I enjoyed the Agents of SHIELD finale. The show came so far, and I think it grew into a really solid companion piece to the MCU. It was the little stepsister of the movies, but I think it found it's place. Season one wasn't sustainable, and it had to do its own thing. And even when the movies abandoned it, it was able to find ways to be interesting and cover relevant ground.
I wish they could've kept the connections to the movies, even just in special event episodes, but I understand why things went the way they did. And maybe it was for the best.
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*I was surprised that they didn't have any big cameos. No Peggy Carter. No Nick Fury (not even a young version unless I missed it). I knew they wouldn't get an Avenger (even a minor one), but someone connected to the show made sense.
But even without that, it was a good show with a good ending. I'll miss it.
I expected them to get some more in-show cameos too. Grant Ward, Trip, Bobbi or Hunter. The only one I noticed in the finale was Victoria Hand. (There were some others earlier in the season too) Part of the problem was that they never went past the 80s timeline so some of them would have been too young, but Peggy would have been doable (though would that have ruined the Sousa effect?), or Fury, or that character Lucy Lawless played whose name I cannot remember at all.
Pretty sure I heard somewhere that a lot of the budget when on the final two episodes, but I felt they did a decent job all the way through. I have a low threshold though - I can accept a lot of rubbish effects if the plot and characters are good. Either way, I've enjoyed this season a lot (though not as much as s4)
Honestly it was a good excuse to actually post for once.