After a few seasons of traveling through space and time, “Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD” returned to Earth, in the finale of its two parts, an old-fashioned affair tinted with nostalgia and clearly aimed at those fans who had since the beginning with the ABC series.
Jawis, that’s a relatively small contingent, with ratings that have gone down a lot since the show premiered in 2013, that feels like a lifetime ago in the evolution of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, both on TV and in movies.
In the final, the group saw the Chronicoms overcome the threat as their enemies sought to erase SHIELD from history, operating in an alternate timeline.
However, that danger was aired relatively early in the last hour, making what felt like an unintentional temporary virtual reunion of original and almost original cast members – basically the Superhero universe version of a Zoom call.
“This is what we fought for,” Coulson (Clark Gregg) once told the team, to which Daisy (Chloe Bennet) replied, “Family.” The family atmosphere also saw the reunion of two other original cast members, Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) and Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge), along with May (Ming-Na Wen) and subsequent additions Mack (Henry Simmons) and Yo-Yo (Natalia Cordova-Buckley).
The low-key finish felt almost precise, seeing as the series’ production was actually completed last year, which explains why ABC had the full original run in the summer, when most shows were sidelined by concerns about coronavirus .
Coulson – a character who is introduced in the Marvel movies, who has been murdered and brought back, in one form or another, a few times – got his sports car back, in a tribute to the pilot episode. Given some closure, the finale left the door open to re-use some of these characters, though that, given Marvel’s priorities, seems less likely.
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