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Agents of Shield Rewatch 7x09 As I Have Always Been

First of all, we’re not going to discuss how many times I’ve seen this episode because...welll...the number is pretty high. But this is legit my #1 favorite episode of all time. This episode is an example of this show firing on all cylinders and just at it’s absolute best. And it’s really one of the last times we get to see our family all working together, and that’s where I think this show gets its strength. 

Anyway, this may get super long idk I just have a lot of feelings about this ep.

The number of times Chloe must have had to film waking up in this thing is probably pretty high

Ok first things first, my very favorite thing is Sousa using that box of gloves as a pillow because having spent a good portion of my lower to mid-20s in labs I will not pretend like I haven’t considered doing that

“I was so much happier asleep” MY MOOD EVERY SINGLE DAY

94 km away...I’m going to try and keep track of these numbers

Sousa’s face at the smell of Deke’s 80′s cologne hahahaha

And now we’re in our loop #2 (but who knows the real number)

Ok, since I used to be a med tech (aka I worked in a hospital lab), I have questions about why they have so many green and blue tubes there. I mean...green tops are heparin tubes so I guess you can use those for basic chemistry tests, so that might be usable for multiple things. But those blue tops? That’s sodium citrate and the only thing I know of we used those for were coagulation tests. Which require some specific equipment. Does Jemma plan to run that many PT/PTTs?? And on what???

LOOK I HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT OK

And yes I remember those anticoagulants by heart still

The repeating title card is :chef’s kiss:

Daisy very quickly realizes she’s looping

91 km now

I’m wondering if there was something cut here by the way Sousa says, “See?” to Simmons as if we are missing some part of a conversation they had

My guess would be Jemma was all “You can go rest in your bunk you know Agent Sousa” and he’s like “Nope, gotta make sure Daisy rests” and Jemma’s like “...do you though?” and Sousa’s all “Yep. She will not do it on her own. Trust me.”

Maybe there’s enough for a fic plot in there

Ok, we’re now on loop #3

Daisy also very quickly realizes that she’s waking Sousa up with her boots and is very quiet so he can get some sleep

Awwww

I kind of wish I knew what May was sensing from Daisy right about now

I love love that Robo Coulson is so over this

The way he says “This guy” KILLS ME

So Coulson knows of 87 loops, but we know in this case Daisy didn’t wake him for 2 loops this time...we’re going to be doing some mathing soon lads

Also we just covered loops #4 and #5 since the ep started

Coulson says this is loop #90 which matches up still

And loop #6 for us now

Daisy was kind of loud there but didn’t wake up Sousa sooo...idk

79 km now

I love that Daisy realizes that to solve faster she needs the entire team

This must be loop #7 because Deke now says they are 65 km from the vortex

“It’s kind of hard to access” YOU DON’T SAY

And now people know about Jemma’s implant which...FINALLY

Phlebotinum is an amazing word bless

Making yourself cough like that seems like a rough day of filming 

And directing

Deke’s face when Nana is dead though :(

Loop #8

It was sabotage!!!

But also Daisy died so we’re starting over memory-wise

Loop #9

48 km

Daisy legit forgot about her boots waking Sousa up too ha

Loop #10

And this time we wake up Coulson again

41 km

Enoch, Deke, and Jemma standing there is so freaking hilarious

Jemma is so done even though she doesn’t remember any of this hahaha

Loop #11

This is the one where we try to get Elena out and helping

Loop #12

Phlebotinum!

Sousa finally woke up on his own I guess

That smile when he says, “Reminds me of my SSR days” like

He lives for this chaos he just doesn’t want to admit it

Also look at him being a smart agent here

And let’s talk about the trust Sousa has in Daisy for a sec

He not just immediately believes her about the time loops, but he immediately understands what she is saying about what is happening. Thus he knows this isn’t really a sacrifice play because he’ll come back AND he’ll have saved her the trouble of forgetting. But also, he trusts her so implicitly that he’s willing to risk his life for her. 

It’s beautiful y’all

And poor Daisy has to add watching Sousa die to her list of traumas cool cool cool

Although that does give me writing ideas...

Loop #13

Daisy immediately pops up to ensure herself that Sousa is still there napping away and like

I legit thought this was going to be the peak Dousy moment in this episode when she stops and just watches him breathing for a bit hahaha

She does not want to leave him there either and then the way she says, “We’re making progress” then adds a kind of soft “thanks to Sousa” like

Daisy is going through some stuff here

Coulson is going through some stuff too

Clark Gregg is killllllling this

And Coulson realizes that Enoch is the problem

“Oh dear” ENOCH HAHAHAHA

Loop #14

“Why do you care?” “Because you don’t”

Ummmmm MY HEART

But Daisy is not just accepting that he’s willing to die for her, she wants to know why now

Which obviously we will circle back to in a few loops or so

See, Jemma says she has to be awake to remove them implant...I guess the difference before was that Enoch wasn’t removing it?

Idk that makes no sense

Loop #15

Send in Sousa to distract Enoch

That “Hello!!” omg Sousa no

Sousa is surprisingly bad at this

Sousa’s muffled “Sorry” KILLS ME

As does Daisy’s face

Loop #16

Appeal to Enoch’s sense of irony

Loop #17

Have Jemma countermand her previous order

Loop #18

Bring in the whole gang

EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS KILLS ME

“Where’d he get all those weapons?”

