Agents of SHIELD season 6 finale
Agents of SHIELD 6.13 New Life
I only found out on Saturday that this was the last episode of a truncated season (like Gotham, only there will be one more season of this.)
That news immediately increased the jeopardy of what happened to May. Fitzsimmons’ response was far more aghast than my minor irritation last week!
And then things got even worse, with the Chromicom Hunters making their hostile presence known in the Lighthouse.
Cut off mid chat, Daisy was starting to blame herself (eh, it was Sarge’s decision, and he’d been let go with supervision who could have acted differently.) Mack shocked me and Daisy by not only holding back on saying ‘I told you so’, but trying to row back from being judgmental! This left Yo-Yo to be the voice of sense saying May’s death should have a purpose. This was the right moment for Deke to call and inject relative lightness into crisis.
I noted that we did not see Isiah end Enoch, which you’d expect for a character of his stature, and that Isiah did not like the Fitzsimmons mind mining.
Why was Fitz wearing a wedding ring? Did they remarry or did he just go along with the previous marriage???
I did not enjoy seeing May with blood pooling around her, but I thought Izel’s family were formless beings, not uniformed Black Rider types. I suppose it would have blown the budget to convey, in which case, WRITE IT DIFFERENT. (But hey, if you want nitpicking, why wasn’t HUNTER in Chromicom script in the ‘previously’, especially as they’re being so snotty about primitive humanity? There is no good Watsonian reason, is there?)
Izel got cocky, but Sarge was still mad with her. Suddenly there was a suggestion they’d been a bit imprisoned on their realm, but this never led anywhere.
You might stick a sword in May, but she’ll just pull it out, not bleed out and stop the aliens. <3 May.
Deke had minor zombie flare-ups and Mack had Deke to put up with as he guided him into landing the little plane on the big one. Yo-Yo used her superpowers, though I didn’t entirely buy what happened, but then, of course, she got shriked. Eek.
Fitzsimmons realised quickly enough where the Hunters had got their advantage from and adapted accordingly. Very married bickering over whether there was anything good about the Framework (don’t worry, Fitz, Deke copied that too, so if the show wants to bring it back, it can.) Their joint realisation that they were going to have to sacrifice themselves was touching - you really felt how much their experiences have changed them - and I scrambled to think of a way out. I was thinking it would involve Enoch, but not in Isiah’s body. For once, the fake voice worked, and their ‘yeah, yeah, done that before’ response to his portentous suggestion amused.
Sarge cut an increasingly ambiguous figure as Izel suspected he’d sent May over intentionally (he hadn’t, so arguably, this was more loose writing), so she popped over to find that life and death didn’t matter over there, so yes, May would have a sword fight with her, thank you very much. Sadly, we cut from it too quickly.
Not knowing that Sarge’s fate was now rightfully May’s business, Daisy wanted revenge. Yo-Yo asked her to woman up and do what Mack couldn’t to her if necessary. Having left proto-Agent Deke on guard, with an arm-pat from Daisy, they found just Sarge, and his line was antagonistic. So, we saw his ‘true CGI self’, he beat Daisy and then had a boring fight with Mack. Yo-Yo’s situation was critical, and Daisy prepped herself to stab her friend dead.
We returned to the more interesting fight, but Izel replaced the stones, while May’s focus was on her. Hate to say it, but bad judgment call, May.
(Duly noted that we had no idea what Fitzsimmons and Enoch were up to during this stretch.)
Most of the principals congregated back on our side of the temple. Sarge HAD underestimated May, whose killing of Izel did the trick - and meant nobody had to kill the just turned Yo-Yo. A nice sword toss allowed Mack to fell Sarge. Mayt then she had a heart-renderingly simple yet emotional exchange with Daisy and prepared to die. Just as they were all blinking and wondering ‘what now?’, enter Simmons sans fringe and a team in Hazmat suits (to collect monolith samples, so they might recur AGAIN.)
Henstridge had a pile of exposition as everyone, well, the uninjured Mack and Daisy (Deke was presumably demoted) followed her around the cleaned and polished model of the big? ship. Of course, in this brave new world, Fitz and Simmons are separated, because of course they are. They’d found a way to rescue the others, clued them in on the Chromicoms’ plan (worth parsing at some point - because somehow the Asgardians haven’t set up a colony on Earth, for instance). It involved time travel, oh, and robot Coulson. Enoch had returned to his body, but I imagine it’s time travel and robot!Coulson that will be the bigger features of the next season.
