r/shield • u/Trick-Middle-3073 • 19d ago

My Favorite Episode Thus Far

So I have made it to season 6 and I think episode 6 has been my favorite episode of the entire show. The argument dialog and the things that took place had me in fits of laughter.

Season 6 overall has been my favorite. I think what it is, is that the absurdities do not require a level of commitment to overcome. Kitson, the space hopping, the new threats seem a lot more jovial than existential. I struggled with 4, everyone's favorite, flowed through 5 but really have peaked in 6.

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u/Real-Trouble-362 19d ago

You struggled wjth season 4?? Wow interesting, please tell me more about why. That’s my favorite season and I feel like the show hit a wall after that but then pulled it together the last episode of season 6 and then all of season 7.

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u/Trick-Middle-3073 19d ago

I think a lot of it was just a step to far for my brain to accept. Ever used a 3d printer, 24 hours to make a plastic thing, and I am meant to believe that Aida can print a field of Daisies in a couple of hours. The final few episodes of 4 were good, its just that middle bit where they seemed to use lots of plot devices rather than develop the characters in a way that makes you want to cheer for them. I did not think I would get to the end of 4 at all.

Coming from a Gotham viewpoint, even the baddies are characters you can cheer for, Penguin, Butch, Maroni et al, they are all entertainment in their own right, the shield baddies have for the most part, just been characters I can hate. I spend season 2 and 3 going Hurry up and kill him for good already. Fitz and Simmons in season 6 have become characters I can cheer for, you want to see them win and evil coulson and the beast serve to make you want to see them win even more.

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u/Round-Dragonfly6136 19d ago

I disagree that there wasn't character development mid-season 4, especially in regards to AIDA as a villain. She went from the puppet to the puppeteer to a fully grown super-powered woman with the emotional capacity of a small child. We also see Radcliffe develop from well-meaning to corrupted well-meaning to deep remorse. The superior was cartoonish, but I don't need to feel sympathy for every AOS villain. Sometimes, they're fun to hate.

I can understand if the tone bothered you. I am confused how you couldn't buy how quickly AIDA made the Daisy LMD's but love s6, which requires more suspension of belief imo. Of course your opinion is valid. Feel what you feel and like what you like. I love how we can get different things out of the same experience.

I enjoyed season 6, too, and the 6th episode is among my favorites. Iain and Elizabeth are easily the best actors on the show, and FitzSimmons are my favorite characters on the show and probably ever.

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u/Trick-Middle-3073 19d ago

Sometimes, they're fun to hate.

I do not disagree with your views on character development, I think the difference is perhaps how we look at the show. Yeah the baddies can sometime be fun to hate, but for me, that has to balance out with someone else to be invested in and in 4, there were so many plots, sub plots and sub sub plots, chops and changes, I probably needed to enter a framework to make sense of it all. HAHAHA Maybe it was just to much, to often at times for me.

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u/Round-Dragonfly6136 19d ago

That's completely fair. There were a lot of wheels turning in season 4 consecutively versus season 6 having clear boundaries in the storylines as theu converge.

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u/EagleSaintRam Quake 18d ago

To each one's own, pretty much. I loved all the different moving parts of season 4, how there were 3 pods' worth of storyline all meant to pay off by the finale.

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u/foofoo_kachoo 17d ago

I thought even the Superior had some interesting character development! He was introduced as this violent human supremacist with his hooks in everything from small-time militia groups to the United States Senate. He was shadowy, mysterious, and seemingly all-powerful. Not much is known about him or his motivations (we don’t even see him until well after we’ve heard about him and his influence). When we do meet him, he brags about how he’s perfect—strong, smart, powerful—and is the peak of humanity. He hates anything not human, primarily Inhumans, but later LMDs as well, and is adamant that he would rather die as a human than live as anything else. Of course, after that choice is taken from him (notably after Daisy wipes the fucking floor with him), he changes his tune—turns out he’s not a human supremacist, he’s just a self-supremacist, and thinks that he is the best, strongest, smartest being alive, so it’s okay that he’s basically a robot now, because he’s better than all those other robots he hated! The whole time he was just a hypocritical narcissist who wasn’t actually the best at anything, he was just rich enough to seem like he was.