Poor dead Deke

Them realizing it doesn’t matter because they’ll all come back

The way May looks like she’s relaxing

Sousa’s feet framing Daisy’s face

Legit this is amazing and I love it

Loop #19

“Actually, I can take a loop” 

WE LOVE TO SEE IT

“It all phases me, just maybe not my face”

Ummmmm sir

Your face

While lovely it definitely gives you away

The saddest thing to me about this is that Daisy can’t seem to understand why he’s always willing to help and wants to watch over her. It’s like she still doesn’t think she’s worthy of being treated like this.

“Some of my favorite people are people like you” I CRY

Whew there’s a lot to parse here. 

First of all, I think Daisy actually really likes that Sousa is seemingly not phased by anything (or at least, not super bothered by it) because her life is always going to be chaotic that’s just facts

Second, in this very short time of knowing her, Sousa definitely has her pegged. He knows that she craves other people, but is also probably a bit scared to want to be around other people. He knows she’s hopelessly stubborn, but that’s because she cares so much. And he knows that she needs someone to have her back no matter what, because she won’t have her own.

Of course, there’s also a personal element here as indicated by the next part of their conversation. 

Also of note, when Daisy is pressing with the questions, wanting to know why he’s always there for her, she’s leaning forward while he sits back. 

Now though, when the question is a bit more personal, she sits back in a very protective stance. I think she’s a little scared of what he’ll say to her question. Because she realizes that she likes him. A lot. And what if he’s just like a generally good guy and this has nothing to do with her?

But of course, it has everything to do with her as indicated by what Sousa says next. “Not for everyone. It helps if they’re fun to be around, and if they say what they mean, and if they have that super power where they can rock things around which is very impressive.”

And Daisy’s immediate response?? SHE SMILES. Like...this is what she needs and what she wants but what she’s been too afraid to go after. And here it is just falling in her lap.

Now that everything is out in the open, they are both leaning towards each other...

Also I love that she says, “That’s awfully specific” and he doesn’t shy away from her. He just agrees with her. They both know what that really means.

And they both like it

Legit here I was chanting KISS KISS KISS but I thought it was a missed moment

I am so happy I was wrong

So the new plan is to misdirect Enoch by having Sousa go in to take the implant out, but really Sousa is leading Enoch into a fight with him, Mack, May, and Elena and like what a squad

But also this was a super plan, and I wonder if Coulson was involved or if this was Daisy/Sousa original

Either option seems likely

“Next time, same thing but faster” 

Daisy is really good at following instructions y’all

Loop #20

Daisy asks for help and Sousa immediately agrees to help and THAT IS WHAT DID IT FOR DAISY JOHNSON FRIENDS

Like...I know she’s feeling under the gun for time because Coulson said same thing but faster

But also, peak romance is someone just wanting to help her no questions asked which, given her history makes complete sense

She needs a constant, someone who will be there for her no matter what

I feel like this started in some ways with Lincoln. He was just so sweet and helpful to her. And granted he had his own demons to deal with, but in the end he was willing to give up everything to save the world and Daisy herself.

But he also showed Daisy that she could expect love and support and she was worthy of that (even if she doubted it later)

So here’s this guy, who’s just smart and kind and good and clearly into her

So, knowing that this could be one of her lasts chance to do this and realizing that at any rate he’ll totally forget about it anyway, she makes a move

And like this kiss?? It’s hot y’all

You can tell Daisy just like lol Imma kiss him, but then they are both caught in this moment and go back for me

But also he definitely led for that second kiss 

“That was nice” like hahahaha amazing undersell Daisy

And then she traces his collarbone like whoa I need to fan myself for a bit

“Now we need to drop a space robot”

I can’t tell what Sousa is more confused by- that statement or the kiss itself

Imagine being Sousa though. You just got woken up by this beautiful woman who asks for you help then kisses you when you say “Sure thing.”

He’s truly living the dream

Oh also we’re 11 km from the vortex now

It turns out Enoch is the answer to all our problems

But also we have to kill him in the process :(

And then poor Simmons has a breakdown over leaving Alya presumably, but also she’s a better mom than me because after 3 years in space with one of my little super geniuses I’d be more than ready for a vacay idk

I love my kids but they are...a lot

And finally, Loop #21

I guess Daisy left Sousa to sleep for this loop

<1 km from the vortex too eek

Enoch immediately understands what is happening :(

I love that Enoch has reached the point where he feels like this entire crew is his family and would sacrifice themselves for him

Enoch didn’t feel lonely until he had friends :((

This whole thing is breaking my heart...not just Enoch in the process of dying, but Coulson actually talking about his deaths and Daisy having to try and process all this

“Yet, this is the nature of families. I have seen it countless times on countless worlds. People arrive so we celebrate, and people leave us, so we grieve. We do what we can with the time in between, but the cycle is always there. No one escapes it. Not even me.”

This really got to me. My family has changed a lot through the years. People have come and gone. Babies have been born. People have died. And nothing I do can change this cycle. Sometimes it makes me happy; sometimes it hurts. But nothing I do can change that process, and that’s not always easy for me to accept.

I think Daisy and Coulson are having a moment here too, where Daisy is telling both Coulson and Enoch that even though they are not human, that doesn’t make them any less alive to the people who love them

RIP Enoch, you were the bestest Chronicom to ever robot

And of course we get one last buzzkill with Nathaniel and Kora

Queen Kora you deserve better

Ok first some timeloop math. We saw 21 loops on screen, but loop #5 was loop #90 for Coulson. So if we figure Daisy died say...every 10-15 ish time loops and it took her 2 or 3 to wake Coulson up, we can probably add an additional 25 time loops or so. So we’re probably looking at around 130 loops roughly.

