Admit it. You were hoping to see some robot boobs on national television. Newcomer Aida, an android, was changing her clothes after getting shot when she takes off her blouse displaying two gunshot wounds on her chest. Up close, they could have been nipples. But the camera pulls out to show that her bra is still on, you pervert.
But robots flashing us on television isn't the only thing we should worry about. This season of Agents brings a new level of What the F*ck! to the table.
First off, they bring in the Ghost Rider, a demon with a flaming skull and a flaming hot rod to match. He serves as a vigilante to bring evil souls to justice. This brings problems To Daisy and the others because S.H.I.E.L.D. is trying to go public again, this time under new leadership. Jeffrey Mace is an Inhuman with immense strength, and he likes to do everything by books, reporting to General Talbot, classifications, not saying "Let's go" to everything.
Scottish James Cameron decides to build an android that would serve the purpose of being a human shield, hence the gunshot wounds mentioned above. When called upon, Aida is instructed to read the Darkhold, a mysterious book that will teach the readers the secrets of the universe. This is where they build a portal to other dimensions for Ghost Rider to take the souls he caught with him. First, it starts with Ghost Rider's uncle's coworkers. In the past, they were trying to create a machine that would create matter out of thin air. the result of the disaster left them looking like ghosts. Then the uncle immersed himself into the machine to make him able to create matter out of his hands. Ghost Rider had to make the hard choice by dragging his uncle through the portal.
Just when you thought they were done, Aida has other surprises. She and Scottish James Cameron captured select members of the crew and replaced them with life-like LMD models of them. The real members where put into an OASIS type of thing called the Framework, where people plugged in can live their lives without the one thing they regret in their past; that's been erased in the Framework. By the time they figure it out, it's just Daisy and Simmons. So they plug in themselves to retrieve the others and enter a literal virtual hell.
Hydra rules the land in this universe. Why are we bringing up that dead octopus again? In this world, Coulson is a school teacher that is one conspiracy away from donning a tinfoil hat. May is a Hydra with regret of SAVING the Inhuman girl from Bahrain, where she attacked students at Columbia University. Mack is living as a single father to his daughter, who died in the real world. Daisy and...sighs...Ward are Hydra agents and Simmons is dead. Fitz is the renown Doctor in Hydra where not only was he in a good relationship with his father but he's never met Simmons. Aida, calling herself Ophelia because Alice would have been way too easy considering Project Looking Glass, is Madame Hydra, and she's on a mission to create a human body for herself so she can be a real girl.
This creates some problems in this world because Fitz is almost untouchable and Mack refuses to leave because of his daughter. Luckily Daisy and Simmons have help from Jeffrey Mace, also plugged into the Framework, he is the leader of a resistance team with actual immense strength, whereas in the real world he doesn't have any; it was concocted out of a cocktail made by Daisy's father. And to our surprise, Ward is a member of the resistance. I kept waiting for Ward to narc on them but it never happened. With the help of regretful Scottish James Cameron, Daisy and Simmons make it out with nearly everyone alive; Mace died saving children from a crumbling Hydra recreation facility. But they're not done yet. The real world is in chaos now, since the LMD version of Coulson and Company have destroyed the base and Mace's body washed up on the beach. Aida has completed the project and made herself a human body flooded with emotions...and other things, like Inhuman powers.
Right when they thought they were through, Ghost Rider emerges and takes Aida with her. It should be a happy ending, right?
General Talbot is now in the hospital, and the rest of S.H.I.E.L.D. is wanted for questioning. We end the series with Coulson in a space prison.
The structure of this season was rather thorough and structured, like season 3, but it was all over the place, like season 2. This season was meant to be three different sagas that are connected. If you look on Wikipedia at the episodes, they are sectioned off with "Ghost Rider", "LMD", and "Agents of Hydra". The title sequence changed four times this season. I knew Ghost Rider would return by the end of the season, and yet, I completely forgot that Ghost Rider would return at the end of the season.
It was ironic and wrong that Mace would lie about his Inhuman status just because the government wanted an Inhuman director for S.H.I.E.L.D. Daisy may have not been in the game since she went rogue at the time, but what about Yo-Yo or the dude that can bend steel? I think Yo-Yo would be more qualified. It's kind of expected to see Mace be confident in front of the cameras but feel useless leading S.H.I.E.L.D., especially after they found out he's not an Inhuman. But it proves the compassion we are accustomed to in Coulson by keeping him as the director, even though he's still sore from being removed.
