I've gone back and forth about whether the AOS writers are aware of what they're doing, or perhaps more accurately to what extent they're aware. It's clear that some of the stuff - particularly in season one - is meant to be creepy, so that when the Winter Soldier reveal happened, AoS viewers could go "OH YEAH, 'trust the system' really is a disturbing catchphrase!"
And other times they've done things that seemed so obvious to me that it's hard to believe it could be unintentional. Like how they made such a big deal about how "if you cut off one head of Hydra, two more grow in its place"... and then in season two, SHIELD had been decapitated, but then TWO NEW SHIELDS happened (and started duking it out, because of course they did). They had to have noticed that! Right?
But then they would do things like the season two ending where Skye and Coulson team up to mindwipe Skye's dad and the show presents this as totally hunky-dory and then it's like "Well maybe none of this is intentional and they think they ARE writing Big Damn Heroes."
But then season 4 happened and they created an alternate reality where Fitz & May are Hydra big shots, which might suggest that the creators realize the characters are at least somewhat morally compromised, so... IDK.
I think they believe they're writing morally gray heroes when actually they've long since stumbled into anti-hero territory.
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Date: 2019-03-06 02:50 am (UTC)And other times they've done things that seemed so obvious to me that it's hard to believe it could be unintentional. Like how they made such a big deal about how "if you cut off one head of Hydra, two more grow in its place"... and then in season two, SHIELD had been decapitated, but then TWO NEW SHIELDS happened (and started duking it out, because of course they did). They had to have noticed that! Right?
But then they would do things like the season two ending where Skye and Coulson team up to mindwipe Skye's dad and the show presents this as totally hunky-dory and then it's like "Well maybe none of this is intentional and they think they ARE writing Big Damn Heroes."
But then season 4 happened and they created an alternate reality where Fitz & May are Hydra big shots, which might suggest that the creators realize the characters are at least somewhat morally compromised, so... IDK.
I think they believe they're writing morally gray heroes when actually they've long since stumbled into anti-hero territory.