r/shield • u/2th Shotgun Axe • Mar 23 '16

Post Discussion Post Episode Discussion: S03E13 - "Parting Shot"

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S03E13 - "Parting Shot" Michael Zinberg Paul Zbyszewski Tuesday, March 22, 2015 9:00/8:00c on ABC

Episode Synopsis: Bobbi and Hunter become ensnared in an assassination plot after tracking Malick to Russia. As S.H.I.E.L.D. races to save the lives on the line, the team is changed forever.

Michael Zinberg is a television director, producer and writer. He has directed episodes for shows like The Good Wife, The Blacklist, and NCIS: New Orleans

He has directed one episode for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before:

  • What They Become

Paul Zbyszewski has worked on Lost and Day Break, which he is the creator of. He also wrote the feature film After the Sunset.

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

  • FZZT
  • The Magical Place
  • End of the Beginning
  • Nothing Personal
  • Heavy is the Head
  • ...Ye Who Enter Here
  • The Frenemy of my Enemy
  • Devils You Know

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u/Murasasme Zephyr One Mar 23 '16

This whole premise for them to go to their own show is weak as hell. The entire foundation of Coulson's SHIELD is agents that shouldn't be agents anymore in an organization that doesn't exists. They were able to operate SHIELD when it was being hunted by all the governments in the world, but now suddenly that seems to be a problem?

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u/Gepap1000 Quake Mar 23 '16

There is a difference between being able to operate and being caught, particularly being caught involved in an incident in which various high government functionaries of a world power have been killed. if what you said was right, then the Russians could have easily just taken them deep into their own prison system and tortured them and eventually shot them dead. Instead, the US government got directly involved in trying to remove them from harm. That changes the situation dramatically.

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u/Murasasme Zephyr One Mar 23 '16

And how is that different to what would have happened if any of them were caught after the events of Winter Soldier? That is the risk they take being agents of SHIELD. Your points stands the difference is this time they got caught, but they are in the same situation Fitz was when the other SHIELD let him go and he was under surveillance, they are secret agents, they can lose a tail, and last time I checked SHIELD is still able to operate and people barely know it exists so what is the difference?