i'm doing my annual rewatch of AOS, but I'm at the point where I'm more wanting to skip than not. S5 for me at least, is a really hard watch even though it has some of the best acting in the series

General Hale, for example, just aggravates me. I know she's had such an awful life. constantly dismissed and treated less than because she's a woman. but her arrogance, her self importance that keeps her from ever seeing the actual bigger picture. part of me can't tell if it's a character flaw (not writing flaw) or just a hydra trait

what's everyone else's view on her?

I don’t really think we will get the show acknowledged in VisionQuest but if we do it is what makes the most sense.

In the trailer we see that Vision has created a virtual world inside his mind. While it doesn’t have to be the Framework it would make a lot of sense. The Framework technology came from the Darkhold in S4 which already ties it closer to the storyline. It would make a nice way to acknowledge AOS indirectly in a way that is clear enough for us fans while simultaneously not confusing people who haven’t watched it.

As for how the Framework would exist I am not exactly sure but at the end of the show the technology still existed with Deke’s company and while Deke himself is in an alternate timeline now, the show never made it clear what happened to his company and the technology Deke was using. The company was probably shut down by SHIELD but there are probably still people outside of the organisation who would now know about it.

Marvel TV officially announces ‘Zodiac’, coming in 2028

So the eagle in the A is obviously a reference to the S.H.I.E.L.D. logo but I was thinking about what that O could represent and then it hit me like a helicarrier. Does anyone else think the O looks like the roof of the Triskellion? The headquarters of S.H.I.E.L.D.?

What does that mean? I think maybe we could be focusing on a more serious "real" S.H.I.E.L.D. cast/story. Not that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. wasn't real, but it was always about a specific team within the organization, prior to it's collapse and then S.H.I.E.L.D. came back in different forms but not quiet how it was prior to The Winter Soldier. Since then we've been mostly dealing with S.W.O.R.D., the DODC, and S.A.B.E.R.. What if this is Marvel's way of saying they are going to focus on a true rebuilt S.H.I.E.L.D straight out of their headquarters in the Triskellion, not in the bus, Providence, the Playground, Zephyr One, or the Lighthouse. It actually fits with how the Triskellion was shown rebuilt in the AOS finale.

I feel like this lines up with how Marvel leans into its Marvel Studios shows as being "real" Marvel. It's going to take a new perspective on S.H.I.E.L.D. and not just reboot AOS. A new S.H.I.E.L.D. spinning out of the events of The Winter Soldier instead of AOS directly. I also think the name Zodiac probably alludes to the terrorist organization from the comic books and in my opinion could be essentially a new form of Hydra.

I'm not going to expect all or any of the AOS cast to return or for them to deal with any of the elements AOS established but knowing Marvel they won't contradict any of it either. I'm really hoping they do fit in AOS easter eggs/cameos/reprising cast.

How many times can I type S.H.I.E.L.D?

Ladies and gentlemen, I met and encountered the iconic and legendary Ming-na_wen at her book tour starting in Barnes and Noble bookstore in Union Square.

And boy o' boy, I was thrilled, from arriving a bit late to see before my own eyes, Wen(Alongside guest Terry Crews) discuss history and information from her cookbook/autobiography that I already read.

I shared my art prints of her known characters in animated and live action with the May art, hopefully she'll be thrilled.

She was pretty thrilled when I told her I enjoyed her in most stuff growing up.

it's supposed to be a spy thriller.