Agents of SHIELD, season four

[promethia_tenk]

On the one hand, it's extremely gratifying when your three-plus year devotion to a fairly mediocre show is repaid so spectacularly. On the other hand, I've just witnessed several of the most fucked up things I've ever seen on television and I watched all of Hannibal and several seasons of American Horror Story.

Remember the cute little primary-colored show about a spy family living on an airplane? *broken laughter*

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[shadowkat]

Okay, now I want to know what the heck they did? But not sure I want to track it down on "On Demand" to find out.

[promethia_tenk]

It involved both robot replicas of people and people trapped in computer simulations. But it's like the writers were on a mission to use both those things to inflict the maximum possible emotional damage. It was rather magnificent, in a supremely screwed up way. I think it's the best season they've ever done by a long shot, though messing with people's senses of reality and identity is one of my favorite things to do in fiction, so I was extremely predisposed.

It is on Netflix, if you've got access to that. No idea about On Demand.

[shadowkat]

That actually sounds really cool. Better than previous episodes. (I watched up to mid-way through S3...or when they got back from the weird planet, and Ward became the alien creature, with Powers Booth as the bad guy.)

[promethia_tenk]

Ugh, I've forgotten far more than I remember about seasons two and three. I was ready to give the show up if this season didn't impress me, but yeah, if you've ever enjoyed this show, I'd say it's worth giving this season a go (though the first third is still a bit dull. Not awful, but it picks up dramatically).

[shadowkat]

That was always my difficulty with MAOS...it had pacing problems. There'd be good episodes in there, but you'd have to slug through a lot of ...not so good ones to get there. ;-)

[st_aurafina]

It's a pretty dark season, this one.

[promethia_tenk]

I loved it, but . . . holy hell.

The actors who play Fitz and Simmons need to be less good at being completely devastating. Once the writers realized what they could do, we were all doomed.

I'm very pleased, though. I felt like they lost so much spark after season one and just go bogged down in meandering plotlines, dark lighting, and keeping the core crew apart from each other. But they kept giving me just enough of what I originally loved about it to keep me watching and wanting it to be better. I basically set this season as a test for myself: if I wasn't significantly impressed, I was going to stop watching. So I guess I'm stil watching.

[ironymaiden]

my problem with the show is that they can't seem to frontload awesome. season 1 didn't kick until after Winter Soldier, and I felt like the Ghost Rider arc was the weakest part of the season.

[promethia_tenk]

Ugh, amen to that. I came around to the structure of season one. I found the more stand-alone-y episodes cute, and I liked that it ended up having a stealth arc. But it annoyed me that a ton of people who probably would have enjoyed this show gave up early on for perfectly justifiable reasons. This show has so much going for it, but it's so it's own worst enemy.

Ghost Rider was pretty dull, ngl.