Surprisingly positive thoughts on the Agents of SHIELD series finale

[sholio]

Mainly the Agent Carter related parts of it.


If you just want to watch the part of the ending including the last Daniel Sousa scene, you can watch it on Youtube here (for however long it stays up).

I am having an interesting mix of feelings. I was not expecting to get as emotional as I got over that final shot of Daniel on a spaceship, looking out with wonder. But it's also that sort of ... way you feel over a comic (or other bit of extended canon) that does something really cool which is also outside the part of the canon that's "yours."

It's a very comic-booky sort of feeling. It's that thing where you get to have some really neat scenes for your favorite character where they're part of the Avengers while also, in your head, they are very firmly NOT on the Avengers because your head is very firmly stuck on their solo book run from ten years ago when they were paired up with a character you never wanted canon to stop pairing them with. So it's like ... what a very cool thing that just happened, I really enjoyed it, now I will go back to being firmly stuck in 2008 with whatever the comics were doing then, and pretend it stayed that way forever.

(Comics are like this a LOT.)

But Daniel deserves his time travel, outer space ending. You go boy.

Also, he's now technically part of the Cosmic MCU and could conceivably meet up with the Guardians of the Galaxy or Carol Danvers out there. I'm just saying.

Also also, now that I know his canonical ending, I have an immediate fixit in mind, which is Daniel rocking up in a SPACESHIP circa 1958 or so (a couple of years after Peggy and Jack think he died) and Space Things Happen. I will totally write this if it ever develops more of a plot in my head. I mean, in general I'm probably just going to carry on with Agent Carter as a closed canon that ended in 2015 and ignore this the same way I'm ignoring Endgame (it's semi-canonically a different timeline anyway), but yeah, the feels are nice feels, and that visual of Daniel looking out at a nebula or whatever is a really cool final shot for him.

And they all got a nice ending. I was never that into this show, not in the way I've been into a lot of other, similar shows, but it's really nice to have a long-running sci-fi show that ends on an up note, with everyone who made it to the finale ending up safe and alive and happy. That feels good.

Comments

[sovay]

In my head it exists as a sort of parallel dimension plot-track (I think even within the Marvel universe, at this point Agents of SHIELD is out of continuity with everything else) but it was really fun to get to see him in a bunch of new scenes.

That is completely whacky, but I am delighted that Enver Gjokaj got the work (I know Marvel basically prints money, but I always worry about actors I like!) and I look forward to your spaceship-rocking fix-it.

[sholio]

I am delighted that Enver Gjokaj got the work (I know Marvel basically prints money, but I always worry about actors I like!)

I know!! I really, really never expected to see him again after the end of the show, so it was a very nice treat.

And I will definitely be noodling around with a post-canon fixit in my head, so hopefully that will eventually materialize.

[kore]

He is SO GOOD. I watched episodes of Dollhouse for that man! (And Dichen Lachman, who's also amazing. I was so happy to see her on AoS S2! ....and then, welp.)

[viridian5]

They were truly the only reason to watch Dollhouse.

[kore]

Yeah, I adored Eliza Dushku as Faith, and I've liked her in other things, but she was just not the chamaeleon they needed for that lead role. (I thought she had a more fitting character in Tru Calling, altho that was a much worse show on the whole.)