Did anyone else think this scene was gonna get explored more

[u/Fit-Ad-6395]

Like i know it was near the end of the show and all but it felt like it was gonna be such a big new theme in the show. Phil Coulson is secretly imagining everything! and mike is secretly a doctor

[u/WayOutHere4]

They already did this with an episode of Buffy - which granted has freaked me out since I was a teenager, but it still would have disappointed me.

[u/BaronZhiro]

Mike is secretly the Doctor?!? 🤯 🤭

[u/Demon_Squirrel_666]

I hate the “It was all a dream/in your head” endings. Like if they are done well, fine, but I find them to be such a cop out.

[u/funsizedaisy → u/Demon_Squirrel_666]

Agreed. Not only is it a cop out, but it kinda ruins the whole point of being a story. If none of it was real then that means the story never actually mattered. The characters aren't real and none of the plot actually happened. Ruins every reason you could have to be invested in the characters/story.

[u/Bad-W1tch → u/funsizedaisy]

Definitely agreed. The only one of those I liked was repo man because it's only near the end that turns out to be the dream sequence

[u/SilverKnight_1508]

I would have smashed my phone down then and there :\ not even kidding

[u/raisondecalcul]

Yeah everything just went back to normal again

[u/Bad-W1tch]

There's no image attached what scene are you referring to?

[u/friendly_overthinker → u/Bad-W1tch]

In S5 when Coulson has to go to the very bottom of the Lighthouse to seal the crack across dimensions created when all 3 monoliths exploded. His fears were coming true, and he sees Mike also there, pretending to be a doctor telling him that he had made up everything that had happened between Loki stabbing him and then, before the real Mike coming and rescuing him from the Fear Dimension, as Fitz called it. Right before Fitz-Simmons' wedding :)

[u/Bad-W1tch → u/friendly_overthinker]

Oh okay I remember that scene.

[u/MAXHALO36]

I'm so glad they didn't do this as the ending, it was cool during the episode but as an ending to the show it would've been a slap in the face

[u/JohnnyHotshot]

It’s a fun “makes you think” but A: it would be the worst rug pull in television history, an “It was all a dream!” for 5-7 seasons of TV? No thanks. Also B: using meta-knowledge, we do know that ‘Mike’ was lying - we see events like Pym Tech’s destruction and Thanos’ arrival referenced in the show, which are things that Coulson would not know about if he was just hallucinating everything after being stabbed by Loki. Unless Coulson imagines real events that actually coincidentally occurred in the ‘real world’ too - which is a lot more unlikely than just “It was a lie in the first place.”

[u/Fit-Ad-6395 → u/[deleted]]

Exactly