Agents of SHIELD (Season 5)

[Milky Joe]

Better than the movies.

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[number8]

Spaaaaaace. This show is fearless.

[Milky Joe]

Not just space... time travel!

I laughed really hard with delight at the postcard from Fitz. "Working on it."

Clark Gregg said in his Marc Maron interview a year or so ago that he wished the show would get back to having more comedy and I agree. Felt like this premiere was a lot funnier than s4.

[Peng]

Only caught up the three episodes just now, and oh man this show is as good as ever. Perhaps the strongest opening episodes to its season ever? The new setting's dystopian world-building is one to get lost in. Even isolating Jemma works really well to explore every corner of this world.

Best superhero show on TV alongsides Jessica Jones S1 and Legion.

[number8]

"I survived the pain of losing my real child, but I can't get over the pain of losing a fake one. What kind of father does that make me?"

This new characterization of Mack is nice.

[Thirdmango]

I like how they're using less budget and making it look like they have more. Fantastic season so far.

[Peng]

Man, even an obligatory, fill-in-the-details flashback episode is still so entertaining. Fitz's gun move is awesome, and I can't express how much I love that unexpected (to me) Star Wars reference. Fitz's single-mindedness just partners so well with Hunter's meta self-awareness.

[number8]

Soooo good. Fitz is so cool now (I had suspected that he was gonna come out of the Framework as a ruthless good guy), and my god, I’ve missed Hunter. Shame that it’s a one off.

This show always nails the format breaking non-linear stand-alone eps. I knew it was going to be a solid ep when I realized that it’s a flashback.

Also, the music this season has been outstanding, but I love that this ep gives you the contrast between the classic and the futuristic.

[number8]

This show always nails the format breaking non-linear stand-alone eps. I knew it was going to be a solid ep when I realized that it’s a flashback.

Oh, this is the second ep that the director Jesse Bochco and the writer Craig Titley worked on together. Their first one was 4,722 Hours. That makes sense.

[Milky Joe]

Funny, I was just posting in the other thread to Duke about the fates of Bobbi and Hunter. I'd forgotten about them entirely... then Hunter shows up in this episode, and I didn't know who he was supposed to be at first.

Anyway, fantastic episode. This show is at its best when it's about Fitz desperately trying to save Gemma from absolutely impossible situations. I love that they've gone back to that well.

[Peng]

Fitz finally in this setting is beyond awesome, from the fun(ny) pretense he puts on to all those breathless planning maneuver and fight scenes.

[number8]

I love that this is a life and death scenario but the episode's throughline was like a rom-com where Fitz and Simmons kept getting interrupted trying to talk to each other.

[Milky Joe]

I love how Fitz, after almost losing his mind realizing the potential for evil inside of him in season 4, now had to use that potential for evil to save Simmons. I kinda hoped it would last a little longer than it did though!

[Peng]

100th episode! And appropriately, the best one since the season's sixth episode, which is where our comments in this thread here left off (not that it wasn't fun since, but this has been the longest stretch we stick with one storyline since season 3). Rousing action, quite affecting pathos (though for sure we were saying goodbye to Coulson, but still I don't see how he can't survive this season, and future Yo-yo's words about him will come back, unexpectedly (and refreshingly) upbeat "Finally!" last scene for once (which has me specifically check the number of this episode), and last-minute plot twist.

[Peng]

Also love this scene from last episode (May meta-deadpaning "We have a small but active fanbase", a subtle Trump dig, and a Thor Ragnaork reference?)...

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[Peng]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6n0dGiaXmY

[Milky Joe]

That was one of the best episodes of the series I think. Wonderful acting. Coulson is just such a great character, and the stuff between him and Daisy was very strong poignant stuff. The show is smarter than it pretends to be.

[Peng]

Didn't expect to suddenly have another series best here, up there with last season's "Self-Control". That one grooves on thrilling direction and great plot momentum, whereas this has some devastating (and convincingly organic) character work, with a real feeling of point-of-no-return consequence. The gut-wrenching turns and hopeful reveals are complicated, and all the more heightened, by our knowledge of a potentially preordained future, where present comforts might mean we're on the track to a doomed endpoint (or vice versa). Great, emotional stuff.

[Milky Joe]

http://comicbook.com/marvel/2018/03/26/captain-marvel-clark-gregg-agents-of-shield/

Yay!

[Milky Joe]

Good show is good.

[Milky Joe]

Ahem... (spoilers for episode 19)

GLENN TALBOT IS GRAVITON HOLY @#$@ YEAH

[Peng]

Wondering how they are gonna incorporate Infinity War into this. A hint of it when Daisy was asked if she's heard about what was going on in New York.

[Milky Joe]

I'm not hoping for much, if anything. They've progressively tied in less and less to the point where they may as well be in a different universe (Deke talking about multiverses seems relevant). Though they have said that they've written it such that it could be a series finale if they aren't renewed. If the season ends with Simmons disappearing into ash in front of Fitz's face I will die.

[Milky Joe]

And THAT, my friends, is how you do a finale. Absolutely devastating!

[Dukefrukem]

WTF. This season opens like I'm watching Fringe.

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Fringe fricken' ruled.

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[Dukefrukem]

Yes. Yes it did.

[Dukefrukem]

Do the show-runners talk to Kevin Feige about future plans? Or was it a coincidence this season is set in space, in the future, to avoid "the Snap" altercations" ?

[Peng]

I’m sure they talked, but going into space can’t avoid the snap, can it. I’m going to mention something further but I’m not sure where you are in the season.

[Peng]

Oh I just saw “in the future”. Well, only my last sentence applies then.

[Dukefrukem]

Oh I just saw “in the future”. Well, only my last sentence applies then.

Episode 4; A Life Earned

[Dukefrukem]

Episode 4-8: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzz

[Dukefrukem]

OK Peng. You got back in. HOLY SHIT Nooooo Jo Jo!!!

[Dukefrukem]

I picked this back up.

Glad Jo Jo is OK... sorta.

Hyra is back??? At the end of Episode 14.

[Dukefrukem]

And who's this guy who looks just like John Slattery at the beginning of Episode 15?

edit: ah - Daniel Whitehall

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[Dukefrukem]

Oh damn Peng.

That death scene when Ruby exits the chamber with Strucker . Pretty cool.

[Peng]

Yeah that effect was gnarly. Sometimes I marvel at what network can get away with showing. Then later on in the same ep, throat-slitting.