deliberate or not.)
However, there was one thing I really didn't like about the episode. I found Jemma's decision to go after Fitz Sr. tedious and the whole scenario felt like another case of a character doing a stupid thing that ends badly but accidentally helps the situation in the long term.
Now that they're out of the Framework, hopefully the final two episodes really knock the rest of the season out of the park, whether or not this is the end.
So, if anyone lies in that transfer machine at the Framework Triskelion, will they be "born" into the real world? Or do they need another operator on the real side who has to feed instructions to the machine?
I would think you would need someone on the real side operating the machine. Still, it's an interesting set-up that could allow Hope, Trip and maybe even Ward to come to the real world.
I'm not used to this being basically the only non-spoiler discussion thread for a current superhero show, every other one has the spoiler tag in the thread title. Plus, that certain thing is all over the internet and ABC itself announced it with its official synopsis for the finale, so its arguable how much of a spoiler it is when the people making the show are talking about it. Still I had remembered to spoiler it before, so I definitely screwed up by not paying attention this time.
