r/agentsofshield • u/marvelcomics22 • 1d ago
Season 6 As someone who will defend AoS Season 6 until the day she dies, I genuinely think that Sarge shouldn't have happened.
I like what they did with Sarge, and I think that allowed them to explore a very interesting story about grief and how hard it is to let go, especially for Daisy. And Clark Gregg being evil was so fun to watch, but it kind of made Coulson's death mean nothing.
They spent the back half of Season 5 building to Coulson's death, and we see him finally living his life in his final days in The End, and he's dead. But in Season 6, there's a guy with Coulson's face, and while he's not Coulson, and you do feel some of the weight of Coulson's absence, you don't feel it to the extent that you would if Clark Gregg wasn't on your screen every other minute. Not to mention the whole will-they-won't-they with Sarge potentially being Coulson that they kind of leaned into towards the end of the season, and then completely flipped it. And then Sarge dies, and bye bye Clark Gregg, again.
But at the end of Season 6 and for all of Season 7, we have LMD Coulson, who is functionally Coulson, just with extensiental thoughts hanging over his head for like two minutes all season, and they can do some fun stuff with him being a robot. I like LMD Coulson, but he is basically just regular old, Phillip J. Coulson.
Don't get me wrong, I love Sarge (and S6) and I love LMD Coulson, but I just feel that had there actally been some time to just breathe in Coulson's absence, LMD Coulson would've worked a lot better.