Warning: This article contains spoilers for the series finale ofMarvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.LD.
With all that explained, Fitz led the team and the invading Chronicoms back to the original timeline.
Once there, the agents infiltrated and commandeered Sybil’s ship.
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And it turns out that’s all it took for the semirobotic aliens to call off their invasion.
Meanwhile, Daisy had a quake-off with Nathaniel Malick (Thomas E. Sullivan) and won.
In other words: Everyone got their happy ending.
(Read ourpostmortem with the cast here.)
Here’s what they had to say.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: This finale ties right back intothe season 6 finale.
How much of the series finale did you have mapped out when you wrote last year’s ending?
JED WHEDON:We didn’t have a lot mapped out.
What was the first idea you had coming into the series finale that you knew you wanted to do?
MAURISSA TANCHAROEN:One solid idea was that we wanted to give FitzSimmons a happy ending, finally.
We had tortured them enough that we wanted to show they had the promise of their life together.
WHEDON:We felt the same way about them [as] the audience does.
This had to feel different and be a different sort of goodbye.
BELL:I would say to a certain extent.
Then the rest of the crew was together continuing their legacy.
Flying off at the end really launched them into new adventures.
I don’t remember if you, Jed or Maurissa, had the idea of the virtual ending.
We’re moving toward something that’s sad even though we would all survive and go on.
[Laughs]
TANCHAROEN:We predicted the future, basically.
BELL:Lord no.
[Laughs]
WHEDON:The time stuff made us crazy.
We knew going in that we were going to have a difficult writers' room.
It was freeing in that moment.
The writers' room, over the years, we had diagrams on the board.
Why did it feel right to leave Deke there?
TANCHAOREN:It’s so in line with his character.
At the same time, it’s a pretty cushy situation.
It’s sort of the drive of his character: self-serving yet very loving.
WHEDON:It also avoids him having to be an uncle to his own self.
How serious was that idea?
TANCHAROEN:We have a lot of ideas for spin-off comics, that’s for sure.
WHEDON:Yes, the Deke timeline, we can all agree, should live on in some way.
What made Daisy and Sousa such a good pairing in your minds?
He’s just a great, solid guy.
WHEDON:Truthfully, we didn’t know going in.
Were there any familiar faces you hoped to bring back but couldn’t?
TANCHAROEN:Iain de Caestecker.
So I would say this season there weren’t many heartbreaks in that way.
Finally, how did you approach LMD Coulson and figuring out his ending?
BELL:Clark was a big part of that as well.
Clark wasn’t interested in just going back to being Coulson afterhaving been Sarge.
One of the things I love about Clark is he really becomes involved in his character.
Am I breathing?"
