So, an obligatory apology – my bad, due to the insanity of
real life I’ve miscounted; the S5 of AoS had its appropriate 22 episodes after
all; jolly good! Anything else?
…AoS got renewed for the next, sixth, season – that is the
main thing here. Good for it, but with a cast in tatters, it will be hard to
produce anything truly exciting in it. Of course, with A: IW part 1, the background
is set for AoS; Hell, they can even separate the FitzSimmons again by killing
one of them – because Thanos did kill half of all the life in the galaxy, and
that includes half of the agents too, as the S5’s finale promo hints at.
Coulson, of course, is dying already, so maybe Thanos’ action will have him
restored instead – the Infinity gems are tricky things, after all.
This can also be the crunch time for Jeff Ward, who’s been
playing Deke Shaw on the series: if one of the FitzSimmons dies, however
temporarily, then that can be the end for Deke – because the present will
change, then so will the future, which means – no Deke, and Jeff Ward is free
to leave the AoS and the rest of MCU. Easy. Of course, if he, conversely, pulls
‘a NCB’ for the upcoming AoS seasons and stays, he can ignore this course of
action and stay. ‘Course, Palicki and Blood also become regular characters by
the end of AoS’ S2 finale…which didn’t prevent them from leaving by the second
half of S3 – just in time to clear the path for the already-mentioned NCB, so
this sort of thing is tricky, and-
And the great romantic love that is supposed to exist
between Deke and Daisy? Yes, the names alliterate, which can be considered
important, but… it is being downplayed. A lot. Frankly, they should just pair
Daisy with Coulson and be done with it.
Oh, but Coulson is being paired with May – at last – but it
is also being downplayed. I don’t know if real life’s racial differences are a
factor, but frankly, it is Mack & Yo-Yo and the FitzSimmons who have to
carry the show in the romantic department – go them, but…why keep Deke around?
On one hand, he is the new rookie, on the other…his role is being regularly
downplayed, and he feels more like a lighter version of Lincoln. Did the
writers need to kill off Lincoln? Was the offer from ‘Blindspot’, (which is also
nearing its’ S3 finale, BTW), that irresistible? That good? Mind you, ‘Blindspot’
has its own issues by now, especially the contrived Reade-Zapata-Patterson
relationship triangle, (and Rich Dot Com’s new regularly recurring role in the
show is not an improvement of ‘Blindspot’ either), but still, it is livelier
than AoS is. Yes, it is a younger show, but so were Marvel’s ‘InHumans’ and
that didn’t work for them…
Anything else? Talbot became the new Graviton officially –
usually this job is held by Franklin Hall, but this time Dr. Hall has not
returned to MCU, even though he was officially designated to become somewhat
like that back in AoS’ S1, but apparently not. Ian Quinn and Raina are not
reappearing either, not even in cameos, so it seems as if they are done with
MCU by now too, especially since the latter is putting the InHuman angle on
hold: the show took forever to get started, and now it is gone. For good. Not
even Marvel Wiki is acknowledging its’ existence now. It is acknowledging slash
recognizing MCU’s Robbie Reyes as one of that Ghost Rider version, but not the
MCU InHumans. Ouch.
It’s not all gloom and doom for MCU, of course – ‘Deadpool 2’
is coming to the big screens officially later this May, and while Han Solo’s
movie is a part of the SW universe rather than MCU, both of them are part of
Disney, so there’s that. We will just have to wait and see as what happens in
the AoS S5 finale later this week.
Until then – see you all! Hopefully…
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