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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Broken Promises [4x09] ✦ Watchalong Reaction & Review (Patreon)

Published:
2025-04-04 17:00:18
Edited:
2025-05-22 17:16:42
Imported:
2026-08
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Hi everyone! The start of a wild batch of episodes starts now! 😊 [Direct link here.]

Please enjoy!

✦ KL

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Agents of SHIELD: Broken Promises [4x09] Full-Length Watchalong Reaction

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Aldo Gonzales

Aside from airing at 10pm, they also tried another concept for this season roughly called the pod system. Even though the season is still very much connected, each arc still tells its’ own story. We just finished the Ghost Rider pod. Welcome to the LMD pod. By the way, I can argue and say that Mack watches too many movies but this time it helped his sound judgment. What got me laughing though is that Yo-Yo went into nerd mode but also immediately agreed and added that smart people are stupid. Roll credits. 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

Christopher simeon

Radcliffe looked at the Darkhold for like a second and has become completely corrupted tho you are right that he wasn't the most selfless person to begin with. The writers knew the trope about robots and played the audience perfectly by letting us guess the obvious way this story could go and Mack constantly referencing examples of this trope reinforced the idea in our heads. But Aida is completely innocent here. She is just following the programming of a corrupt human making her corrupt by proxy. The one that read the Darkhold is with Fitz so Aida 2 has not read the Darkhold at all. Vijay powers are a bit confusing but it seems it is adapting to threats to protect himself in different ways. The cocoon and dodging are ways to protect him so his power is more about survival.

Aldo Gonzales

This whole time I just thought his power was quick reflexes, but the way you described Vijay’s powers sounds more like Armando Muñoz/Darwin from X-Men: First Class. His power was also adapting to survive.

Sean Ellingham

Time to pivot the season! Looks like we're now going to focus on LMDs and the Watchdogs, though we still have the Darkhold carrying over from the Ghost Rider arc to cause trouble - as if we needed more instances to tell us the Darkhold was dangerous, we've now seen multiple times that it corrupts those who read it *incredibly* quickly. The whole AIDA plot is told really well - Mallory Jansen does a great job at keeping the same qualities that we've seen of AIDA but with a more emotional and slightly creepy layer on top. The subversion that AIDA wasn't influenced by the Darkhold, but by Radcliffe's programming is a great twist as well. In general, I'm not a fan of the "robot attacks" trope that people typically resort to when adding robots to the story - I think it's usually uninspiring and uninteresting, especially compared to the types of story that can be told - so I appreciate that AoS puts a different spin on it even before the twist. With hindsight, LMD May moving to attack AIDA when she infiltrates the base hints that there is something more at play - as Coulson was knocked out, if LMD May was working with AIDA directly she would have no reason to 'attack' her that at that point as there were no witnesses - and the reveal at the end shows that to be the case. There's more than a few oblique (and not so oblique) references this season to what was happening in the real world at the time - Nadeer's (rather hypocritical) line about "how easy the press can be fed a false narrative" being one of the more obvious ones.

Christopher simeon

Forgot to mention that I love the way the light brighten the room. I think it also enhanced the way the thumbnail looks.

Steve Mercier

Fuck yes...we begin arc number 2...good shit.

Gary Marshall

Daisy bonding with Jemma over the downsides of having to breath with a bag over their heads was a nice call back to the pilot episode.

Chris Elkins

Whats so great about this episode it has everything but what makes it better is you're reaction i believe we had almost every emotion.... the omg to holy shit to wtf did that just happen too ooh thats cute to omg so funny to lets go Mack too disbelief and so on awesome to watch KL, also Mack and YoYo with all the Movie references loved it !

Thadman

Just watched this and wanted to clarify that Radcliffe never worked for HYDRA, he was kidnapped by Hive and was made to create new Inhumans under threat of death. Before that, he was independent, trying to push humanity forward. That being said, he's always come across as a bit sketchy and perhaps a little reckless?

MichaelA

To be fair, his judgment was very far off. His bias, along with everyone else, to make assumption is why they don't question that the AI robot attacked. When that didn't happen, Radcliffe attacked using a tool. I still like Mack but he is sometimes very quick and extreme to judge, in very black and white (and often wrong) ways, in various parts of the show.

Aldo Gonzales

I wouldn’t call it “nice” per se.

Gary Marshall

Not from their perspective I guess

JM

Such a good intense start they throw you into after finishing the Ghost Rider arc. Totally agree with you on enjoying the AI discussions this season tackles, it's all very interesting especially the later part of the season. Really love the twist in this one with Radcliffe being the one who's corrupted and just programming Aida to steal the Darkhold. I feel like this season has so many good twists like there are multiple moments I can remember first watching and just being shocked. The storyline with Senator Nadeer and Vijay is also very interesting and so sad with how it ended. I have to give the actress who plays her props she does such a good job at making you not like her at all lol. Very good emotional scenes between them though they did a great job. Highlight of the episode I think has to be Mack chopping off Aida's head and "roll credits" along with his little fist bump with Yo-yo. I'm pretty sure Mallory Jansen said in an interview she really wanted to keep her chopped off head prop lol.