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Post by Jesse on Dec 2, 2017 0:40:03 GMT -5
Season 5 episodes 1 & 2 "Orientation" Pretty solid start to the season for this show and I was honestly surprised by the dramatic shift in direction. I definitely was not expecting the reveal at the end of the first episode that they are in the future. I thought the CGI used in the outer space scenes mostly looked good for a TV budget. I also like the use of the Kree as the season villains and am curious how things will unfold. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 7, 2017 10:03:03 GMT -5
Season 5 episodes 1 & 2 "Orientation" Pretty solid start to the season for this show and I was honestly surprised by the dramatic shift in direction. I definitely was not expecting the reveal at the end of the first episode that they are in the future. I thought the CGI used in the outer space scenes mostly looked good for a TV budget. I also like the use of the Kree as the season villains and am curious how things will unfold. Thanks for mentioning it, Jesse; I wasn't expecting the show until January and would have missed those few early new episodes. Watched Orientation part 1 yesterday and really enjoyed it. The contrast between the quality of that episode and the almost unredeemable train wreck that was The Inhumans series was almost painful! The cliffhanger ending with its shocking revelation was very well handled. I didn't see it coming until we were almost there, and I've been around the block a few times! |
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Post by The Captain on Dec 7, 2017 10:35:24 GMT -5
The wife and I watched this Sunday night and really liked it, although she was not terribly thrilled with the twist at the end due to not liking that occurrence in any measure, although she said she could live with this because it went in the unexpected direction rather than the usual one.
Definitely looking forward to the rest of the season.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2017 6:23:42 GMT -5
3 eps in and it's been pretty meh so far. Liked the 616 reference, but otherwise it's been short on surprises, tension and humour
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 25, 2018 20:47:11 GMT -5
Watching the several episodes we recorded during the holidays... and wow, it’s a real blast!
The abrupt change in tone keeps the series fresh, I think, and it was a bold move. That Kree creep, Cassius, is the kind of villain you can’t respect (as you would, say, a Doctor Doom) but is also extremely easy to hate. I can’t wait to see him get his comeuppance.
The SF setting is very much to my taste, and the feeling of anxiety is very well rendered... When you’re really not sure that the good guys are getting out of this alive, the writers must be doing something right.
I loved the return of Hunter... Too bad Bobbi could’t be there as well (busy on The Orville, I guess) but those two characters were faves of mine.
Enoch is a great addition as well. I like an alien who plays it cool and has no apparent secret agenda. Given his role on Earth, I wonder if he’ll turn out to be a Recorder.
For a series that remains on the fringe lf the MCU, this one has been consistantly and surprisingly good after its first season’s growing pains.
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Post by The Captain on Mar 13, 2018 14:01:31 GMT -5
AoS hit its 100th episode last Friday night, and it was an interesting episode in that it wasn't really what one would expect from a milestone show. It was relatively low-key with some nice character moments, not big and loud and "OMG Nothing will evah be teh same". It set up some plotlines for the rest of this season, which appears to be its last, as the writers are prepping the season finale to serve as a potential series finale as well.
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Post by Jesse on May 19, 2018 12:24:53 GMT -5
Season 5 Episode 22 "The End" This really felt like a series finale and a nice swan song for Coulson and May. I was surprised to read that the show was indeed picked up for a sixth season and am interested in the new status quo moving forward. |
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Post by The Captain on May 20, 2018 8:03:39 GMT -5
My wife and I have really enjoyed the entire five season run, and we watched "The End" with quiet resignation that it would be the last time that we saw the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. together, not knowing that the show had gotten renewed for a 6th, albeit truncated, season. {Spoiler: Click to show}
This was a great episode, pretty much all we could have asked for if it had indeed been the last one. Coulson got a fitting end to his character arc, there were individual moments for each team member to shine, and the battle between Daisy and Talbot was incidental to the rest of the story. That last point, of course, has pretty much always been the case in this series, as there have always been villains and threats, but the show just excels in its quieter moments, in a lot of ways like Buffy and Angel and Firefly (huh, wonder how that happened).
