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ayankun · 4 years

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yalright let’s do this

AGENTS OF SHIELD SEASON ONE REWATCH COMPLETE BREAKDOWN MEGAPOST

hella spoilers for the entire canon up through season 5, but not 6 because I only saw it the once and am having a hard time remembering ANYthing about it.

I cannot determine specifically what it was about this season that caused to be branded “literal garbage” in my mind-hole for seven years.

Best guesses:

there’s some cheesy stuff that probably didn’t sit well with me at the time, and, at the time, there was no way of knowing that that kind of stuff was going to be ultimately eradicated

there’s some good stuff, like character stuff and plot stuff, but it didn’t successfully implant positive emotional responses in my brain-hole, leading me to be frustrated/offended at its own self-importance

there’s some stuff that just Doesn’t Work. I won’t call anybody out, but there are some main side characters whose casting, in my opinion, leaves much to be desired. when it comes to acting ability, I feel that it’s important to have the ranges of your entire cast match each other. if you’re gonna hire B-listers, at least make sure they’re ALL B-listers. if you’re gonna splurge and get some S-tier talent, pleeeeease don’t embarrass the B-listers by thinking you’re doing them a favor by including them on your project. Understood, this opinion is highly subjective and I can’t expect everyone in front or behind the screen to buy into it, but it’s definitely a pet peeve of mine that causes strong reactions in me*

some of the plots are tired and/or straight up boring. I got through them easily this time through because I was able to focus on the things I like, which is largely character interactions and re-learning the backstory for stuff that I know will continue to be important later on. imagine listening to your grandpa’s stories about his life, but instead of telling you the cool stories about going to the moon or whatever, he’s telling you in great detail about the time he got his shoelaces stuck on like, a rusty nail sticking out of a fence. It’s not a great story but it does explain why his mom only bought him velcro shoes after that and one time when they were trying on shoes in the store a couple of years later, some other kid started making fun of him for having velcro shoes and long story short your grandpa’s relationship with that kid is what got him interested in astrophysics and also he married that kid twenty-five years later -- but right now the story is specifically about spending forty minutes trying not to get tetanus.

Now that I’m older and wiser, what really surprised me throughout, though, was that not only was I not having any type of reaction that validated my “literal garbage” classification, I was noticing that there was A Lot of stuff that ticked a lot of boxes.

I’m talking technical stuff, the textbook basic filmmaking stuff, the stuff that I subjectively find objectively “Good” because it means that creative decisions were made with intent and were also executed proficiently enough to make that intent clear.

I’m talking SYMMETRICAL NARRATIVE which has to be one of my all-time favorite techniques, one that I personally use a lot, and I’m very biased in responding favorably when I see it, so I think ultimately this is a huge reason why this season cannot be classified as garbage this time around. Because it shows that they cared! It shows that they had A Plan! It’s an emotionally satisfying technique that can be used to great effect when tipping the audience off to how far we’ve come from where we started. It creates this nice tidy structural loop which I find very appealing.

Just real quick, you see this in individual episodes or even scenes, too. Here’s a classic A+ example from episode 2:

Simmons has given Skye a bottle of water as a gag because that’s what happens on planes, and that bit is a set up to this bit, where Coulson is talking about how he rebuilt the Bus from the “studs up” and it demands to be treated with kid gloves; ergo:

Only to have the thing completely wrecked over the course of the episode. In the denouement, “just starting to warm up to this place,” Coulson says ruefully, righting a broken glass as if that will put the plane back together; Skye immediately tosses a coaster down and moves the glass on top of it.

As a callback, it juxtaposes the starting-state and ending-state in your mind and highlights the contrast between the two. And it’s also a nice character-building beat where you, the audience, get to observe Skye’s character in that she remembers a trivial detail that happened to be important to Coulson. You also get to see Coulson observing the same, and you understand a little bit more about both of them. *chef’s kiss*

So this is a pretty powerful and common technique, and I guess you could say that any well-resolved narrative is by definition going to recall you to the specifics of how it started. Like ep 1 we start with Mike and Ace, their call and response “what are we/we’re a team,” and an understanding of Mike’s desire to be his kid’s guardian and hero and his desperate search for the tools that will allow him to become that. In the finale, we see the pay off where Ace (via Skye) reminds Mike of this motivation, and Mike is finally in the position to protect his kid by taking out the Big Bad.

