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Marvel's Agents of SHIELD Series Finale "Farewell from Agent Coulson" Featurette (HD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKmrWL85XSg
Marvel's Agents of SHIELD Series Finale "Last Mission" Trailer (HD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeIOPv97yX8
As Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Nears Its End, Series Vets Agree: Breaking Away From MCU Continuity Was Marvelous
https://tvline.com/2020/08/09/agents...e-connections/
Marvel's Agents of SHIELD Series Finale "Cast Farewell" Featurette (HD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npna1FFfVb4
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Series Finale Sneak Peek: As Daisy Heads Into Battle, There's Something Sousa Must Do
https://tvline.com/2020/08/11/agents...o-daisy-sousa/
Marvel's Agents of SHIELD Cast Says Goodbye to Fans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scAR3_36sCA
Mack, Elena, Piper, LMD Davis as SHIELD. Mack as Director on the Helicarrier.
May a Coulson Academy teacher and student Flint.
Kora, Sousa and Daisy as sorta SWORD
Fitzsimmons retired family life. But Simmons occasionally helping Daisy on the side.
Coulson in Lola travelling the world to help and explore.
Deke the Director and possible rock-star in the Alternate Timeline.
Fitting endings. Except Kora maybe still don't like her. Like apparently that was a real kiss after he killed her mother? Really?
The empathy thing was kinda Care Bears vibes.
I know he was a scumbag but I kinda wanted Alternate Garret to join SHIELD.
It was bogged down a bit by all the timeline stuff but Malachi from Season 6 in the Lighthouse and the hazmat people from the end of Season 6 prove this was all a bridged time loop between the two worlds the night Izel died.
I liked the last few jokes, Simmons wanted a suit, Deke making fun of Fitz.
It didn't really feel like an ending but I'm OK with that. I'll remember the show fondly.
Welp,after seven years,it's over.I always feel melancholy when a long running series I watch comes to an end.But I thought this was a great series finale.First,I really think they made lemonade out of the lemon of not having Iain De Caestecker around this season due to his scheduling conflict.This episode really paid off the wait for Fitz(minus the flashbacks last week).For FitzSimmons fans,you got a great happy ending.
I also liked how they connected to the recent movies by using the Quantum Realm.
I think the end to Deke's story was perfect.It's probably where he would be the most happy especially knowing that Daisy and Sousa were geting together.Speaking of,bringing Sousa onto the show was such a brilliant move.It gave a thematic resolution to the Agent Carter series IMO even it didn't resolve the cliffhanger from that show.We already got the ending for Peggy in Captain America Civil War & Avengers Endgame.We know where Jarvis and Howard Stark end up.So it was so great Agents Of Shield brought on Enver Gjokaj and was able to continue his story and conclude it here with his own happy ending.
It was also nuce that we finally got Piper and Flint back for the finale and even a LMD Davis.
I really liked the one year later time jump and seeing where everyone was.It all feels right I think.I so can see May as a teacher and Daisy with her sister and Sousa out in space working.Same with Mack and Yo-Yo.
And ofcourse Coulson.Loved the callback from the Pilot and the return of Lola.
Very happy with this episode.
Even though I doubt it will happen,I so would love to see some of these characters pop up again elsewhere especially Coulson and Daisy. in a future MCU movie like Captain Marvel 2 or Disney + series such as Ms. Marvel or She-Hulk.
https://tvline.com/2020/08/12/agents...my-instructor/
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Series Finale: EPs Discuss Why Who Wound Up Where — And [Spoiler]'s Selfless Sacrifice
By Matt Webb Mitovich / August 12 2020,
The following contains major spoilers from the series finale of ABC's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Deciding on the series-ending fates of the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was not a daunting task, but a fun one, says one of the Marvel drama's showrunners.
When it came to figuring out who would end up where, doing what, and with whom in the series finale's closing sequence, which followed a one-year time jump, "I don't remember struggling with that too much," co-showrunner Jed Whedon told press this week "I mean, it was fun" — in part, because the rest of that final episode was so jam-packed with timey wimey crises and solutions.
"In the first half," Whedon noted, "it was like, 'There's so many moving parts to this time thing. My brain's going to explode!' And this was just blue sky, 'What could it be?' It's just fun to think about, and so there are tons of great options."
Simply said, when locking onto where Coulson, May, Daisy et al would end up, "We sort of tried to put everybody in a different-feeling thing and in a different place and separate them as much as possible," Whedon said. "But I don't remember struggling with that. I think that was more just the fun of the ending."
As revealed during the final sequence, as each team member digitally exited their virtual, one-year-later reunion at the New York speakeasy:
MACK is still a (duster-wearing) bigwig with S.H.I.E.L.D., and is currently supervising things aboard an helicarrier. His partner YOLANDA is also a decorated S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, and returned to chasing an 0-8-4 with PIPER and an LMD DAVIS. "It's clear that Mack and Yo-Yo are still together in a relationship and working with one another — and proud of one another," said co-showrunner Maurissa Tancharoen.
FITZSIMMONS are retired with a capital-R, and left the get-together to resume a countryside picnic with Alya. "I think for a long time, we had a sense that Fitz and Simmons would be sort of out of S.H.I.E.L.D. and living the simpler life — while secretly working with Daisy on the side," said Whedon. (Read much more on that happiest of endings.)
MAY is an (exhausted!) instructor at a S.H.I.E.L.D. academy that is named after no less than the late Agent Phil Coulson; FLINT is among her cadets. "I think it made perfect sense to us that May would be a teacher at Coulson Academy. Like, all of that just sums up her relationship with Coulson [and her as] the reluctant teacher," said Tancharoen. "She has always been the wise teacher amongst the group, the sort of mother figure, and also to put her with Coy (Stewart, who plays Flint) at the end there and knowing that she is helping to foster the lives of all these potential agents…. That made beautiful sense to us."
