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So I'm wondering if there might be a third solution to how the show might address Infinity War's ending:
Instead of dusting half the cast or ignoring the finger-snap outright, perhaps the show acknowledges how half of humanity has been killed but then somehow the team is protected from the dusting. Maybe Talbot does something that overcomes it. Or, and this one just came to me, maybe someone else does it.
I remember seeing a rumor awhile ago that Ghost Rider would return for the season finale. Perhaps this solution would be a bit of a deus ex machina but maybe his sudden return would protect the team from the finger-snap?
I realize either of these ideas are a reach, but it's just a thought.
So I'm wondering if there might be a third solution to how the show might address Infinity War's ending:
Instead of dusting half the cast or ignoring the finger-snap outright, perhaps the show acknowledges how half of humanity has been killed but then somehow the team is protected from the dusting. Maybe Talbot does something that overcomes it. Or, and this one just came to me, maybe someone else does it.
I remember seeing a rumor awhile ago that Ghost Rider would return for the season finale. Perhaps this solution would be a bit of a deus ex machina but maybe his sudden return would protect the team from the finger-snap?
I realize either of these ideas are a reach, but it's just a thought.
If it were up to me, the way I'd probably handle it would be to have the finale play out, end on a shot of everyone standing around together. Fade to black and then...
*click*
Roll credits in utter silence.
Nothing spoiled, but it gets the message across to both parts of the audience.
So I'm wondering if there might be a third solution to how the show might address Infinity War's ending:
Instead of dusting half the cast or ignoring the finger-snap outright, perhaps the show acknowledges how half of humanity has been killed but then somehow the team is protected from the dusting. Maybe Talbot does something that overcomes it. Or, and this one just came to me, maybe someone else does it.
I remember seeing a rumor awhile ago that Ghost Rider would return for the season finale. Perhaps this solution would be a bit of a deus ex machina but maybe his sudden return would protect the team from the finger-snap?
I realize either of these ideas are a reach, but it's just a thought.
Maybe Talbot will be one of the half that disappears and it be part of Dr. Strange's perfect win scenario. Stopping Thanos and then having the Earth destroyed and most of humanity dead isn't much of a win. Thanos had to win to blink out Talbot
So I'm wondering if there might be a third solution to how the show might address Infinity War's ending:
Instead of dusting half the cast or ignoring the finger-snap outright, perhaps the show acknowledges how half of humanity has been killed but then somehow the team is protected from the dusting. Maybe Talbot does something that overcomes it. Or, and this one just came to me, maybe someone else does it.
I remember seeing a rumor awhile ago that Ghost Rider would return for the season finale. Perhaps this solution would be a bit of a deus ex machina but maybe his sudden return would protect the team from the finger-snap?
I realize either of these ideas are a reach, but it's just a thought.
Maybe Talbot will be one of the half that disappears and it be part of Dr. Strange's perfect win scenario. Stopping Thanos and then having the Earth destroyed and most of humanity dead isn't much of a win. Thanos had to win to blink out Talbot
The Ghost Rider did go out of our universe using what looked identical to one of Doctor Strange mystic art portals.
This means that:
1. He could totally protect all the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents from disintegrating by sending them to another universe. (In addition to the Earth, by sending Talbot there too)
2. Strange could have protected the Avengers in the same manner.
I just don't see them taking on the missing 1/2 storyline...and no reason it would breakdown exactly half in all circumstances...
Also hopefully not a spoiler for the movie...but the movie made me question - what exactly is Fury's role and who was "Control"? I am assuming not the bone from Get Smart.
If the team survives all of this shit, it's no longer a team. Daisy and Yo-Yo are trading blows, Mack is disgusted with both Yo-Yo and Leo (and presumably Jemma although it went unspoken here), May is livid with Yo-Yo. At least everyone seems to have forgiven Piper.
Can we all kickstart Christopher an Infinity War ticket (and Ragnarok Redbox rental)?! (I myself saw the movie for $5 at a downtown San Francisco AMC, little more than a third of the regular price, as a member of the free Stubs program.)
Okay, SHIELD has pretty much disintegrated at this point. Aside from the core family of Coulson, May, and Daisy, there's really not any cohesion left. Mack feels that YoYo has betrayed both him and the principles of SHIELD, and he feels the same about Fitz-- previously his two best friends on the team. Daisy and YoYo have come to blows. Simmons feels that they are crossing a line in their efforts to save Coulson (though whether that line is using alien technology, genetic engineering, or grave robbing, I'm not sure). And the biggest external threat facing them now is Coulson's old friend, and sometimes SHIELD ally, Talbot, who is totally off his rocker and not making a good impression on the universe.
At least everybody seems to be mellowing toward Deke.
And they got very explicit with the ideology this week, with Talbot complaining about Democrats and Mack telling Fitz he should follow the good word.
