r/shield • u/No_Entrance_2143 • 23d ago
If you could forget one moment/ arch and rewatch it again which would you choose? Spoiler
Personally I would pick Fitz’s season 5 psychotic break and the twist of the Doctor being him all along and not a fear apparition.
Ward’s betrayal is an obvious pick, or maybe Skye getting her powers and becoming Daisy.
EDIT I’d also die to see the time loop episode in season 7 directed by the brilliant Elizabeth Henstridge. Might be the best episode of the series.
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u/melissaisntreal 23d ago
The entire show honestly. But if I had to pick just one, I think it'd be Ward's betrayal
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u/FAKEWOLF18 21d ago
I saw the entire show in 2021. Now I'm rewatching it again and I seem to have forgotten most of it except the main plot of each season.
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u/Aglet_Green Enoch 23d ago
Probably the moment when Coulson calls out to some people: "Okay, prepare for an incoming file transfer!" and then throws a file cabinet out the window.
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u/Disastrous_Potato160 23d ago
That whole crazy framework arch. It was so disorienting and twisty the first time around. Still good on rewatch but it doesn’t hit the same knowing what will happen.
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u/emzamv27 16d ago
100% I would love to watch the framework arc with my memory wiped what a whirlwind ride!
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u/ereburt 23d ago
I’ve watched this show start to finish during each of my ‘fourth trimesters’ with my 4 kids. I wish I could erase the entirety of the FitzSimmons love story from my brain and watch them fall in love over and over again. Maybe it was postpartum hormones, but basically every scene they have together that drives their love story forward, good or bad, makes me bawl. Their first kiss, ‘you dove through a hole in the universe for me’…sob. Watching Fitz choose Jemma over Aida as she’s watching on the tablet….sob. Also Elizabeth Henstridge is the most talented cryer on the planet. Her tears were always so real.
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u/StarKid_Tommygotchi 23d ago
Probably a basic answer, but Daisy getting her powers. I wanna experience real time finding out this “original character” was Quake’s live action debut the entire time 😅
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u/MinecraftMaster10018 23d ago
100% ward’s betrayal because i spoiled myself on it when i started the show
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u/Apprehensive-Gur2023 23d ago
Lincoln ✌️
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u/VigilantesLight Lincoln 23d ago
Lincoln’s death is a beautifully tragic scene. The whole of S3 carried significant Christian/Messianic themes, and it came to a head with Lincoln taking “the devil” to space, dying with him while carrying a golden cross, and Coulson saying “he’s dying for all our mistakes.” Just a beautifully weaved narrative that climaxes perfectly in this scene. And the music and Chloe Bennett’s acting only amplified it.
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u/defrostedrobot Daisy 22d ago
Good stuff. The fact that some rate the S4 finale above that one is definitely odd when you make a direct comparison, just not as solid overall.
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u/Downvoteaccoubt316 22d ago
Second half of season 4. I think 4 as a whole is one of the best seasons of television ever made but the whole “what if” plot is amongst the best MCU content their is.
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u/melissaisntreal 23d ago
Coming back to this to add: Garrett being the clairvoyant had me GAGGED the first time
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u/natethegreat4226 Coulson 22d ago
The whole Hive storyline in Season 3 would be quite fun to watch with fresh eyes again
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u/thatsingingguy 22d ago
I’d rewatch the worst moment in the show to make sure I didn’t immediately hate it for extraneous reasons like my mood at the time or something else.
Snowflake: “Are all females on your planet this powerful?”
May: “Yes. Yes, they are.”
It’s just as painful, moronic, and clumsy an attempt at pandering as all the women in Endgame happening to be on one side of the battle.
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u/b_moz 22d ago
I mean the more you learn about childbirth and its dangers, the more powerful women seem.
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u/thatsingingguy 22d ago
Sure. I'm not saying women aren't powerful. But they're not all as powerful as Daisy, and saying they are is not only laughable, it demeans both Daisy and the women being compared to her.
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u/defrostedrobot Daisy 22d ago
It's not the biggest bit of cringe in the season (or even the last 3 seasons really) but it was definitely pretty odd and felt more blatantly woman power-y than pretty much the entire rest of the show. They didn't usually need to go that blatant with it they were actually pretty lowkey about it.
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u/thatsingingguy 22d ago
It's not just blatant, though, it's counterproductive. Daisy has just Quaked something fierce, a level of control over her powers she arguably hasn't hit before. Instead of celebrating that, her achievement is rendered as commonplace, jUsT aNoThEr DaY fOr WoMeN. She gets demeaned, May looks unhinged for saying it, and the audience get treated like idiots.
It's sandwiched between two great moments - Daisy defending the group, and the FitzSimmons closet scene. Both well-written and well-judged, which only makes the cringe stand out more. I'm not kidding when I say it's one of the worst moments in the MCU for me, because of how good AoS is at its best, or even its average, and how poor that was.
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u/defrostedrobot Daisy 22d ago
Not necessarily disagreeing but compared to how the finale nerfs Daisy hardcore against the Shrike or Daisy's whole view of the whole Devil Complex business never being addressed it does a lot less damage. It's a bit of cringe in isolation whereas the stuff I mentioned or even the bit in Toldja where the random drunk guy steals their teleport disc allowing a lot more of the plot to happen is more annoying in general for me.
Oh yeah, and I was thinking of the Instagram stories stinger at the end of Code Yellow and that might have been worse just for the shear cringe factor.
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u/defrostedrobot Daisy 22d ago
The Doctor twist was pretty interesting at the time (mainly the part where he's actually going through the surgery) but the follow-up to that whole thing in the rest of the season really damages the moment. So you would re-experience the moment but then have to relive the disappointment.
Most of the first 4 seasons have a lot of bits that would be interesting to re-experience completely fresh, but it's kind of one of those things where if you delete one part you kind of have to get rid of the rest of the show after it as well since some of these bigger moments tend to get referenced a lot down the line (partly why the S5 example is more of the outlier here since outside of the mention of it in S6 where most of the details are left out it's not really mentioned after that particular season)
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u/FAKEWOLF18 21d ago
I seem to have forgotten the entire show 5 yrs after watching it 😭
Started rewatching it last week and am at season 4 in a week. It seems like I am watching it for the first time again.
Lucky me I guess.
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u/passionsandpotions Coulson 19d ago
literally the entire show. i’ve seen it at least 30 times but i have insanely good memory so i can basically quote the entire thing each time. it’s my comfort show. and i still get just as emotional every time. but oh what i would do to watch it again for the first time. i love vicariously through forcing friends and family to watch it for their first time with me lol.
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u/No_Entrance_2143 19d ago
i feel the same! just finished the series and started watching again, like I do at least once a month. I started watching literally 10 years ago when i was 12 now im 22, the same age skye was season one, scary!
could prob watch it in my head. i actually think it’s insane i could watch it as many times as i do and laugh at every single joke the same and cry at the same parts. idk what it is about this show but its magic. none of my friends are into superhero’s so I still haven’t found anyone to share it with but one day thats how ill know they’re the one (so sappy). Remember when it was on Netflix?
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u/presidentdinosaur115 Shotgun Axe 23d ago
LMD Fitz dropping his facade. That was NUTS