S4 was some of the best TV I've ever seen, but my favourite single episode by far is "4,772 Hours" from season 3 when Jemma went to that desert alien planet via the monolith.
That trailer, OH EM GEE but I stopped watching half way through so I don't spoil the whole thing.
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S4 was some of the best TV I've ever seen, but my favourite single episode by far is "4,772 Hours" from season 3 when Jemma went to that desert alien planet via the monolith.
That trailer, OH EM GEE but I stopped watching half way through so I don't spoil the whole thing.
Loved that episode, that was amazing TV for me. I still loved every episode in the frame work, especially considering that the Frame work was suppossed to be idyllic for everyone who entered and it became this horrible night mare world.
Its funny because I follow Mallory Jensen who played Aida and she's become such a huge AOS nerd.
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We got a ton of answers tonight and saw how powerful Izel is.
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Izel can posses bodies so for a while we got a cool little mystery of where's the evil Aztec godess. Then in one really cool scene we saw her basically possessing through everyone on the team to prove a point before murdering poor Davis by walking him to a ledge then jumping out of his body and pushing him off. IT was such a scene of awesome malevolence and a demonstration of power.
We finally got some answers. A few seasons back they blew up the three moniliths and created a supposed rift to a nighmare dimension. But it wasn't it was a dimension of non corporal beings, and when Coulson went to seal the rift, a copy of Coulson was sent back through space and time to the home of Izel and her mate possessed the body and his memories and coulsons mixed. So Sarge is a copy of Coulson, when he was possessed the monster inside him remembers that the shield team was his family and they were taken away and he blames Izel for that loss, though its a false memory.
So in fact everything in this series really goes back to season two and the discovery of the monoliths. In the end Izel took the device holding the power of three monoliths, she's going to use it to open a rift to the non corporal dimension and these beings are going to spring forth to possess everyone in the universe.
In a neat moment when Deke and Fitz are talking about the Coporial beings, Deke was like, we've never seen that before, and Fitz came back with Ghost Rider who is the same concept, could we see a return of Gabriel Luna who was excellent in that role?
Once again Clarke Gregg was excellent when he had to run the gaumet of emotions when he found out the truth and the Coulson in him was fighting his what seems like destiny.
Unfortunately Karolina Wydra who is a good actress in her own right hasn't really given Izel any unique mannerisms except for calling people sweet heart, so when Izel was body jumping we couldn't say that's Izel which is a positive and a negative.
With only three episodes left this year, there are a ton of questions that still need answers, and with 1 year left you wonder if we're going to get a permanent death for Coulson or a permanent return for Coulson.
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I think the whole point was for the audience not to know when whoever was Izel - so mannerisms were out. We were supposed to think it was Deke when it was really Fitz.
That was a great episode leading to the 2 hour season finale next week.
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you know at first one of the complaints around this series and especially around Daisy was acting chops. But this episode especially shows how good this cast is in these roles. Clarke Gregg continues to be awesome, for most of the year he's been playing the heavy with relish, but tonight we saw the real Coulson start to emerge especially when he asked Daisy to kill him but called her Skye.
The Iden plot is pretty clear, and now we see the power of the Monoliths as the creation stone allows humans to build the thing they most fear.
Was that Flint that Mack and Yo Yo brought back. Because that makes amazing sense as his power is the ability to manipulate stone. He's the one being in this universe and the next that can build a monolith. Kudos to the writers for pulling that one out.
Meanwhile in space, we see what could be an emerging threat as the Chroicom's look to not only save their original world but invade another world to make a "Backup". which world is that going to be.
I love that the big breakthrough this week didn't come from FitzSimmons who were completely befuddled, but from Deke.
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Best acting in the episode for me was when May and Daisy were talking about how May had interrogated Sarge, and you could tell May was barely holding it together but still managing too.
She's so great at acting cool and detached but emotional when she needs to be.
That scene was actually crushing, as well as Sarge begging Daisy to kill him. Clarke is just a god damn treasure, and is great in everything he's in.
