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agl03 · 8 years ago

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AOS 4x19: AKA For the love of all things can someone kidnap Fitz from the clutches of evil already!

I don’t think a show has had me to this point of sheer tear inducing frustration, ever. But holy cats did we get a whole pile of theories confirmed here.

Diving right in under the thing!

Coulson: PHIL COULSON AGENT OF SHIELD IS BACK! Have to say that was a pretty awesome speech there at the end with the Fury quote. I loved it. We watched him slipping back into his role as leader and as predicted he’s going to come out of this with a renewed will to fight for Shield. Coulson has a huge target on his back right now as we know he’s in serious danger in the final fight AND that the Superior can’t wait to go after him once he’s free from his programming (oh boy more on that later!)

May: May is coming back too! She doesn’t have her memories…at all. So aside for Coulson it looks like they could get out of the Framework without getting their actual memories back. But her will to fight for the right side is back. AIDA said she was breaking her programming (again more on that later because I was screaming into my pillow). Super nice to see May kicking butt and taking names. Look for more of that from her as we make our final push to get the heck out of Dodge.

Mack: Mack is coming back too and getting pulled deeper into the cause. Though I don’t know how he’s going to take leaving Hope, or if he’s even on that final mission in the promo. I fully expect him to be one that isn’t ready or willing to leave. Mack is also one I’m starting to struggle with here because it seems the writers didn’t really know what to do with him aside from give him Hope and totally kill us with feels in the process.

Trip: Oh it’s so nice to have you back. Even better when Jemma lists off all sorts of crazy stuff and he’s all sure, lets steal the Quin Jet…fake world, robots, totally sounds legit. All I ask writers is I don’t have to watch him die again. Don’t get attached guys, he’s not coming back PLG or no.

Ward: I’ve got mixed feelings here. Because this version of Ward is interesting. But that is this version of Ward that was programmed by the book of doom and shaped by a world that the evil robot built to achieve her own evil plans. We have to remember HOW MUCH manipulation by AIDA is in play here. They also left it open as to if he’s died or not. Burrows is on the Release for 20 and since Burrows was with Ward at the TV Station there is a good chance that he makes it through too. Otherwise I think they would have showed him dying. I’m still expecting a twist with him and will just have to go down with the ship on that one if I’m wrong. Just be leery…we’re very much getting “The Fantasy” aka a redemption kind of arc…and the last time they gave us “The Fantasy” fans wanted was with Philinda….and she was an LMD at the time…there is always a price…always a twist.

Daisy: Has her powers back! The collective fandom likely cheered when she blasted Madame Hydra out the elevator there. She got the exit point, Jemma has the real world location, now it’s a matter of getting out with everyone they can alive. Daisy didn’t get as much of a leader arc as I thought she would with Couslon stepping up more. Though loved her fight scenes and am looking forward to the Trip/Daisy reunion next week.

Jemma: Jemma has realized why AIDA needs Fitz and what project looking glass is and that was her huge win this week. Not to mention mine when we got the confirmation the dang thing was being built in the real world. Next week look for Woman on Fire as the push to get to Fitz begins in earnest. I’m here with popcorn to see her get a shot in on Papa Fitz.

Fitz: Literally pulling my hair out in frustration here. I want SO BAD for him to be rescued and no one is even trying right now. But that is part of the point. Its beyond clear that AIDA’s manipulations run DEEP with Fitz. She didn’t just ‘fix’ a regret. She adjusted people around him, especially his father, to get him in this position. She took away his heart, openness, and kindness. Twisted his love for Jemma to herself. That he was her target and now one of her prizes in all of this. She isolated him, took away those he really loves, and handed him over to a mad man. He has done what she manipulated him to do now, got Project Looking Glass working. And I have a whole pile of asks in already about The Doctor making it to the real world, I need to mull on them overnight so expect a proper meta later. At the very least, that is now a massive ticking clock and the fight to save Fitz has really begun. What will really kick it up a notch is if he’s going to get scanned by that thing and get a new body, or if AIDA will plug him into Fitz’s existing body and Jemma needs to get him disconnected before that happens.

For those who are upset that Fitz hasn’t stared to ‘come around’ yet remember he has been isolated. Seeing Jemma helped but he’s been trapped by Madame Hydra and his Father who constantly re enforce the programming to keep him on track. Imagine if May had gotten her wake up call but then was stuck in a room and had that programming re enforced. The person he needs to really break free is Jemma and that is the reason they’ve been kept apart for so long.

Radcliffe: Well I like him again as he scored points in the great Dad off of 2K17…so that means his days are numbered here and/or he’s going to betray us again. Good job standing up to Papa Fitz there, we were cheering for you here. He does seem to take The Doctor up on his deal in the promo. I can still see Radcliffe falling to save Fitz and now perhaps to stop AIDA. Playing along in order to get to where he can be in a position to stop it.

Papa Fitz: I think I speak for the fandom here when I saw you just need to go to Hades! But we also got a HUGE confirmation that AIDA is indeed the puppet master and went beyond fixing a regret. Because Radcliffe confirmed that she CHANGED Papa Fitz from his real world counter part. And again there are hundreds of ways she could have done that and kept him in Fitz life. If she could change him she could have made him as kind and caring as Fitz was…but instead she made him horrible, evil, abusive, a** so that he would ‘program’ Fitz how she needed him for her plans.

Misc Items:

There was a lot of screaming as more than one theory hit here tonight.

First up we have that AIDA is indeed still bound by her programming. She (and Robo Superior) can’t kill the hostages. Even more she still has to protect them. The exception being Daisy and Jemma since they are threats to the Framework.

AIDA did more than fix a regret, she PROGRAMMED them into roles for her world. Like I’ve been saying she needed things a certain way and manipulated things around the hostages to make that happen. Yes, she fixed a regret but she also forced them down specific paths, especially Fitz.

Project Looking Glass will indeed bring Madame Hydra to the real world (But I’m not letting go that something worse is still lurking or going to use it to come through. That dang book has showed multiple people how to make the same thing and that is not good). In doing so this will give AIDA the free will and choice she wants, allow her to be free if the limitations of her programming. In many ways that is part of what keeps throwing her off with the hostages, because they are human they can overcome their programming, especially when they start to really fight it as Coulson and May have.

And since that is the case that does open up the can of worms of others from the Framework coming to the Real World. Fitz clearly gives Radcliffe the option in the promo…but what about Trip, Ward, and Hope. Trip isn’t going to happen, BJ is on another show. Ward…I’m on the fence about….and could see it happening if the circumstances are right. Hope…okay yes lets bring Hope over please so I don’t have to die when Mack says goodbye.

Choice is also key here. What does AIDA do when she has choice. When she is no longer bound by the parameters of Radcliffe’s programming. She knows it’s not possible to recreate the world she did in the Framework. But she could try, she knows what it took to get that world there and could try to recreate the same things in the real world so she could seize control once more. Or she just wants to go live the simple life.

Next week as everything comes to a head and we just have to hang on for dear life though the episode. Fitzsimmons will FINALLY come face to face as the race to save the team will begin, with more than one life hanging in the balance. We heard in the promo that Coulson was going to die so we know his life is on the line. With the other being Fitz. The Doctor wants to come through…so the big question is does AIDA plug the Doctor into Fitz’s body…or does he get a new one like her and then they dispose of the original. Either way it’s a race for Jemma to get to him in time or she’ll lose him forever.

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