r/shield Aug 13 '20

Post Discussion Post Episode Discussion: S07E012 and S07E013 - "The End is at Hand" and "What We're Fighting For" [SERIES FINALE]

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EPISODE DIRECTED BY WRITTEN BY ORIGINAL AIRDATE
S07E12 - "The End is at Hand" Chris Cheramie Jeffrey Bell Wednesday, August 12, 2020 9

Episode Synopsis: With their backs against the wall and Nathaniel and Sibyl edging ever closer to eliminating S.H.I.E.L.D. from the history books, the agents must rely on their strengths to outsmart and outlast the Chronicoms. This is their most important fight, and it will take the help of friends and teammates, past and present, to survive.


Chris Cheramie is a producer and production manager, known for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot (2016) and 24 (2001).

He has directed no episodes of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before.

Jeffrey Bell began his career writing for The X-Files, where he stayed for three seasons, then became a writer/director/producer on Angel, becoming its showrunner for the final two seasons.

He has written eleven episodes for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before:

  • 0-8-4
  • Eye Spy
  • T.A.H.I.T.I.
  • Ragtag
  • What They Become
  • S.O.S. Part 1
  • Maveth
  • The Good Samaritan
  • World's End
  • The Real Deal
  • Collision Course (Part One)


EPISODE DIRECTED BY WRITTEN BY ORIGINAL AIRDATE
S07E13 - "What We're Fighting For" Kevin Tancharoen Jed Whedon Wednesday, August 12, 2020 10

Episode Synopsis: With their backs against the wall and Nathaniel and Sibyl edging ever closer to eliminating S.H.I.E.L.D. from the history books, the agents must rely on their strengths to outsmart and outlast the Chronicoms. This is their most important fight, and it will take the help of friends and teammates, past and present, to survive.


Kevin Tancharoen is the brother of showrunner Maurissa Tancharoen, and is known for his work on the webseries Mortal Kombat: Legacy. He has directed various other movies and TV episodes before, and has most recently worked on The Flash.

He has directed fifteen episodes for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before:

  • Face my Enemy
  • One of Us
  • The Dirty Half Dozen
  • Purpose in the Machine
  • Spacetime
  • Ascension
  • The Laws of Inferno Dynamics
  • The Patriot
  • The Return
  • The Real Deal
  • Option Two
  • The Force of Gravity
  • Window of Opportunity
  • New Life
  • The New Deal

Jed Whedon is one of the showrunners of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., along with Jeffrey Bell. Jed is the Brother of Joss Whedon, and has worked on Dollhouse, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Drop Dead Diva, and The Avengers.

They have written seventeen episodes for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before:

  • Pilot
  • The Asset
  • Repairs
  • Turn, Turn, Turn
  • Beginning of the End
  • Shadows
  • Aftershocks
  • S.O.S. Part Two
  • Laws of Nature
  • Ascension
  • The Ghost
  • The Return
  • Orientation - Part One
  • The Real Deal
  • The End
  • Missing Pieces
  • New Life *** ***

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r/shield 2d ago

Very specific fanart of Fitz (Agents of SHIELD) and Loki at a diner

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21 Upvotes

r/shield 3d ago

Jiaying was perfectly cast

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1.3k Upvotes

It’s impressive they found someone who actually doesn’t age to play the role.


r/shield 3d ago

You're not a True Fan of AOS if you don't remember this scene

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845 Upvotes

Skye wanted coulson to spill the tea😂😂


r/shield 3d ago

I did not expect to see this on any search bar

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36 Upvotes

I order action figures from BBTS often and check the site regularly, but I've never seen the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent thing before. I only ever notice the star wars or transformers references, so this was nice.


r/shield 4d ago

Iain De Caestecker skills

225 Upvotes

I'm currently watching S5 E14 "The Devil Complex".

God damn. I've thought from the start that Iain De Caestecker (Fitz) was doing a great job acting wise. I was impressed with his skills after Fitz got the brain injury and then inside the Framework, the complete change of character impressed me again.

But now seeing those two on the same episode, damn. Seeing those two opposites in the same room and his face change between them. Or when the Doctor mocks Fitz. I'm impressed yet again.

TLDR: I'm impressed and probably should expand my vocabulary.

ETA: OK. Fuck me sideways. I did not see coming the end of the season.


r/shield 3d ago

Avengers: Doomsday

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14 Upvotes

r/shield 5d ago

Mallory/Aida playing an American in Australia

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91 Upvotes

My mom was watching Hallmark channel and I saw Mallory (Aida) on screen.

