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Marvel's AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. | Ep. 3x14 - WATCH ALONG! (Patreon)

Published:
2020-08-13 19:31:00
Edited:
2020-08-13 22:53:58
Imported:
2021-02

Content

"Watchdogs"

Happy Thursday, peeps!  

Episode Synopsis: A group called the Watchdogs emerges to wipe out Inhumans, but the team traces its true origins...  meanwhile, Simmons discovers an important chemical compound..

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Previous Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Episodes:


Files

Shield 3x14 [re-up]

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Comments

Feather_Noir

This is one of my underrated favs from this show. Daisy and Mack are actually 2/3 of my top fav characters (along with May) and DaisyMack is hands down my favorite friendship in this show, especially in this season. So, for me, this episode was a dream. Mack is just such a stand up, moral, and emotional guy. And he lost his two best friends all in one day. Didn't even get to say goodbye properly. He's reeling. So it makes sense that he would try to pivot to another close connection with his brother. Only he finds out things aren't 100% there either. The conflict with his brother felt very real to me and I really enjoyed seeing Mack in a new dynamic than he usually has with his teammates. I loved getting to peek into his life outside of SHIELD and his internal conflicts as an individual. I was also a huge fan of the Daisy story here. We get to see that she hasn't lost all of the rogue edge she had before the team picked her up. Daisy used to be an extremely outspoken activist and hacker. Not to mention she's a minority three times over in this universe as a woman, an Asian-American, and an Inhuman. It makes so much sense that she would respond the way she does to the Watchdogs, who are basically the MCU version of white nationalists/Klan. (The Watchdogs burning Mack and Ruben's bikes out front before they attacked was a particularly visceral image, considering them being Black American. It was very difficult for me in a way I hadn't really expected for this episode.) As for the philosophical debate...it's a tough one for me. On paper, I agree that what Daisy is proposing is a breach of civil liberties and is questionable at best, corrupt at worst. Yet I also can't help but remember that Daisy was taught these things by SHIELD and Coulson. They breach people's civil liberties in this show all the time. SHIELD basically wrote the book on it for decades. It feels a bit disingenuous to pretend otherwise once Daisy wants to do the same to a terrorist organization and their "human supremacist" followers. Even more, Lincoln and Daisy's anger is very real and very earned especially once we actually start hearing these Watchdogs talk about their philosophy. This is not even including the way the ATCU/government treated the Inhumans in the first half of the season. They were hunting Lincoln for most of the first half. Like, I just...get it when it comes to Daisy's argument here. That said, I think the counter argument could only have come from Mack because he's such a profoundly moral and ethical person, who has very openly questioned Coulson's rogue SHIELD tactics many times. It makes complete sense for him to want to pull Daisy back from mirroring some of those rogue tactics and think first about the rights of all citizens. He's the poster boy for a Lawful Good alignment, that way. Speaking of...I liked the positioning of Mack (Lawful Good) and Daisy (Chaotic Good) on opposite sides of the spectrum with Fitz (Neutral Good) caught in the middle of them. His face while they had their argument in the Zephyr command center was a journey in and of itself. The season has been very carefully layering in this philosophical debate about how to officially deal with powered people and how to handle this sudden new minority. First with the ATCU/Rosalind and now with Watchdogs/Blake. I think it's important to remember that the Inhumans are not like other powered people like the Avengers, they are basically a whole race/species. It is hereditary and cultural for them in a way that it's not for the Avengers or people who are enhanced from some science accident or whatever. It's a tough debate to be having but I liked that this season tries to tackle it through Daisy's experience.

The Ruptards

Kinda a shame that the movie franchise that ignores the existence of this great series steals one of their lines for the highest grossing movie ever.