u/BlueExcal08

Looking at them in the "Bus" days, it’s insane to think about the absolute hell the writers put this team through by the end of the series.

We all know everyone suffered immensely, but when you look at the original Season 1 team (Coulson, May, Daisy/Skye, Fitz, Simmons)

Personally, I think it comes down to a toss-up between Fitz or Daisy, but who do you guys think had it the worst?

Note: I’m not including Ward in the running here—while he had a rough childhood, he chose the path of the villain, so it's hard to put him in the same 'victim' category as the others."

I just crossed the finish line on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and man, what a journey. It’s rare for a show to run for seven seasons and manage to reinvent itself so many times without losing its heart.

The shift after Season 4 is definitely palpable. S4 was the absolute "peak" with the Ghost Rider/LMD/Framework pods—it was a masterclass in pacing. After that, the show definitely leaned harder into the sci-fi and "cosmic" elements. While the budget felt a little tighter in the later years, the character work remained top-tier.

However, I need to talk about Fitz.

Leo Fitz is easily my favorite character in the MCU (yeah, I said it). Watching his evolution from a stuttering tech-support guy in S1 to a cosmic warrior/rebel/husband has been incredible. But I have to admit, I’m feeling a little "Fitz-starved" after Season 7.

I know Iain De Caestecker had scheduling conflicts, but man, it was tough realizing that he was basically a ghost for 90% of the final season. It made the emotional payoff in the finale sweet, but I really missed the "FitzSimmons" dynamic during their final time-traveling adventure. To only have him physically present and not a memory or a flashback for essentially one episode felt like a crime, even if the "quantum bridge" explanation was clever.

A few other takeaways:

The Ending: It might be one of the most satisfying finales in TV history. It wasn't "everyone dies" or "everyone lives together forever." It felt realistic—friends drift apart to do their own things, but the bond is still there.

Enoch: He was the MVP of the final seasons. His sacrifice in "As I Have Always Been" destroyed me.

The FitzSimmons Happy Ending: Seeing them in Perthshire with Alya almost made up for Fitz’s absence. It’s the peace they finally earned after being tortured by the universe for seven years.

>!My Biggest takeaway, though, is that I truly wish Marvel would officially bridge this series into the movies. We’ve already seen them do it with Daredevil and the other Netflix shows—bringing those characters back and acknowledging their history.!<

>!With the next Avengers movies focusing so heavily on the Multiverse, there is no reason AoS can't be made canon. Even if they want to argue that the show takes place in a branched timeline because of the Season 5 finale, the Multiverse makes it possible for Daisy, Coulson, or FitzSimmons to show up in the main MCU. These characters deserve that level of recognition; they’ve saved the world just as many times as the Avengers have.!<

I just finished Season 4, and I need to vent because Fitz cant catch a break. Every time this man gets a shred of happiness, the universe finds a way to tear it apart and replace it with psychological trauma.

Think about the sheer weight of what he’s been through in just two seasons. After spending every waking second and all of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s resources to rescue Simmons from a literal alien planet, he has to deal with the soul-crushing realization that she fell in love with someone else. Most people would have walked away, but Fitz is so pure that he actually helps her save the guy, only to end up having to kill that very person once Hive takes over his body.

Then, just when we finally get "FitzSimmons" as a real couple and things seem stable, they are thrust into the Framework. While everyone else got a "regret" fixed, Fitz was systematically groomed and manipulated into becoming a Nazi equivalent monster. He didn't just lose a girlfriend there; he was forced to become a murderer, and the look of pure horror on his face when he realized what he’d done as The Doctor was gut-wrenching.

But the absolute worst part? He doesn't even get five minutes to process that trauma or apologize to Simmons. Instead of getting the mental health support he clearly needs, he’s immediately arrested and thrown into a high-security military prison while his entire team and the woman he loves are vanished into the future without him. He’s left alone with his guilt and a prison cell for 6 months and now He has to freeze himself for 70+ years to reach and save them.