Of course this begs the question, did Daisy decide to kiss Sousa more than once? It’s possible. I kind of like to think she did. 

First of all, mad props to Joel for nailing that death scene. He was absolutely incredible. And clearly this episode rates 1000000000/10 on the Dousy scale because like...everything. The talk, the kiss, the sacrifice...amazing. I was 95% sure I was getting ending Dousy after this. This episode also gets 50000/10 on the Teamwork! scale because our team did so well and were strongest when they worked together. And of course Enoch gets a 10000000000000000/10 on the Good Chronicom scale because he legit was the bestest Chronicom that could ever not-live.

Since we’re in a timeloop and not in a particular time period, I’m going with the Dousy-est of songs, “peace” by Taylor Swift.

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Agents of Shield Rewatch 7x05 A Trout in the Milk

This 70′s intro is hot ngl

Coulson is living for this

I want May’s dress and boots for real though

Ok also I want Daisy’s outfit

Daisy and Sousa clothes shopping in the 70s ugh I need to write that I guess

Sousa is slightly insulted by being called an unfashionable square hahaha

Also he’s trying to figure out time travel which honey, just no

Why have they never changed the password to this place I mean

“bump lemons” DEKE NO

This red track suit is fire though

Also, I adore the way Deke just casually says, “Bye Nana” because it’s so familial and I love that for him

The Lighthouse! Actually not my fave base but oh well we’re going to spend some quality time here

Awww Mackelena date night

But also Mack is right, Elena is selling herself short. She doesn’t need her powers to be amazing.

But *gasp* the Lighthouse is not abandoned!

Being drunk is an emotion? Random

What year is this? I forget

Little Ricky? HAHAHAHA

Freddie’s not dead?? Ugh. Wearing out your welcome must be a Malick family trait.

Poor Sousa and his old-timey speak hahaha

How is Sousa supposed to lay low though because like...he’s supposedly super famous?

Chastity McBride?? Omg May

“I’ve attended a number of seminars” Lollllll

3 years away so 1973 now

UGH NATHANIEL BOOOO

Daisy so wants to kill Gideon I can tell

Omg this show gave me a Dousy fake fiance scene all my dreams came true 

One day they’ll have a real fiance scene of my dreams but unfortunately I’m going to have to write it I guess

The was Sousa says “Whoa, high tech” seeeeeeeeends me

Daisy and Sousa do make a good team though romance aside

Patrick Kutick? PHILLIP J. COULSON NO

Oh yay Chronicoms

I’m crying at how Nathaniel is drinking a glass of milk like this show really fooled me with him

His daddy does love him though I guess

“So Shield takes hostages now?” SIR

I watched Agent Carter. I know what y’all did.

He’s surprisingly less shocked by Daisy quaking people

ENOCH!!!

“Come with me if you want to continue to exist” You are seriously the best Chronicom ever

The picture in my head of Enoch sitting and reading Consumer Reports before picking a getaway vehicle both delights and entertains me

Enoch you are a mess and I love you

I love that whatever has happened in this timeline, Sousa clearly still has a lot of love and respect for Peggy we stan

Aaand now we’re in 1976

Sousa really does follow Daisy around like a little puppy from the start

Uh oh something’s wrong with Jemma

Ok so here’s the thing...I don’t think Sousa was wrong to call out Jemma on this. I mean he’s known her for a hot second. They told him this story and tore him out of his life. And then they have the gall to tell him that no one knows how this works or what’s going on really. Sousa has no reason to trust them (other than he’s hot for Daisy). So I’m kind of on his side here.

But I do appreciate that Deke is willing to go to bat for Nana.

Whew y’all Henry Simmons is working those jeans and that mock turtle-neck ayayaya

Sousa offers to go with Daisy because he says he’s rather be out there working than in the Zephyr where he can disappear at any moment but let’s be real he just wanted to make sure he was wherever Daisy was

GIVE ME MY DREAMS OK

Sousa’s like I’ll protect you...but also I want to watch you work...decisions decisions

His “wows” at that picture of him I’m crying hahahaha

“You look ok for a guy who just aged 20 years” This is the beginning of Daisy’s compliments but not really to him.

But also the way that hits him. Realizing that everyone he knew has changed (if they are even alive) but he hasn’t. I can see why he might think he wants to stay in 76.

Although that will clearly change hahahaha thank goodness

And Daisy is so sweet and understanding I love her

Coulson and May look fab in these uniforms

Nathaniel you are legit the worst

Ugh Freddie Malick you’re boring now

Stoner is a trip hahaha

May’s powers come in handy though

Deke umm...made a choice...

I’m not really sure how to feel about this honestly

Uh oh...it’s Mommy and Daddy Mack!!

Leading to one of the most heartbreaking moments on this show THANKS

So I guess Sibyl didn’t anticipate May’s empath powers?? Or thought they were just...not important??

I don’t really get that

But Mack and Enoch got to pew pew so that’s fun

Omg the first of Nathaniel’s invading our tags 

Unfortunately

So he kidnapped them then just...stopped on the way to try and call Whitehall??

