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Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD series finale review: The end of SHIELD

By Christina Roberts

MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. - "The End is at Hand/What We're Fighting For" - With their backs against the wall and Nathaniel and Sibyl edging ever closer to eliminating S.H.I.E.L.D. from the history books, the agents must rely on their strengths to outsmart and outlast the Chronicoms. This is their most important fight, and it will take the help of friends and teammates, past and present, to survive. Watch the special two-hour series finale of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," WEDNESDAY, AUG. 12 (9:00 - 11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC. - (ABC/Mitch Haaseth)CHLOE BENNET
MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. - "The End is at Hand/What We're Fighting For" - With their backs against the wall and Nathaniel and Sibyl edging ever closer to eliminating S.H.I.E.L.D. from the history books, the agents must rely on their strengths to outsmart and outlast the Chronicoms. This is their most important fight, and it will take the help of friends and teammates, past and present, to survive. Watch the special two-hour series finale of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," WEDNESDAY, AUG. 12 (9:00 - 11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC. - (ABC/Mitch Haaseth)CHLOE BENNET /
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Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD ends its seven-season run. Can the SHIELD team figure out how to beat the Chronicoms and Malick and save their original timeline?

Here we are, Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD fans. The end of the line. It’s been a great seven seasons. Let’s see where these last two episodes take us.

“The End Is At Hand”

Daisy, Mack, and Sousa dock on the Zephyr, find no one, and then head out to try to find Simmons and Deke. But they’re imprisoned with Malick and Sibyl, with Simmons injected with something to dissolve DIANA. And it’s working. But it’s blurring all of her memories together.

Sibyl needs Daisy and Simmons to reunite because it ups their chances of figuring out if Fitz is still alive. The problem is that Malick and Kora don’t care—they just want to kill Daisy.

Daisy rescues Simmons and Deke far too easily, knowing it’s a trap. But Kora shows up to confront her and Daisy gets to confront her right back. They really haven’t built Kora up enough for me to really care if she turns good or if Daisy just quakes her out of this timeline. I guess it’s good enough that she convinced Kora she’s good. All it gets Kora is a cell.

Everyone makes it back to the Zephyr. Mack and Sousa made some Chronicom bombs with a lot of duct tape and they blast their way out of the ship and back into open space.

Agents of SHIELD
MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. – “A Trout in the Milk” – After a bumpy landing in the disco decade, the team – Daniel Sousa in tow – reunites with more than one familiar face at the S.H.I.E.L.D. hangout and discovers exactly how to dismantle the Chronicoms’ latest plan. But when they get too close for comfort, the Zephyr unexpectedly leaps forward again, this time to a date pivotal to not only the future of S.H.I.E.L.D. but to the future of Director Mack as well on “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” airing WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24 (10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC. – (ABC/Mitch Haaseth)CLARK GREGG /

In the Lighthouse, Coulson, May, and Elena initiate lockdown procedures. Of course, Garrett is dropping Chronibombs to take down the Lighthouse. They snap Fitz’s blocking gear onto Garrett so he can’t teleport away when the bombs go off.

Well, Elena rushes all of the bombs to one spot to stop the entire structure from collapsing. Garrett’s bleeding out and Coulson wants to save him because he’s the best chance of saving everyone in space.

”I was shown a future where SHIELD betrays me. How come this timeline’s showing me the opposite?” Garrett asks when he wakes up. There’s an 084 somewhere and Coulson has the location.

They take the shackles off Garrett and have him teleport them to the 084… only for Garrett to be shot in the forehead and killed instantly. There are so many 084s and so many little cameos. Victoria Hand! The rest of the team meets them there.

Simmons heads to the 084s and compiles them all together. Enoch’s planted them throughout the decades across SHIELD… and reveals the machine to bring back Fitz!

Agents of SHIELD
MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. – “The End is at Hand/What We’re Fighting For” – With their backs against the wall and Nathaniel and Sibyl edging ever closer to eliminating S.H.I.E.L.D. from the history books, the agents must rely on their strengths to outsmart and outlast the Chronicoms. This is their most important fight, and it will take the help of friends and teammates, past and present, to survive. Watch the special two-hour series finale of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” WEDNESDAY, AUG. 12 (9:00 – 11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC. – (ABC/Mitch Haaseth)ELIZABETH HENSTRIDGE /

“What We’re Fighting For”

Fitz is trying to calm everyone down. They can go back to their timeline; he just came from there! The team just needed to survive and bring the key to saving the world.

The key is Kora.

Fitz is bringing the MCU back into the picture, talking about the quantum realm, and going back to the point where they broke off to this new timeline. Sounds like someone at Agents of SHIELD did get access to an Endgame script at some point!

