Agents of *curses and tears hair*

[promethia_tenk]

As the official last person on earth watching Agents of SHIELD, I feel it is my duty to let you know that season five continues to be EPIC.

EPIC.

I also need to repeat this regularly to myself because otherwise I don't actually believe it.

Comments

[owlboy]

No idea what you're talking about but solidarity with the ''only-person-watching-this-show''ness

[promethia_tenk]

It's a weird place for me to be in, tbh. I'm usually the one who's bailed three seasons ago.

you are not alone

[ironymaiden]

I had to pause this week's episode for a few hours when the black jacket came out. Too many feels.

Then I finished it and was like, I think they saved the world by sacrificing Fitz-Simmons, but they've subverted my expectations over and over this season so I'll keep hoping.

Re: you are not alone

[promethia_tenk]

Icon! <3

I had to pause this week's episode for a few hours when the black jacket came out. Too many feels.
I am loving that storyline. Somehow 'The Doctor' is the evil scientist storyline I never knew I always wanted? And I'm not entirely sure why it's working so well for me, but it is, it is.

I recently rewatched F.Z.Z.T. from season one and it was so crazy to realize that was the moment we were doomed. As soon as the writers realized exactly how devastating Fitzsimmons could be, we were consigned to a world of pain with them for the rest of forever.

Then I finished it and was like, I think they saved the world by sacrificing Fitz-Simmons, but they've subverted my expectations over and over this season so I'll keep hoping.
Oh, I think they'll find a way through it, though I have been conditioned by so much Doctor Who to buy Deke's talk with Simmons hook, line, and sinker. I'm looking forward to the journey back being long and arduous, though.

Re: you are not alone

[ironymaiden]

if the Doctor succeeded, Deke as we know him won't exist in this timeline.

I have a limited tolerance for "Buffy sad, show good". If this show wraps without a HEA for Fitz-Simmons it's going to taint my memories of the great parts. or maybe I'll come up with my headcanon stopping point like I did for BSG. (It was a downer that the Cylons won. Sometimes I like to imagine that Adama figures out how to rescue the colonists, but the tragic end was fitting.)

Re: you are not alone

[promethia_tenk]

Yeah, I'm praying for a renewal right now because I cannot imagine the show getting to the kind of place I want it to be in by the end of this season--there's just no way.

[kaffy_r]

I am so bloody behind on watching AoS (I mean, we stopped watching it when everyone was thrown into a "Hydra Wins!" simulated world. Not that we thought it was bad, because I really kind of loved the show, or at least liked it very, very much ... but ... life happened? So I think I'm, like, 2.5 seasons behind?

[promethia_tenk]

No, if you got to the simulated world, you've only got about a third of the last season to go, so you're only about a year behind, all told.

I totally know what you're talking about, though. This has been a very 'uh, life happened' show for me for, like, three years? And then season three was so lackluster I didn't watch season four for nearly a full year. When I finally got around to it, though, I was just so blown away, and season five is just as good.

I've never been much for superheroes, though? The harder sci-fi stuff they're doing in these seasons is much more my thing, and boy do they know how to use it to inflict maximum emotional damage. I was just telling Elisi, I can suddenly tell that these are the same people who wrote Dollhouse and I am all about it.

[kaffy_r]

I think I remember you and I touching on superheroes and why I love them and you're not so into them, in some previous conversation. Luckily, I love both superheroes and hard skiffy, so it'll be a win-win for me.

One of these days, I might want to take another look at Dollhouse. I tried for a few episodes, especially since one of my BSG faves, Tamoh Penikett, was in it, but ... maybe the writing hadn't gelled at that point?

[promethia_tenk]

I adore Dollhouse and wish everybody did as well, but it is a heavily flawed show. If you didn't get past episode six, you should definitely push through a bit more, because that's when things get interesting and more about what they're actually about, where the early episodes made the whole thing seem like it was going to be some kind of sadistic procedural. But the show was never really given the opportunity to gel. The pacing of season two is flat-out comedic because they basically knew when they were being cancelled and thus set out to tell the whole story arc they wanted to tell in the time allotted. The ideas are sublime, the execution less so . . .

[anonymous_sibyl]

I came back to it this season after skipping last season and I'm glad I did. This season is great.

[promethia_tenk]

So good *grins*

Is there a reason you skipped four? I put off watching it forever because I found season three so lacking, but when I finally got around to it I loved it desperately. It is dark, dark and fucked-up, though, so if you heard specific things that put you off it, I could understand.

[anonymous_sibyl]

I was watching and the beginning of the season wasn't working for me. My husband kept watching so I was sort of aware of what was going on. I tried to watch a bit of the Framework stuff since that sort of story usually works for me but this time it didn't.

I think the biggest part of this is that it didn't pass the "MS Flaring Test." I've been pretty unwell and had to get picky about what I watched and did.

[promethia_tenk]

That's a pity. For what it's worth, the middle third of the season was my favorite.

I think the biggest part of this is that it didn't pass the "MS Flaring Test." I've been pretty unwell and had to get picky about what I watched and did.
I have rheumatoid arthritis--say no more.

[ironymaiden]

Season 4 suffered from the slow start that plagued every season but this one. There are three arcs, and the first one (Ghost Rider) is the weakest, IMO. You can probably pick up with the LMD arc - all you need to know is that there's a magic book called the Darkhold and the Ghost Rider takes bad guys to hell. Last season's characters and events are now becoming important again.