DAISY is still with S.H.I.E.L.D., working aboard Zephyr 3 as an "astral ambassador" (as her typewriter-loving "dork"of a partner puts it). SOUSA (whom she brought up to speed on alien life with an E.T. screening) and her sister KORA are at her side. "In terms of space, we loved that feeling — especially as our budget constraints became a concern — that it feels vast, and we wanted someone to be out exploring that," Whedon explained. "It felt right to put her in there, in command of the Zephyr."
COULSON is still his LMD/Chronicom hybrid self, mulling a sabbatical while having an open invitation from May to come spin some yarns for the kiddos at the Academy. Fittingly, in a callback to the ending of the ABC series' very first episode, he has just gotten his "Lola" back (thanks to Mack, forever the mechanic), which he pilots up, up and away before things fade to black.
One agent who did not make it to back to the original timeline was Deke; instead, FitzSimmons' oneday grandson volunteered to stay behind in the 1980s to 1) set off the gizmo needed to propel the others into the timeline-graversing quantum realm, 2) take a leadership role in that era's S.H.I.E.L.D. and 3), you know, be the rock god that he is.
"The one thing we talked a little bit about was leaving Deke behind," conceded EP Jeff Bell, "but having him make what was truly a big sacrifice… makes sense." Plus, the producers love the idea of a rock star moonlighting with a spy organization (or vice versa). "If we were ever to come back for another [series], it would be that show," Whedon quipped.
Considered all together, the S.H.I.E.L.D. EPs hope the decisions that were made resonate with longtime viewers as strongly as they did with the writers.
"Seven seasons is a long time to be working on the show, to be invested in these characters, to be living in this story as well as in the production aspect of things, and in our relationships with each other, the writers, the actors and everybody involved in the show," Tancharoen observed. "The emotional context of saying goodbye to this experience…is definitely something that's reflected in where we leave our characters at the end of the show. So it is very personal to us, and I do think there's a sense of hope for what's to come for each of them."
And as Mack himself noted — and to drive home the theme of the show, the finale, and what the agents were ultimately fighting for — S.H.I.E.L.D. was a family.
Following the one-year time jump, "They're already established in their new lives, but no matter, there's still longing for what was, and I think that will always be there," said Tancharoen. "That bond between them will always be there. So, hopefully, that sort of hits home at the end for [everyone]."
https://tvline.com/2020/08/12/agents...ding-daughter/
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Stars Weigh In on Series' Final FitzSimmons Twist — Plus, the Real Reason Behind Fitz's Absence
Better late than never…?
At the close of the series' penultimate hour, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. welcomed back Leopold Fitz, who save for a smattering of new flashbacks had been conspicuously missing throughout the final season.
On-screen, original cast member Iain De Caestecker's absence had been explained by the fact that Fitz needed to hide from and plot against the all-knowing Chronicoms. Lady love Jemma Simmons (played by Elizabeth Henstridge) in turn was implanted with a memory inhibitor, to keep her from remembering the details of this scheme as well as one other, wee-but-huge secret — that she and Fitz had had a daughter, now age 9, during the years they and Enoch spent building a time machine and simply living.
Explaining the decision to by and large keep Fitz off-screen until the season's final hour, "Some choices aren't made by us" but by actors, co-showrunner Jed Whedon told reporters earlier this week. "So we did what we could, and we tried to make it rewarding with the pieces [we were given]. Sometimes it's 3D chess."
"To be clear," co-showrunner Maurissa Tancharoen added, "Iain is an exceptionally talented actor and one of our dearest friends. It was just it was time for him to go [and] explore new things."
Surveying the storyline ramifications, the EPs said that in addition to bringing "Simmons and [grandson] Deke closer together," Fitz's mysterious, disquieting absence made the eventual payoff all the more powerful.
To recap: Once Fitz resurfaced to help transport the team (and a battalion of Chronicom cruisers) back to the original timeline via the quantum realm, he helped a slightly amnesic Simmons remember all that she had forgotten. Corresponding flashbacks detailed their odyssey following (and also leading up to!) the events of the Season 6 finale, in which the team just barely fled the temple before a Chronicom laser blast leveled the place. Then, in some of the series' final moments, we realized that FitzSimmons' daughter, Alya, had been just out of frame in the flashbacks we had just seen.
"[T]o make the reward of him missing for so long pay off… the only way that we could think is a super-happy ending," Whedon said. "And also, for him, he actually hadn't missed anything. That was how we answered that in our minds, and on the show."
What did De Caestecker and Henstridge themselves think about FitzSimmons getting the happiest of ending that the beleaguered couple so richly deserved?
"It's a pretty fitting end," De Caestecker told press last week. "There's a connection with two of our showrunners, Mo and Jed, and they have a young daughter [who] was a certain type of miracle, so it's a very fitting thing. But also for the evolution of those characters, it's a fitting end but a beginning, of another life, as well."
"It was a lovely ending for them, and it helped to explain why Fitz was away," Henstridge in turn added. "It had to be something bigger than them, and for them that would be their daughter."
Reflecting on seven seasons of flirtation, angst, near-deaths and separations, Henstridge observed, "It was so lovely to play characters that at the start were doing everything they could not to think of each other romantically, to ending with them having this daughter that they both laid their lives on the line for. As an actor, that's just amazing."
'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' Series Finale: Cast and Producers on Saying Goodbye to One of Marvel's Wildest Rides
https://collider.com/agents-of-shiel...interview-abc/
'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' Showrunners Explain the Toughest (and Easiest) Choices Made for the Series Finale
https://collider.com/agents-of-shiel...ned-interview/
https://tvline.com/2020/08/12/agents...r-space-sword/
S.H.I.E.L.D. Series Finale Mystery: Is [Spoiler] Now an Agent of S.W.O.R.D.?
