Amph Agents of SHIELD Discussion Thread (and Slingshot)

technically it is the space station from the future because they're both the same location, the lighthouse. the space station was just the same area but, like, 100 years later and floating in space.

As for SHIELD running around freely that was technically resolved in Season 3 but there's a lot more of it now and the dearth of a huge gaggle of SHIELD agents (I think at most we see is, like, 12 at a time), I just go with "Because Snapture".

 

I did just read a theory that Agents of SHIELD is following the Endgame / MCU time travel rules that going back in the past just creates an alternate reality. Like last season after the AoS crew left the future, the humans were still there, they didn't blip out. So they go back and Deke doesn't disappear when they stopped Talbot because they had already created an alt reality.

Now one has to just figure out if they did create an alt reality why didn't they get Snapped / what stopped Thanos? Maybe (literal!) Butterfly Effect Thor went for the head in Wakanda due to all of the tremors in Quake's fight with Talbot across the globe and it pushed it Stormbreaker up a foot into Thanos' face.

 

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Since we're dealing with time travel here, maybe fake Coulson is an LMD created by Fitz to go back in time to save the Chronicom homeworld, and I guess he ends up going rogue or something?

 

How neat is it that

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ley lines play a part. Love those things. Also nice is the fifteen minutes it takes for Trucker May to dispense with Snow, "make it hurt" re Fake C., and presumably get her ears on.

 

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Oh wait maybe not a LMD, since that's been ruled out. More like, a copy of Coulson downloaded from the Framework into a body like AIDA, and then sent back in time.

 

I thought the latest episode gave the biggest hint regarding "Sarge," which is...

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He's the "nightmare" version of Coulson. I mean, the episode hit that point several times especially when Agent May was dreaming about Coulson in Tahiti and Sarge in the big rig. Additionally, the episode showed the Sarge and his crew aren't really bad guys, but rather anti-heroes of sorts by trying to kill off the head of the alien space bats creatures. Their plan to lure the head of the alien space bats to earth and kill him while blowing up earth.

I also think this might tie into the plight of the Chronicom homeworld. Sarge and his crew could be the space and time distortion and the alien space bats are the things that have run ravaged across planets.

 

I am not sure I like this season. I think the previous one should have been the series finale. It is time for a new series...

 

I felt the series could have ended after the pilot episode. LOL I mean, so many people on the internet were turned off by the campy style of the pilot. This season is only 13 episodes long and I think it's coming together after the last episode.

 

i don't mind them doing an episode flashing back on how they met or the past but the way they did it i didn't care for at all.

 

All my Devon ancestors

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got cramps from laughing at "You're so English."

I found the episode heartwarming, life affirming and all that good stuff. A practical note is that the 8 p.m. time slot works so much better than later, thanks ABC.

 

I don't remember...what was in season 4?

 

This latest episode was like Into The Fitz-Simmons-verse as we saw different "versions" of the characters, both real (as in different points in time) and surreal like the Framework Leopard. But my favorite versions of the Fitz-Simmons-verse were the college days of the character because Fitz was a sweaty nerd and Fitz and Gemma remember/experienced that day differently.

 

Someone in the writers' room is a fan of Galaxy Quest, given the Leopold / RingSimmons bit...

 

The May flashbacks made me 25% think that both May and Coulson went through Tahiti project to rewrite their memories but then that would mean Sarge's crew would have to do that too, and Coulson would need a real hand, so I guess he is who he says he is.

So much for my theory that the new guy's husband died in the snapture, though. I quite liked that No Prize too! Well maybe his 2nd husband died in the snap.

The Fitz/Simmons episode was really solid and I loved the darkly twisted way they ended it by just having the evil copies make out with each other, that was downright strange. Fitz wig in the flashbacks was really ... unfortunate. But hey it's a mind palace so I'll give it a pass.