But I don’t want to go through the list to demonstrate that everyone’s character arcs likewise left them in a thematically resolved position relative to where they started. Obviously this is an expectation of all (well structured) narratives.

(And I don’t really mean to talk about callbacks themselves, such as Fitz’s obsession with monkeys or May’s repeated demand of “don’t call me that.”)

Stuff that only comes up at the beginning and the end. Here’s the kind of symmetry that I mean:

Skye’s use of GPS encryption and the location of the diner where she first meets Mike. Both topics come up in ep 1, and are revisited in ep 20 when she’s stalling for time against Ward and brings him to the diner by telling him that it’s the GPS coordinates necessary for decrypting the drive. It says, last time you were here, Skye, you were living out of a van and fangirling over people with superpowers; now you’re an official agent of SHIELD (fun while it lasted, anyway) and you’re currently doublecrossing your own doublecrosser who was directly responsible for transforming you into the competent spy you are today.

Same thing: the only time we see Lola fly is at the end of ep 1, when Coulson and Skye are heading back to the Bus, and in ep 20 when Coulson rescues Skye from off the Bus.

Ep 2: 0-8-4. We’re introduced to the very first object with the titular designation, and Simmons idly wonders “imagine what it would do to a person.” Ep 22, it’s used to evaporate Garrett. Same ep, we also meet the little, what even is it, that dendrotoxin EMP (??? I don’t recall whether the gadget is named) that Ward uses, and Coulson uses it in ep 17 to incapacitate Garrett.

Similarly, all the cool alien gadgets we spent the first few episodes gathering and locking up, including that first 0-8-4, are all broken out into the wrong hands in ep 18.

Also in ep 2 we are introduced to the idea of being thrown out of the airplane and Skye & co specifically prevent Ward from being sucked out. We’re introduced to the concept of Coulson’s cellist! Fury also makes a cameo (”talkin to me about authority”) !

It’s a little later on, but ep 6 has Simmons jumping out the plane, and Ward proving his Good Teammate status by jumping out after her (while Fitz is struggling on his way to do the same). Ep 21, Ward boots FitzSimmons out the plane, and in ep 22 Fitz finally has the chance to properly save Simmons himself.

Ep 19 Coulson has a chance to save his cellist (again)

Ep 22, Fury comes back all Deus ex Machina and relinquishes authority of SHIELD directly to Coulson.

There’s also some dialogue recycled on purpose to make a point, like Fitz-Simmons introductory scene is recreated almost verbatim in ep 21:

Ep 2, talking to Skye about his mission vs ep 18 talking to Raina about his mission

(gotta admit, the man took this role seriously. check out that cheekbone game he achieved in such a short time)

And again, Ep 1 Ward vs Ep 18 Ward. They even framed it the same!!

All this to say, Season 1 is Structurally Sound and it has my blessing.

Now let’s move on to the list of things I liked that surprised me:

It’s pretty well polished, visually. Joss Whedon’s veteran control of the director’s chair is readily apparent in the pilot, setting the visual tone for the series. There are some made-for-tv shots over the course of the season, sure, and the least impressive compositions tend to involve CGI backdrops, but they do make the most of their interior sets and work hard to dress up various LA locations to, er, inspire the idea of the international scope of the show. In my last update, I talked about ep 8 The Well in the context of Quality Directing, so it definitely goes above and beyond the basic shot-reverse shot when it wants to.

Ward. Just for the record, I think Brett Dalton is great at his job and really brought exactly what they wanted to this character. Eps 1 and 2 are a little shaky and stiff, but everyone’s performances are, as they let these characters coalesce around them. I remember not liking Ward when I was watching this live, and honestly I think this was intentional. He’s that character that you expect that you’re expected to like, you know, the traditional cocky savior type that lots of those fancy heroes are. But because he’s so tropey in his characterization, you’re just ... over it? And then when they flip the script and you’re supposed to hate him -- WOW. It’s like two Christmases at once. They took something you were already doing and rewarded you for it.

I’m not unaware of the “redeem grant ward” phenomenon. I’m aware that the character had fans who were honestly drawn to and appreciative of the character before that persona was revealed to be a lie.

