I audibly gasped when Sarge called Daisy "Skye".
Agents of SHIELD: Season 6
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Shocked her, too. She couldn't kill him.
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A pleasant surprise, that.
I have really enjoyed this Sarge storyline and trying to figure it out this season. It's played out differently from what we've seen before and it's kept things interesting.
Yeah, same here. It's a great way to keep us engaged with the story (not that they were falling short on that count before).
That said, I still yell "Shut up, Deke!" every episode.
Clark Gregg has always been good, but he's really knocked it out of the park this season, especially in last night's episode.
It's starting to look like you guys were right, and we'll end up with kind of a merged version of Sarge and Coulson instead of just bringing Coulson back.
The disintegrating skin effect for Coulson's powers is kind cool and kind creepy.
It's starting to look like you guys were right, and we'll end up with kind of a merged version of Sarge and Coulson instead of just bringing Coulson back.
The disintegrating skin effect for Coulson's powers is kind cool and kind creepy.
Things are getting pretty grim indeed. Punky has killed another character, in particularly ruthless fashion. All this speculation about the nature of her power, though, makes me wonder about her standard body and where it came from, since she is actually a formless being from another dimension. Presumably she acquired it in a fashion similar to Sarge, but who is her donor? Is that just to be left to the imagination, or will it figure into the plot? And if she's essentially in a human body like Sarge, why doesn't somebody just blast her when she's between possessions? She'll come back, but at least it would put her out of commission for a while.
Good to see that Piper is still around and taking an active hand in things. Gotta hand it to her. Haha. And the professor has made a reappearance only for us to find out that he is responsible for his husband's death. I was still surprised that he actually gave up the coordinates, though. I thought it would turn out that he gave Punky bad data-- and maybe that will still turn out to be the case. All those ancient ruin temples start to look alike after a while.
This ancient ruin actually looked kind of like video game footage, though. Even Punky looked a little Uncanny Valley in those temple sequences. I'm not sure if that's an insult to SHIELD or a compliment to video games, but it was kind of cool either way.
I got a kick out of Fuzzy Guy working with his grandparents, so eager to please. But he actually came up with the insight that may defeat Punky, and Fitz seemed a little proud of him.
I have mixed feelings about what's going on with Sarge, though. Obviously both May and Daisy believe that Coulson is really in there, and echoes of him certainly are. He called Daisy Skye and was willing to sacrifice himself for the team, but I'm not sure I like where it's all going. For me, Coulson is the heart of SHIELD-- that character is really the main reason I started watching-- and I'd really like to see the real guy return before the series ends. A doppelganger with a century's worth of genocide behind him is not really an adequate substitute.
Good to see that Piper is still around and taking an active hand in things. Gotta hand it to her. Haha. And the professor has made a reappearance only for us to find out that he is responsible for his husband's death. I was still surprised that he actually gave up the coordinates, though. I thought it would turn out that he gave Punky bad data-- and maybe that will still turn out to be the case. All those ancient ruin temples start to look alike after a while.
This ancient ruin actually looked kind of like video game footage, though. Even Punky looked a little Uncanny Valley in those temple sequences. I'm not sure if that's an insult to SHIELD or a compliment to video games, but it was kind of cool either way.
I got a kick out of Fuzzy Guy working with his grandparents, so eager to please. But he actually came up with the insight that may defeat Punky, and Fitz seemed a little proud of him.
I have mixed feelings about what's going on with Sarge, though. Obviously both May and Daisy believe that Coulson is really in there, and echoes of him certainly are. He called Daisy Skye and was willing to sacrifice himself for the team, but I'm not sure I like where it's all going. For me, Coulson is the heart of SHIELD-- that character is really the main reason I started watching-- and I'd really like to see the real guy return before the series ends. A doppelganger with a century's worth of genocide behind him is not really an adequate substitute.
So...with the chronicoms goin on about founding a Chronica-3 anyone else wondering what the hell happened with Chronica-1?
She mentioned fashioning her own body from scratch, but I don't think she meant the human form we're seeing, but the very first Shrike which is probably inside it. She did after all mention in this last episode that when she opens the door to her dimension that her people will posses all the Shrike possessed bodies already in the wild.
She mentioned fashioning her own body from scratch, but I don't think she meant the human form we're seeing, but the very first Shrike which is probably inside it. She did after all mention in this last episode that when she opens the door to her dimension that her people will posses all the Shrike possessed bodies already in the wild.
I thought they'd established that in dialogue several episodes back. He decided to pull the plug and the family tried to stop him.
I think the fact that he was driving is new information.
Ah, I missed that.
And that he was drunk. Before this episode, I thought the implication was that he started drinking in response to his husband's death.
I think it's quite clear that the creations are drawn from a person's actual subconscious, so he at least believes he caused his husband's death through his drinking (whether it was the cause is a separate question).
More specifically, it embodies one's worst fears. Benson shut off his husband's life support because medical science told him that his husband was brain-dead already and there was no hope for him. But some part of him irrationally fears that he made a mistake and his husband was still alive in there. It's not that he believes that's actually true -- it's that he wonders in his darkest moments if it could be true.
Right. Thomas says, "I was driving, and seeing something in the road, then darkness." I don't think Benson was even in the car, never mind driving. The fear-aspect was that Thomas might've still recovered afterward despite what the doctors said (and that Benson had been drinking when he told the doctors to pull the plug, as if he wouldn't have made the same decision sober).
^ That was my takeaway as well.
In any case, Pink is effectively doing the Sybok thing...show 'em their deepest fears/regrets and they'll follow you anywhere.
In any case, Pink is effectively doing the Sybok thing...show 'em their deepest fears/regrets and they'll follow you anywhere.
This is how I understood it, as well. Maybe he started drinking after the accident, but before the decision to pull the plug.
I was wondering about that too. I know they had been calling their home planet Chronica-2, but it hadn't really occurred to me until they started talking about taking over a new planet and making it Chronica-3 that would have been a Chronica-1.
I'm thinking that these last couple end scenes with the Chonicoms are setting them up as the big bads for next season. They'll probably defeat Izel in the finale, and then once she's gone, the Chronicoms will show us as our cliffhanger.
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