This was a poopy plan from a poopy man

Ok straight up this gets a 100000/10 on the Dousy scale because FAKE FIANCE. Also she said he looks pretty ok which we know translates to super fine. Nathaniel Malick gets a -10/10 on the Bad Guy scale because he suuuuuucks. But this episode also gets a 50/10 on the Realistic Workplace Seminars scale because Stoner has clearly had to watch the predecessors to what my husband has to watch for work (boy do I have some stories about those).

Song for this episode comes from 1973: “Superstition” by Stevie Wonder.

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Agents of Shield Rewatch 7x06 Adapt or Die

Aka story time with Danny Boy

Before that though, Sibyl is going to travel the virtual time highway or whatever

She’s like a poetess what a queen

That’s a lot of Chronicoms

Elena was trying to ease them into what happened and Deke is like lol I killed him

HENRY WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO LOOK SO GOOD

Legit this outfit is doing things for me

Awww Mack has sweet memories

Also why have you not introduced Elena to your parents??

That shot of Stoner walking in front of his hologram is hilarious

This doesn’t look good for Z1 though womp

Yep this got long again hahahahaha

Daisy would want to hear a story about someone else being doped up ahahaha

Nathaniel is psyyyycho

As soon as she hears Whitehall is involved Daisy knows this is bad

May’s new abilities come in very handy

Poor Jemma is in a crisis here :(

Omg Mack hugging his mom hahaha that’s the sweetest

“This is Agent Rodriguez...she’s my girlfriend” MACK I LOVE YOU

Elena very smoothly swoops in there too

Mack’s Mom’s outfit is peak 70s and I love her

May and Phil are a mess but I love that they are actually talking

I love how Phil keeps breaking his handcuffs hahaha

That’s the best running gag this season

Mack’s and his dad working together is adorable

Well it would be if his dad wasn’t a robot

Ughhhhhhhhh I hate Nathaniel

Poor Daisy :(

And of course her first thought is of Jiaying

Sousa went quickly to calling her Daisy I’m just saying

Everything Sousa does here is the definition of *soft* like

The way he feels for her pulse then pats her shoulder once he feels it

The way he cradles her head on his leg

Then he just strokes her hair

And pleads with her to stay awake

And then he cups her head with his hands

I find it interesting that in his moment of panic worrying about her he calls her Daisy, but once he’s settled and has telling his story he’s back to Agent Johnson

But also when did he find out her first name?

Anyway I could watch this scene like 10000 times because it’s amazing and everything I wanted

Also Daisy is so brave and beautiful and smart to be able to think of stashing that glass in her palm while being tortured

I love her

I love Sousa

I love them together bless

And like, watching Sousa tap into his own trauma to help someone else is so very Sousa of him, you know?

He doesn’t exactly look like he enjoys telling that story. I mean he keeps looking at his leg when he mentions it being a pulpy mess, and he stares into space a lot when he’s not focused on Daisy. So I don’t think that was an easy task for him. And yet he did it. For her. To try and keep her focused and there.

Also that look on his face when he says there’s plenty of fight in her like

He’s completely a goner then

I could dissect this scene all day thanks for asking

In fairness to Deke he has every reason to be concerned about what he’s seeing here with Enoch and Jemma

But also why was she asleep there when she said she needed to be awake during the time loops??

Look at Phil using this device that May uses later to save the world it’s all connected

Look, maybe I’m just ship everything, but there’s a lot of sexual tension between Sibyl and Coulson

Well, as much sexual tension as robots can have

Finally some answers

Ish

“I named her Diana. She’s adorable and we’re inseparable. Literally.” HAHAHA

Omg Jemma be nice to your grandson

“Is that you?” Sousa is helplessly polite I love him

Nathaniel is getting what he deserves

“That’s my girl” I CRY

GET A ROOM YOU TWO

I mean a real room not this projected space

An epic Coulson speech yay!

“Dying...it’s kind of my super power” Oh honey no

But I love you 

And I guess he talked about this with May...that’s so much trust in her

I LOVE THEM

Stoner and May would have been cute together ngl

“He’ll come back...always does” MELINDA MAY IS TRYING TO MAKE ME CRY

“And...you are a valued member of our family” I LOVE THAT SO MUCH

Deke actually does a good job with this secret good for him

Elena bonding with Mack’s mom /cry

Oh noooooooooooo

This is the worst

I hate everything

FREAKING ROBOTS

Seriously I was so mad at this show for a hot second because why??? Why do this to Mack?????

Henry absolutely kills this scene though

And Elena sitting with him...so sweet

Also I know I posted this before, but Deke does a very interesting thing with his eyes here. He comes in, tells them they’re about to jump, then his eyes flick over to Daisy and then to Sousa. I highly suspect that even Deke realized at that point that there was something there.

“I’m where I need to be” MY HEART CAN’T TAKE IT I LOVE IT SO MUCH

But also, sir, you can barely look at anything except Daisy obviously everyone on this plane is going to know what’s up if they don’t already

And then Jemma’s little smile when she walks off...you know she was trying to think of a way to take a stealth pic for Daisy’s scrapbook

Jemma is a scrapbooking queen I accept no criticism

:( Poor Mack

I love that Deke wants to help Mack

But also oops ya stuck now

Whew this episode had a lot. I mean it managed to score a 10000/10 on the BREAKING MY HEART scale but also a 100000/10 on the MY HEART IS SO HAPPY SCALE. I went through some things y’all. Also clearly we’re like 1000/10 on the Dousy scale. Meanwhile Elena gets a 5000/10 on the Supportive Girlfriend scale because really? She was the best.