By Matt Webb Mitovich / August 12 2020
The following contains spoilers from the series finale of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. series finale on Wednesday left a few characters in a somewhat curious place. Could it be that they now agents of… S.W.O.R.D.?
After the team vanquished one Chronicom army with, well, kindness, and obliterated the other (as well as Nathaniel Malick) with the quake to end all quakes (and almost end Quake herself!), the series leaped forward one year, where, Coulson, Daisy et al reunited at ye olde Swordfish club. (Wait, the whatfish?)
As the former teammates caught up with each other one by one, Jemma (played by Elizabeth Henstridge) asked Daisy (Chloe Bennet) how things were going with her and The Man Out of Time, Daniel Sousa (Enver Gjokaj).
"They're… going, yeah," Daisy reported with a warm smile. "We're just loving the journey together.
"He's made for this work, he's solid," she added, not specifying what said work is. "But he does keep calling us the 'Astro Ambassadors,' so yeah… he's a dork. But he says hi."
When the brief gathering — which we realized was virtual, the Zoom call of Zoom calls! — ended, we saw Mack and Yo-Yo return to their respective S.H.I.E.L.D. gigs (aboard a helicarrier and chasing an 0-8-4)… FitzSimmons resume a picnic with daughter Alya… and May head off to give Flint and other cadets a lecture at the new Coulson Academy.
As for Daisy, we realized that she in actuality was aboard Zephyr 3 (!) with Sousa and her redeemed sister Kora, where they were about to marvel at on an out-of-this-world sight in deep outer space. (Daisy did joke earlier that she prepped Sousa for this gig by screening E.T., which she said made him cry like a baby.)
It is tempting to surmise that Daisy & Co. are now working for S.W.O.R.D., the Marvel comics entity that Nick Fury seemed to be starting up, alongside some Skrull, in a bonus scene from 2019's Spider-Man: Far From Home. S.W.O.R.D. is also rumored to have some sort of presence in Disney+'s upcoming WandaVision series starring MCU vets Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany.
The Sentient World Observation and Response Department in comic book lore is described as a "counterterrorism and intelligence agency" whose "purpose is to deal with extraterrestrial threats to world security. and is the space-based counterpart of S.H.I.E.L.D."
Some deft freeze-framing during Daisy's final scene in the series finale, however, reveals that regular ol' S.H.I.E.L.D. logos — no S.W.O.R.D. sword — are on the Zephyr's seat backs and glass partitions. But maybe they just haven't gotten around to ordering new furnishings…?
S.H.I.E.L.D. co-showrunner Jed Whedon said (joked?) at a press event this week that "yes," he would be open to an Agents of S.W.O.R.D. follow-up — though as fellow executive producer Jeffrey Bell noted, "We tried S.W.O.R.D. early [in the series] and we were shut down."
https://www.ign.com/articles/marvels...d-fitz-simmons
Agents of SHIELD Finale: Cast Reflects on the Emotional Ending
Why did Chloe Bennet hate her last day of filming? Was Mack supposed to be dressed like Nick Fury? IGN gets answers from the SHIELD team.
By Matt Fowler
Warning: The following contains spoilers about the Agents of SHIELD two-part finale...
Agents of SHIELD has ended its seventh and final season, and we had a chance to speak to the cast of the long-running Marvel series about their feelings on shutting down the saga and where all the characters wound up when the series finale's credits rolled.
At a Zoom roundtable shared with other outlets, IGN spoke to stars Clark Gregg, Chloe Bennet, Ming-Na Wen, Henry Simmons, Elizabeth Henstridge, Natalia Cordova-Buckley, Iain De Caestecker, Jeff Ward, and Enver Gjokaj, digging a little deeper into the series finale and where every member of the team ended up.
Chloe Bennet's Final Scene
Though the final episode, "What We're Fighting For," wrapped things up with the team all reuniting in a virtual world (sound familiar, 2020?) as holograms, that wasn't the final scene everyone filmed. In fact, Bennet shared how much she disliked her last day of filming.
"I hated my last day," she said. "I'm going to be completely honest. I begged for our last day to be the one where we're sitting in the chairs together. Because of scheduling reasons we couldn't do that. My last day was actually the entire Quake fight and it's really hard to shoot physical things when you're emotional because you've got the exact opposite parts of your brain lighting up. And then my last last shot was just very SHIELD, which was me on a green screen, bored, with a bald cap floating in space. Looking dumber than you can imagine."
"We'd already shot the [reunion scene] earlier on in the episode so I was kind of a wreck," Bennet added. "I was just broken open from those scenes and then to do the fights and have to lay on a green board, while bald, was pretty odd."
Daisy Johnson and Daniel Sousa
In the end, we found out that most everyone, except for Fitz (who retired), was still working for SHIELD in some capacity. But for Bennet's Daisy Johnson, her future also meant a new life with Gjokaj's Daniel Sousa. A relationship that took Bennet by surprise.
"I was a little hesitant about a love interest," Bennet explained, "because [Daisy's] narrative was really about finding herself and her family and her relationship with Coulson and the SHIELD family. This one snuck up on me as Chloe as much as it did for Daisy I think. It's one of those things where you say 'Oh, she needed this.' Not in a way like 'she needs a man' but just the way that he compliments her so well. It felt perfect as an ending for her. It took a man out of time to come in and compliment her in this way and she was completely caught off guard by it."
As for Gjokaj, joining the SHIELD squad was a dream come true. "Jed [Whedon] and Maurissa [Tancharoen] made it clear that they didn't want to reprise Sousa from the moment he left [Agent Carter]," the actor said. "They wanted to see that time had passed and that he'd continued to advance in the ranks and in his skills. They wanted to see more of a super agent."
