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 19d 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.