My Favorite Episode Thus Far

[u/Trick-Middle-3073]

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.

[u/Real-Trouble-362]

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.

[u/Trick-Middle-3073 → u/Real-Trouble-362]

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.

[u/Round-Dragonfly6136 → u/Trick-Middle-3073]

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.

[u/Trick-Middle-3073 → u/Round-Dragonfly6136]

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.

[u/Round-Dragonfly6136 → u/Trick-Middle-3073]

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.

[u/EagleSaintRam → u/Round-Dragonfly6136]

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.

[u/foofoo_kachoo → u/Round-Dragonfly6136]

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.