"I got to have the best of both worlds," Gjokaj added. "I got to continue that character on the trajectory he would have gone on if Agent Carter had gone on and then -- when I collected Marvel as a kid I loved the 'What If?' comics. This felt like such an amazing 'What If?'"
Of course, not all of the show's ships wound up on a happy note. Fans of Coulson and May might be distraught over the two ending up apart. "I think the 'Philinda' fans are going to be a little bit sad about the outcome. Again," Wen laughed. "But you know what? We've seen this happen before. So don't be surprised if you see him resurrected again."
Agent of SHIELD's Finale Ending Explained
No one knew at the time when the series finale was shot (which was last summer) that virtual connecting would become the new normal in 2020. But that's how we left things on Agents of SHIELD. The actors all got to be in the same room but the characters were only there as holograms, as part of a video call, each having gone their separate ways.
"I remembering thinking 'Oh, it's so sad that they're not together,'" Cordova-Buckley said. "It's so sad that they're now connecting technologically and not in the lab discussing what they're going to do next."
Gregg likened the scene to the "Zoom nightmare-slash-reality" we all use to communicate with each other now. "So much of the show felt like life and art bled back and forth," he said. "Certainly saying goodbye to people you've been working with for years -- some for two, some for seven -- and checking in with them and knowing your lives are taking these different paths. On one hand: Thank God for technology for allowing you to do it, but also there's a real limitation to technology. That you're not there hugging. That you're not there in the way you'd like to be."
"It was a tough thing to shoot because there were moments when we were realizing it was our final scene together as a group," Wen shared. "And then it was tougher still because we'd pause and one of us would leave. It's sort of like what the last scene was in Season 5, when we didn't know if we were coming back and we thought it was the end of the series. Knowing for sure though, now, that this was the series finale made it bittersweet."
Mack and Yo-Yo
When the roundtable topic switched to specific characters' fates, Cordova-Buckley expressed how happy she was for Mack and Yo-Yo. "We've seen them go through so much. They've sacrificed so much. They've given so much to the team. So for them to end up together but also be individuals -- like she's doing her own thing and he's in command -- it feels like the relationship has now settled for 'MackElena.'"
As for Mack, the Director of SHIELD dons a trench coat at the end that definitely feels reminiscent of another famous Director. "Quite honestly, the original get-up -- and everything underneath like the pants and everything, I don't know if it was intentional -- was very similar to Nick Fury. And the powers-that-be were like 'let's nix that because we don't want to have any overlapping. We just want Mack to be his own Director.'"
Fitz and Simmons
For Henstridge's Simmons and De Caestecker's Fitz, the ending meant the two characters could finally find their "happily ever after."
"We've been ripped apart so many times and so many tragedies have happened, and you talk about earning moments of happiness for them, and I think they definitely earned that happy ending," Henstridge said. "And it's also nice that they still have that conflict between them where Simmons is sneakily staying in the game a little bit and he's completely checked out for a while. They have their happily ever after but they still have that classic bickering. They're not perfect."
De Caestecker mentioned how weird it felt returning to the group after being gone for so long (pretty much all of Season 7). "It was a bit bizarre," he said, "because I had a bit of time away. A huge part of that too is that [Fitz has] taken a bit of a backseat here as Simmons has gone off and done all the hard work."
But what of their grandson, Deke? Not around for the final moments of the show, Deke's exit happened earlier when he agreed to be the one to stay behind in the alternate/altered timeline. A universe where he'll either be the leader of the remnants of SHIELD...or be a huge rock star. "We've been discussing this," actor Jeff Ward joked, "and I know [Deke's fate is] a blend of the two because imagine if you found out that Bruce Springsteen was actually the head of the FBI. Like, you'd never suspect it. So Deke's using his rock star persona as the ultimate 'hiding in plain sight' tactic to be running an international superhero policing ring. And then at night doing gigs, using various songs that he's ripped off and passed off as his own."
Coulson and Daisy's Final Goodbye
Coulson and Daisy's final interaction together is a sweet and supportive one. Daisy lets LMD Phil know that he's needed out in the world, finding promising young recruits for SHIELD, while she reflects on the moment that Phil first believed in her and how she's now used that to find a bond with her sister. For Gregg and Bennet, the relationship between their characters mirrors real life as well.
"From the first interrogation scene with Skye, after we pulled her out of her van, there was just something different about Chloe Bennet," Gregg said. "And the way she has a realness and a fire to her as a performer. There are a lot of great actors to work with on that show but the through line of that relationship, that friendship, that family-type relationship...people say father/daughter, and it definitely has that in it, but I think like my relationship with Chloe it has so many permutations and it isn't that simple. Where she's helping and teaching and rescuing me as much as I'm doing that for her. For me, it was that part of the show where I grew the most as an actor and as a human."
"I don't think most people have the privilege of having this type of dynamic relationship that you can't put into any sort of box," Bennet said. "It's only something you'd get in an environment like SHIELD."
https://www.ign.com/articles/agents-...-finale-review
Agents of SHIELD: Season 7 Finale Review
Here at the end of all things
Updated: 13 Aug 2020
Warning: The following review contains spoilers for the Agents of SHIELD two-part series finale.
After seven seasons, and a notable full split from the MCU around the time of Avengers: Infinity War, Marvel's Agents SHIELD wrapped up its massive (and sometimes overstuffed) saga with a two-parter that was all about giving us a warm send-off for this tight-knit, ragtag family.
