AoS: more S6 spoilers - Feb 5

Briefly: real life sucks. My life sucks for all sorts of reasons, but today I met a pigeon, whose life was worse, ‘cause it was dead. The bird, that is. Red-tailed hawks live in our neighborhood, and I do see them hunting pigeons in the sky; they hunt other birds too, (especially songbirds), but this time it was a pigeon and it was partially eaten already. I don’t know as to why the hawk didn’t finish the job, most likely humans, (or maybe crows, they live in our neighborhood too and regularly harass the hawks, especially when it is winter, as it is now, when the gulls are mostly away from here and aren’t the top birds anymore as they are during the warmer part of the year), but there it was. One dead pigeon and partially eaten. Life sucks, and then you die, and death sucks even worse. Yes, yes, the circle of life and all that tripe, but when you see it, it still makes an impact.

…And then we have the TV-verse, and more precisely, AoS the TV show. As it was shown in the latest AoS trailer, when the show returns this summer, Clark Gregg returns to it…as a brand-new character, because Coulson will die (from massive damage and old age) between the S5 finale and the S6 premiere. Sigh.

Here is how life and death work on TV, especially for AoS: the show just cannot win, since it has entered this game. If it kills off an established character, a number of fans will stop watching the TV show; sure, they can still write fanfic, draw fan art, etc., but the show itself? They will not watch it, and the numbers will plummet. So, instead of doing what ‘the Gifted’ does, for example, and kill only secondary characters, and once every blue moon, to make each death count. And oh yes, ‘the Gifted’ has its own problems, especially the irregular airing schedule – they’re missing this week too, and it probably won’t be good for their ratings, but this is still better than how AoS went all cutesy in regards to life and death on their show. Fitz is dead? Yes, but for the second half of S5 or so he existed in two places (and in two times) at once, making himself his own twin or something, so now his friends only need to bring him back from space and all will be normal again, (theoretically), plus AoS the show has a plot arc to fill its’ first half of S6 or so. Coulson is dead? His actor is returning and playing a brand new role, so in some sense at least, Coulson is not dead. Ha-ha-ha, how cute, and how demeaning for the AoS’ roles. They – the characters – are demeaned, are no longer important, it does not matter if they live or die, the show’s writers will bring them back somehow anyhow. It is no wonder that AoS numbers have went down as months and years went by.

Anything else? No, not really. There is a story on Internet that a jogger has somehow killed a puma (aka cougar, aka mountain lion) in self-defence, but it is the Internet, you know? Life may be stranger than fiction, but the Internet does not always differentiate between both.

This is it for now; see you all soon!