We’re going to pretend the heartbreaking stuff didn’t happen and just go with a happy song. So from 1976, here’s “You Are the Woman” by Firefall because Daniel Sousa is gooooooone.

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Agents of Shield Rewatch 7x04 Out of the Past

It’s time for black and white noir AoS y’all

Aka the episode in which we decide we’re going to get Daisy a boyfriend

Which honestly was the best decision anyone has ever made

Look I love this moody feel. The saxophone music, the rain, the voice over. Give it all to me.

“Sometimes the hero has to die, and there’s nothing you can do about it” I mean they basically fed us everything that was going to happen in the end and we had no idea

July 22, 1955 omg we got an absolute date here

But sadly it’s because it’s Sousa’s death date oopsie poopsie

Also if Sousa doesn’t take a picture by his name on the Wall of Valor then I’ll be forever sad

Meanwhile Enver was made for this style he looks fiiiiiiine

I still can’t believe Daisy ended up with a guy who unironically wore sweater vests

I’ll add another cut because I had a lot of feelings

ENOCH!! 

I love you so much

He’s an amazing bartender I’m crying right now

Enoch does not get the respect he deserves hahahaha

Elena and Deke make an interesting pairing, and I wish we could have seen more of them

Speaking of, Jeff Ward also looks amazing in this style

Natalia as well

There’s a man without a face in the bathroom that all seems natural and normal

Aaand Deke gets kidnapped. It must run in the family.

I like the way Sousa ferociously throws his hat and coat down

“Nothing to worry about”

“I was worried” HAHAHAA COULSON NO

LET ENOCH REJOIN THE TEAM

I love how weirded out they are by May’s excitement

Interesting handwave of everything here regarding Peggy and Sousa by just...not addressing it. The implication here is that long distance and work got between them which honestly makes some sense. I did long distance for a while...like 4000 miles long distance and it was rouuggghhhh (mostly because of the time differential) but by that time we had been dating for 3 years so we were pretty committed...anyway I’m just saying that leaving the Steve goes back in time-ness out of this it’s still possible that in this timeline it just didn’t work out. 

Don’t @ me I like Peggy/Sousa too I just found it interesting

Sousa is definitely turning on the charm, but he’s only at like a 5/10 on the Flirty Sousa scale

“You again?” Danny is that any way to talk to your almost girlfriend?

Jemma’s starting to suspect what’s up with May methinks

Sousa’s face when they are less than impressed by his Hydra revelation hahahaha

But that is immediately topped by his face when they let him know Malick is Hydra poor guy

Mack already wants to be best buds with Sousa let’s be real

Poor Sousa looks so dejected learning how much Hydra has infiltrated Shield

And Sousa is just so earnest here talking about giving his life for this cause and you know poor Daisy is having to do everything in her power not to tell him what she knows

It’s such a short scene but so beautifully done

Also she totally starts falling for him here I will die on this hill ok?

It’s hilarious that they say Freddie didn’t recognize Deke because he literally hasn’t changed at all

Freddie Malick lost his newsie accent though womp

Oh well I was wrong about Jemma she just knows something is wrong

Deke probably would have chatted with Enoch he gave up too easily

“I am alone in this world, as I have always been” :( noooooooo

So actually Elena is the one who figured May out. All credit to Elena y’all. She’s never been given enough credit for her brains.

May has concerns about what she felt from Sousa which I’m not really sure what they’re trying to convey here but honestly it’s probably the least surprising thing she’s going to feel from Sousa from here on out

“We’re gonna save him” Lol they’ve had him 5 minutes and are ready to say screw the timeline just to keep him

“Cool, writing some new history” DAISY HAS NO IDEA HOW REAL THIS IS FOR HER

Oh there we go, she felt the need to run from Sousa. Or ride off like a boss on a super cool motorcycle.

Awww this was a pretty good fakeout

It was Coulson in the pool gasp!

“This will make sense later...maybe” 

PHIL NO

Coulson does do an amazing acting job here though

Omg Jemma and Daisy look adorable

Awww May comes in and his world turns to color how symbolic

May’s still not having it though

Nice of them to rescue Sousa’s cane too

“Why didn’t you lead with that?” HAHAHA SOUSA NO

“Congrats...and condolences” omg Coulson

Sousa does not look impressed by 70′s music

You know, Sousa takes it all pretty well, but honestly they did make a big decision for him. I mean I’m sure he didn’t want to die, but not only did he not die, they just took him forward in time too. It’s no wonder he has some negative feelings in the next episode.

And then there’s Freddie and the Chronicoms who are boring

But that would be an awesome band name

First of all, this episode rates a 100000/10 on the Stylish scale because it was so moody and amazing. This episode also gets a 10/10 on the Mack & Sousa Brotp scale because legit Mack was like I like this dude we’re keeping him (and Daisy was trying not to cheer). Also Elena gets a 500/10 on the Big Brain scale because she was definitely big braining here.

Also the Thespian of Shield Award goes to Robo Phil Coulson for absolutely eating that death scene to pieces.

The song for this episode is “Cry Me a River” sung by Julie London because it’s super moody and minimal and definitely fits right in this ep. Also this is another song I used to sing and play on the piano with Granny.

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Agents of Shield Rewatch 7x10 Stolen

I don’t even know what to do with myself after that last episode whew. But the show must go on.

They got the most out of this bar set for real

I think James Paxton did an amazing job of not just trying to copy his dad, but really trying to get the essence of John Garrett

We’re back in the 80′s wheeee

Roxy is a real agent now! 