Yes, surprisingly, everything smoothed out just fine for the SHIELD team, which was somewhat unexpected given the show's habit of dealing out somber tragedy on a regular basis. Of course, the ending couldn't exactly repeat the dour, but also appropriate, ending to Season 5 -- back when the writers were crafting a possible series finale because they had a strong suspicion it was the end -- where Coulson died for real. That felt like a true bookend. Continuing two seasons past that, things had to go down differently.
The fans love the characters and the cast loves each other, so there was no reason to not send us out with a big love fest. In fact, the final ten minutes or so of "What We're Fighting For" was dedicated to giving us closure and a big "where are they now?" epilogue.
Seeing the core team (absent Deke and Sousa), still intact, with no members having perished during the final showdown with the Chronicoms and Nathaniel Malick, all sitting around in a virtual reunion, it became apparent how little the rest of the season meant. That's not meant to be a dig, really, but just a way of noting that it didn't really matter, overall, who the villains were, or what the threat to the planet was. The series has been all about these characters for years now and the rest of it's just "big bad" dressing.
Of course, without this year's cross-time caper, Sousa wouldn't have gotten swept up into the mix, which has been a big boon for the show, but Fitz returned (yes, they really did save his big Deus Ex Machina moment for the finale) and basically told the team that basically everything they'd just been through (including Mack losing his parents) didn't count because he was now back from the Quantum Realm to switch them all over to the original timeline just seconds after they initially blipped out of it. Their main goal had been (unknowingly to them) to get Daisy's sister, Kora, who didn't even become a plot point until more than halfway through the season.
Nothing undercuts the adventure like having someone come in and say "it doesn't matter what you did, it only matters what we do now." That being said, this final season has still been entertaining, even if the revelation in the finale worked to undermine most of it. I guess that's the risk you run when you're dealing with time travel, resetting timelines, and temporal tinkering. It's nothing we didn't already experience to some extent back in the second half of Season 5.
Still, given all this, "The End Is at Hand" -- which featured Mack, Daisy, and Sousa rescuing Simmons and Deke -- and "What We're Fighting For" were both rollicking affairs filled with action, heart, and humor. Daisy even got to have a final Quake-tastic battle with the anti-Quake, Nathaniel, as a cool one-on-one super battle. And their fight even came with a death tease when it seemed like Daisy would actually go out swinging, sacrificing herself for the team. But she was saved, Kora blasted Sibyl's Chronicom army with empathy (sure), and the entire evil plot to conquer Earth was undone.
Though as much as these two episodes featured spirited action, as well as a fitting send-off for young John Garrett (played by Bill Paxton's son, James), the focus here, for a show that's arguably lingered on a few years after it gave us a fitting finale, was on the characters and their fates. What really mattered was the interpersonal interplay between them: Daisy and Sousa finding love; Daisy being able to redeem the sister she never knew existed; Fitz and Simmons actually getting a "happily ever after" (and not just in the end, but in a time pocket that we never even knew about - and that Simmons had made herself forget about - where they had years together and a child). Oh, and then there was Deke staying behind in the changed timeline to run SHIELD and/or be a rock god. These were the heartfelt character moments that truly fueled these final two episodes.
It was interesting to see Coulson and May not wind up with each other in the end, given the fan fervor around them, but that just plays into the whole idea of not wanting to repeat Season 5. Plus, Coulson's new life as an LMD created enough of an emotional barrier/buffer to help us detach.
Coulson, May, Mack, and Yo-Yo all still remain part of SHIELD at the end of the finale, though: Mack and Yo-Yo as the Director (with a Fury-style trench coat) and the top agent, respectively, May as an instructor, and Coulson as a recruiter (who still gets to zoom around in Lola!). Fitz is retired, Simmons is partly out, and Daisy is now part of some sort of galactic diplomatic mission (which probably also connects to SHIELD). Plus, she's found love with Sousa and family with Kora.
When a show's gone on a bit past its sell-by date, this is the type of ending you want, because those still watching SHIELD are the die-hards who've stuck with the series and probably don't care too much about its original MCU ties. That's not to say that viewers won't appreciate the occasional Easter egg or callback to when the show was tucked more snugly into in the nest of Marvel's larger movie-based narratives, but the real draw is the world the show has created for itself now. With that in mind, this was the right way to go out for all involved.
Given that Marvel's Agents of SHIELD may only exist now for a select audience of die-hards, this two-part finale was exactly the type of send-off the show needed to deliver. It moved nicely, filled with a lot of action and special effects to close out the big crisis, but most importantly, it took enough time to touch base with each character and give us the closure we craved when all was said and done.
Marvel's Agents of SHIELD smartly finished things off with a sentimental finale for the fans.
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. series finale just made a lot of fans very happy
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/marvel...action-twitter
Agents of SHIELD Season 7 Ending Explained (& What Happens Next)
https://screenrant.com/agents-shield...ale-explained/
Agents of SHIELD Creators Had Time Travel Idea Before Endgame Released
https://screenrant.com/agents-shield...l-connections/
Agents of SHIELD's Future: Season 8 & MCU Possibilities
https://screenrant.com/agents-shield...ry-mcu-future/
Agents of SHIELD Uses a Major MCU Tie-In to Save the Day
In the Agents of SHIELD series finale, the team turned to a frequent Marvel Cinematic Universe plot device in order to save Earth from the Chronicoms.
https://www.cbr.com/agents-shield-se...quantum-realm/
Agents of SHIELD Leans Into the Marvel Multiverse
In Agents of SHIELD's series finale, Fitz explained that the Marvel Cinematic Universe's timeline is one of many in the multiverse, then proved it.
https://www.cbr.com/agents-shield-marvel-multiverse/
Agents of SHIELD Leaves One Agent Behind for Good
On Agents of SHIELD, the team had to leave one agent behind to get back to their timeline, and the choice couldn't have been more appropriate.
https://www.cbr.com/agents-shield-deke-left-behind/
Did Agents of SHIELD Just Launch SWORD?
