AoS has reached the ‘fall finale’. Where does it stand?
…It has achieved the break from the past seasons that it
needed to have back in S4 – as Lance has shown Fitz, S.H.I.E.L.D. is gone for
good in the MCU universe. Yay?
Firstly, yes – Nick Blood has starred as Lance Hunter once
more on AoS, in a manner similar to Dalton (Ward) and Britt (Tripp) back in S4,
save that the titular team is out of the framework now, hopefully. (It is still
a possibility that Radcliffe betrayed them in S4, and the septet are still in
the framework, somehow, just in a different part of it. AoS has been known to
remake its plot line with large twists in the past, you know?) That said, Blood’s
heart wasn’t in the acting, you could tell – he was still Lance Hunter, but in
a much-diminished role, so there’s that… but again, unlike Dalton and Britt,
Blood (and Palicki, who played Bobbi Morse on AoS, remember?) ended his RL
relationship with MCU in a bad way – his and Palicki’s own Marvel show, ‘Most Wanted’,
fell through…and frankly the way their characters, and especially Palicki’s
Morse got handled on the show? Not the best way, either. (Cough S2 finale cough).
Speaking of characters, apparently Fitz is going to learn to
deal with the darkness within him that got released in the framework. It would
be easy to root for him…but AoS has already put Daisy through something similar
back in S4, (after she got freed from Hive’s mental control and all), plus
there was Robbie Reyes and his own issues as the Ghost Rider, remember?
…Yes, so far there was no mention of the Ghost Rider
anywhere in S5, but maybe that’s because back in RL Gabriel Luna is currently
working in a film named Hama; so far
it is still in the filming stage, so we’ll have to wait and see what it is
about in the future – but still, back before
S4, MCU and AoS made a big whoop about the Ghost Rider coming to AoS…and he
did. Just for nine episodes. That is slightly less than half of an AoS season.
Ouch! A change of strategy was required, so this time around, before S5, AoS cast gave only some
slight hints about what S5 was going to be around, and…
And it did not work very well – the numbers for AoS S5 are
lowest yet, even though the AoS’ cast and crew did do their best this season to
win their audience back. However, between DCEU’s ‘Arrowverse’, the ‘Gifted’ TV
show about MCU’s mutants, and even another MCU show – about the InHumans,
(remember?), AoS has its’ work cut-out for it, and it shows. In the numbers. In
addition, the reworking of the main characters does not help either – the
FitzSimmons are already going through it, so who is next?..
Mind you, this phenomenon is not restricted to AoS – ‘Blindspot’,
having returned for its’ own S3, is going through the same thing as well. Its’ problem is that the first 2 seasons
were very, very good, so it decided to go for an S3 – but it has no new ideas
of where to go from there, so now ‘Blindspot’ is promptly recycling its’ old
ideas – something that AoS has also done, largely in S3 and 4, and it didn’t do
anything good for the ‘Agents’. The only new development is the introduction of
Rich Dotcom as a main character…and some sort of a comic relief, and…what for?
In S1 and 2 ‘Blindspot’ didn’t really have a comic relief…so why now?
Another possibility is that Rich is going to be token gay
character, (he is in a same-sex relationship on ‘Blindspot’ already). However,
so far we see no evidence of that either, so why is Rich a main/regular
character on the show, again? Between this reworking of at least one old
character, and the recycling of old ideas, ‘Blindspot’ is beginning to suffer,
and that is not good.
Put otherwise, this is it for today – see you next time!
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