Good for her

The Triskelion you say?

Ruh roh

Sousa is impressed

Daisy and Jemma are not

Hahaha

Legit my face and Jemma’s are the same at this moment like

The way Sousa swoops in there and finds a way to let Daisy let him help her is just...I love it

So does Dr. Simmons

Also Jemma says look how cute he’s being chivalrous, but her face says I know you Daisy Johnson and you like that man yo

Because Daisy’s face definitely did not escape Jemma

And Daisy was grinning like a fool

Daisy is very concerned about Jemma’s behavior when the implant was taken out, and clearly she’s worried about Fitz

“We can’t lose any more parents” Ummmmmmmm

May and Elena are like...ummm we need to tell you something and I really feel for them in this case

Nathaniel is letting everybody see the timestream which...I mean, I guess

“I could kill them”

Daisy is like “There’s the mom I know”

Gordon is a very sweet kid which makes me sad for what happens to him

Oopsie Daisy knows there’s a sister now

Ohhh, so I didn’t catch this the first time, but the implication here is that if Kora is alive Jiaying would have never met Cal because she wouldn’t have left Afterlife at all

So it may be Daisy would have had a hard time being born in this timeline regardless

I mean was their plan was to make sure Kora got killed so Jiaying would want to go get it with Cal?

Obviously they didn’t have a plan but eh

Nathaniel is so manipulative and Kora deserves way better

Although interestingly it looks like Kora can both give and take life with her power

“Staying in the 80′s wouldn’t be my worst case scenario” I’ve got good news for you Deke

Well I guess Daisy got in Jemma’s head because now she’s thinking that Fitz could be dead

Deke tries to comfort Nana but I’m not sure if it’s working

“You vaporize me with a space laser” Omg

“I’m not even mad, they let me watch you die a bunch of times.” 

Look, this is hilarious

“You haven’t changed a bit. And I’m aware that statement makes no sense.” omg Phil

“Looking spry for an old guy” 

Yep, she wants him

“Mack caught me up” I wish I could have seen that because I’m sure it was amazing

Also I’m struck by the way Sousa says “10 years ago” because it’s very clear he’s had zero time to adjust to his change in time period poor guy

“The timeline is screwed, pardon my French” SOUSA

But also, the way he very calmly and quietly gives Daisy the support she needs to do something that is going to be very hard is just...MY HEART IS FULL

Also, this is clearly done with nothing expected in return

We stan

We also get a chance to see that Sousa, while fitting in very well with this group, clearly has people he wishes he could have said goodbye to. I know a lot of people just went “OH PEGGY” which I’m sure she’s part of it, but this man had an entire life with family and friends and he just disappeared. Granted, he would have been dead so they would have missed him anyway, but still.

It’s a lot

Also his offer to bail her out is peak Sousa, but also it must remind Daisy of what he said to her in the time loops

And that little smile of hers...WE SEE YOU DAISY

Elena is ready to gooooooooooooooo

I feel like you can tell Kora is kind of wishy washy about all this, but she’s caught up in this idea of revenge for her mistreatment and caught up in Nathaniel, which...girl...no

The look Daisy gives Sousa when he says, “She’s been there” like

I AM DYING

But also I have a feeling that won’t be the last time he is on the receiving end of that look in his lifetime

Ok, I think Jiaying is saying two different things here. The first is you seem so familiar. Like clearly she is vibing on half of her DNA in Daisy. And then she says she recognizes Daisy’s gift because of Nathaniel.

I adore Sousa slowly noping out of there when he knows he’s no longer needed

Poor Daisy :(

I am happy she got to see the mom she could have had though if it weren’t for Hydra

But also it’s sad because Daisy realizes how different the Jiaying she knew was from the true Jiaying

I am so, so, so happy that Daisy had this moment with her mom though

John Garrett is a Deke Squad fan confirmed

Awww RIP good Gordon

May getting to take out some aggression on Garrett is pretty sweet

So, we know their actual target was Jemma, so this was stuff with Daisy and Jiaying was just Nathaniel being a sadistic prick obviously

“For the record, I’m digging the upgrade” Hahahaha of course you are

“Leave my daughter alone” Ohhhh Jiaying

For a hot second I thought this show was going to give Daisy some closure lol at me

Nathaniel clearly does not know everything about Daisy’s abilities though

I love you May

Full respect to Sousa who actually shoots at Garrett when told to

Kora kind of deserved that let’s be real

Oh now we look for Deke

Who it turns out is on the Zephyr

Oh Garrett

Nathaniel wants to know where Fitz is, so in this way he is basically most of the fandom

This episode managed to raise my hopes then dash them all again. Womp. We have a 100000/10 on the Dousy scale for supportive talks and bag carrying. Awww. This episode also gets a 10/10 on the Younger Versions Seem to Be Cooler scale because for real, John Garrett, Gordon, and Jiaying were all better in their younger iterations. This episode also rates a 10/10 on the What a Tweest! scale because it turns out they were after Jemma all along!

Well, we’re back in 1983, so we’re back to 80′s music. This episode’s song is “Burning Down the House” by Talking Heads.

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Agents of Shield Rewatch 7x08 After, Before

Deke had good intentions, so good for him

Enoch’s “Oh dear” is HILARIOUS

May is so over this already

I love love love Elena

“I have faith...in mathematics” this is the most Jemma thing to say I love her

Yay they found them!