One of his best roles was in Good Company, where he plays a completely skeezy executive and has maybe 5 minutes of screen time and dominates it.
I get that they're making the Shield harmonic belt buckle, but that won't be enough to stop them, and Coulson might not be enough to stop them, I was thinking of Ghost Rider but they already used him to kill a big bad, I can't see them bringing him back, but what if they bring back the one thing that she can't posses, a certain super powered life model decoy with every mutant power?
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Ok, I need to digest that season ending episode, but that was farking unbelievable. Sad that there's no more Shield til next year and its the last season.
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Solid start to the final season tonight, and the writing and character interaction continues to be just superb.
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What I love about this show is it continues to reinvent itself in new and creative ways, and they've done it every season, right back to the first season when it started slow and every proclaimed it to be DOA, and then with one twist the show became a different thing. Every year they've done it and managed to bring in new and intriguing and complex villains from ADA to Hive.
For some reason it took me a couple of minutes to kind of stop being confused at the start because such a long period of time had passed since last season, and I'm old damnit. But once it started rolling there was next to no pre-amble, it was just dive in at a fast jam packed pace.
What I liked about this episode is that they just jumped into it, there was no recap or remember when moments, we basically start with the Chronicoms stealing cops faces in 1931 and then leap to where last year ended with the activation of the Coulson LMD who when he wakes up nearly has a breakdown as he tries to assimilate 2 years of memories that he didn't live and weren't his. It was a bit heartbreaking to see, and its something that we're going to probably revist this season as this isn't Coulson, though it was good to have the wisecracking, bad joke Coulson back.
The concept that Shield was chasing the Chronicoms through time to prevent them from killing FDR who started up Shield was a great piece of simple writing that put the Shield team in 1931, where we got a rudimentary lesson on time line mechanics from Deke, where he explains that time travelers are like sticks in a stream and they can't disrupt the time line unless you put too many sticks in the stream and it creates a damn that redirects the time line.
I also love that Deke was already thinking of cons and was crowing about loving the time they were in because he bought all of their clothes for 13 buck.
At this point the cast slide nicely back into the roles and we got the first LOL moment as they went to the crime scene of the dead cops and introduced themselves as members of the RCMP and that faceless killing crimes happen all the time in Canada.
As we move on, we get to see an action scene that involved Daisy punching a Chronicrom into orbit (Well not really). At the same time Coulson and Macked headed to what they thought was a SSRS safehouse that was run by Ernest Koening who is basically a rum running gangster, so I assume we're going to eventually find out a key answer to the origins of the Koenings in the future.
Skipping forward Simmons brutally interrogates the captured Chronicom and you realize that she is completely different then the Simmons of previous seasons, she's gotten a cynical hard edge to her now that's a bit sad to see.
Anyways she wrangles out that the Chronicoms are not after FDR, but Freddy the bartender, it turns out that he is the father of Gideon Malak the head of Hydra. So by killing him they kill Hydra which means Shield will never be born.
So now we have the brutal realization that for Shield to exist they have to help the rise of their evil rival, those Chronicom's and their sense of whimsy.
The episode does end with May escaping from her healing capsule and she's hanging over Enoch's head. Is May still effected by Izel?
Quick thoughts
1) Some great lines in this one from Enoch lamenting after losing May "Enoch you had one job". To Daisy swinging a pipe at a Chronicom while saying "1931 Baseball reference" made me laugh, and of course Deke printing out those terrible fake badges and Coulson passing them off as RCMP officers.
2) Yo-Yo is such an emotional lightning rod. Form her reaction when she finds out that she's basically cured of the Shrike material, to her touching her face with her new hands were nice moments.
3) Coulson becoming almost a terminator was kind of awesome.
4) They did a great job of Mack being paranoid and on edge about 1931 racists sentiments, though it was a bit heavy handed.
5) What's in the vials, is it liquefied Terrigen? Is Hydra planning to perfect humanity?
Great start to the season.
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