The sad thing about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. fandom...

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...is that it includes people who are so committed to their OTPs that, even after this week's episode, there will probably be Skye/Undead Alien Deity Grant Ward shipper fics.

The sad thing about Joss Whedon is that this may even end up as canon.

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[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Oh, has grant ward been killed off at last?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Sort of.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

No body, ain't dead?

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Reanimated corpse controlled by some sort of Cthulhoid entity.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Oh? Maybe I should give the show another chance if they're getting into Cthulhoid entity territory then.

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It did get much better once Hydra came out of the woodwork.

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Unfortunately the down side of this is that Hydra is now a Cthulhoid cult, rather than being created by human scum. I've always hated "the devil made them do it" as an explanation for e.g. Hitler.

[dsample.livejournal.com]

It's still a bunch of human scum who somehow decided that pulling this thing back to Earth would be a good idea. I don't know how much influence the beast itself had in their decision.

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True.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

My reactions at various points in that episode:

"No, don't take him prisoner, just SHOOT the fucker."

"Finally! That took you long enough. Now - "

"OH JESUS COME ON"

It's a sad state of affairs that they evidently can't come up with any other interesting villain in this show.

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

Especially since they killed off Jianyu, who was a more interesting character and had more complex motives.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Agree with you both.

He may actually be more interesting as a zombie...

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

He'll certainly be more lifelike.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

He is pretty much the reason I gave up watching the show, because he was just so bad.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

He got much more interesting once he turned out to be (a) Hydra and (b) a psychopath. Still a total dick, but one who actually did things occasionally.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Agreed, at least until they made her Just Plain Evil in her last episode.

[malterre.livejournal.com]

Yeah, called that on Gemma's return, was all over it.

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And of course she'll wonder if Fitz dumped the other guy deliberately.

[jedibuttercup]

... From the little bits I keep hearing, I'm increasingly glad that I bailed out of that show back at the winter break for season 2. *sigh* It started off so promisingly, too.

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

Now I feel absolutely the opposite. The current season strikes me as much the best I've seen from the show, much better even than season 2, which I felt had started to be more effectively dramatic.

[jedibuttercup]

I guess I was never in the MCU for the drama. I was in it because I identified more with the characters than DCU's grim cinematic offerings. *sigh*

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I still like it enough to watch every episode - mostly to groan at how badly their decision-making works nearly every time, but it's a fond groan, I think.