The Shield is an American crime drama television created by Shawn Ryan and starring Michael Chiklis. The series premiered on FX on March 12, 2002 and ended on November 25, 2008, totaling 88 episodes over seven seasons, plus one additional mini-episode.
When the Strike Team conducts a raid on the residence of Two-Time, a drug dealer, Vic and Strike Team member Detective Shane Vendrell are shot at by Two-Time, who they fire back at and kill. Vic picks up Two-Time's gun off his body and shoots Terry in the face (without informing follow Team members Detective Curtis "Lem" Lemansky and Detective Ronnie Gardocki), making it look like Terry was murdered by Two-Time himself. Gilroy assists Vic in covering up the murder, which stops Aceveda's investigation. Things come to a breaking point towards the end of the season when Gilroy's own ambitions threaten both Vic's and Aceveda's futures.
This 15-minute mini-episode was produced between the fifth and sixth seasons, and initially released to various websites in February 2007 as a promotion for season six.[16] It was later made available on the Season 5 DVD set.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is an American television series created for ABC by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon, and Maurissa Tancharoen, based on the Marvel Comics organization S.H.I.E.L.D.[1][2] It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and acknowledges the continuity of the franchise's films and other television series.[3][4] The series was produced by ABC Studios, Marvel Television, and Mutant Enemy Productions, and sees Clark Gregg reprise his role as Phil Coulson from the film series.[2] During the course of the series, 136 episodes of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. aired over seven seasons, between September 24, 2013, and August 12, 2020.
I would have hated it if the show went on a depressing song. When the song played over the montage of images of the past seven seasons, I got really emotional thinking how great this show has been. I want to remember the good times. I had a huge smile on my face at that end montage.
This show is tits!!!!!!! I watched it again from beginning to end for the 3rd time and I absolutely love it! It always keeps me on the edge of my seat even tho I know the outcome and know what comes next. I wish the show never ended. I wish Shawn Ryan could have kept it going somehow or even bring it back for another 7 seasons! The shield beats all cop shows and all cop movies!
This perfectly sums it up for me. I slogged through the beginning of the season more out of a sense of obligation to Whedon and Marvel, but towards the end I felt like the characters actually started to become characters.And I apparently ended up interested enough that at the end of Captain America I found myself actively thinking about how it would impact Shield.
The Agents of SHIELD season 7 finale was a stunning conclusion to the series, answering lingering questions and setting up a possible future for each team member. In 2013, Marvel Television launched Agents of SHIELD, their flagship TV show. The series was originally pitched as a sort of MCU tie-in series, with season 1 in particular linking in to the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Over the years, though, Agents of SHIELD came to blaze its own trail; it distanced itself from the MCU movies, establishing its own unique lore.
Agents of SHIELD season 7 is the end of the road for Coulson and his team - and it's been a wild ride. This season has seen SHIELD caught up in a sort of Time War against an alien race called the Chronicoms, who were attempting to create a timeline vulnerable to their conquest. SHIELD was tasked with preserving the timeline, but it soon became clear they had apparently failed in this mission. The stakes had never been higher for the SHIELD team, but they also remained disturbingly personal; the Chronicoms altered Mack's personal timeline by killing his parents in the 1980s, while Daisy watched her mother die before she had even been born.
Time travel is one of the most difficult concepts in any science-fiction franchise, largely because it has absolutely no real-world analogue. As a result, every franchise tends to establish its own rules, and they're rarely handled in a consistent manner. Agents of SHIELD season 5 had committed to the Multiverse model, with the idea branching timelines could be created as a result of time travel, but it was unclear how easy these branches were to create. In Agents of SHIELD season 7, episode 1, Deke suggested he bought into the timestream theory. "Personally, I subscribe to the timestream idea," he explained. "Imagine time is a stream, right, and we were sticks that were thrown into it."
The stream isn't impeded by one or too many sticks, but if too many are added, it creates a dam that changes the direction of the water. "So, as long as we can avoid that," Deke concluded, "we should be able to splash around a little bit and we're all good." This was the running theory through most of the season, but attentive viewers began to notice weird contradictions. It turns out Deke was completely wrong; the very act of traveling into the past created a brand new timeline, and the divergences increased as the season went on.
