Agents of SHIELD season 5
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Oh, hell, why did they have to bring back Hydra? I'm sick of Hydra. It was going so well up to then.
That was a neat trick, spending weeks setting up the "fear dimension" manifestations as a red herring for Fitz's hallucination/dissociative break. I'd forgotten that Fitz had a history of hallucinations due to his brain injury. So that was an effective misdirect.
That was a neat trick, spending weeks setting up the "fear dimension" manifestations as a red herring for Fitz's hallucination/dissociative break. I'd forgotten that Fitz had a history of hallucinations due to his brain injury. So that was an effective misdirect.
Why not the secret evil conspiracy that you know?
As I said, I'm sick of it. I know it's Hydra's whole thing that it keeps coming back every time you think you've defeated it, but the show spent years using that trope over and over, and it got tedious. I guess they want to circle back to their original nemesis now that they're writing this as though it's the final season, but still, I'd hoped we were past all that.
Besides, General Hale was interesting as a US military officer who genuinely thought she was doing the right thing by hunting SHIELD. Making her just another Hydra stooge invalidates all that character development.
She pretty obviously had an agenda outside of hunting SHIELD before tonight's episode.
I only just got around to seeing the episode this evening thanks to the Duke game last night and the incredible March For Our Lives rallies today.
Aside for the boring return of HYRDA, this was an excellent episode with Leo's disassociate break. I was completely convinced that Mainframe Leopold was just a manifestation of the "fear dimension" (still damn silly) and I was just as shocked as everyone else about the truth.
Poor Daisy. That was a horribly traumatic experience and it will be a very long time before she can ever trust Leo again, if ever.
I figured the Superior (or whatever he's calling himself) would return eventually. I'm just glad they didn't drag it out too long.
Thankfully, Deke was largely out of the episode, thanks to Leo doing what the rest of was wanted to do to him.
Aside for the boring return of HYRDA, this was an excellent episode with Leo's disassociate break. I was completely convinced that Mainframe Leopold was just a manifestation of the "fear dimension" (still damn silly) and I was just as shocked as everyone else about the truth.
Poor Daisy. That was a horribly traumatic experience and it will be a very long time before she can ever trust Leo again, if ever.
I figured the Superior (or whatever he's calling himself) would return eventually. I'm just glad they didn't drag it out too long.
Thankfully, Deke was largely out of the episode, thanks to Leo doing what the rest of was wanted to do to him.
You know, if anyone decides they can't forgive Fitz for slipping back into his Doctor persona, once they save the world, they'll have an extra Fitz that didn't do any of that stuff. Eh, eh?
Oh, who am I kidding, they're never going to do anything with Spare Fitz, are they?
Oh, who am I kidding, they're never going to do anything with Spare Fitz, are they?
Holy crap. Poor Fitz has turned into Norman Bates. I'm almost hoping that it really is the last season of SHIELD, because he and Simmons really need to retire to a nice thatched cottage in the Highlands-- with an attached futuristic laboratory, of course, for recreational purposes. I wonder if rogue SHIELD has any counselors on staff. That whole scene with Daisy tied down and begging him to stop was incredibly creepy-- and then when she said "Who are you talking to?" the creepiness just amped up by an order of magnitude (no pun intended).
That was a great scene when Fuzzy let Simmons in on his ancestry to bring some comfort to her. He's always been a wannabe nice guy who went mercenary for the sake of survival in the dystopian future, but being back in the relatively benign past has given the chance to get beyond that. Hopefully he won't really disappear when the timeline changes. He needs to be a part of the team. I think the puke scene was intended to imply morning sickness, but it could definitely be taken as Gemma's reaction to finding out that Fuzzy is her grandson. I have a feeling they didn't intend that.
So. HYDRA again. Blah blah blah. But who is that shadowy figure that Hale was reporting to? I have a suspicion it is Little Boy Blue's daddy and we're getting real close to the moment of truth-- especially since Daisy has her powers back.
That was a great scene when Fuzzy let Simmons in on his ancestry to bring some comfort to her. He's always been a wannabe nice guy who went mercenary for the sake of survival in the dystopian future, but being back in the relatively benign past has given the chance to get beyond that. Hopefully he won't really disappear when the timeline changes. He needs to be a part of the team. I think the puke scene was intended to imply morning sickness, but it could definitely be taken as Gemma's reaction to finding out that Fuzzy is her grandson. I have a feeling they didn't intend that.
So. HYDRA again. Blah blah blah. But who is that shadowy figure that Hale was reporting to? I have a suspicion it is Little Boy Blue's daddy and we're getting real close to the moment of truth-- especially since Daisy has her powers back.
Cut off one Blah and two more shall take its place! HAIL HYDRA!
Cross-posting a related tangent. Phil Coulson to return to the MCU big screen in Captain Marvel.
https://mcuexchange.com/coulson-ronan-returns-captain-marvel/
https://mcuexchange.com/coulson-ronan-returns-captain-marvel/
Yeah, I think you were right the first time. I sure hope we didn't just see a sign that they are going to Whedonize Fitzsimmons' relationship. But, with Fitz going all Leopold and Simmons already pregnant, I just have a bad feeling about it.I think the puke scene was intended to imply morning sickness, but it could definitely be taken as Gemma's reaction to finding out that Fuzzy is her grandson. I have a feeling they didn't intend that.
^^ They seem to think we like watching characters get tortured.
Bleah.
Guess he ain't gonna die.
Unless the Coulson we've known since Iron Man is a Skrull...
Nooooooooooo!
...or perhaps that means the "real" Coulson is an asshole and there's at least one good Skrull.
Or amnesia.
(I really hope it's none of those)
It's going to be a flashback to the 90's. Ronan, Korath and Nick Fury's left eyeball are also showing up.
I'm not up on Marvel comic lore, but don't Skrulls revert to their true form when killed? Like say when they're stabbed through the heart by Loki?
In all seriousness, if they do go for a "they were a Skrull the whole time" twist, there's only a few characters that could really work for AND have a significant impact with the reveal. That means an Avenger. I tend to rule out the likes of Thor, Wanda and Banner simply because if a race could replicate their powers at will, then they wouldn't need to engage in all this sneaking around bollocks.
Steve and Tony easily the most likely, the latter even disappeared through a wormhole at on point, so the switch could have been made then. Fury is another one, as is Nat, but I doubt it.
Isn't Captain Marvel set in the 90's?
True, although couldn't Super Skrull replicate some powers? I'm basing that knowledge solely on the '91 Marvel Comics card...
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