Deke offers to stay in the 1980s and help the rest of the team make the jump through the quantum realm. And that leaves Deke to become the new head of SHIELD.

In the past, Enoch saved FitzSimmons with a copy of the time streams. Flint made them a piece of the time monolith. They go to Simmons’ favorite star system and that’s where they did all of their research… and live. They had their happily ever after until it was time to put things into motion. They even built Coulson.

They jumped back to the moment they left Piper and Flint and leave Fitz in their care. He had to stay to keep the timelines together.

The team assists Simmons and Enoch in the past in rescuing the team in the temple after defeating Sarge and Izel. And it’s the Chronicoms that blew up the temple?! But while that distraction took place, our current team boarded the Chronicom ship.

MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. – “After, Before” – With the Zephyr’s time drive malfunctioning, the team is quite literally hurling toward disaster and Yo-Yo may be their only hope. The only problem? To get her powers back, she’ll need to enlist the help of an old adversary and revisit part of her past long hidden away, on “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” WEDNESDAY, JULY 15 (10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC. – (ABC/Mitch Haaseth)THOMAS E. SULLIVAN
MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. – “After, Before” – With the Zephyr’s time drive malfunctioning, the team is quite literally hurling toward disaster and Yo-Yo may be their only hope. The only problem? To get her powers back, she’ll need to enlist the help of an old adversary and revisit part of her past long hidden away, on “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” WEDNESDAY, JULY 15 (10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC. – (ABC/Mitch Haaseth)THOMAS E. SULLIVAN /

Too bad they’re discovered pretty quickly. We’re treated to the Daisy/Malick face-off much sooner than anticipated, and it’s cathartic that Daisy gets some solid punches to his face.

On the Chronicom ship, they take down Sibyl, rescue Kora, and implement their plan of having May send empathy through Sibyl’s machine to all of the Chronicoms with a boost from Kora.

And it works.

All that’s left is Malick. Which means that Daisy sacrifices herself to take him down and destroy all of the ships. At least the team grabs her from space (very much like Guardians of the Galaxy) and revives her, thanks to Kora.

One the day is saved, FitzSimmons race back to save their daughter! She is as adorable as you’d expect.

One year later, the team slowly reunites. They’re doing the whole “old coworkers meeting back up” thing and it’s a little awkward.  It also sounds like everyone’s doting on FitzSimmon’s daughter and Daisy and Sousa (and Kora) are out in space and still going strong. May’s a recruiter at the Coulson Academy with SHIELD. Mack’s on a helicarrier.

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MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. -“Stolen” Ð After EnochÕs sacrifice propelled them out of the time storm, the team arrives back in 1983 where Nathanial and Kora are hard at work building an army of hand-selected anarchist Inhumans at Afterlife. When the agents split up to cover more ground, Daisy is tasked with protecting Jiaying and is compelled to confront her mother for the first time since her death; while the others quickly learn theyÕll need to face yet another supercharged former enemy in order to stop Malick on “MarvelÕs Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” airing WEDNESDAY, JULY 29 (10:00Ð11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC. – (ABC/Jessica Brooks)HENRY SIMMONS /

Coulson still hasn’t decided what he wants to do, being an LMD. They even reminisce about Deke in the other timeline!

Mack sent Coulson a package with car keys to Lola, and it seems like the perfect ending to the show.

Badass Moment of the Week

Daisy swinging around that one Chronicom’s neck while taking out three other Chronicoms was a good little action piece.

But the best moment was May knocking out Sibyl and getting to say that the Cavalry arrived.

Best One-Liner

“Turns out I speak fax! …This isn’t fax…” Thanks, Coulson.

”New timeline, new John Garrett!”
”…That just makes it worse.”

“Danny Boy is still impressed with a light bulb.”

I appreciated May’s Star Wars moment of feeling a disturbance in the Force. Also, Mack scolding Sousa for his old slang terms (most notably “egg in your beer” and “peachy,” though I still use peachy, so I feel called out).

”Grateful Dead poster” is the perfect way to describe the quantum realm and I’m upset I didn’t think of it first.

I really didn’t think we’d have this good of a time travel ending, tying in the end of season six with everything in season seven. Kudos for keeping me guessing up until the end, Agents of SHIELD.

It’s very heartfelt that we get to see how their lives turn out after seven years of insanity. But… what about the Snap?! (I know, I know…)

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Well, my friends, this is where I leave you for Agents of SHIELD reviews. I can’t believe I was able to review this ambitious Marvel show for seven years. Stay tuned to Culturess for some final thoughts over the next few weeks.

Thanks for coming along for the ride. It’s been a blast.

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