S.H.I.E.L.D., S3 finale - May 17

The final two episodes of AoS have aired, and what can be said about them? Just like ‘Emancipation’, AoS delivered drama – fast-paced, wonderful, epic drama, clad in sci-fi trappings. The actors, from Brett to Clark to Chloe to Ming-Na, have delivered wonderfully, truly coming alive for their characters, (although the connection between Hive and Daisy was just weird and did not went anywhere).

The pacing helped too – just as in ‘Emancipation’, the season finale was fast-paced – the faster, the better…at least in the writers’ opinion. It certainly added to the drama of the series, just as the plot twists helped. Ditto for the suspense. Put otherwise, AoS is a very different show from AC, which was cancelled – maybe because Hayley got a better deal, maybe for some other, unknown reason.

This is a note worth mention – ‘Agent Carter’, ‘Most Wanted’ (that is the second time in a row for this show that didn’t happen), few other shows, got cancelled a week or so earlier, for…no good reason? Weird, that.

Back to AoS… The season’s finale was fast-paced, was tangled, was twisted, as the agents and Hive sought to outtrick and outmaneuver each other, until Lincoln sent himself and Hive into space where no one could stop them from exploding with the warhead. As it was said before, the acting was superb, and the plot of the last two S3 episodes was solid, especially if NOT put into the rest of S3 context.

The bad sides? The finale was rushed – there were plot lines missing (i.e. what happened to Blake and the rest of his Watchdogs?), and there were characters missing – for example, the Koenigs, Thomas Ward, and especially Deathlok. 

The last absence is especially surprising – the agents are going against a crazy, ancient InHuman, who has something of an army on side, so a cyborg super-soldier sounds like a very good character to have on their side, but Deathlok is absent: perhaps his actor decided that he had enough of AoS too?

Otherwise…otherwise the season finale, and in fact the entirety of AoS was… somewhat apart from the movies – aside from Talbot’s pitch in the previous episode, there wasn’t much of a connection with the rest of the MCU, though Daisy has turned vigilante/rogue/anti-hero and isn’t a part of S.H.I.E.L.D. anymore.

Basically, ever since the death of Gideon Malick, Daisy had beent turning into Grant, or at least a Grant-like character, similar to the one that took place back in the first half of S2. Brett, now, is gone, as is Luke, (right?!), so Daisy will have to figure it out on her own. Of course, there is also a question of whether or not Chloe will be back in S4, (of course, one can ask if whether or not there will be a S4 – it’s all up in the air, especially after AC got canned), so we will have to wait.

Until then – this is the end. For now.

PS: And Dr. Radcliffe had survived, and he has made a robot girlfriend for himself. How’s that for a S4 hook?