This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/395556.html.
I only found out on Saturday that this was the last episode of a truncated season (like Gotham, only there will be one more season of this.)
That news immediately increased the jeopardy of what happened to May. Fitzsimmons’ response was far more aghast than my minor irritation last week!
And then things got even worse, with the Chromicom Hunters making their hostile presence known in the Lighthouse.
Cut off mid chat, Daisy was starting to blame herself (eh, it was Sarge’s decision, and he’d been let go with supervision who could have acted differently.) Mack shocked me and Daisy by not only holding back on saying ‘I told you so’, but trying to row back from being judgmental! This left Yo-Yo to be the voice of sense saying May’s death should have a purpose. This was the right moment for Deke to call and inject relative lightness into crisis.
I noted that we did not see Isiah end Enoch, which you’d expect for a character of his stature, and that Isiah did not like the Fitzsimmons mind mining.
Why was Fitz wearing a wedding ring? Did they remarry or did he just go along with the previous marriage???
I did not enjoy seeing May with blood pooling around her, but I thought Izel’s family were formless beings, not uniformed Black Rider types. I suppose it would have blown the budget to convey, in which case, WRITE IT DIFFERENT. (But hey, if you want nitpicking, why wasn’t HUNTER in Chromicom script in the ‘previously’, especially as they’re being so snotty about primitive humanity? There is no good Watsonian reason, is there?)
Izel got cocky, but Sarge was still mad with her. Suddenly there was a suggestion they’d been a bit imprisoned on their realm, but this never led anywhere.
You might stick a sword in May, but she’ll just pull it out, not bleed out and stop the aliens. <3 May.
Deke had minor zombie flare-ups and Mack had Deke to put up with as he guided him into landing the little plane on the big one. Yo-Yo used her superpowers, though I didn’t entirely buy what happened, but then, of course, she got shriked. Eek.
Fitzsimmons realised quickly enough where the Hunters had got their advantage from and adapted accordingly. Very married bickering over whether there was anything good about the Framework (don’t worry, Fitz, Deke copied that too, so if the show wants to bring it back, it can.) Their joint realisation that they were going to have to sacrifice themselves was touching - you really felt how much their experiences have changed them - and I scrambled to think of a way out. I was thinking it would involve Enoch, but not in Isiah’s body. For once, the fake voice worked, and their ‘yeah, yeah, done that before’ response to his portentous suggestion amused.
Sarge cut an increasingly ambiguous figure as Izel suspected he’d sent May over intentionally (he hadn’t, so arguably, this was more loose writing), so she popped over to find that life and death didn’t matter over there, so yes, May would have a sword fight with her, thank you very much. Sadly, we cut from it too quickly.
Not knowing that Sarge’s fate was now rightfully May’s business, Daisy wanted revenge. Yo-Yo asked her to woman up and do what Mack couldn’t to her if necessary. Having left proto-Agent Deke on guard, with an arm-pat from Daisy, they found just Sarge, and his line was antagonistic. So, we saw his ‘true CGI self’, he beat Daisy and then had a boring fight with Mack. Yo-Yo’s situation was critical, and Daisy prepped herself to stab her friend dead.
We returned to the more interesting fight, but Izel replaced the stones, while May’s focus was on her. Hate to say it, but bad judgment call, May.
(Duly noted that we had no idea what Fitzsimmons and Enoch were up to during this stretch.)
Most of the principals congregated back on our side of the temple. Sarge HAD underestimated May, whose killing of Izel did the trick - and meant nobody had to kill the just turned Yo-Yo. A nice sword toss allowed Mack to fell Sarge. Mayt then she had a heart-renderingly simple yet emotional exchange with Daisy and prepared to die. Just as they were all blinking and wondering ‘what now?’, enter Simmons sans fringe and a team in Hazmat suits (to collect monolith samples, so they might recur AGAIN.)
Henstridge had a pile of exposition as everyone, well, the uninjured Mack and Daisy (Deke was presumably demoted) followed her around the cleaned and polished model of the big? ship. Of course, in this brave new world, Fitz and Simmons are separated, because of course they are. They’d found a way to rescue the others, clued them in on the Chromicoms’ plan (worth parsing at some point - because somehow the Asgardians haven’t set up a colony on Earth, for instance). It involved time travel, oh, and robot Coulson. Enoch had returned to his body, but I imagine it’s time travel and robot!Coulson that will be the bigger features of the next season.
This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/395556.html.