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Hooray! This show has hit its awesome! The last three weeks I've actually WANTED to watch it, and have watched it live rather than catching it on Hulu when I remember it exists. I don't want Fitz/Simmons to die, but they should die. Even if they live, they need to not redeem Ward w/ him giving them a chance for survival blah blah blah. I think it rings far truer if Ward didn't want to kill them, but still did. I also think it's an interesting "following orders" excuse. Given Hydra's Nazi parentage, I think it makes sense. I have actually been liking Fitz more lately. The Simmons crush does seem a little shoe-horned in and doesn't really ring true to me (the Skye crush, on the other hand, made total sense). You can have men and women be super close friends without romantic entanglement - I have my own "Fitz" and believe me, zero romance. Anyways, I do love how Fitz's heart seems more broken than Skye's. I sort of love his inability to believe Ward is truly bad. It's a slice of innocence that shouldn't be there, that makes no sense being there, and yet it is. For me, the Cap "universe" has always been the most hopeful one. Iron Man is the smart ass, Thor is the epic family drama, and Cap is the true hero who talks about things like sacrifice and aspires to be the better man. I know we have to live in the real world, where Ward needs a bullet, but it shouldn't be an easy decision. It should be heart breaking and difficult, and only done because there is no other choice. Fitz's faith, however misdirected, kind of scratches that itch for me.

In reference to Clark Gregg's "losers" comment from the top of the thread... I listen to a podcast where the critic who asked the question is a contributor. The critic, Scott Pierce, isn't a long time Marvel universe "geek," but all the other panelists on the podcast are so he usually gives some outsider POV when Marvel comes up. From day one he was very supportive of the show even when other people on the podcast weren't really digging it. I thought it was interesting that he accidentally sparked that firestorm. Here's a link to the episode. If you are easily offended... don't listen to this podcast. Very NSFW. http://www.geekshowpodcast.com/new-episode-hates-dvision/ On a S.H.I.E.L.D related note - ITA with: My first thought after seeing Cap was "How are they going to pull this off??!!" and I've really been enjoying the last few episodes. It's a shame that most of this season was really filler - what they took about 15 episodes to do could have been done in five - but now it's starting to get some steam. I like evil Ward, though the actor doesn't really have tons of range. Some of the lines felt a little flat, but thank heavens for Bill Paxton. How about we don't give Skye any romance? She has a tiny heart break over her crush being bad, and instead we let any of the series romance focus on Simmons, with some randomly hilarious cameo's from totally unexpected ex-boyfriends of May.