Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks. Now, let us get back to AoS. Yes, they are on their finishing
line, 2020 is supposedly the last season for them ever, though it should be
acknowledged that it is possible that the SM fallout will affect them too,
somehow, and they will get a reboot, or a reset or something – but that is not
very likely. For the moment, Disney+ and co. are coming forth, and with them come the new TV series, including
the Falcon-Bucky bromance, and the Wanda-Vison romance, and a Moon Knight new
TV series, and several other, and SW series, (like ‘the Mandalorian’) and what
else have you – put this way, even AoS finds itself to be unnecessary, and as
for C&D & ‘Runaways’, it’s open end for them too – no one expected for ‘The
Gifted’ to be cancelled with a with a whimper for example, did you?.. Of course
not, but the truth is that AoS for a long time had been MCU’s main toehold in
the TV world once AC got cancelled…and it is just as unlikely that it will return to the big screen, seeing
how Captain Roger’s A: E finale had him back with Peggy, abruptly changing the
entire minor plotline(s) that had been leading up until the CA: CW film in the
MCU. It is not AoS alone that can experience reboots and resets, but in the
case of Steve and Peggy it is a relatively minor one…but it cancels out the
now-terminated AC the TV series for good, no matter how fun it was. In it,
Peggy was moving on from Rogers, and
in ‘Endgame’ Rogers moved right back in. For a while, he had a
semi-relationship with Sharon Carter, but now she is gone for good, without a
trace. Ouch again, unless there was never a Sharon Carter, but yet another one
of Fury’s Skrull allies, which raises a completely different line of thought…where
were we?
Ah yes, the promo for AoS final season. The bulk of it is
taken by the Chromicoms, as they arrive in 1931 NYC, kill two corrupt cops and
steal the face of a third one, literally, with a machine of some sort, in a
manner that would make Cthulhu be impressed. Not too much, but still impressed.
However, this was not what had caught my attention, but one of the lesser shots
– in it, Daisy holds a bullet or a similarly shaped and sized object that had a
glowing green Hydra logo on it. Oh, bother.
In the second half of S3 S.H.I.E.L.D. and general Talbot
supposedly had killed Hydra for good…only for it to start to return in the last
third of S4. Then, it was a Framework version of Hydra, supposedly not real, (the
character of AIDA took on many roles in S4), but still Hydra. In CA: CW, Zemo
tells a man he’s torturing/interrogating, that Hydra is done, gone, in the
trash bin of history…and in AoS S5 Hydra promptly returns, this time as an ally
of the Kree. S.H.I.E.L.D. defeats them both – again – and this time Hydra is
supposedly gone for good, there were no indications of the evil organization in
AoS S6, as far as I can remember, so let’s give AoS its’ due – but now, in the
upcoming 2020 final season, it might be back. Why?
…Because AoS seems to be recycling its’ old ideas over and
over, usually in new ways, but they do not always work well, as I have written repeatedly,
discussing AoS in its earlier seasons and episodes. How AoS will handle Hydra’s
return (to MCU proper?) this time I do not know, and I am unsure that it will
be good, face-stealing aliens or not. Ah well, considering that Disney/Marvel
and Sony are at loggerheads in real life, and suddenly MCU’s superiority is no
longer assured, it might not matter for much longer – let’s first wait and see
as to what happens in the Marvel Cinematic Universe proper by 2020 first and
then try to make educated guesses.
This is it for now; see you all soon!
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