Person of Interest: Let me elaborate now that I have a keyboard infront of me.
Ok, I am shocked to find out that Decima was behind Vigilance the entire time, and everything Vigilance thought they were doing, everything they thought they thought up themselves was actual all part of a larger plan and contained inside a bubble. Old Man Decima played the long con like a master.
Root, I thought she had a much different objective with the 7 servers, maybe uploading a virus in to Samaritan to go live when it did, but really it was just 1 server to hardcode a blindspot per person involved with "Team Machine". I also don't know how Shaw found Root or snuck her way in undetected in just the knick of time, but those are details I choose not to focus on.
What I would like to know is how will they blend into society and will they still be taking numbers. What is their play from here on out? how do they stop Samaritan now that it is nationwide? Once it has access it will never give it up, and all they need to do is put cameras in any additional blind spots and Samaritan will take care of itself. Hopefully Harold has a backdoor trojan in the original code somewhere that has a some sort of "kill switch" or "safety latch" or something.
Agents of SHIELD
Man these last 8-10 episodes have been a fun ride. What a turn around for a show. Captain America reveal was holding this show back storywise as once that became known. HAIL HYDRA. all hell broke loose and everything changed. Granted the show could have been much better in the first half if Loeb didn't have his relatively unconnected episodes preventing some early serialization (that seems to be where everyone is placing blame), but even that was only half the problem.
Now for that finale. LOL, there were some good moments here, and few LOLbad moments too.
Most of the May vs Ward fight was pretty good. She finally got to let a little loose.
Skye had a good bit in this, and exposing the "Incentive Program" helped them turn the tide.
for those that didn't get it, as several review sites seemed to overlook, the "Incentive Program" was nullified by Skye freeing the hostages that were being used to incentivize people to perform their duties. Such as Mike "Deathlok" Peterson being incentivized to stay loyal because Hydra had his son.
I'm not sure what happened to Tripplet during the whole base invasion and stopping of Garrett and Ward, but was on the bus at The Playground so he should be on the team for s2.
LMD or Clone twin... actual brother of Koenig maybe? He did say he was playing CoD with his brother alot I believe... I would have to look again.
And Fitz... what happened to Fitz!? brain damaged? they didn't even show him again after the rescue. whats up with that?
Graviton moves to S2 along with Raina, who seemed to be heavy hinting to Inhumans coming to the MCU, which wouldn't be a surprise. "evolving... though the mist.... what will I become?"
And Coulson drawing out that "alien" text on the wall like Garrett did earlier, which is the same "alien" text we say back in the episode with the black chick that had the first remote viewing eye.
I'm guessing this all ties back into the blue alien in Project TAHITI which will have some relevance to GotG in a few months, and then will be revisited in s2 in the fall.
Fury actually played a big part in this episode, and even though it was a little cheesy, it was still fun.
Him showing up in the base just in the place he needed to be where Coulson was out manned and out gunned, and hands him a BIG ASS GUN to get the job done was pretty LOLbad, and Coulson taking out full on Deathlok Garrett at the end was fucking LOLgood. completely unexpected with the punchline joke to top it off. But Coulson getting the toolbox to rebuild SHIELD and become the director of it was also unexpected.
but this is also a good direction for next season, as seeing that Agent Carter has a full 13 ep order and will be airing in the mid season break slot of AoS, the show could touch on similar connecting themes.
1st half of AoS s2 could be about getting everything back to together and getting back on their feet.
then Agent Carter airs and shows the origins of SHIELD and the people that made it happen
2nd half of AoS s2 airs and makes call backs to those origins as Couslon gets SHIELD 2.0 up and running again.
And who was Raina talking to at the end... Skye's dad? Who could that be? Are we still lined up for a possible Jessica Drew? who could that be? what was he dripping... blood?
Some unanswered questions, but lots of new threads opened up to follow into season 2 like:
-What was the blue alien. and why didn't it affect Skye mentally like it did Garrett and Coulson?
-Ward is still alive, with a fractured trachea. Will he try to redeem himself since he was ready to put down Garrett for going so far of his expected course and revealing himself to not really be tied to Hydra or Shield, but just Garrett in general.
-Who was the man Raina was talking to, what makes her think that her and Skye are the same inside, and how does this relate to that man.
-Will Coulson be able to rebuild SHIELD?
-What happens to Fitz now? brain damaged? does he become something more, since they have the tech to rebuild a brain that has been dead...
-Gravitonium... what will they do with it. when will it become sentient?
and more that are not coming to me at the moment
So overall:
1st half of AoS = C with a few C+/B- episodes
2nd half of AoS = B+ with a few A- moments.
and I also have to say that AoS overtook Arrow for these last few episodes of the season outside of a few shocking Arrow moments. So I hope the Arrow s2 Finale brings the pain and takes back the comic show HYPE crown. They've kinda dropped the ball so far with this 3 episode finale, but it could still come around.