That seems like a reasonable guess. Coulson was told to register the inhumans, so the inhumans left, and now he has to make like he’s hunting them down.
I’m going to have to rewatch this. I don’t remember anything to suggest that Coulson was not acting as Director leading a S.H.I.E.L.D. mission to scoop up Daisy in the epilogue scene. And, yet, everyone in this Thread is speculating about who is the new Director and in what capacity Coulson’s team is acting. I clearly missed something big.
I’d say “genius” is a bit hyperbolic but otherwise I agree with you. As an actor, he knew at the very beginning what Ward’s secret was and he had to play it that way. I did rewatch Season 1 last summer and I definitely appreciated his performance much more.
It’s a really rough task for an actor in the Twitter age where you get millions of harsh 140 character reviews every week- especially for an actor who’s just building his career with higher profile credits. If this show had been cancelled halfway through Season 1, he’d be remembered as “that guy who sucked” and it would not have helped him at all to protest “But you don’t understand what I was doing! He was covering a secret!!!”
Dialog right after Daisy escapes:
Coulson: Seal the perimeter. But you won’t find her. Call the director, we struck out again.
Mac: That’ll take us off her trail.
Coulson: And call out the National Guard, yeah.
Mac: Where will be assigned?
Coulson: Guess we’ll have to wait and see.
So Coulson’s not the director, and this was Coulson & Mac’s last chance to grab her before they’d be taken off the Daisy case.
I suspect May is the director now, otherwise she would have been there to help capture Daisy.
The other possibility is Talbott, but that would take a bit of hand-waving since he’s mostly been shown to be a bit of a comic foil. They’d have to show he could actually be an effective leader.
Yeah, May’s a good bet. She’s had to kill a child and plan her husband’s death. She also had that talk with Phil when he gave her Sparky’s kill switch when she said she’s sick of doing his dirty work. So now he’s doing her dirty work.
Plus that electronic shield he has built into his arm seems like it would be more useful in the field than in an office.
May trained Daisy - she made a point to say that this very episode. She would know better than to think that Coulson & Mac staking out the kid that Daisy knows they know about would have a chance of bringing in Daisy. Furthermore, Coulson wouldn’t have to guess where they’d be assigned next or that they’d be taken off the Daisy search if May were the director.
There’s no way that May is the director. It’ll be The Moustache, or someone new.
One nice touch was at the end when we saw Hive’s true form…and it was a Rull*. Just a nice little easter egg
I hope this series gets the hell over the whole “Inhumans” thing. The last season and this have been “Daisy and other Inhumans whine and have adventures while the SHIELD guys watch”. I want more spy stuff.
*See, Kree can’t evolve naturally but the Kree Supreme Intelligence figures out how to get them to evolve with a magic crystal. The whole “Ruul” thing was forgotten about 2 minutes after the story appeared. pic
Doubtful IMHO, given the setup for next season.
I wonder if the Inhumans movie will ever get made now. Seems like they introduced Inhumans because they didn’t have the rights to mutants or X-Men, but I’ve always wondered how they were going to weave Black Bolt et al into the MCU after AoS has used Inhumans they way it has.
The official announcement is that it will get made, but it’s been pushed into Phase Four by the Spider-Man movie.
I’m wondering if they’ll lower the amount of Inhuman content on AoS so they don’t have to worry about it conflicting with the Inhuman movie.
…he looks like the comic version which I don’t think had any ties to the Ruul or the Kree. It may just be a case of happy accident.
Yes, I think they have to cool it with the Inhuman stuff if they want to make an Inhuman story. Right now Inhumans are just a stand-in for superhuman beings popping up all over, in place of mutants, etc. They’re writing themselves into a corner about where all these superheroes are coming from.
Probably won’t be necessary. SHIELD probably won’t last past this next season, while the Inhumans movie is probably three or four years away.
I will say, the shows didn’t run into too much trouble with introducing supers in Season 1 and early season 2. It’s just how often can “science gone wrong” come up again and again.
They don’t NEED to use Inhumans that often and they really didn’t. We met what 15 or so powered Inhumans in the show.
And only a few were ones created out in the wild.
Can I say that, as much as I like this show, I was honestly offended, as a Christian, by the ending of the final episode. The Lincoln/Chist imagery at the end was just … too much.
Sure, you can say that. I don’t remember where in the bible that Jesus uses his electricity-based powers to guide a jet into space, but if you didn’t like it, you didn’t like it.
More seriously, I didn’t see much Christ imagery. Yes, Lincoln sacrificed himself but sacrifice is a pretty common theme in all story telling. Where did you see specifically Christ imagery in the ending? The floating cross?
Yeah. There was a rather contrived (to me) series of events leading to Lincoln having the cross with him at the end. Wasn’t that Yo-Yo’s necklace? I liked the scene where Mack tries to give it back to Yo-Yo, saying, “You need it more than I do” (or something like that), and she rebukes him, telling him, “This isn’t a lucky rabbit’s foot good luck charm, it’s a symbol of faith! Why would you give that back?” Then, apparently, it fell out of Mack’s pocket, and I think Fitz found it and said he’d return it to Yo-Yo. And then … somehow Daisy ended up wearing it? Why was she wearing it? And then, of course, Lincoln somehow took it off her without her noticing.
All so they could show it floating in the air right after Lincoln’s “They’re only human” line.
Maybe I was just annoyed by the complete lack of subtlety and the contrived sequence of events. Particularly since none of the characters aside from Yo-Yo and, to a degree, Mack have been depicted as Christians. Yo-Yo makes a completely correct statement about the cross not being a good luck charm, and then we’re shown Daisy and Lincoln treating it like one.
For the past 10 episodes they’ve been showing us Daisy’s vision of a team member dying, with the floating cross front and center. That’s why Daisy put on the cross - she knew the person who dies had it with them. I think you’re being way too sensitive - it was just a MacGuffin, not some huge comment on Christianity.
Huh. Somehow I missed the cross in her visions.