And honestly, it’s not that I like OR dislike Ward at all. As a person. It’s annoying that he’s a cocky bad-boy. But it’s sweet when he plays nice with Simmons. It’s embarrassing that he and May have “a thing.” But it’s cathartic when he opens up to Skye about his past. And Then, the sequence where we know he’s Hydra but Skye doesn’t. And Then, the sequence where Skye knows he’s Hydra but he doesn’t. And Then, his weird yucky confusion where he still wants to pursue something with Skye or doesn’t want to put down puppy-dog-eyed Fitz.

As a character, Ward is a great character. His set up is so bland that the twist does appear to come out of nowhere, but on a rewatch all the groundwork is there. His characterization as a baddie is enthralling. I’m forecasting into season 2 a bit, but you want to follow his nefarious exploits just as much as you want to see his ex-friends smash his face in. Brett Dalton played it right, A+ good job. It makes Framework!Ward just that much more of a beautiful thing, to get to see what it would have been like if the Season 1 persona had actually been the man.

Also as covered in the last update, I was really very pleased to see how much character work was being done in this season. Because I only watch and rewatch starting from the second season, there are important plot points that I’d been grudgingly attributing to this season about which I’d forgotten the specifics, such as, what’s the deal with Gravitonium, howcome we hate Ward so much, where did they get that memory-torture-machine, why are you acting like I recognize Titus Welliver’s character? What surprised me was how much of a focus there is on character development as well. A lot of good origin story stuff, like how green FitzSimmons is and how soft and good-hearted Skye is and all the reasons we respect and trust May and all the reasons we would follow Coulson to the ends of the earth. Watching a found family start to put down roots is worth it, too, ten times out of ten.

The tie-in stuff wasn’t as overstated and stifling as I remembered it being. They were allowed quite a long leash even this far back. Centipede is based on Extremis, but helms a a unique narrative. The Asgardians-of-the-week are just MacGuffins for driving character stories. Turns out all of SHIELD has been Hydra all along! Sucks to be you, a show about the Agents of SHIELD ... oh wait, Daddy MCU’s insane twist is mirrored in the DNA of your team’s composition AND baked into your overall season arc? Well then. Carry on!

Engaging with Season 1 explicitly as a prequel is a powerful thing. First time through, I had the distinct realization that “too much of a good thing” was at play regarding Coulson. He’s everybody’s favorite MCU character in 2013, hands down, but ... getting intimate with him for 40 minutes a week really waters down his mysterious G-man appeal. BUT. After spending six+ years with the man, Season 1!Coulson is a precursor to the 3-dimensional Director you’ll fall in love with, rather than a distortion of the one-liner MCU!Coulson you thought you wanted.

So what’s next! Absence makes the heart grow fonder, and here all all the things I associate with AoS that were not present in Season 1:

Robot hand.

DaISy JoHnsOn

AGENT/DIRECTOR MACK where is he I need him

Fitz’s facial hair

Their underground SSR base with the exposed brick, I miss that place all the time

Hive, Bobbi*, Hunter, Kyle MacLachlan, Maveth (everything** about Seasons 2 and 3, really). Robbie Reyes. Aida and Kasius!! I know these things are temporary, but they’re so important to the best bits and I love them.

Getting to see episode after episode where there are scenes at a time containing a majority (up to 100%) of women and/or POC characters with executive agency, and none of those characters are token or temporary but were placed there with intent to normalize a diversified cast.

My absolute favorite episode of all time, 4x15 Self Control.

Things I am not looking forward to:

**Lincoln. I’ve seen these seasons four times and just now I had to google his name because I wasn’t sure it wasn’t Logan. He’s garbage and I’m glad he’s dead. Other opinions are available.

Misc. Thoughts

*I said I wouldn’t name names but Adrianne Palicki is a C-lister who can swing a B+ if the stars align. I love Bobbi, though, especially the way the character’s reputation precedes her, how her adorableness complements her badassness. In fact, the character’s a great foil to May, who is also a badass lady and S-tier agent but has a completely different approach to being those things. Bobbi’s a reminder that badassness and aloofness are not correlated at all. Also there’s a headcanon out there that she’s non-binary (one of the reasons she prefers Bobbi over Barbara) and that is a concept I can get behind. Bobbi’s perfect and I’ll fight you if you don’t agree.

