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shield vs. hydra

this may be an unpopular opinion but idc. imo shield is actually more similar to hydra than they think, and a prime example of this is in season 2 when hydra is trying to capture donnie gill. daisy interrogates ward about this, to which he tells her that hydra will try to recruit the gifted and if the gifted does not cooperate, they take them out. daisy responds with "that's the difference between shield and hydra", implying shield will try to protect the gifted while hydra only looks to kill. and then literally in that same episode, daisy puts a bullet in donnie gill after hydra retriggers his programming. how is that any different that what hydra does? shield took out donnie because he got brainwashed to help hydra, which makes him a threat to shield. but if you view it from hydra's pov, if donnie had resisted against them, he would have been taken by shield and then used to fight against them. im not defending hydra by any means. I just feel that shield is very hypocritical in the sense that they seem to condone actions that benefit them but criticize the "bad guys" for doing the same thing.

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a rant on S5 Ep14

DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT DEFENDING FITZ.

I just rewatched the episode and I haven't seen a lot of people bring the fact that the Doctor(Fitz) programmed the robot to shoot Simmons and Deke if Fitz didn't go through with the surgery. In that moment, he really didn't have a choice to not take out Daisy's inhibitor. HOWEVER, where the writers went wrong was with not having him show remorse for his actions. In that same scene, he starts saying shit like "there are risks to everything" when the risk is fucking paralyzing Daisy. They could have AT LEAST have Fitz show in some capacity that HE DIDN'T WANT THIS TO HAPPEN. That he was truly forced by his alter ego, the Doctor, to do this. Now what happened after with all the other characters defending Fitz/attacking Daisy is a whole other story. But I actually don't understand why the writers chose to write that scene that way, basically destroying Fitz's character and the relationship he had with Daisy in the past seasons. They could have taken this as a chance to really explore Fitz's darker side and have him grapple with the idea that if the Doctor is a part of him, does that mean he's a bad person? But no. Instead they chose to have a white man drug, kidnap, and torture a woc, WHO TRUSTED HIM AND SAW HIM AS FAMILY, and not show any regret for doing so. fuck the writers.