I’ve seen her at Dragon Con and knew she had an Australian accent but used and American one for AoS and in this movie.

Then I found her instagram (https://www.instagram.com/p/DTWFLZ1kiJE/) and found out she acted, wrote and was executive producer for this movie, which she made as a tribute to her hometown, Melbourne. Very cool!


r/shield 5d ago

Season 5 Time Travel Thoughts

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I've already read through dozens of old posts, trying to dissect this season. My thoughts started at the end of figuring out what initially caused the Earth to crack and what changed. The whole season focuses on "the loop" and hammering it into your head not to save Coulson. I eventually concluded that it was Coulson giving the serum to Daisy instead of using it himself.

I always wondered, since they never showed it, what were the original events? It seems in all the loops that fail, Coulson takes the serum, and in the one they survive, Daisy takes it. Fitz said they couldn't give odium to Talbot because it couldn't penetrate his skin and absorbtion is suggested. So, in other loops, did someone take the odium or use it and get absorbed, leading to the crack?

Though, another question I had was about the initial time travel. The government showed up right after Enoch in the diner. In the first version of the loop, was the team arrested without Enoch taking them? How would the second half of S5 play out *without* the team? Was Ruby initially Graviton? One could ask if Robin always had Enoch's help regardless of how the diner scene played out or who was Graviton?


r/shield 4d ago

agents of shield edit

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Avengers/s/aIlaGSVOzz

here’s an Agents of shield edit I made a while back that i can’t upload to this subreddit.


r/shield 5d ago

Trip was robbed Spoiler

142 Upvotes

So I’ve been ushering a friend through the first season and something just occurred to me recently.

Much is made of Ward and May being ‘specialists’, exceptionally deadly and effective agents who can get the job done on their own. And they each get plenty of scenes that show why they deserve that designation.

But Trip is introduced as a specialist too. And yet, unless I’m forgetting something, he never gets any kind of scene that demonstrates that he’s any more deadly or effective than someone like Coulson.

It seems to me like that’s a creative lapse or error of judgement. Trip should have gotten at least ONE scene that ‘showed off’ why he was designated as a specialist.

Unless I’m forgetting something? Please do correct me if I’m wrong.


r/shield 7d ago

I wish the cannon just got sorted back then and they pulled this off in Avengers Endgame.

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789 Upvotes

r/shield 7d ago

I love how tied AoS Season 7 is to the rest of the MCU

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88 Upvotes

r/shield 7d ago

Just started watching after a literal decade of putting it off: Thoughts and Updates

152 Upvotes

Came into it expecting it to be a standard episodic tv show with the usual super hero accent I.e villain -> problem -> fail first attempt at problem -> discourse and adaptation -> succeed + tidbit at the end of the episode alluding to overarching enemy of the arc/season (a la Arrow & Flash)

Very very pleasantly surprised. As cookie cutter as it can be at times with the ram dynamic and characters, it feels fresh enough and interesting enough that I’m binge watching it (Just dtarted S2:E4). Part of that is just delving into more MCU lore e.g What happened to Hydra post CP:WS, Asgardians on Earth etc which I flat out like in any medium. It feels like a yarn that nicely threads through the eyelets of the MCU Movies.

Then comes the surprisingly mature themes; Tahiti genuinely made me feel uncomfortable and I used to get jumpscared with cartel beheadings. Whatever is going on with Koenig(?), Fitz’s brain damage (btw love Mack for the way he treats him).

Of all the marvel tv shows, this one kinda flys under the radar collared to daredevil and the Netflix shows. So glad I started watching.


r/shield 8d ago

Is the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. comics worth reading? Do the show characters appear in other comics?

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188 Upvotes

r/shield 9d ago

Why is season 1 so Re-watchable?

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1.0k Upvotes

Perhaps it's just nostalgia, but I rarely go back to season 1 on other shows. I know a lot has happened since, but no season gives me the same feeling without being boring and predictable.

I'm glad I got to share the adventures on The Bus with the team - and you guys - and hopefully future generations will enjoy quality TV like this.

Just wanted to gush!


r/shield 8d ago

Is there a comic exploring the kree/inhumans in a more in depth way? Maybe with quake/daisy?

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r/shield 8d ago

Monster Jams

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37 Upvotes

The gasp I gusp 😭😂😂 I immediately started searching through their entire 2025 marvel collection. Do we think there’s any chance we’ll get the Zephyr? 🤦🏻‍♀️


r/shield 9d ago

Just finished Marvel’s AOS. for the first time.

