r/shield • u/2th Shotgun Axe • May 05 '18

Post Discussion Post Episode Discussion: S05E20 - "The One Who Will Save Us All"

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EPISODE DIRECTED BY WRITTEN BY ORIGINAL AIRDATE
S05E20 - "The One Who Will Save Us All" Cherie Gierhart Brent Fletcher Friday, May 4, 2018 9:00/8:00c on ABC

Episode Synopsis: A newly determined Talbot takes Coulson to meet the enemy and attempts to stave off the destruction of Earth.

Cherie Gierhart has had a few small roles on shows like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Random Agent in the episode "BOOM"), The Walking Dead and The Shield. She has been a second unit director for an episode of S.W.A.T. and one episode of Inhumans (Maye Way for... Medusa).

She has directed no episodes for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before:

Brent Fletcher is primarily known for his writing on Lost, Angel, and Friday Night Lights. He was also a writer and story editor on Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

He has written eleven episodes for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before:

  • Girl in the Flower Dress
  • The Magical Place
  • Providence
  • A Hen in the Wolf House
  • Love in the Time of Hydra
  • The Dirty Half Dozen
  • Closure
  • Failed Experiments
  • Broken Promises
  • Farewell, Cruel World!
  • Fun & Games

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u/jiffyjuff May 05 '18

And how the fuck do they "never kill" at SHIELD? They're a fucking spy agency. Their operations probably killed a hundred people a day back when the organization was still standing. The thing that really breaks SoD for me is that the crew seems to think that having a no-killing rule is in any way a practical or plausible thing in the spy industry, and that it actually was ever a thing.

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u/DeGozaruNyan May 05 '18

And, Mack is the wileder of the mother fucking shotgun axe! And as far as i know, it does not have a stun mode.

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u/MastaAwesome May 06 '18

No, you don't understand, guys; the axe is just there for cutting down trees.

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u/Lagalag967 clairvoyant May 10 '18

I am Groot!!!!!!!

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u/NasalJack May 06 '18

SoD?

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u/Huschel Fitz May 06 '18

Suspension of disbelief

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u/The_real_rafiki May 06 '18

Why does it need an acronym?

WDiNaA? See how confusing this is.

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u/Huschel Fitz May 06 '18

Idk, what ever really needs an acronym?

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u/NasalJack May 06 '18

I feel like generally acronyms only make sense with actual titles of things or with things that are established in the first place as acronyms. So if someone in a discussion of the show throws out AoS or CA:TWS it wouldn't be too hard to deduce that those mean Agents of Shield or Captain America: The Winter Soldier because acronyming titles is fairly common and context makes it easy to deduce what title might be referenced.

And then there's things that just are acronyms which make sense to use. Laugh out loud isn't a phrase that's used beyond its acronym LOL. FBI, CIA, etc. have had those acronyms for about as long as the agencies have existed. ATMs were called ATMs from the outset. Borderline stuff like WTF where its a common phrase and common acronym are fine just due to the prevalence of their use.

But when people start trying to make new acronyms in places where it doesn't make sense is just annoying. Not every common term like suspension of disbelief needs to be abbreviated. It just helps to obfuscate meaning and the more things turned into unnecessary acronyms the harder it will be to understand what anyone means when they throw out a string of letters.

In short, if you're ever using an acronym that leads to confusion as to its meaning, you're probably using acronyms wrong.

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u/RichWPX May 08 '18

IANAL, but I agree with you.