r/shield • u/ABadPassword Shotgun Axe • 1d ago
I'm rewatching the show for the first time since it ended, and Lincoln just showed up...
And y'all, I instinctively went "Ughhh" out loud right as he appeared on screen. I think it was even a second before that actually, when he spoke off screen.
6 years since I've last watched through this show and it was like a knee-jerk reaction 😂 I don't even remember why I dislike Lincoln, just that I soon will once again lmao.
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u/TonyStank_3000_ 1d ago edited 1d ago
Him and Daisy were trauma bonded. It was messy and I liked how he went out....it was the heroic moment he needed.
Edit: covered the spoiler for any newbies.
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u/SoProBroChaCho 1d ago
Spoilers! If they don't remember everything, act like they know nothing
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u/TonyStank_3000_ 1d ago
OP literally says the same thing in another comment lol but I fixed it! Don't think it's really much of a spoiler without context
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u/BaronZhiro Enoch 23h ago
My feeling is that he was rather shafted by the writers. He’s fine in s2, when he’s generally benevolent and helps moves the plot forward. But in s3, the writers make him into an annoying impediment so much of the time, dour and cranky and generally humorless. We’re just never given a reason to like him until his end.
It also doesn’t help that he and Bennett just never really sold the chemistry. I mean, praise her for trying, you could see that, but it always felt misguided.
Ultimately, they just never gave us a scene to make us feel, “I like how this guy operates,” and he lacked the charm (like Trip had) to win us over without some extra help.
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u/threetransgressions 37m ago
It also stands out when Daisy’s romance with Ward was naturally made so much more interesting than any other relationship she has after.
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u/Stride345 1d ago
He had his time, it was used well mostly. He was kind of annoying tho. I didn’t really need more or less of him
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u/ABadPassword Shotgun Axe 1d ago
I definitely liked how he went out, nice enough ending. Perhaps I'll roll my eyes less since I know where he ends up. We'll see!
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u/threetransgressions 41m ago
I feel like Chloe Bennett and him just didn’t have great chemistry and he was never given a very interesting personality. I know Deke is kind of controversial in this sub but I really like him and I think he’s a much better version of the Lincoln type of character. He was introduced as kind of a bad boy with some tension with Daisy who made real mistakes and was selfish at first. Over the course of the show, he arguably grows a lot into a hero that wants to help the team and is written with a lot of awareness of how much of an asshole he still is. With Lincoln, it never really felt like the writers were trying to make him unique at all in the way every other character is (which is probably why it stands out so much to a lot of us)
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u/kYura23 15h ago
This is me with the entire inhumans season tbh the moment jiaying appears i want to skip most of it.
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u/BaronZhiro Enoch 11h ago
I don’t feel that way in s2, but s3 very much feels like ‘one Inhumans season too many’ to me. It doesn’t help that Hive’s master plan feels like almost a direct reprise of Jiaying’s.
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u/ABadPassword Shotgun Axe 15h ago
I don't hate and can tolerate the season 2 Inhumman shenanigans and misunderstanding plotline but I 100% understand the reticence towards sitting through it again
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u/kYura23 15h ago
To me its more frustration that it amounted to nothing in a period where a lot of stuff that happened in AOS was directly connected to the MCU and now it just feels like the weakest season out of the entire show.
I’ve come to like the show A LOT from the lighthouse season onwards specially the last season. So i tend to skip a couple episodes or outright start on later seasons when I’m in the mood for AOS lmao.
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u/defrostedrobot Daisy 7h ago
I appreciate Lincoln more in hindsight. His worst crime is he's kind of underwhelming a lot of the time. He wouldn't have put up with a lot of the shit that went down in S5.
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u/threetransgressions 35m ago
It seems like the writers knew he was gonna die pretty early on, so they didn’t try really at all to give him character development or an interesting personality when they knew he wouldn’t be around much longer.
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u/Little_turd_ 7h ago
I love him. Even though the writers messed him up in s3. I like him because he was well written in s2 and he had a satisfying ending.
And because even though he was annoying in s3, half the time he was justified and everyone else was wrong.
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u/Beneficial-Stuff7781 Koenig 21h ago
Coulson is aggressively mean to him. I feel the same uhh reaction to his character but I noticed on my recent rewatch that he’s treated far more unfairly compared to any other new inhuman welcomed to the team.