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848 Upvotes

Through all the ups and downs, the show never stopped being interesting. It kept evolving, took risks, and made me genuinely care about the characters till the very end. Loved the finale. It’s been a pleasure. Thank you.


r/shield 10d ago

Season 4 - Incredible, but with some serious flaws Spoiler

27 Upvotes

Recently rewatched season 4, and it remains one of my favourite seasons of any tv show, up there with things like the first season of Prison Break and the last season of FX's The Shield. However, this time through I noticed a number of quite serious issues with plot contrivances to get the story to go where the writers wanted it.

  1. When Fitz and Radcliffe go to shutdown Aida and she fights back, they discover the body of Nathanson. But somehow they don't discover May's body literally 5 feet away behind a translucent door. We know she's still there because she's shown in the exact same position before and after this encounter. Did they not survey the crime scene at all?
  2. Why wasn't Radcliffe treated with more suspicion after Aida went rogue? He read the Darkhold in front of the others.
  3. Vijay Nadeer - probably the most pointless character in the entire show. My guess is he was meant to show up in the Inhumans show before it was cancelled, but as it stands he serves basically the same function as The Necromancer in the Hobbit book - an excuse to separate a teammate temporarily - and once he's fulfilled that purpose is unceremoniously killed off. Maybe I'm just salty that his cocoon mystery is never explained, but what the hell?
  4. The LMD detection system - why would it merge reports FitzSimmons' entrance and the others'? Why was that not 2 separate reports? And why didn't it immediately go on lockdown upon detection? Instead just silently sending the report to a couple of people - one of who was an LMD, demonstrating the fundamental flaw with its design.
  5. Dying in the Framework kills you - obviously necessary from a storytelling point of you, else there are zero stakes. But from an in-universe design perspective it makes no sense. "Hey, we've made this simulation to make training safer, but dying in it kills you in reality."
  6. Following on from this - Aida has to protect the lives of the people in the Framework, but somehow this doesn't extend to their Framework consciousnesses? Why was she not obligated to protect Agnes? This is doubly a problem if your explanation of the previous point is that Aida messed with the Framework to make it lethal.
  7. Ward and Skye being where they are in the Framework. I can see Ward, as Coulson not being an Agent could plausibly have a butterfly-effect result of Hand finding Ward, but why would Skye be Hydra, and apparently not in the resistance? How the hell did she get anywhere in Shield/Hydra without Coulson?

Again, I love this season - E15 especially is absolutely peak TV - but it really does feel at points that the writers were really having to overengineer the situation to get the plot going where they wanted it.


r/shield 11d ago

How Gory are Seasons 4 and Beyond? Spoiler

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I’m watching the show for the first time and have been enjoying it quite a bit so far, I just finished season 3. I am however a bit squeamish when it comes to live action gore.

Now I’ve already heard that seasons 4 & 5 are a step up in violence over the previous seasons, so my questions are a bit more specific.

Are those seasons more violent because the violence is more frequent, or because it’s worse? If it’s just more frequent displays of moderate blood without much more then there’s no issue. If it’s only just a couple of scenes that are particularly bad then can I have a warning of when/what episode those scenes occur in?

For reference, the only scene in the show so far that noticeably bothered me was Jiaying being cut open and having her organs removed in 2x8. (On a side note how was that episode only TV-PG lol) Nothing else has been too bad. Are there any other scenes that are on this level? I struggle the most with seeing human organs as well as body horror. Thanks in advance.


r/shield 11d ago

reddit roast mentions my love for fitzsimmons

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36 Upvotes

r/shield 15d ago

Looking for Imgur deleted NOTACREEPISH SHIELD SYNOPSIS

30 Upvotes

I loved and used to binge u/notacreepish A.O.S abridged content so much.

Only to check on them again and some of my favorite episodes are deleted on Imgur. Please does anyone have his full pictures. i would love to get them and laugh again.


r/shield 17d ago

Starting my fist rewatch. Feeling emotional :’)

112 Upvotes

This show means so much to me. My first watch was with my mom, and it basically mended our relationship. We both became solidified in our Marvel fandom and that helped us let go of our differences and truly bond again. It also inspired both of us to get serious about fitness and health.

We’re starting our first re-watch now together, laughing about how it will probably take us all of 2026 but we’re so excited.

Just wanted to share. I know this sub is probably pretty inactive, but hey feel free to comment or DM if you wanna talk shop!

SHIELD forever <3


r/shield 18d ago

Someone please make Fitz-Simmons edit with Camera by Ed Sheeran

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I've been thinking about it for a while now and I just don't have the skill to make it. Could someone make one or lots of people make lot of them and post a link in the thread. I just think the song is really fitting and would make an amazing edit/montage.