Poor Trip!!!!!!! When you always start from Season 2, he’s really just a flash in the pan, there and gone. I’ve always been like, “well, he didn’t really have a home here, no carved-out niche, so I guess getting Coulson’d and becoming something to avenge is the best a character like him is gonna get.” But now that I see that he comes late to the game as a literal stand in for Ward, his story is that much sadder. He was never intended to BE a character. He’s introduced with Garrett as a pawn/distraction during this arc’s who-is-Hydra shell game, he’s kept to demonstrate what kind of friend and agent Ward should have been, his defining character trait as a gentle flirt only serves as a catalyst for Fitz’s coming to terms with his feelings for Simmons. The poor guy is just a walking plot point, up until the bitter end. :<

I had entirely forgotten and/or never tracked the fact that Fury put together Coulson’s team specifically to monitor him after project T.A.H.I.T.I. I’d forgotten the distrust Coulson has for May after he perceives that she has betrayed him by being a part of this. It’s a season-specific reveal that is literally never mentioned again. It’s important to the fabric of the narrative of that particular arc, offering up May alongside Ward and Trip as fodder for the aforementioned shell game, but the true inciting incident of this entire show just gets swept under the rug and ceases to matter. I’m kind of :/ about that.

When you’re bi and non-binary, you’ll get a lot of mileage out of wanting to be/be with Daisy and/or Fitz, don’t judge me

In conclusion, Season 1 is the opposite of literal garbage, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is my favorite show and my favorite MCU movie, Daisy Johnson is my favorite Marvel superhero (not related to Season 1 but still true), and nobody had better spoil Season 7 for me pleaAAASE don’t let it happen.

#agents of shield #aos #so I guess this is what I ended up doing today #v productive

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agl03 · 7 years

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In The Little Moments

Well now that the dust has settled and we are now into hiatus I wanted to get this meta off my chest and out into the Universe.

I know the fandom, myself included, were disappointed at how the Fitzsimmons aspect of last season was done. From the record low screen time together, the ‘reward we’d waited for’ not really being the reward WE wanted or what was hyped, and then the fallout post Framework. We already have a pile of fix it fics out there that could have made things a lot better.

I also stand by my analysis that the writers thought it was enough. In the past the Fitzsimmons fandom hasn’t been a hard fandom to please. with something like a handhold and sandwich sustaining us for months. And when we go back episode by episode and we had a moment or two nearly every episode, which is amazing. They have us tons of ‘little moments’.

We should build a place to get away, lingering hand holds, and bed cuddles.

Fitzsimmonsing in the lab/cue Jemma gasping

They both had HUGE hero moments separately and you don’t have to live in the shadows anymore.

Love Nest shopping, casual “I Love You’s,”, “The Look”, and The Lean tm with I prefer a Classical Beauty.

“The Look” pt 2 and fight

Fitz losing is crap because he couldn’t get ahold of Jemma.

Everyone ships them, everyone knows how much they mean to each other, ‘she’s out there all alone and I’m gone”, and glorious reunion hugs.

Fitzsimmonsing in the lab, working together, comforting touches (cue creeper AIDA), double shot, and couch cuddles.

Fitz made the electric bobbi pin and no one can tell me otherwise. But yes there was a distinct lack of moments here.

Fitzsimmonsing in the lab, sassing Talbot, and The Lean tm part two with adorable flirting.

KISS (short kiss but dang it it was the first one in forever), fight, protective get away from him Jemma with Dadcliffe.

Has to be one of my top eps. Fitzsimmonsing in the lab, backstory, protective/supportive Jemma, face grab kisses, adoring looks, and more Fitzsimmonsing.

Fitzsimmonsing in the lab and in the field. Supporting new step dad Mace and don’t get yourself killed hugs.

Supportive Jemma, hand holds, Davis bit (rip Davis), and more scared hand holds.

THE FEELS! Protectiveness, more feels, oh god more feels, Fitz wants to propose, Jemma wants to say yes, more feels, I can’t think without Fitz, this is not where your story ends, and Jemma going to get her man back.

Jemma dug herself out of the grave...and yeah we don’t talk about the rest.

His name is Leopold James Fitz and I love him. And for good measure more feels.