Also this was the first appearance of the Blue Shirt

You know what I’m talking about

“Wait, what can you do?” Hahahaha poor Sousa

Look at Sousa’s concern for Daisy I cry

Also he’s definitely not calling her Agent Johnson anymore

👀

“I’m not doing time math” mood

“Couldn’t wait til I was all here?” COULSON NO

“I’d rather have a thin plan than live through the 80′s again” HAHAHAHA MAY

Y’all don’t even know how big my hair was then it was amazing

May’s abilities are growing. Interesting.

Omg poor May feeling Elena and Mack’s “reunion”...hahaha

Kora!!!

She’s kind of emo but I love her ok

The way Elena just grabs that diviner...QUEEN

Also Jiaying is as beautiful as ever

May looks like she wants to punch this guy which...let her

Elena and May are such a brilliant pair. Why did we never get more of them before??

I’m am SCREAMING at the way Sousa looks at Enoch when he says he spent time with Neanderthals

I love every one of these people/robots and I regret nothing

Dichen has a wig on, yes?

Elena and May are about to explore some feeelingssss

This is amazing omg

The candles? The tea? The complaining?

Just everything

May wants to fight!!

This is so perfect though

So robots get thirsty? What a strange thing.

“I’m glad he’s here.”

SHE’S GLAD HE’S HERE

“That makes me happy too”

DAD APPROVES

Legit I am dying still at this even knowing what’s coming

“You ever jumped out of an airplane before?” “Twice, though I only had a parachute the second time.”

JEMMA ANNE SIMMONS

And then Sousa’s face hahahaha

But also she made him a new prosthetic what a gem of a person

Ok, but, like how did she know precisely how to make it? Did she like scan him under the guise of checking him out? Did she just say, “I’m a doctor, let me look at you and make sure everything is ok?”

I just have a lot of questions about this, ok?

Sousa apologizes to Jemma which is very sweet of him, and Jemma is her lovely self and now everyone is family

That’s how this works, right?

Oh noooooo, Elena blames herself for what happened with her uncle

Holding in all the energy causes Kora intense pain...my poor sweet girl

I’m just so happy that she was given the chance to live and learn how to use her gift

Legit I thought Daisy had quaked that gun away, but alas it’s just half-rate villain Nathaniel

I can see how what Nathaniel is saying would appeal to Kora. He’s basically giving her what she wants and needs to hear. That’s she’s not a dangerous burden, and that she can be useful just the way she is. 

I just love Kora a lot y’all

Awww Jemma is leaving a message for Fitz. :(

And Deke is so touched as well. It must mean so much to him to get to see the love his grandparents had when he had to grow up without much of that.

May and Elena are like...ummm...excuse you....wut....

Kora picked a bad time to have a teenage rebellion though

I mean she’s not a teen anymore I would guess but...it still applies

I’m still shocked that Daisy has a half-sister like whaaaaaaaat?

May did that flip in the Quinjet just for kicks

The way Sousa helps Daisy up warms my cold heart

“I don’t have to bounce back”

That’s like so profound

Elena has always felt like she has to bounce back. Go back to where she started from. But what she’s discovered now is that she doesn’t have to bounce back. She doesn’t have to keep everything the same. It’s the same thing she talked about with Deke before. Elena herself was maintaining the status quo in her own life.

But she doesn’t have to do that. She can move forward without having to worry about looking back to where she had been. It’s one of the reasons I feel like she was so grounded at the end of the series.

But we’ll talk about that later.

Anyway tldr: I love Elena and I love this for her

Another beautiful Mackelena hug I cry

Daisy get’s back in the healing chamber, Sousa has a new leg, and he takes his customary seat with a look of acceptance that this is where he’s going to be for the near future

Coulson has to power down to recharge

And the stage is set for the time loops

Because the time drive is not fixed oops

Meanwhile Nathaniel is terrorizing Afterlife 

Cool

Spoiler alert: It’s not actually cool

This episode is kind of cool because it manages to walk the line between filler and moving things along. May and Elena get a 20/10 on the Fight Out Your Feelings scale because, well, they did. Elena also gets a 10/10 on the Figuring Stuff Out scale because she’s been big braining all over the place this season. And finally Kora gets a 10000000/10 on the Look At Your Life Choice scale because sweetie...no...

The song for this episode is (Keep Feeling) Fascination by The Human League

I love how everyone in the 80′s just caked on the makeup. They all look amazing.

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Agents of Shield Rewatch 7x02 Know Your Onions

First of all, onions gross me out so write that down

Anyway

Mack gave the coppers the slip!

Oh young Freddie Malick, so fine but such a hot mess

First of all I want Elena’s outfit wicked bad

Second she looks a lot like my grandma back in the day

Ok, also, Daisy’s not wrong that they could save a lot of lives and like whatever they screw the timeline eventually anyway

It’s arm day Enoch lay off May

May’s response to finding that she’s in 1931 is to say she’s hungry which is a mood

Elena can’t go fast *gasp*

Jemma’s gonna do bootleg speakeasy science y’all

This reminds me of when I was in school to work in a hospital lab and we had to learn all these old fashioned ways to test and identify things that we’d never use in in actual lab because it’s all mechanized in the hospital

Anyway it felt like we were two steps away from mouth pipetting and smoking in the lab idk

Freddie Malick talks like a newsie from the musical “Newsies”

Also Deke keeps making eyes at him like

Lol I just watched Captain America today for the first time (don’t @ me I haven’t seen most the movies) so this makes sense now

