Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - 4x18 "No Regrets" Full Reaction
Added 2024-06-28 05:35:46 +0000 UTC
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After Coulson no Agent of Shield was cooler or had more swag than Trip he will always be a top 5 favorite character for me
Costa Bell
2024-06-29 04:10:26 +0000 UTCI don't think that it is a coincidence that Fitz's "father" shows up the second he starts questioning his place/role in the Framework. The dialogue between Fitz senior and Fitz junior, as they walk down the stairs at the Triskellion, is quite telling.
Ian Fleming
2024-06-28 23:44:06 +0000 UTCLoved your reaction to seeing Trip again! Mace’s death was very sad. I am comforted that he went out a true hero as he always wanted to be.
AdoptDontShopPets
2024-06-28 19:37:37 +0000 UTCIt is a sad truth that in the real world lacking empathy does gain you more money and power. Fitz is smart in our world but in this world he is smart and is the man at the top because of that cutthroat mentality. Is it a surprise that our world is fucked when the people at the top are this bad?
Christopher simeon
2024-06-28 11:59:24 +0000 UTCSuch a good episode and I loved your reaction. So glad you’re enjoying it so much. It’s so exciting! In terms of how much Fitz has been corrupted so extensively, as you noticed after watching the episode, the best direct comparison in terms of Fitz is Ward. In the real world, Ward has a troubled and abusive home life, before being recruited by a corrupt and evil organisation, and basically groomed and brainwashed by a domineering and morally bankrupt father figure. That was enough to prime and create Ward to be the evil man he became. And essentially the same, as we find out in this episode, has happened to Fitz in the Framework. In my opinion, that, plus the lack of any of his Shield friends and their good influence, is more than enough to change him *that* fundamentally in my opinion, as hard as it might be to believe of our usually lovely Fitz! And of course, Ward in the Framework, has been reversed *that* strongly the other way. He *genuinely* is the good guy we always hoped he was in season one! It’s such good and clever writing!
Lyla
2024-06-28 11:25:17 +0000 UTCAida is still a slave to her programming. Like I said before she is corrupted by proxy. Radcliffe wanted the team to live in a world where their deepest regrets were removed. May saved the girl but that lead to many deaths in the future but you have to remember that this change only erased a little bit of her previous life. Flipping her back to good was easy once she saw Hydra hurting kids like that. Phil lost his whole shield life but the Tahiti program protected some memories so he still feels like himself just less hardened by shield. Mack also lost his whole shield life because he became a father and never joined. But he was raised the same so his inner morals push him to do good. But Fitz regret seems to be about not having his father in his life. Daisy says sometimes what people want is not good for them. Fitz was young when his father left so that negative influence would effect everything in his life path. Everytime the part of Fitz that is nature tries to come up his father pushes it down. Aida while having an objective is not lying when she says the regrets are what caused the world to change. She even offered to remove Daisy's regret because that is the only things she can change because of her programming.
Christopher simeon
2024-06-28 10:44:36 +0000 UTCAnother great episode where we find out the 'regrets' of Fitz and Mace, and we get the return of Trip and a Simmons/Ward team up! Which she only agrees to so that Mack doesn't have to go and who, not knowing it was an alternate world, do something reckless and get himself killed. I have to say that I'm with you on the one regret fixed causes this world. This world is not like other alternate realities in that it is based on computer algorithms which can be altered to the whims and ideals of say an android with ideas and dreams of her own.
Dyrla
2024-06-28 08:50:57 +0000 UTCGreat reaction as always! I kind of think you’re misunderstanding what’s happening to our characters. It’s not just that Fitz’s father is in his life, it’s that because everyone has had a regret removed there’s a cascading effect, an algorithm of sorts like Ophelia says. So it’s really not just the one thing for Fitz because the entire world changes. So in his past, his entire upbringing and education was different. And it would make sense why he never met Simmons. Maybe he took different classes, attended a different academy, etc. Personally I look it as a commentary on how varied we can be morally. How in dictatorships many people become and do evil that otherwise would have been good people. “The banality of evil.”
TES
2024-06-28 08:42:20 +0000 UTCRight on time! I was feeling depressed after watching that Presidential debate. I haven't even seen this yet but I already feel better!
Becky White
2024-06-28 06:15:45 +0000 UTCEdit: Thank you Shelley! The link takes us to last weeks shortened reaction of 4x17 "Identity and change" and not 4x18 "no regrets".
AgentTokey
2024-06-28 06:15:14 +0000 UTC
