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shallowness) wrote2018-07-25 08:10 am
shallowness) wrote2018-07-25 08:10 am
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AoS season finale
AoS 5.21 or 22 (depending on how you count it) The End
I know the ending was meant to be emotional, but my strongest emotion was confusion. I thought Fitz was dead, and I had got emotional at that and SIMMONS’S FACE, but the whole ‘In Memorium’ switcheroo and what Simmons was saying suggesting Fitz was lost in time (which led to ‘How?’) Maybe I misunderstood something. Still, the fact that nobody seemed to have been Thanosed overrode everything else. Even though Clark Gregg again did emotional well – the bedside scene with Ming-Na Wen was also great from both. Even though Coulson exchanged big hugs with his daughter figure. Even though Coulson went to Tahiti and I was all ‘paragliding’ is code for sex with May, right?
Clearly, they thought this was it for the show.
I was amused by May unilaterally taking the decision of removing the odium from the equation, so that they made the choice she wanted of saving Coulson. I’d noted Mack talking about hope, which resonates because of his (dead) daughter and a certain President, and insisting on a vote (bless).
I still vehemently disagreed with Yo-Yo, but wasn’t in love with using dead Jaying’s DNA to prolong Coulson’s life either.
Deke was very much at the periphery, recusing himself from the ‘gang’ fight (no, Deke, Team and Family, not Gang). He even got cut off in his conversation with Daisy, which he knew was a potential goodbye, and it was about how he saw things not his crush on her, which I rather liked, because he offered her new insight and she realised didn’t want him to go a little. We don’t know what happened to him. Did we see Simmons take a sip? Because after the vomiting that time, my Fitzsimmons friendly heart would like for her to have that.
But with May crushing the stone, Flint and co. seem like toast.
I liked that Daisy, who Coulson has been pushing as the new director for years, saw her failings and pointed to Mack, who did act as Acting Director that time. As for him as their moral centre, well, I think I’ve used the word ‘judgmental’ more than once about him. I don’t know how it would come out if I totted up what I thought about everyone’s decisions this season.
I very much liked that he defined their core mission as protecting people, and made them act accordingly. That led to May and Fitz coming to save him and Polly, and as Polly was a total innocent and Talbot had been terrorising Robyn (to the point where I had no truck with the rehabilitation of Talbot proposed), that was good.
Mack’s love of his stupid weapon is another matter altogether.
So, it was that rescue and Coulson’s choice that changed the timeline, then. And then the question of who dies differently seemed answered, but no. It was Fitz. I’ve been more annoyed with Yo-Yo, but I suppose they felt that having taken him so dark with the doctor, it balanced out. Interesting call. It seems like the two white guys are done for and the third who joined the cast this season is gone too. I haven’t seen the casting for season 6, but I suspect it won’t all stick, especially as they seem to be ignoring what happened at the end of IW. So, in the moment I was gasping and upset, and then confused, and now I’m reflecting on how little it affected me emotionally.
Otherwise, I wasn’t sure how Daisy as Quake was going to handle Gravitonium!Talbot, who really didn’t see how eeeevil he’d become (look at the beard, dude, or the terrified people around you, as Daisy said). I liked her Quakey tackle of him, but of course she let her guard down. HOWEVER, Coulson had one last lesson for his mentee, she got powered up (thanks to her dead mother’s DNA boost, which if it had to be used was better used on her, I guess) and spaced him instead of letting the earth break up into chunks.
Robyn’s ‘Something’s different’ felt a little slow, even though she is a child and she was basing it on her perceptions.
But to end, we had two speeches about the helpers, which obviously spoke to what the show was meant to be about – the heroes with a small ‘h’. I liked those even if the show has often moved away from that to give the characters the means to overcome gigantic threats and big bads. It seems there was a lot I liked, but the ending somehow lost it’s emotional grip on me. (But then, it was competing with the devastation of IW and the entertainment value of Gotham and indeed last season, which was epic.)