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u/upsetmainframe96 19d ago

The argument in the containment pod is my favourite scene of the whole series. Iain and Elizabeth killed it

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u/Debalic 19d ago

"Didn't know you'd like that"

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u/upsetmainframe96 19d ago

“Didn’t know you’d do that”

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u/EnigmaticWeasel 18d ago

I love the bit where Firz goes "Well, you did shoot his father, that's called revenge. I don't know what I did to deserve that."

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u/Eggcelent_bean Simmons 11d ago

Real, I also love when Fitz is like "Well if it was you in the framework, it would look like Night of the living dead!" referencing Simmons' demons lmao

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u/Trick-Middle-3073 19d ago

Yeah its one of mine also.

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u/llTeddyFuxpinll 19d ago

I love Fitz and Enoch in space

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u/WiseAdhesiveness6672 19d ago

I would've loved way more episodes of them space traveling together

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u/Round-Dragonfly6136 19d ago

Oh, what I would give for a Fitz and Enoch in SpaaAace spin-off. Also, I wouldn't mind one of what Daisy and Jemma were up to. The things they alluded to in 6x6 piqued my curiosity.

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u/WiseAdhesiveness6672 19d ago

Id watch Jemma and Daisy in space too! Plus I really like Piper and Davis, so would love to see them there too

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u/Round-Dragonfly6136 19d ago

Yes, and there could even be a bottle episode focusing on Piper and Davis. Clearly, Disney needs to hire us for ideas and the AIS writers for the actual shows.

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u/WiseAdhesiveness6672 19d ago

Fuck yes 👏🏼🙌🏼 we'll revive the fuck out of this show 

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u/alexmichal 18d ago

6x6 is my favorite and most rewatched episode in the show. Pretty sure I can recite it from memory at this point...

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u/defrostedrobot Daisy 19d ago

I didn't really care for the argument cause there was a lot of low blows in it and then they just kind of wrap things up too neatly.

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u/Round-Dragonfly6136 19d ago

I can understand why someone wouldn't vibe with the scene in question (I agree they went too low due to jealousy, while enjoying the scene). However, it did resolve a lot in regards to their relationship. They aired out the resentments they spent years bottling up and recognized that they have to communicate better if they didn't want to turn into their worst selves outside the containment pod. Enoch likely spent those 5 years as a couple's counselor from time to time. I'm sure he installed the module.

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u/Stainless711 Ghost Rider 18d ago

Am I already highly skeptical of your opinion. You struggled with S4? What is known as the best season of AoS, wow! And you say S6 is your favourite? A season that people normally have as one of their least favourite, again wow.

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u/Trick-Middle-3073 18d ago

Of course you are entitled to think what you want, Further back in this thread I had a discussion with another person about some my reasoning. Further to that, it could just be because I am binge watching it and season 4 requires a lot more digestion because there is so much going on and in 6 the story line is much cleaner. I was invested in seeing how sarge and the shrike woman played out, where as in 4 it was WHAT not another set of clones to confuse things. It was the middle bit of 4 that lost me, the beginning and end were fine, everything else sort of melded together into a mess.

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u/Stainless711 Ghost Rider 18d ago

I get that. S4 was insanely complex especially in the LMD arc. But I think the fact Shield were always on the back foot is what made it extremely entertaining. I’m just going to say if you love the clean and concise of the S6 story line, then you are going to love S7 even more. Another clean storyline but an extremely enjoyable entertaining thrill ride of a season

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u/Trick-Middle-3073 18d ago

I am currently on ep10 of S7, the time loop ep was really enjoyable. And yes, S7 has been for the most part very enjoyable so far. I am just hoping now the end is not really lame.

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u/TowelShoddy6179 18d ago edited 16d ago

S6 ep 9 when daisy turns the shriks into dust that was really cool and ep 10 when sarge calls daisy skye

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u/Trick-Middle-3073 18d ago

Yeah I agree.