Jemma driven to get to him and AIDA driven to make sure that didn’t happen.

AIDA pretty much confirms she’s took Fitz for herself here to Daisy.

No matter what Jemma would not say that she meant nothing to him.

My love for will never fade, only room in his heart for her, and the most beautiful reunion hug ever. Oh and the evil robot thought what they had was so amazing she tried to steal it for herself.

FItzsimmonsing...kinda, decoy Fitzsimmons, and AMEN!

Theirs is a forever love.

I can only speak for myself as to why that impressive list didn’t feel like ‘enough’. And its that while those little moments would have totally done it in past seasons. Fitzsimmons has grown, not only are they now in a relationship and I expected to see at least a little more of that. I expected to see them actually working and being together more. If someone had told me at the beginning of the season we’d see more kisses for FItz when he was brainwashed into a relationship in the Framework vs. Fitzsimmons I would have come up with a nice long meta as to why that wouldn’t have happened.

It was also they hype there was over selling. IE us and Jed have very different understanding of what words like reward mean.

This was also coupled with they went too far with Fitz in the Framework and they grossly underestimated the toll that and the whole thing with AIDA would take on the fandom. Nor do I feel that was their original intention. I do think originally we were going to get more of a Dadcliffe thing where it was indeed Radcliffe manipulating him in the Framework and then they jumped tracks and went with AIDA since they were so happy with Mallory.

As I’ve said they crossed the line between fun and frustration.

And Season 4 is in the books all we can do now is fix it fic the hades out of it over hiatus.

But that also means I’m going into Season 5 with a very VERY different set of expectations. This is more for self preservation for myself than anything else but if anyone else wants to follow along that is great.

We are a very lucky fandom with tons of very talented authors. Last hiatus was fluffy fic fest 2k16 and so far I was right and we are in the midst of recovery fic fest 2k17. I need to be ready for the recovery arc they have set up for Fitz and Fitzsimmons won’t get the attention it does in our fics. So just as we didn’t get kisses and cuddles all the time in Season 4 we aren’t going to get a lot of really wonderful discussions on recovery and healing in Season 5.

I am going to be careful with any and all interviews.

The Jeff’s: Troll us...though Loeb was not wrong with his “This young man as you’ve never seen him before,” with Iain.

Jed and Mo: Doesn’t outright lie but will over embellish or mislead. Also these are the ones that know their endgame. So even though he says Marriage is something that will “come up” again it might not be “soon” (another word us and the writers have a different meaning for).

Cast: They have to be so careful in what they say and they get the scripts right before. For example Iain had the ‘sit down’ with the writers for his arc but Lil wasn’t privy to it. Lil being happy could be her just happy they are filming together again not that Fitzsimmons have a Love Nest in Space and a baby on the way.

My expectations are back to pre season 4 levels where I am happy to have them in the same room, know who each other are, don’t have a ton of angst, and are not kidnapped.

Know we will get some nice moments like we did this season. But those moments will be smaller...big ones will come out of no where.

Pray that the writing team has seen a fraction of our feedback and taken it to heart.

Essentially plan for the worst and hope for the best.

I know Fitzsimmons is endgame. I know there will be more obstacles for us to get there...fingers crossed they will face them together.

#aos meta #not sure where I was going with this #fitzsimmons

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agl03 · 7 years

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Hi! :) After the no Fitzsimmons nonsense of this season, are they seriously thinking about separate them AGAIN or even break them up?? They have done nothing as a couple, except crying... and let's face it the apartment thing was a prank. I won't lie, I won't take it anymore, if the season begins with them apart, I will shut down the tv... If it is a "forever love" but they only show it the first day and in the very last ep without nothing in-between, following the journey is useless. :/ :(

Hi Anon!

We don’t know what they are going to do with Fitzsimmons when we first come back…there is a very good chance that the writers don’t know what they are going to do either. I think that they have an endgame in mind…and its a matter of what route they take to get there. And as they go into Season 5 they stand at a fork in the road as to what direction they want to take.

Its okay to feel upset and even betrayed right now. I did, and I still do a bit. I’m getting better as I re watch and have a few metas under my belt. But I definitely am going to be a lot more careful with anything they tell us from now on…good and bad. I do hope the writers and show runners are more careful too. Seeing the hurt. IE don’t put things out there you don’t intent on paying off or worse lead us to believe it will be paid off when you very well know you won’t.

