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Agents of SHIELD series finale review: The End is at Hand and What We’re Fighting For

By Wesley Coburn

MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. - "Brand New Day" - With the help of Kora on the inside, Sibyl and Nathanial continue their fight to shape a dark new future for S.H.I.E.L.D., managing to stay one step ahead of the agents along the way. If the team is going to turn this one around, they'll have to get creative, and maybe even a little out of this world, on the penultimate episode of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," airing WEDNESDAY, AUG. 5 (10:00 - 11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC. - (ABC/Mitch Haaseth)CLARK GREGG, ENVER GJOKAJ, MING-NA WEN, CHLOE BENNET, HENRY SIMMONS
MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. - "Brand New Day" - With the help of Kora on the inside, Sibyl and Nathanial continue their fight to shape a dark new future for S.H.I.E.L.D., managing to stay one step ahead of the agents along the way. If the team is going to turn this one around, they'll have to get creative, and maybe even a little out of this world, on the penultimate episode of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," airing WEDNESDAY, AUG. 5 (10:00 - 11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC. - (ABC/Mitch Haaseth)CLARK GREGG, ENVER GJOKAJ, MING-NA WEN, CHLOE BENNET, HENRY SIMMONS /
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How did the Agents of SHIELD series finale go down? Some spoilers follow.

The Agents of SHIELD series finale has now completed, and the first Marvel Cinematic Universe television series is now wrapped up forever.

Technically season 7 episode 12, “The End is at Hand” and season 7 episode 13, “What We’re Fighting For,” they aired back-to-back as the series finale, as all previous season finales have..

Nathaniel Malick (Thomas E Sullivan), Sibyl the Predictor (Tamara Taylor) and Kora (Dianne Doan) have unleashed a Chronicom attack to wipe out SHIELD bases around the world, and Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) has no memory of Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) following Nathaniel’s meddling.

Meanwhile, Daisy (Chloe Bennet), Mack (Henry Simmons) and Sousa (Enver Gjokaj) are on a last-ditch effort to rescue Simmons and Deke (Jeff Ward).

High tech and duct tape

While Daisy goes inside the Chronicoms‘ ship to rescue Simmons (and Deke, reluctantly), Mack and Sousa hold down the fort and stay to stave off the oncoming robots. This involves a lot of playful banter and a bit of Fitz tech to power down some soldiers.

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Thankfully, Sousa remembers that the Chronicoms tried to bomb Area 51, and they tie together the Chronicom corpses into makeshift missiles thanks to duct tape to blow open the doors in case the rescue attempt is successful.

Spaceship craziness

Sybil directs everyone to allow Daisy to find Simmons, reasoning that this will allow them to fall into her trap. What she didn’t see coming, however, was Kora’s meeting with Daisy, and the impassioned speech to become a better person, thanks to the job their mother tried to do with Kora: even if Jiaying wasn’t perfect, she still did the best she could.

This train of thought eventually leads Kora to reject Nathaniel’s manipulations, for as May muses in the Lighthouse, “Does the new timeline change us, or do we change the timeline?”

0-8-4 collection – assemble

Everyone makes it onto the Zephyr, which is then able to return to Earth, where a hunt for 0-8-4s (objects of unknown origin, as the second episode, “0-8-4,” explained), led them to the bar in New York City, where a handful of agents (including a young Victoria Hand) each brought an heirloom 0-8-4 they’d been guarding. (Garrett is accidentally shot on arrival here.)

Once Simmons and the rest of the Zephyr group arrive, she’s able to piece all the objects together into a Rube Goldberg-type machine, which eventually leads to a different machine that allows Fitz to show up thanks to some Quantum Realm travel.

Summary

Things turn out pretty well for our agents in the end. By the end of the Agents of SHIELD series finale, Nathaniel and Sibyl are defeated and everyone gets their version of a happy ending thanks to some wildly intricate time traveling. (Would you expect anything else?) We return to the events of “New Life” (6.13), and then shoot forward a year and get a glimpse of everyone’s lives following a Framework-based reunion.

It comes down to family, and that means you look out for each other.

A. The Agents of SHIELD series finale wraps up in style as the team undergoes their final mission together.. Agents of SHIELD. S7E13. What We're Fighting For

SHIELD shrapnel

  • “I’m pretty sure they don’t understand sarcasm,” Sousa comments as an aside to Mack after he makes a flippant reply to a Chronicom demand.
  • “These people ALWAYS beat the odds,” Sibyl scowls in gloom. I mean, she’s not wrong…
  • “Can I have one?” Simmons asks about Daisy’s costume.
  • “I hope this works,” Coulson worries. “You hope, I’ll pray,” Mack replies. Nice little shoutout to his faith, which has been a major (though mostly background) part of his character since his introduction in “Shadows” (2.01).
  • May seems to enjoy her new job as a professor (or possibly principal?) of the Coulson Academy for new SHIELD recruits (which include Flint).
  • Lola’s gotten an upgrade thanks to Mack’s tinkering.

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The first era of Marvel Cinematic Universe television is now completely closed, as Marvel Television has been folded into Marvel Studios, which will produce all the series going forward on Disney Plus and Hulu.

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