Fitz and Simmons were rescued from the Chronicoms at the tail end of Agents of SHIELD season 6, and it seems they stole an important piece of Chronicom technology that allowed them to view the timelines and even predict what people would do. Using this, Fitz learned there was only one way to save the day - but it involved Daisy's sister, Kora, who in the real world had committed suicide years before Quake was born. Thus Fitz sent the SHIELD team back in time to create a new branched timeline, and he carefully orchestrated this new history to ensure Kora's suicide would be averted. Fitz had remained in the real timeline attempting to control events; for him the experience only took minutes, before events swiftly built to a head and he was summoned into the new timeline to bring his team back with Kora. Everything was planned from the start, but the following events required alteration to the plan, involving part of Avengers: Endgame's own time travel.
Sousa initially volunteered, but Deke wouldn't allow that to happen, because he felt Sousa could make Daisy happy. Besides, he reasoned, he'd spent years in 1986 and had built a life for himself as a rock-'n'-roll legend. So Deke was left in the new timeline, one where the SHIELD of 1986 had been decimated, and to his surprise and delight the survivors asked him to take over as director. It's only a shame the Agents of SHIELD season 7 finale is the end of this story, because it would be great to see what Deke made of his own version of SHIELD. What's interesting is that Deke found himself staying in a timeline that was created, which is fitting since he was a remnant of a timeline that no longer exists.
Oddly enough, the Agents of SHIELD season 7 finale suggests Enoch - the Chronicom traitor who had sacrificed himself in Agents of SHIELD season 7 - was the key to the Chronicoms' defeat. Enoch's example proved a Chronicom could learn empathy, and that an empathic Chronicom would be an ally rather than an enemy. Fitz's plan was to combine May's new empathic abilities with Kora's - to transmit empathic knowledge to the Chronicoms on Earth, and thus render them harmless. The SHIELD team stole aboard the Chronicom ships, and tricked Sybil into commanding an all-out attack on the Lighthouse. With the Chronicom ground forces concentrated, they only had a single target to hit in order to achieve their goal.
During those years, their lives had taken a twist when they realized Simmons was unexpectedly pregnant. So they had brought up their daughter, Ayla, aboard the Zephyr. Finally, after several years, they decided it was time to put matters right and save the day; after all, they wanted to give Alya more than just the Zephyr to live on. This was why Simmons had previously grown so distraught when she briefly regained her memories in Agents of SHIELD season 7, episode 9; she had wiped her memory of her daughter in order to protect her, but what mother can possibly stand realizing she has forgotten her own child?
The Agents of SHIELD season 7 finale fast-forwarded a year, revealing what had happened to the old SHIELD team now they had split up. Mack had remained director of SHIELD, and he'd essentially become the new Nick Fury, even sporting the traditional Fury trench-coat. Mack had clearly rebuilt SHIELD into a powerful, global force for good, and was shown standing on the deck of one of the SHIELD Helicarriers as they prepared to perform a mission. He's certain to be a very different director to Nick Fury, however; less secretive, more consultative, preferring to give his senior staff a lot more leeway.
Yo-Yo's powers had radically expanded in Agents of SHIELD season 7. She's previously only possessed a limited version of super-speed, with her power manifesting in "bursts" that last as long as a heartbeat; she would always snap back to her point of origin like a yo-yo. But she learned this limitation was actually self-imposed, due to psychological scars she had suffered before even gaining her abilities. With that dealt with, Yo-Yo gained true super-speed, with no restrictions. And, according to the one year later scenes, she'll continue to use her super-speed as leader of an elite SHIELD team.
Melinda May is now head of the new SHIELD Academy, the "Coulson Academy," and one of her students is Flint - the Inhuman from a future timeline who was recreated by the power of the Monoliths in Agents of SHIELD season 6. And Coulson is still wandering the world, reassessing his options, albeit doing occasional favors for Mack - who gifts him a souped-up version of Lola. Given that Coulson's exploits still take place on Earth and see him roaming without direct involvement in SHIELD, if a spinoff were ever to happen, following Coulson could be the best option. The SHIELD team has broken up, each member now living their own separate lives, but they will always care for one another and support each other.
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