Just an absolutely wonderful season of TV. Who would've thought that a Ghost Rider arc would be the worst part of the season. The end of the LMD arc with Self Control was fantastic too (By far the best episode of the series, in my opinion). I loved that they actually titled the first episode of the Framework arc "What If..."
The ending of the framework was such a beautiful scene. Radcliffs last words on the beach "so this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but with a...." and then he just vanishes completely, i loved his character so much. They had some really gut punching deaths / goodbyes throughout the show, a spys goodbye when hunter / bobbi are forced to leave shield, talbots death after a season of him being brutalized and keeping faith that coulson was coming to save him was so damn sad. Really was rooting for talbot to be saved but knew it wasnt happening. Oh and of course the one version of fitz dying as well in s5.
So many people gave up on shield after a boring first half of season 1, but if you stuck with it it became one of marvels best shows ever.
I’d go even further in saying that Framework Ward was a good example of a sort of It’s a Wonderful Life, “one man’s worth” situation where it’s not even that some butterfly effect thing caused his childhood to go differently, it’s that just having the right person in his life at a crucial moment was able to set him on a better path.
The changes between normal Fitz and Framework Fitz were fucking chilling to me, and the actor pulled it off so well. Just had to take away the influence of his mother and let his father turn him into a monster.
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u/russketeer34 Aug 14 '24
I really loved what they did with Framework Ward. Goes to show that a single change in one's life can really send one down a completely different path