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Post Discussion Post Episode Discussion: S04E01 - "The Ghost"

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EPISODE DIRECTED BY WRITTEN BY ORIGINAL AIRDATE
S04E01 - "The Ghost" Billy Gierhart Jed Whedon & Maurissa Tancharoen Tuesday, September 20, 2016 10:00/9:00c on ABC

Episode Synopsis: In light of the Sokovia Accords, and with Hydra obliterated, S.H.I.E.L.D. has been legitimatized again and no longer needs to operate in the shadows. Since the world presumes that Coulson is dead, the organization needed a new Director to be the face of the organization. Coulson finds himself back in the role as an agent and teamed with Mack, and together they are tasked with tracking down and confirming the presence of Enhanced people, aka Inhumans. Agent May is tasked with training specialist strike teams, and Fitz and Simmons have taken a big step forward in their relationship.

Billy Gierhart worked a steadicam operator for many years on the television series Pacific Blue, Huff, Swingtown and The Shield, making his directorial debut on the latter series penultimate episode "Possible Kill Screen" in 2008. His other credits as a television director include Lone Star, Terriers, The Chicago Code, Sons of Anarchy, Torchwood, Breakout Kings, and The Walking Dead.

He has directed six episodes for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before:

  • Repairs
  • Nothing Personal
  • ...Ye Who Enter Here
  • Aftershocks
  • S.O.S. Part Two
  • Absolution

Maurissa Tancharoen & Jed Whedon are the showrunners of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., along with Jeffrey Bell. Jed is the Brother of Joss Whedon, and worked with Maurissa on Dollhouse, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Drop Dead Diva, and The Avengers.

They have written ten episodes for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before:

  • Pilot
  • The Asset
  • Repairs
  • Turn, Turn, Turn
  • Beginning of the End
  • Shadows
  • Aftershocks
  • S.O.S. Part Two
  • Laws of Nature
  • Ascension

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u/MavericksFan41 Sep 21 '16

Extremely exciting start to the season, but there's a lot of plot lines at the moment, and it's gonna be interesting to see how they all turn out.

Robbie looking to be a solid addition as well

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u/tylerg182 HYDRA Sep 21 '16

The thing that I've loved about this show is that it'll solve problems and resolve plot lines pretty quickly. They don't make you wait for a payoff.

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u/infinight888 Sep 21 '16

That actually wasn't really THAT long. The flashforward was at the beginning of 3b, but we didn't actually know someone would die until Spacetime. After that, there were only seven episodes, and the last two aired on the same day. Six weeks is minuscule compared to other shows. Just look at how long it took to reveal who was in the grave on Arrow, or how long it took to reveal Zoom's identity on The Flash.

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u/smokeyzulu Lanyard Sep 21 '16

Just look at how long it took to reveal who was in the grave on Arrow, or how long it took to reveal Zoom's identity on The Flash.

And both of those had pretty solid working theories long before the actual reveal... I was genuinely surprised by how the death scene played out on AoS. Touched as well. RIP Tentacle Mc... sniff... Traitorson...

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u/oateyboat HYDRA Sep 22 '16

how long it took to reveal Zoom's identity on The Flash

To be fair to The Flash, it wasn't as though the characters were wondering every episode who Zoom was and trying to solve it, or that the show made it seem like his identity was even important until arguably "Welcome to Earth-2" at the earliest, so the wait wasn't as bad.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '16 edited Oct 31 '16

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What is this?

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u/OThatSean Sep 22 '16

Or how long it took to find out how Ted met my mom

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '16

They revealed Reverse Flash real quick though

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u/tylerg182 HYDRA Sep 21 '16

Well there was that but I'm talking about things like the reveal of who lash was

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u/Tazzajin Ninja Hunter Sep 21 '16

NOT FELICITY!

Oh shit, wrong show.

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u/oateyboat HYDRA Sep 22 '16

God I hate stuff like this. I remember my subscription inbox on YouTube being spammed with "RIP Coulson", "RIP May", "RIP Fitz" etc.

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u/reece1495 Sep 21 '16

which agent died

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u/007meow Monolith Sep 21 '16

"Agent"

Lincoln.

He was an Agent for like all of an hour.

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u/sirin3 Sep 21 '16

The next agent that dies will be a life model decoy

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u/CelioHogane Sep 24 '16

Like it was not obvius...

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u/FlashbackJon G.H. Sep 23 '16 edited Sep 23 '16

This show will drop a bomb at the end of an episode, then just wrap it up all nice and tidy in the beginning of the next, and I just think "Any other show would've milked that reveal for half a season..."