Agents of SHIELD's series finale sent one agent on a deep space mission, which sounded similar to the organization's space-faring arm from the comics.
https://www.cbr.com/agents-shield-series-finale-sword/
Agents of SHIELD's Ghost Rider Shares BTS Pic With Robbie Reyes' Creators
As Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ends, Ghost Rider/Robbie Reyes actor Gabriel Luna shares a photo of himself watching the show with the character's creators.
https://www.cbr.com/agents-of-shield...eyes-creators/
Aww that was just lovely!
Full on movie Serenity vibes for me. I loved it. The show has always been a bit cheesy and it wrapped up beautifully. I am so glad they didnt destroy my heart, but why for blonde, blue eyed child? A bit jarring having such a pale child. Jemmas performance was great. I loved that it looped back,
Quake was awesome, as usual Her family line was super cute. Im so glad so many got a happy ending.
https://tvline.com/2020/08/13/agents...gray-hallways/
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. EPs Share One Regret: So. Many. Gray Hallways.
To the very end, the Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. producers were good sports about the knocks the show has taken over its seven-season ABC run.
Heck, executive producer Jeffrey Bell, while doing press for the Aug. 12 series finale, sported an "After a Rocky Start…" T-shirt — which he said was a nod to the left-handed compliment that seemed to open even the most laudatory of the show's reviews over the years.
During said press tour, Bell and co-showrunners Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen were asked if there was anything they wish they could have done differently. As it turned out, S.H.I.E.L.D. director Mack answered that very question in one of the series' very final scenes, when he alluded to "all those years in hallways."
"I wish we didn't live in so many corridors because we had no money," Bell shared with reporters. Tancharoen concurred, saying, "Everyone's like, 'Why are they back in these gray halls?'"
To be fair, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s 13-episode farewell run had a promising start on the "gray hallways" front, by taking the cast outdoors (!) to a New York City lot dressed for the 1930s. Subsequent early episodes found the agents staking out a sun-dappled 1950s diner and engaging in fisticuffs outdoors, in the daytime.
Even OG cast member Chloe Bennet had to hail the escape from drab corridors, telling TVLine in a season preview, "You're telling me! Every day we were literally in those hallways, and if a scene was two minutes long we were there [filming] for seven hours. It was really, really exciting for the cast and the crew to get out of the stages and get out of the gray space hallways, because it does affect your mood."
Alas, S.H.I.E.L.D. by midseason had largely relocated its agents to nondescript, endless corridors, whether back at the subterranean Lighthouse base in the 1980s, scurrying around the oh-so-gray Zephyr, or exploring an alien cruiser in the finale.
"The great thing about being in space is you don't have to go on location," Bell said, "because we can't afford to go on location."
That said, the EP did point out to The AV Club that the aforementioned Chronicom cruiser boasted "pretty, pretty sexy corridors."
Marvel's Agents of SHIELD Series Finale "Last Table Read" Featurette (HD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIoV9oCUxUo
Pretty good ending, but I think that Season 5's ending was a little better.
I'm still gathering my thoughts so I'll post more of my thoughts later.
I'm going to really miss this show.
I also think that I'm done with the MCU now. I always enjoyed this show more then the movie side of the MCU, and it's ending feels like a good jumping off point for me.
It's going to be interesting looking back at this show. People hated it when it started, but I think that in time it will be looked back at in a positive way. I think that it's going to leave behind a legacy. I can imagine that this show will inspire future generations of fantasy/science fiction writers
Totally agree! I liked the MCU movies for the first few (Thor really helped) but got quickly bored of them and much prefer AoS over any of the movies or other shows in the universe. I am keen to rewatch agents of shield for years to come. I think that they played out a lot of what was planned for firefly in this show and it was really underrated by the existing fanbase.
I also really loved the last few seasons. S4 onwards stepped it up a knotch and people who didnt stick with it really missed out. I hope it does gain new fans over the years as it is a timeless type, it could have a fanbase as strong as buffy in 20 years if the right people give it a go.
.I also think that I'm done with the MCU now. I always enjoyed this show more then the movie side of the MCU
Dear god, seriously? All I can say is you must have been watching the wrong movies, because imo AoS can't hold a candle to the worst of them when it comes to writing.
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Which movies would you consider better? I'd rewatch AoS a million more times before I'd sit through some of those movies again. Especially the last avengers, dr strange, guardians etc the best parts of those were the cheap laughs and Agents of Shield did that better too. The writing was extremely similar to buffy/firefly, it had scenes almost straight out of Serenity in the finale. A very Whedon-y show. I think it tops buffy for me, writing wise as well. I adore the finale even more now, a day or so later
I'm sorry I know It matter of taste but I though AoS was purse trash. If this show hadn't been backed by Marvel it's low ratings would have meant cancelation ages ago. Imo most Marvel movies are better put together then this embarrassment.
I've seen all of the MCU movies, and for the most part I enjoyed them, but at the same time they're popcorn movies. I kind of forget about them as soon as they're over, and I really have no desire to watch them again.
Yep, you summed up why I didn't stick with AoS too.
https://tvline.com/2020/08/16/agents...-happy-ending/
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. EPs Reflect on Their Sousa Fake-Out, Why 'Unlikely Match' With Daisy Proved Peachy
If you thought that Agent Carter alum Enver Gjokaj would only be making a glorified cameo during Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s final season, that misdirect was 100-percent on purpose.
"The plan was always for him to come on for more than one [episode] but to make it feel like [just] one, so that we could surprise people," exec producer Jeffrey Bell told TVLine at a press event for the series finale.