At this point, the series is in the hands of Fitz and Simmons. Every season there's some new reason to keep the two apart, and we have to fight alongside them to come back to each other. First, it was Fitz having brain damage, then it was Simmons leaving for Hydra, then Simmons gets sucked into a magic rock to another planet where Fitz jumps in after her to save her, and now there's an alternate reality where Simmons is an enemy of the state and Fitz can kill her if pleases. Watch, next season Simmons will get amnesia and Fitz will have to learn how to fall in love with her again, like The F*cking Vow.
Also at this point, Daisy is no longer the center of the story. I don't know who is, but it's definitely not her. What started as a fearless hacker recruited to S.H.I.E.L.D. is now a bitter war-torn agent, just like the rest of them.
And why are still fighting Inhumans? Is it bad enough that I'm comparing them to the X-Men? There should be a Men In Black scenario where they neuralize people and make them forget Inhumans exist. I am tired of the Inhuman fight. But it'll never go away, will it?
I never really get to talk about the series fitting into the MCU. There are no movies that connect this season, so now would be a good time to talk. It's interesting to see how the mysterious organization, that only comes up in conversation in the movies, really functions behind the scenes. However, it's a little confusing sometimes when S.H.I.E.L.D. fell in season 1; since then, S.H.I.E.L.D. fell off the map in the movies. Well, that was their intention, I guess because S.H.I.E.L.D. is now off the map. But there has got to be some mention in the movies like a wanted poster of Robbie Reyes/Ghost Rider in the Avengers meeting room just casually in the background, or have Tony Stark watch the news and General Talbot is shouting about stuff that goes on in S.H.I.E.L.D. But maybe "it doesn't work that way." It doesn't this way either if you don't watch the movies, which would make the people at Marvel Studios explode.
I'm starting to lose steam on this show, but I don't want to quit just yet. I'm hoping that season 5 will shock me with what it will bring.
I hope you liked this. Be sure to subscribe and leave a comment about what you thought or if you want to recommend a movie for me to review. Thank you for reading. I'll return on Friday with another movie. See you then.
Aired: September 20, 2016 – May 16, 2017
Rating: TV-14
Stars: Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, Henry Simmons, John Hannah
Directors: Billy Gierhart, Vincent Misiano, Magnus Martens, Brad Turner, Kate Woods, Jesse Bochco, Kevin Tancharoen, Garry A. Brown, Nina Lopez-Corrado, Wendey Stanzler, Jed Whedon, Oz Scott, Eric Laneuville
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 95%
IMDb Score: 8.8/10 (Average)
Awards
Saturn Awards
(Click here to view more awards for "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Season 4.)
But robots flashing us on television isn't the only thing we should worry about. This season of Agents brings a new level of What the F*ck! to the table.
First off, they bring in the Ghost Rider, a demon with a flaming skull and a flaming hot rod to match. He serves as a vigilante to bring evil souls to justice. This brings problems To Daisy and the others because S.H.I.E.L.D. is trying to go public again, this time under new leadership. Jeffrey Mace is an Inhuman with immense strength, and he likes to do everything by books, reporting to General Talbot, classifications, not saying "Let's go" to everything.
Scottish James Cameron decides to build an android that would serve the purpose of being a human shield, hence the gunshot wounds mentioned above. When called upon, Aida is instructed to read the Darkhold, a mysterious book that will teach the readers the secrets of the universe. This is where they build a portal to other dimensions for Ghost Rider to take the souls he caught with him. First, it starts with Ghost Rider's uncle's coworkers. In the past, they were trying to create a machine that would create matter out of thin air. the result of the disaster left them looking like ghosts. Then the uncle immersed himself into the machine to make him able to create matter out of his hands. Ghost Rider had to make the hard choice by dragging his uncle through the portal.
Just when you thought they were done, Aida has other surprises. She and Scottish James Cameron captured select members of the crew and replaced them with life-like LMD models of them. The real members where put into an OASIS type of thing called the Framework, where people plugged in can live their lives without the one thing they regret in their past; that's been erased in the Framework. By the time they figure it out, it's just Daisy and Simmons. So they plug in themselves to retrieve the others and enter a literal virtual hell.
Hydra rules the land in this universe. Why are we bringing up that dead octopus again? In this world, Coulson is a school teacher that is one conspiracy away from donning a tinfoil hat. May is a Hydra with regret of SAVING the Inhuman girl from Bahrain, where she attacked students at Columbia University. Mack is living as a single father to his daughter, who died in the real world. Daisy and...sighs...Ward are Hydra agents and Simmons is dead. Fitz is the renown Doctor in Hydra where not only was he in a good relationship with his father but he's never met Simmons. Aida, calling herself Ophelia because Alice would have been way too easy considering Project Looking Glass, is Madame Hydra, and she's on a mission to create a human body for herself so she can be a real girl.