The way I’m looking at it is if they were going to break them up we would have seen the break up in the finale. We saw Philinda take the step back, if Fitzsimmons were going to do the same I think we would have had a heartbreaking scene where Fitz pushed her away and said that he needed time. But we didn’t. We got a scene where he point blank said that there his his love for Jemma would never fade and that there was only room in his heart for her. With the “other woman” who had orchestrated things so that she would be his “whole world” sitting right next to him and she meant NOTHING romantically to him. Nothing. He had the same amount of time worth of memories and “transferred feelings” for Ophelia as he did Jemma, and Jemma won hands down.

We saw Jemma go through hell to get him back. That her feelings hadn’t changed either, that she didn’t blame him for anything. It wasn’t him. And she saw that affirmation as well.

Did we get a chance to see THAT desperately needed conversation. No. And not gonna lie or sugar coat it. That totally sucks and the writers dropped the ball. Not only did they run out of time, I think they honestly thought that what they did was “enough’ of a pay off. Don’t get me wrong, that pod scene is now one of my all time favorite scenes. It was amazing and powerful…and had that been the last thing we saw of Fitzsimmons this season I think most of the fandom would be good right now. Because there it ended with them holding each other in that silent affirmation that they were there for each other through it all. They really had no idea how much of a toll the Framework Arc would take on the Fandom. And in the past we really haven’t been a hard fandom to please. They are used to giving us epic moments that are spread out and we’re content to gif the heck out of it for a few months. But we’re expecting more now because Fitzsimmons have grown both as characters and in their relationship and we want to see moments that reflect that.

We did get some great moments, where they HUGE moments we had all been excited about going into the season? Again,no. But in more of Fitzsimmons fashion it was those little moments that spoke to their love and deep connection.

Bed cuddles

Adorable in the lab with the boxes “Cue Jemma Gasping”

Love Nest Shopping

Fight

“She’s out there all alone and I’m gone”/the ENTIRE team affirming how much they mean to each other.

Beautiful Reunion hugs

Fitzsimmonsing to stop Eli and double gun shot

Tormenting Talbot

Comfort Kiss

I mean the whole of 12 for me I just love WITH bonus “Your the best” face grab kiss.

“Don’t do that” with you didn’t die hugs and working together

Comforting Fitz and we’ll fix this together

Rip our hearts out but yet look he was thinking about Marriage before this all went to hades.

Jemma digging myself out of a grave to get to my man Anne Simmons

“If you do this I lose him forever” “I love him”

Pain, more pain, but we started to suspect that AIDA had stolen Fitzsimmons relationship for herself. along with Fitz.

Uniting behind our collective hate for Papa Fitz and cheering Jemma on as he went after him….after totally sneaking out when Daisy said they had to leave him behind.

More pain but Jemma would rather die than say she meant nothing to him.

Fitz woke up from a nightmare he was the monster in we need to get to him

Confirmation AIDA stole Fitzsimmons relationship for herself

Leopold “I”ll only ever love Jemma” James Fitz….with Jemma hearing it.

Beautiful reunion crying hugs

Tricking the obsessed, crazy android with a fake fight.

Jemma getting to unload a ton of bullets into AIDA

FItzsimmons getting to watch The Rider and Dad Off Front runner Coulson take care of the contrived roadblock in epic fashion.

Jemma’s “amen” to that they weren’t letting him face whatever alone, didn’t blame him, and were going to help him heal.

I likely missed some but we had something in nearly every single episode this season. Again, no not the big sweep us off the feet and make us swoon traditional shipper moments. But the more quiet Fitzsimmons ones we’ve had all along. Again, I’m not saying I wouldn’t love me a really nice over the top shipper moment (because really writers would one good proper kiss have killed you, no), but they did give us something in nearly every single episode (which is uncommon for a show like this) and I would be bereft if I didn’t mention that here.

Yes, they took the Love Nest from us…and now I know why. Because its not time for Endgame yet…they let us and them get THIS CLOSE. Not only were they looking to move off base but Shield was back on the up and up, they didn’t have to hide anymore. Then,they and we lost it. Jed and Mo constantly talk in interviews about the cost of the job and the toll it can take, how Fitzsimmons is one of the best ways for them to show it, this was a way of showing that. We started the season so close and now they’ve been pulled deeper into the shadows by whoever took them than they were before. And I’ll take losing the Love Nest to losing them together…sorry breakfast nook.

