Review of New Life

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: New Life (2019)
Season 6, Episode 13
5/10
Weakest Ending of AoS
4 August 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Season6, overall is pretty strong and certainly better than anything else on TV, but in comparison with other AoS seasons, and especially the landing of the season was not very good.

Two of the main traits of AoS is; they almost never have plot holes; and they have excellent dialogue - both was gone in the last two episodes of season 6.

The monolith "creating" powered people I more assumed Izel moved him from his timeline rather than creating him? But regardless it felt off, and not very well explained. Piper apparently have healing powers... the hole in her hand suddenly gone. A teleportation device suddenly? okay... What happen to Snowflake? How many SHIELD agents need to drop dead like alcoholic red-shirts before they stop joining the ranks of the show? How could Mack survive so many blows from a "God"?

The clunky dialogue was too awful, and felt very forced and felt created to further the events of the episodes rather than being natural - especially the "discussion" between Yoyo, Daisy and Mack when the "zombies" attack their ship, I felt like their dialogue was written by a 12yo fanboy. Almost every single actor playing a Chronicom cannot act their way out of a closet - which includes Enoch who should be evil or die, not be part of the crew. But their dialogue is mainly what make the Chronicoms horrible foes.

Why did they not let May die? It really annoys me that they did not let her die a hero as she should have. Yoyo should also have died, that character should be written off the show. And of course Coulson should be permanently gone - starting to be a bad joke that he keep coming back...

In essence this ending sucked, worst ending of the show by far, and I actually feel happy that the next season is the last. The writers clearly have run out of ideas - that we now move to time travel (again) proves it. Not even sure I will watch the last season, I am almost certain it will suck... They should have ended the show after season5 - up until that moment AoS was top 10 TVshows of all time, now I am not even sure I would put it on top 20.

I give the final two episodes a 5/10 - which is the lowest scores I have ever given to AoS, but of course still much better than almost anything else on TV.
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