May’s not feeling anything *gasp*

Enoch vs May wheeeeeeeeee

Does Enoch upgrade some more though because by the time loops he takes all of them on no problem

Well, May took seeing Robo Coulson well hahahaha no she didn’t

Koenig is decided less chill than Sousa about the Zephyr

Daisy’s like lol kill your boyfriend Deke

I mean from a preserve the timeline pov it’s a huge mistake but from a this guy is evil pov ehhhh Daisy’s not entirely wrong

Mack’s like chain of command yo learn it live it love it

“DIE COPPERS” hahahaha amazing

“Yes those are the Martians” Robo Coulson has given up

Well Freddie gets uncute real fast

Run Enoch run

Noooo we have to leave Enoch behinddddd

Enoch’s just like “This again sigh”

But also he looks spiffy in those duds

And so his life as a timeless bartender begins

Another solid episode. Wee Freddie Malick gets a 10/10 on the Look At Your Life, Look At Your Choices scale because son? You need to. Jemma gets a 500/10 on the Science! scale for her epic old-timey sciencing. And finally, Enoch gets my inaugural “Bartender of the Decade” award (which he will get for the next 4 decades or so).

One more year in 1931 means one more song from 1931, so here’s “As Time Goes By” sung by Rudy Vallee.

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Agents of Shield Rewatch 7x01 The New Deal

A kind soul provided me access to all of season 7 (you’re a saint bless) so that means it’s REWATCH TIME!! 

And yeah, I’m going to lose it after the first couple episodes it’s fine. But let’s get started

Dateline: NYC 1931

Luckily we don’t jump to that many time periods so I can keep up

I think

Immediately we are reminded that Chronicoms can’t human

This will be a consistent theme

Also they steal faces

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I LOVE THE PERIOD TITLE CARDS THIS SEASON

And we’re back with LMD Coulson. I’m neither surprised nor do I blame Daisy for pushing that button, but also...it was very impulsive.

And poor Coulson is having to adjust to a lot at once

Interesting in this process of remembering things he remembers the FS wedding which of course we will come full circle back to at the end

Simmons explains that this isn’t traditional time travel and that they’re just following the Chronicoms which I guess is a good way to handwave time travel

“We don’t know the rules because there aren’t any ok?”- the writers

ENOCH I LOVE YOU

I’m going to say that a lot just accept it

“Even the Kree let us make our own boot juice” DEKE NO

No alien contagions or purple hair. Director’s orders.

But I love the purple and Daisy should totally bring it back. I feel like Sousa would be into this based on nothing other than I write a lot of Dousy fic.

PS if you thought this season rewatch wouldn’t be all about Dousy you know nothing about me

But also welcome to my blog

They make a big deal about needing Coulson to potentially get ahead of the Chronicoms, but did they really? I mean other than the time loops and then Coulson’s magical computer abilities later, did they really use him?

Don’t get me wrong I love having him around but also it feels like they forgot about that thread

Coulson mentions that he will “re-evaluate” after this is all over and wow did we circle back to that in the end

Mack says the same, which I guess means build a heli-carrier?

Spoiler alert

These period costumes are straight up fire

Deke gives the time stream discussion but obviously they just forget that in the process of making an 80′s cover band and picking up a 1950s boyfriend

Lol Daisy does an amazing job threatening that cop

Oh but I guess we did use Coulson’s history knowledge so eh I take back what I said?

This healing set-up looks scarily like something Aida did

Elena is healthy yay!!!

And they made her new arms which Elena is reluctant to take, and I love her so much

It’s a speakeasy wheeeee

Chronicoms don’t know about rearview mirrors either I guess

Ok jk I forgot Coulson dies this season as well he’s a good robot

KOENIG!!

I’m a little confused as to why Fitz was going to be sending message since for him it was only a small amount of time, right?

Also Deke, honey, you totally are the natural suspect for messing things up Nana doesn’t mean anything by it

So there’s some plot here involving FDR supposedly but really it was an excuse to have a fancy 30s party

Daisy’s dress is amazing though and I want it for fancy occasions

And everyday wear

And Mack does look good thanks for noticing Daisy

Viscous Jemma is back 

Coulson really is living the dream here

THE TARGET IS FREDDIE!

GASP

Also young Freddie is fine ngl

And Freddie and Deke have...chemistry

Don’t @ me

“You’re right this one really sucks” hahahaha poor old timey Koenig

HE’S A MALICK

Uh oh, May is gone

“You had one job Enoch” OMG HAHAHAHA

Also May is being a creepy spider sooo

Yeah that happened

Of course, the return of the rewatch means the return of Ellsey’s completely arbitrary and pointless rating systems! I mean first things first, we are firmly at a 500/10 on the Costumes Scale and will stay there for much of this season so...yeah. Coulson rates a 10/10 on the Robo Life Crisis scale. Poor guy. But happily this episode only rates like a 4/10 on the Time Travel Shenanigans scale. That rating is going to go up rapidly from here obviously.

This playlist for this most of this season will be era appropriate music, so that’s fun. Well, for me anyway. So this episode’s song is “Stardust” performed by Bing Crosby (but apparently he did a version in 1939 too, so rest assured this is the 1931 version). Honestly it doesn’t really relate to the episode at all, but I used to play this on the piano and sing it with my Grandma all the time, and she would tell me stories about dancing to this song so anyway, that’s my pick.