At a personal level, I loved how, in the team's time of need, they put Mack in charge because he was their moral center. It was nice to see that a Christian character was elevated because of his/her beliefs instead of being shown as the butt of jokes (like Sheldon't mom on TBBT), a hypocrite, or a paper villain for the progressive hero to knock down. Mack never wavered in his belief, never took the easy or expedient way out, and always held that they needed to be better, as people and as heroes, or else they were just like those they sought to stop. As for season six, I think they are smart in waiting to bring it back until after the next Avengers movie. A lot is going to change in the MCU in the next year, and this show can ride along that wave (either in full or in part) rather than simply getting tossed about between the two mega-events. The end of this season was a little odd, in that they kept mentioning Thanos and what was happening globally, but none of it was directly portrayed on the show (outside of Talbot's motivation). Once things calm down next year after they resolve the Thanos situation, the show can slide into the new MCU and use those events as a jumping-off point rather than having to dance around them. |
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Post by Randle-El on May 21, 2018 22:31:27 GMT -5
My wife and I have really enjoyed the entire five season run, and we watched "The End" with quiet resignation that it would be the last time that we saw the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. together, not knowing that the show had gotten renewed for a 6th, albeit truncated, season. {Spoiler: Click to show}
This was a great episode, pretty much all we could have asked for if it had indeed been the last one. Coulson got a fitting end to his character arc, there were individual moments for each team member to shine, and the battle between Daisy and Talbot was incidental to the rest of the story. That last point, of course, has pretty much always been the case in this series, as there have always been villains and threats, but the show just excels in its quieter moments, in a lot of ways like Buffy and Angel and Firefly (huh, wonder how that happened).
At a personal level, I loved how, in the team's time of need, they put Mack in charge because he was their moral center. It was nice to see that a Christian character was elevated because of his/her beliefs instead of being shown as the butt of jokes (like Sheldon't mom on TBBT), a hypocrite, or a paper villain for the progressive hero to knock down. Mack never wavered in his belief, never took the easy or expedient way out, and always held that they needed to be better, as people and as heroes, or else they were just like those they sought to stop. As for season six, I think they are smart in waiting to bring it back until after the next Avengers movie. A lot is going to change in the MCU in the next year, and this show can ride along that wave (either in full or in part) rather than simply getting tossed about between the two mega-events. The end of this season was a little odd, in that they kept mentioning Thanos and what was happening globally, but none of it was directly portrayed on the show (outside of Talbot's motivation). Once things calm down next year after they resolve the Thanos situation, the show can slide into the new MCU and use those events as a jumping-off point rather than having to dance around them. Honestly, I feel like at this point AoS attempts to tie-in to the films is pretty weak and feels obligatory rather than doing anything to serve the story. You could have removed any mention of Thanos and his shenanigans and the story would have been the same. As for Mack, was it always established that he was a religious character? Maybe my memory is just spotty, but I never thought of him as being particularly religious until this season when it seemed like he was making more explicit references to God. Even Yo-Yo, who was established early on as being Catholic from what I remember, seemed more religious than he was until more recently. |
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2018 14:17:50 GMT -5
As for Mack, was it always established that he was a religious character? Maybe my memory is just spotty, but I never thought of him as being particularly religious until this season when it seemed like he was making more explicit references to God. Even Yo-Yo, who was established early on as being Catholic from what I remember, seemed more religious than he was until more recently. As far as I remember, he's always been spiritual / non-specifically (of any denomination) christian |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 3, 2018 20:12:11 GMT -5
Just finished watching the show. Oh, boy, what a great finale! I’m glad we’re apparently getting a sixth season because I love the characters, but this would have been a perfect end to the series. I can’t say how much I appreciate the way they {Spoiler: Click to show}
managed to undo that dramatic development (which would have been fine, really, but was all sorts of sad) by reminding us of a plot hole that I had completely forgotten about, but that was also perfectly logical. Mixing tragedy, a surprising plot twist and genuine hope is a great recipe to properly conclude a series! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2019 16:42:46 GMT -5
First trailer has dropped for Season 6
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2019 12:31:11 GMT -5
New S6 trailer just out
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Post by The Captain on May 2, 2019 14:52:08 GMT -5
Based on this, I'm guessing we're going to have to call him Phil Skrullson. |
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Post by badwolf on May 2, 2019 17:23:07 GMT -5
Based on this, I'm guessing we're going to have to call him Phil Skrullson. Faux Coulson |
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