Quarantine entry #96 - June 25

Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks, so let us talk about something else. AoS, maybe?

…There, sadly, is not much to talk about either, as AoS decided not to break free of its’ initial problems, and instead is giving its’ audience more of the same old same old.

…What is that, you may ask? Let me give it to you once more for old times’ sake. Ready, set, here we go!

First, it is the undercutting, with the Koenigs being the prime example. Whether it is the S7 premiere, when a lot of ado was raised about the rescue of Ernest Koenig, and then the character vanished without a trace, or the previous seasons, when Koenigs came and went and the show couldn’t make up its’ mind – did they matter or are they replaceable? …In S7, Enoch has taken over, at least in part, the role of the Koenig of the season, and no one gives a damn.

…Or take the Chronicoms themselves. Clearly, they are MCU originals, and that is impressive, but they were created to take over the role of the Kree in AoS, (and maybe the rest of MCU, as there the Krees’ record is somewhat spotty itself, does anyone know what is the plural version of that word?), and, again, no one cares. By ‘no one’, I mean primarily the people who could have affected AoS – those behind the scenes, including the higher-ups at team Disney itself. Then again, after seeing the ‘Artemis Fowl 2020’ film, I won’t lie and admit that maybe it’s for the best that AoS’ as a TV series ended-up what it had, because otherwise? It could have been worse; right now, people feel that AF2020 is the SW Sequel trilogy level of bad... Where were we?

Second, it is the constant recycling of ideas – team AoS either thinks that its’ audience is stupid and has a bad collective memory, or they just take its’ collective loyalty for granted. The entire Chronocom/proto-Hydra team up is reminiscent of the Hydra/Kree team-up in S5, and there are echoes of the framework Hydra world from S4 as well. Put otherwise, whenever AoS isn’t stealing ideas from other Disney/Marvel shows that failed to launch, such as ‘InHumans’ or ‘Ghost Rider’, it is constantly recycling its’ old ideas, and-

-And take a look at AoS’ S7, for example. In the initial 4 episodes, there were strong echoes of AC, complete with agent Sousa, who came onboard of the team Time Bus to further help humanity, including Hydra, to save S.H.I.E.L.D. and etc. from the Chronocoms on one hand, and to give Melinda support, now that Gregg is playing a Coulson LMD... a second one, actually. That Is Fine, only now, in the 5^th episode of S7, the Chronocoms have teamed-up with Hydra instead, completely undercutting their previous plan, (whatever it was, left over from S6), while Melinda seems to have gone over her Coulson-related hump completely, which leaves at least some viewers wondering – and what is Sousa’s role in AoS now? Deke and Enoch did well enough as ‘the newcomers’, and now that AoS is literally in the home stretch, Sousa’s presence in it is pointless and outright unnecessary. Moreover, the episode 7x05 seems to have gotten rid of the rest of AC elements in AoS S7, making Sousa even more out of place in AoS for now. Seriously, can’t AoS do anything coherently?.. Apparently not. Anything else?

Just one question: why does Nathaniel Malick here feels like the elder sibling? Back in AoS’ S3, he was the younger one, but here it does not feel like this. Ah, AoS, you just keep on surprising your viewers in a bad way, don’t you?..

Well, this is it for now. See you all soon!