The Love Nest is the Seychelles of this Season, that thing we lost because of the crap that happened.

This continues to give pull to my theory that eventually Fitzsimmons will say enough is enough and choose each other over the job once and for all. And they had that decision taken from them in this finale as they were whisked way by who knows who to god knows where.

As ‘betrayed’ as I feel by the writers right now believe it or not I do have faith that they are going somewhere with all this. That Fitzsimmons with Perthshire, Wedding, and Babies is all in the cards. But its Endgame and until they are ready to have that happen, they will continue to put roadblocks in the way. I’m honestly okay with roadblocks to endgame but they do need to give us Hope in between and need to let them face the next ones together as a couple.

The one that seems to have been set up is now getting Fitz to forgive himself. They’ve set it up that Jemma is the one who will help him do that. Real couples face difficult situations all the time and don’t break up because of it. This is their chance to show a couple dealing with a traumatic event while staying together and helping each other heal. I don’t think they’ve set up them breaking up and getting back together, that is a traditional trope and if anything AOS doesn’t do traditional tropes in the traditional way.

Take the “love triangle” we had this season. The ‘traditional’ or easy way of doing this would have been for Fitz to fall for AIDA in the real world. But NOPE in order for it to even happen…he had to be kidnapped, brainwashed, and manipulated while being thrown in to a nightmare hell world designed by a Robot who wanted his mind and his relationship with Jemma.

I do have concerns they will have them split up physically or make it so even if they are together the situation they’ve been forced into is somehow keeping them apart. Be it they have physically been taken to separate locations or whoever took them won’t allow them to be together outside the lab kind of thing (though Coulson seemed to have some sort of freedom on there).

I know none of what I just said will take the pain away or ease that distrust for the writers now. They made their bed and have to lie in it. A lot of this comes down to us and them having very different definitions/expectations of words like reward and soon. Its okay to be tired of being given the run around too, because I’m there too. They have made it so its more frustrating than fun. They crossed a line thinking what they had was enough to make up for it, and for most of the battered fandom it wasn’t. I’m ready to see them be a couple dealing with this stuff, not fighting to get back to each other. There are plenty of interesting stories to tell there.

However if you really feel empassioned and want to make your voice heard you can do that. Just like when we were fighting for renewal. And I can not emphasize this enough that if you choose to send feedback to do it POLITELY, POSITIVELY, AND RESPECTFULLY! We learned from AIDA that throwing a tantrum doesn’t get what you want.

ABC has a feed back form that you can fill out on its shows. We busted this out a few months ago to fight for renewal, now you can do it if you want to send in your opinion. HERE is a post that has the link and instructions…just change from renewal to your thoughts on the story.

Tweet at ABC and Agents of Shield. Using #fitzsimmons and #agentsofshield

DO NOT tweet at Jed, Mo, Colo, Mark, the other writers, or the cast personally with this stuff.

Going forward I’m going to be incredibly careful with ANYTHING we get from Jed and Mo. I pretty much already disregard anything from the Jeff’s since they troll us so much. I don’t want to get burned again. I will not go into next season expecting kisses, romantic dinners, and heartfelt conversations about recovery, love, and forgiveness. That is what fan fic is for.

Rather I’ll watch for and appreciate those small moments while reveling in the big ones. They like to surprise us with the BIG moments, Sandwich, Maybe there is 2.22, Sunrise/Perthshire 3.7, First Kiss 3.8 (we wouldn’t have seen that one coming a mile away had they not released that pic to EW), Handhold in 3.15, Kisses 3.17,Undercover and ensuing sexy times 3.18 (again we had the undercover tease and waited MONTHS to see that…and most of you likely though I was downright crazy for that prediction too) Love Nest 4.4, Thinking of proposing 4.15. So I’m going to sit back and wait for the next one to surprise me!

And I will hope that the writers see they did hurt us and dial back the trolling, teasing, and pain. Don’t tease things they have no intention of delivering or be a bit more honest about the timeline of such things (cough engagement cough). Not only throughout hiatus but into next season.

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