Because of Season 7's time travel element, "it made sense to us to have Sousa, who is a 'man out of time,' coming along for the ride," said co-showrunner Maurissa Tancharoen. "We get a lot of fish-out-of-water, funny, generational, tech [humor]." (To cite but one example, per co-showrunner Jed Whedon, "You get a guy who says, 'It's peachy'!")
When all was said and done, Sousa not only stuck around for 10 of the farewell run's 13 episodes, he also wound up Zephyring off into the sunset with the formidable Daisy Johnson aka Quake (played by original cast member Chloe Bennet). That happy ending was something the producers could only hope for.
"We instantly fell in love with the concept during the season of bringing him in and letting him play with us for a little bit," Whedon recalled. "But one of the good things about TV is you can make decisions as you move.
"We were hopeful that [Daisy and Sousa] would have chemistry, and we felt like we could write Sousa into a place, and her into a place, that felt like it would be organic to them," he continued. "Seeing them on-screen and seeing them play, we were pretty confident that it would work."
Whedon and Tancharoen of course had worked with Gjokaj before, as writers/story editors for Fox's Dollhouse, so they knew that he could rise to any occasion. "Enver's great, he could do anything," Whedon noted, "so [a Sousa/Daisy pairing] was one of those things that we had hopes for, but only when he came on did we kind of cement that idea and run with it."
The trick was "finding the angle, because they don't, on paper, seem compatible," Whedon observed. "She's always calling him a dork and just kind of laughing at him. But he's so solid and so confident in liking strong women and all that, it just felt great. So we were happy with that."
"They were a very unlikely match, but we knew that it would work," said Tancharoen. Added Bell: "The chemistry was even more than we'd hoped."
The egg in the beer, it would turn out, was the bromance that also formed in the last few episodes.
"Not only was there chemistry between Daisy and Sousa, but Sousa and Mack (Henry Simmons)," Tancharoen noted. "Those are some of my favorite scenes, specifically in Mr. Bell's episode" — the first hour of the series finale, which Bell wrote.
"They were fun to write in [Episode] 12, putting those two together," added Bell. "It was great."
https://tvline.com/2020/08/18/agents...roduced-modok/
Yep, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Was Going to Introduce Crazy-Looking M.O.D.O.K.
It appears that Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was planting much more than a fun Easter egg in Season 4, when it put Anton Ivanov's severed head inside a jar.
Based on new intel from one of the ABC series' executive producers, it sounds like the groundwork was indeed being laid, in late Season 4, for the introduction of the highly unusual-looking Marvel villain known as M.O.D.O.K. Fans at the time speculated as much, seeing as Watchdogs leader Ivanov (played by Zach McGowan) had told Aida his LMD body was "only designed for killing" — and M.O.D.O.K. stands for Mechanized Organism Designed Only for Killing.
Fold in Ivanov's code name (Superior, a la M.O.D.O.K. Superior), his ability to self-clone as an LMD, and his aforementioned head-in-a-glass case fate, and the dots pretty much connected themselves.
Recalling any would'ves, could'ves and should'ves as the series wrapped its seven-season run on Aug. 12, executive producer Jeffrey Bell shared with The AV Club, "I'll say this, I don't care: We were given the green light originally to use certain characters from Marvel, and started to break story based on those characters" — including M.O.D.O.K., he let slip amid a calculated cough — "and then they retracted it. So there were a bunch of things that were going to get a little bats–t crazy that were above our pay grade, in terms of the toys we were allowed to play with."
Co-showrunner Maurissa Tancharoen, though, spun the Marvel-ous handcuffing as a plus.
"I think some of our best storylines and character development was born out of us having to pivot and scramble. That's the fun of our jobs — and the nature of working with an entity like Marvel, where there are a slew of characters to pull from, and there are a bunch of established moving parts. And then when you place your hopes and dreams in something and then it's not possible… you scramble. But that's how our [original] mythology was even formed in the first place."
Did you suspect M.O.D.O.K. was coming once Ivanov's head landed in a "jar"? Would you have been curious to see how the show depicted his unusual form?
I liked Ivanov because he was in one of my other favourite shows (also finishing this season) The 100. I would have liked to see his full body in more episodes haha. Admittedly I dont know much about the other Marvel characters until they appear on a poster somewhere. Anything they would have done might have been fun, but I am really happy with how the series played out, even with all the things they couldnt do.
Agents of SHIELD Never Asked Brett Dalton To Return For Season 7
https://screenrant.com/agents-shield...t-ward-return/
Not surprising given they only went as far as 1983. Though he was mentioned once at least. There was a rumor we might see teenage Ward in a juvenile center in 1993 but it never panned out.


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Game Theory — пауэр-поп-группа, основанная гитаристом/вокалистом/автором песен Scott Miller, сочетающая мелодичный джэнгл-поп с плотным экспериментальным звучанием и гиперграмотной лирикой. MTV описало их звучание в 2013 году как «всё еще висцеральное и жизненное», с записями «наполненными привлекательным психоделическим оттенком», что по-прежнему «оказывает влияние на новое поколение инди-исполнителей». Game Theory появились на сцене Paisley Underground и, несмотря на их психоделические склонности, они, главным образом, обязаны пауэр-поп-группе Big Star.

Группа была сформирована в 1982 году в составе следующих участников: Scott Miller (вокал/гитара, ранее в ), Fred Juhos (бас), Nancy Becker (клавишные) и Michael Erwin (ударные). За четыре месяца после формирования и до первого концерта группа записала свой первый альбом Blaze of Glory (1982) в спальне у Scott Miller. Тираж альбома составил всего 500 экземпляров, которые были разосланы на студенческие радиостанции (согласно легенде, завёрнутыми в мешки для мусора). Альбом, состоящий из смеси поп-музыки 60-х и весьма своеобразных элементов новой волны, продемонстрировал большой потенциал группы. Game Theory приступают к концертной деятельности вместе с единомышленниками по Paisley Underground  и , когда эта сцена только зарождалась. Последовавшие мини-альбомы Pointed Accounts of People You Know (1983) и Distortion (1984, продюсером которых выступил , основатель другой пейсли-группы The Three O'Clock) способствовали благоприятным сравнениям группы с Big Star.