I am curious as to how they write themselves out of all this for continuing adventures and who will have them.
I know the ending was meant to be emotional, but my strongest emotion was confusion. I thought Fitz was dead, and I had got emotional at that and SIMMONS’S FACE, but the whole ‘In Memorium’ switcheroo and what Simmons was saying suggesting Fitz was lost in time (which led to ‘How?’) Maybe I misunderstood something. Still, the fact that nobody seemed to have been Thanosed overrode everything else. Even though Clark Gregg again did emotional well – the bedside scene with Ming-Na Wen was also great from both. Even though Coulson exchanged big hugs with his daughter figure. Even though Coulson went to Tahiti and I was all ‘paragliding’ is code for sex with May, right?
Clearly, they thought this was it for the show.
I was amused by May unilaterally taking the decision of removing the odium from the equation, so that they made the choice she wanted of saving Coulson. I’d noted Mack talking about hope, which resonates because of his (dead) daughter and a certain President, and insisting on a vote (bless).
I still vehemently disagreed with Yo-Yo, but wasn’t in love with using dead Jaying’s DNA to prolong Coulson’s life either.
Deke was very much at the periphery, recusing himself from the ‘gang’ fight (no, Deke, Team and Family, not Gang). He even got cut off in his conversation with Daisy, which he knew was a potential goodbye, and it was about how he saw things not his crush on her, which I rather liked, because he offered her new insight and she realised didn’t want him to go a little. We don’t know what happened to him. Did we see Simmons take a sip? Because after the vomiting that time, my Fitzsimmons friendly heart would like for her to have that.
But with May crushing the stone, Flint and co. seem like toast.
I liked that Daisy, who Coulson has been pushing as the new director for years, saw her failings and pointed to Mack, who did act as Acting Director that time. As for him as their moral centre, well, I think I’ve used the word ‘judgmental’ more than once about him. I don’t know how it would come out if I totted up what I thought about everyone’s decisions this season.
I very much liked that he defined their core mission as protecting people, and made them act accordingly. That led to May and Fitz coming to save him and Polly, and as Polly was a total innocent and Talbot had been terrorising Robyn (to the point where I had no truck with the rehabilitation of Talbot proposed), that was good.
Mack’s love of his stupid weapon is another matter altogether.
So, it was that rescue and Coulson’s choice that changed the timeline, then. And then the question of who dies differently seemed answered, but no. It was Fitz. I’ve been more annoyed with Yo-Yo, but I suppose they felt that having taken him so dark with the doctor, it balanced out. Interesting call. It seems like the two white guys are done for and the third who joined the cast this season is gone too. I haven’t seen the casting for season 6, but I suspect it won’t all stick, especially as they seem to be ignoring what happened at the end of IW. So, in the moment I was gasping and upset, and then confused, and now I’m reflecting on how little it affected me emotionally.
Otherwise, I wasn’t sure how Daisy as Quake was going to handle Gravitonium!Talbot, who really didn’t see how eeeevil he’d become (look at the beard, dude, or the terrified people around you, as Daisy said). I liked her Quakey tackle of him, but of course she let her guard down. HOWEVER, Coulson had one last lesson for his mentee, she got powered up (thanks to her dead mother’s DNA boost, which if it had to be used was better used on her, I guess) and spaced him instead of letting the earth break up into chunks.
Robyn’s ‘Something’s different’ felt a little slow, even though she is a child and she was basing it on her perceptions.
But to end, we had two speeches about the helpers, which obviously spoke to what the show was meant to be about – the heroes with a small ‘h’. I liked those even if the show has often moved away from that to give the characters the means to overcome gigantic threats and big bads. It seems there was a lot I liked, but the ending somehow lost it’s emotional grip on me. (But then, it was competing with the devastation of IW and the entertainment value of Gotham and indeed last season, which was epic.)
I am curious as to how they write themselves out of all this for continuing adventures and who will have them.