{"id":51100,"date":"2015-05-13T22:18:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T04:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/13\/marvels-agents-of-shield-season-2-finale.html"},"modified":"2015-05-14T14:19:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T20:19:05","slug":"marvels-agents-of-shield-season-2-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/13\/marvels-agents-of-shield-season-2-finale.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Marvel&#039;s Agents of SHIELD&quot; &#8211; Season 2 Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[No specific spoilers, I think, but still &#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ve been conflicted over MAoS this season. It&#39;s definitely been a step up from the first two-thirds of Season 1, but a far cry from the post-<i>Winter Soldier<\/i> fun that wrapped up that season.<\/p>\n<p>Season 2 has been a bit more &#8230; less. In part, because the cast expanded hugely, in part because so much time was taken up with Whiny Skye, whose agency (so to speak) has steadily diminished from episode 1.<\/p>\n<p>The themes in Season 2 were pretty cool &#8212; reforming SHIELD, dealing with crazy Kree blood stuff for Coulson and (sigh) Sky, Terregenesis, then the dual threats of the Real SHIELD and the Inhumans. But with so many threads to follow, and so much time taken up with Whiny Skye, it was difficult to feel enthusiasm or engagement over all but the biggest moments. It was maddeningly world-building, but without dramatic pay-off.  It was caramel and marinara and crisp apples and tater tots and dark chocolate and cheap chocolate easter eggs &#8230; all muddled together to where one can still see and appreciate individual elements, but the mixture is a bit of a mess.<\/p>\n<p>The two-hour season finale managed to bring so (dare I say) closure to the far-too-many balls juggled into the air &#8212; Ward and Agent 33, Hunter and Mockingbird, May and her husband, Mack, Coulson, Fitz and Simmons, Skye, Skye&#39;s mom, Skye&#39;s dad, the nature of SHIELD itself (and that;s just the stuff in the second half of the season) &#8230; everything gets touched on and dealt with remarkably well, if a bit rushed.  And we even got a tag scene that had my daughter bleating in protest.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; glad I&#39;ve watched the season, frustrated by the muddle it&#39;s been so much of the time, satisfied by the resolution &#8230; and ready for the fall and Season 3.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6148576463603024513\/6148576470251480450'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-kq5fSsS2bn4\/VVQhuR-qJYI\/AAAAAAADRuw\/560VCpSOI0U\/MAoS%2BSeason%2B2.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/V2wDveDXxbp'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[No specific spoilers, I think, but still &#8230;] I&#39;ve been conflicted over MAoS this season. It&#39;s definitely been a step up from the first two-thirds of Season 1, but a far cry from the post-Winter Soldier fun that wrapped up that season. Season 2 has been a bit more &#8230; less. In part, because the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/13\/marvels-agents-of-shield-season-2-finale.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;Marvel&#039;s Agents of SHIELD&quot; &#8211; Season 2 Finale&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,525,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-marvel-cinematic-universe","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/MAoS+Season+2.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42084,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/19\/agents-of-shield-mutie-er-inhuman-scum.html","url_meta":{"origin":51100,"position":0},"title":"Agents of SHIELD &#8212; Mutie &#8230;er, Inhuman Scum!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 19-May-14 5:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So I've seen this mentioned in passing in a few places, guessing some backstory\u00a0about \"Agents of SHIELD,\"\u00a0but let me rally together what cogitation I can apply to this topic.[Highly speculative and possible SPOILERy guesswork at a major plotline\u00a0for Season 2 of \"Marvel's Agents of SHIELD\" follows.]I think Skye is an\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/inhumans1%5B1%5D.jpg.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":48855,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/10\/wrapping-up-mid-season-agents-of-shield-no-spoilers.html","url_meta":{"origin":51100,"position":1},"title":"Wrapping up (mid-season) &quot;Agents of SHIELD&quot; [NO SPOILERS]","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 10-Dec-14 3:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Aaaand ...... now I'm ready for the \"Agent Carter\" mid-season mini-series. 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