Yeah. I wish Piper to become a regular on S.H.I.E.L.D. ever since she was Agent Vasquez on Supergirl. And I'm totally liking her arc so far, from its very start. But losing May or Fitz would be a horrible thing to happen to the show. Losing Simmons even partially in season 2, and again in season 3 was already enough for me to feel grumpy, losing Fitz completely – ugh, god, no. May would be way worse, since she's the best character in this series (alongside Daisy). Mack or Yo-Yo I could accept, maybe. Although I would definitely miss Mack, and I already miss Yo-Yo as what's going on with her is seriously troubling me.
In the loop, she's bound to be killed very very soon. Kasius will soon get his destruction, and ‘come to the rescue’, Yo-Yo will go out fighting and die right away; only to be resurrected as Kasius' slave later on. That's a horrible fate she is jumping into.
Unless Thanos is the reason, and half the team get a timeout, disintegrating temporarily for the first couple of episodes next season. I could swallow that.. It would be almost welcome, given how desperately things need to cool down. If half of the team just disappears until all gets resolved, it may well be enough to salvage the situation.
I think the timing here is critical relative to
From what it seems, Earth's destruction had not occurred when half the universe disintegrated – Fury barely got a call regarding the attack on Wakanda, and a minute later everyone was gone. I predict people disintegrating would also not occur before the Earth's cracking – it's likely that the Earth will indeed crack (too few episodes remaining to resolve this), yet people disintegrating would be a spoiler for Infinity War and perhaps not something the showrunners had time to integrate in the plot.
I suspect (as far as clocks are concerned) the cracking of the Earth happens first¹, then the timeloop is broken so it never occurs, which is why it's not present in Infinity War. Reasoning: It's 100% that Earth's cracking will be resolved by breaking the time loop and changing the timeline (i.e. it will not occur from Infinity War prespective), whilst a reset button for Infinity War is less likely.
That way, everyone disintegrating (only alluded to) may happen as the final scene/cliffhanger after the Earth is destroyed (or is saved).
I guess it's technically possible that everyone can disintegrate before the Earth cracks – time reset is still a possible way to defeat Thanos, mass disintegration may occur both in and outside of the time loop (unlikely to be resolved in both, though), and as I speculated earlier, its time shenanigans may be the thing that breaks the time loop in the first place.
¹ Although there's too little time for that, Daisy stole her mother's corpse after the aliens were in New York, they ought to be in Wakanda for the next episodes, if they weren't in Wakanda for this. And Kasius did say Thanos was already down there (which is ambiguous; I expect it referred to his mercenaries on Scotland)
tl;dr - the order the two apocalypses happen will be a thing to watch for
It's like the 5th time they are disintegrating. I really wish they'd stop doing that, and get re-established as a reliable agency with a clout as they were in Season 1, even if they are more secret. May be stationed at the lighthouse, this time.
It's silly, Daisy got her badge as Skye in Season 1, S.H.I.E.L.D disintegrated an hour later, and she's barely seen any legitimacy yet in that role (for any reasonable amount of time), and it's season 5 now, and she's aiming to be the director. And I remember wishing the Skye who faked being an agent against Hand's back to become a real agent.
Can we all kickstart Christopher an Infinity War ticket (and Ragnarok Redbox rental)?! (I myself saw the movie for $5 at a downtown San Francisco AMC, little more than a third of the regular price, as a member of the free Stubs program.)
Thank you, but I'm at the point right now where I'm more concerned at having enough money to pay my bills for basic necessities. I'm this close to needing to cancel at least part of my cable TV service and possibly missing the last few weeks of some of my shows (which I really should've done months ago, but they make it impossible to do without driving way out to the physical store). I'd deeply appreciate any financial donations people are willing to make (which can be done via my homepage), but I'm not sure how soon it would be before I could afford the luxury of a movie ticket.
As for Ragnarok, a local friend has offered to loan me a copy.
They're probably thinking of what the F.U. stands for, although the whole point of abbreviating it is to make it printable, I'd think. Heck, there was a whole series of WWII cartoon shorts for servicemen called Private Snafu. If SNAFU could get past 1940s censors, there's no reason why FUBAR should cause a problem for 2010s censors.
True, but in general I've gotten very weary about how censorship works on network television which is why I brought it up. I'm regularly annoyed at CBS' inconsistent censoring of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where the most recent ridiculous example was an interview when "titties" was bleeped (which made part of the conversation confusing because there was a joke about a person misunderstanding what someone said and it wasn't actually "titties") while "testicles" wasn't bleeped even though it was used in a graphic manner (by Colbert himself).
I'm regularly annoyed at CBS' inconsistent censoring of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where the most recent ridiculous example was an interview when "titties" was bleeped (which made part of the conversation confusing because there was a joke about a person misunderstanding what someone said and it wasn't actually "titties") while "testicles" wasn't bleeped even though it was used in a graphic manner (by Colbert himself).
Well, that's not really inconsistent, because "testicle" is the clinically correct anatomical name rather than a vulgar slang term. I'm sure "breasts" would've been okay with them, or even "boobs," because it's a milder, almost childish nickname.
It's like the 5th time they are disintegrating. I really wish they'd stop doing that, and get re-established as a reliable agency with a clout as they were in Season 1, even if they are more secret.
