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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Wake Up [4x11] ✦ Watchalong Reaction & Review
Added 2025-04-11 15:00:13 +0000 UTCHappy Friday everyone! The 77th episode! [Direct link here.]
So happy for Fitz in this episode! Looking forward to your comments. 😊
✦ KL
Comments
Deep down Radcliffe is a typical good guy doing the bad things for the wrong reasons but they are good in his mind but he does have more bad than good or something like that. I love that AoS is diving deep into LMD's which is lightly mentioned in the MCU and adding the Framework program giving a whole new meaning to VR maninulation of realism. The complexity of the characters is insane now im loving it !
Chris Elkins
2025-04-12 01:07:45 +0000 UTCLoooooooove this season. I love how LMD May is seemingly more human than Radcliffe. Or, at least more humane. He's definitely being very 'human'. Also, 'Wake Up', the title of the episode where a Matrix-like environment is introduced, is also a song by Rage Against the Machine that plays over the closing credits of The Matrix. Not sure if this is a nod, or just cool coincidence, or maybe just a cool coincidental nod...? One of those.
Steve Mercier
2025-04-11 22:46:39 +0000 UTCIt's funny. The subtitles on Disney+ used to have every mention of Hope be capitalized, which spoiled the reveal of Hope being a person (Mack's daughter). I guess enough people complained that they fixed that eventually, because it was fixed when I watched the Ghost Rider episodes with you earlier last month. But now even after the reveal the mention of Hope in this episode was still "hope" instead of "Hope", so whomever made the fix clearly didn't understand the assignment! 😅
Onno Smits
2025-04-11 22:41:22 +0000 UTCThere is something so twisted in what Radcliffe is doing. Taking someone's wants and using it to accomplish your goals is such an invasive messed up way to justify what you are doing. Giving May what she desired the most is taking away a part of her that shaped her into who we know. He is destroying the reason she fights so hard. He is also doing it to LMD May by forcing her to go through her programming. The Darkhold corrupts and he truly thinks the end justifies the means.
Christopher simeon
2025-04-11 17:55:52 +0000 UTCAh, this definitely reminds us AoS is a Mutant Enemy production - punch us in the gut with Mack's backstory, then five minutes later hit us with "Take her back to Bahrain..." OK, so we find out what Ghost Rider meant when he said "Mack has a lot of pain. He lost Hope" - he wasn't meaning the obvious loss of hope, but his baby daughter. There was a hint about this at the end of that episode, as when Mack is sitting by the gateway he's holding a picture which says Hope and a date (presumably her birthday) on it. This arc poses some proper philosophical questions - AIDA's question about whether it matters if the real May is dead or alive, whilst very cold (and somewhat concerning), does make logical sense. It's basically a variation of the Ship of Theseus, applied to people - if LMD May has all May's memories, then isn't she as much May as the real May? Speaking of LMD May, she now knows she's not real, but can't do anything about it. Radcliffe programming her so that she wouldn't *want* to tell anyone almost feels crueller than programming her so that she couldn't. She also inadvertently helps Radcliffe work out how to keep May sedated - "fix" the fight in Bahrain so that she does save the girl, thus giving her what she's always wanted. Seriously, who has it worse - May or LMD May? It's really hard to tell.
Sean Ellingham
2025-04-11 16:33:05 +0000 UTCPoor May, she is really having a bad day...again and again and again. Loved Aida saying 'Oh no, not again' at the start of each iteration. Not sure where I heard it but I love LMayD as a way of describing android May.
Dyrla
2025-04-11 16:18:58 +0000 UTC
