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I still like the show, but Marvel's Agents of SHIELD is not what it used to be. It's bad enough that the whole show now seems to be about pandering to the fans by providing jazzy visuals and emotional or action "moments", but it gets worse. The writers are now so lazy that when they want a humorous situation, they get it by making the main characters act like morons. And when they want a dramatic situation, they get it the same way. Every episode this season (6) I see things they do that would make Maxwell Smart's CONTROL look competent. Rookie mistakes, stupid mistakes, procedural mistakes, just there to make the plot work. Some shows do this occasionally, but in this season, it's every damn episode.
Oh, and the fistfights. There has to be at least one fistfight every episode. Doesn't matter whether it makes sense or not; it just has to be there. Got the drop on someone with your gun? No problem. Say "This just got personal", put away the gun, and have a fistfight. Have superpowers that could overcome your opponent in seconds? No problem. Use the powers once, to knock them over, then go into a fistfight. Have your opponents at your mercy (in a cell or whatever)? No problem. Open the cell, have a fistfight anyway. Sigh.
A lot of things happen that make no sense, and there are a lot of "TV Coincidences" just to make things convenient. The show's most intriguing character, May, has become a caricature who is not only as indestructible as John Rambo, but strikes exaggerated martial arts poses at the beginning and end of every unnecessary fistfight. It makes one wince in embarrassment.
The action events and visuals of the season finale were so ridiculous that I was literally laughing out loud. An Indiana Jones temple again? Super-powerful other-dimensional demons who dress in tattered robes like they're in a 70's horror flick? The revelation that Izel has been hiding a bulky, bejewelled full high priestess outfit (sans bullet holes, no less) under her jumpsuit all of this time? Impossible to take seriously.
The plot arc didn't even make sense. If all Izel was doing was looking for the monoliths, why was she destroying planet after planet for 100 years? A bit of time in a library would have been more productive. Wookiees on Endor.
Oh, and you just knew that Coulson was only "Marvel dead" again, and would be back by the end of the season, right? Everybody did.… Expand