S4:E15 - Jess and Jared recap and discuss “Self Control."

Picking up where we left off, the team have all nearly been replaced by LMDs, and viewers and Fitz and Simmons are *freaking out* about it. This is a pretty dark/horror-y episode, and as Jess observed, this is a Jed Whedon joint, and he's said he loves Ward the most, so maybe he's a kind of a dark dude deep down. AIDA kills Radcliffe's human body, leaving his mind trapped in the Framework, Jemma and Fitz have a very standard "who's the robot" type exchange where Robo-Fitz is ‪exposed and Jemma and Daisy (who's just found a room of Daisy LMD's) are *pretty much* the last real humans running around free in S.H.‪‪I.E.L.D., and Daisy is able to take out the LMD S.H.‪‪I.E.L.D. team to escape with the help of Robo-May, the most real and human of all the LMDs, who loves the real Coulson, not the LMD Coulson, breaking our collective heart something crazy. And shoutout to Jeff Steck and Ian Beavers, may they Rest in Peace in the Framework.

Now recorded fully into the COVID-19 self-isolation/shelter-in-place era, we have another pre-episode mini rant, this time on Zoom meetings just not working sometimes, and the weird third-of-season format S.H.‪‪I.E.L.D. developed alongside the emerging streaming culture, plus, the S.H.‪‪I.E.L.D. cast was online to ask ABC to drop the new season all at once, and for folks to stop being stupid and racist!

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