This creates some problems in this world because Fitz is almost untouchable and Mack refuses to leave because of his daughter. Luckily Daisy and Simmons have help from Jeffrey Mace, also plugged into the Framework, he is the leader of a resistance team with actual immense strength, whereas in the real world he doesn't have any; it was concocted out of a cocktail made by Daisy's father. And to our surprise, Ward is a member of the resistance. I kept waiting for Ward to narc on them but it never happened. With the help of regretful Scottish James Cameron, Daisy and Simmons make it out with nearly everyone alive; Mace died saving children from a crumbling Hydra recreation facility. But they're not done yet. The real world is in chaos now, since the LMD version of Coulson and Company have destroyed the base and Mace's body washed up on the beach. Aida has completed the project and made herself a human body flooded with emotions...and other things, like Inhuman powers.
Right when they thought they were through, Ghost Rider emerges and takes Aida with her. It should be a happy ending, right?
General Talbot is now in the hospital, and the rest of S.H.I.E.L.D. is wanted for questioning. We end the series with Coulson in a space prison.
The structure of this season was rather thorough and structured, like season 3, but it was all over the place, like season 2. This season was meant to be three different sagas that are connected. If you look on Wikipedia at the episodes, they are sectioned off with "Ghost Rider", "LMD", and "Agents of Hydra". The title sequence changed four times this season. I knew Ghost Rider would return by the end of the season, and yet, I completely forgot that Ghost Rider would return at the end of the season.
It was ironic and wrong that Mace would lie about his Inhuman status just because the government wanted an Inhuman director for S.H.I.E.L.D. Daisy may have not been in the game since she went rogue at the time, but what about Yo-Yo or the dude that can bend steel? I think Yo-Yo would be more qualified. It's kind of expected to see Mace be confident in front of the cameras but feel useless leading S.H.I.E.L.D., especially after they found out he's not an Inhuman. But it proves the compassion we are accustomed to in Coulson by keeping him as the director, even though he's still sore from being removed.
At this point, the series is in the hands of Fitz and Simmons. Every season there's some new reason to keep the two apart, and we have to fight alongside them to come back to each other. First, it was Fitz having brain damage, then it was Simmons leaving for Hydra, then Simmons gets sucked into a magic rock to another planet where Fitz jumps in after her to save her, and now there's an alternate reality where Simmons is an enemy of the state and Fitz can kill her if pleases. Watch, next season Simmons will get amnesia and Fitz will have to learn how to fall in love with her again, like The F*cking Vow.
Also at this point, Daisy is no longer the center of the story. I don't know who is, but it's definitely not her. What started as a fearless hacker recruited to S.H.I.E.L.D. is now a bitter war-torn agent, just like the rest of them.
And why are still fighting Inhumans? Is it bad enough that I'm comparing them to the X-Men? There should be a Men In Black scenario where they neuralize people and make them forget Inhumans exist. I am tired of the Inhuman fight. But it'll never go away, will it?
I never really get to talk about the series fitting into the MCU. There are no movies that connect this season, so now would be a good time to talk. It's interesting to see how the mysterious organization, that only comes up in conversation in the movies, really functions behind the scenes. However, it's a little confusing sometimes when S.H.I.E.L.D. fell in season 1; since then, S.H.I.E.L.D. fell off the map in the movies. Well, that was their intention, I guess because S.H.I.E.L.D. is now off the map. But there has got to be some mention in the movies like a wanted poster of Robbie Reyes/Ghost Rider in the Avengers meeting room just casually in the background, or have Tony Stark watch the news and General Talbot is shouting about stuff that goes on in S.H.I.E.L.D. But maybe "it doesn't work that way." It doesn't this way either if you don't watch the movies, which would make the people at Marvel Studios explode.
I'm starting to lose steam on this show, but I don't want to quit just yet. I'm hoping that season 5 will shock me with what it will bring.
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I hope you liked this. Be sure to subscribe and leave a comment about what you thought or if you want to recommend a movie for me to review. Thank you for reading. I'll return on Friday with another movie. See you then.
Aired: September 20, 2016 – May 16, 2017
Rating: TV-14
Stars: Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, Henry Simmons, John Hannah
Directors: Billy Gierhart, Vincent Misiano, Magnus Martens, Brad Turner, Kate Woods, Jesse Bochco, Kevin Tancharoen, Garry A. Brown, Nina Lopez-Corrado, Wendey Stanzler, Jed Whedon, Oz Scott, Eric Laneuville
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 95%
IMDb Score: 8.8/10 (Average)
Awards
Saturn Awards
- Best Superhero Adaptation Television Series - Nominated
(Click here to view more awards for "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Season 4.)
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