В 1985 году с помощью продюсера Mitch Easter (основателя Let's Active) они записали свой первый надлежащий альбом Real Nighttime для Enigma Records. Однако ещё до его издания внутренние противоречия привели к расколу группы. Scott Miller собрал новый состав: Shelley LaFrenier (клавишные), Gil Ray (ударные), Suzie Ziegler (бас) и Mitch Easter, который остался продюсером и, по существу, выступал в качестве пятого участника в студии на протяжении всей их карьеры. Обновлённая группа сразу же приступила к записи The Big Shot Chronicles (1986), который продемонстрировал новые высоты в качестве. К этому времени они становятся популярными на студенческих радиостанциях, однако в масштабах страны остаются едва известными. Allmusic отмечает, что вероятно Scott Miller смирился с этим, когда записал безмерно приятный обскурный альбом Lolita Nation (1987) с участием гитариста/вокалиста Donnete Thayer.

Они попытались пробиться в мейнстрим с более доступным альбомом Two Steps from the Middle Ages (1988), однако его коммерческий провал привёл к ряду кадровых изменений, включая временный уход самого Scott Miller. В конечном счёте он распустил группу в 1990 году, чтобы сформировать близкую по звучанию, хоть и более эклектичную — The Loud Family.

Спустя почти четверть века Scott Miller готовился к воссоединению Game Theory, когда он неожиданно умер 15 апреля 2013 года в возрасте 53 лет.

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A Toronto tenant with a long history of not paying rent, who was found guilty of defrauding two of her landlords, has been sentenced to six months in jail.
Nina Willis has been convicted of four charges in a fraud case involving fraud committed against landlords.
Nina Willis is expected to begin serving her sentence in about two weeks.
"Certainly a message must go out that this kind of conduct is not acceptable in the community," said Justice Alphonse Lacavera, shortly before informing Willis she would receive jail time.
Lacavera had found Willis guilty of two counts of fraud under $5,000 and two counts of false pretense under $5,000 in December, for misleading two landlords on her rental applications, and in emails she provided when applying to rent their homes.
"Frauds have been committed, the landlords have suffered, they are completely unhappy, they have lost their savings, they have lost their peace and quiet, their enjoyment of life, basically," Lacavera said to Willis during Friday's hearing.
Willis will also be on probation for one year, must keep the peace and have no direct or indirect conduct with her former landlords. She must also accept counselling recommended by her probation officer.
During the hearing, Willis told Lacavera she felt remorse, apologized to her landlords and said she understood she had to face the consequences of her actions.
"I won't be in trouble again … I won't do this again," she said.
She has already stated she intends to appeal.
Assistant Crown attorney Craig Power had sought a 12-month jail sentence.
The sentencing was adjourned, in part, so Willis could have two weeks to organize her affairs. She has been ordered to report back to court on April 27, when she will be taken into custody. Lacavera is also expected to discuss reparations.
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When ordered out by the board, she appeals, putting the eviction on hold. She has lost her last seven appeals and has left a string of landlords thousands of dollars in debt.


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Marie Louise Coleiro Preca sworn in as Malta's ninth President
President Coleiro Preca taking the oath of office
NEWS Early this morning Australian time an emotional Marie Louise Coleiro Preca was sworn in as Malta's ninth President and the second female President, promising to stay close to the people despite taking on her new role. In her first official speech soon after being sworn in, Ms Coleiro Preca made a special mention of the importance of strengthening ties with the Maltese diaspora spread around the world and particularly with the younger generations of Maltese and Gozitans abroad.
"We should pause to think of our Maltese and Gozitan brothers and sisters scattered all over the world – those Maltese and Gozitans who for some reason or other left our country but remain Maltese. We should strengthen our ties with them. We should enhance their awareness of this nation. We should show them that they remain part of us. We should help them appreciate Maltese identity. I also wish that their children recognise the origins of their parents and feel close to us. This is their country as much as ours," she said.
The new President insisted that she will still be the person she always was – "a person with whom you can speak with and confide in. Your difficulties are my challenges. Your successes are my joys."
This is not a celebration of one person but a celebration of all the people in Malta and Gozo, Ms Coleiro Preca said. "Today I present myself to you most humbly and with a high sense of duty, commitment and determination, so that together we can build upon the good work of our forefathers. Today I feel the smallest among you."
Ms Coleiro Preca said that one of the priorities of her Presidency will be strengthening unity. "Just as we have succeeded on various occasions to show this sentiment, the same can be achieved on a daily basis. We should work to push to the forefront the virtue and value of brotherly love among the people of Malta and Gozo in order to safeguard respect, tolerance and dignity for all."
She also spoke about the need to understand the importance of diversity and multiculturalism without ignoring our national identity. Malta should strengthen its ties with expatriates as well as their descendants. Ms Coleiro Preca also vowed to strengthen the voluntary sector, just as her predecessors did.
We should pause to think of our Maltese and Gozitan brothers and sisters scattered all over the world … strengthen our ties with them … enhance their awareness of this nation – President Coleiro Preca
Wider functions for the Presidency
Ms Coleiro Preca said that her Presidency will have new and wider functions. "I believe that the Presidency should serve as a shield to protect liberty, democracy and human rights. For this to take place I am using my energy to see that a culture of social justice is cultivated built on the basis of mutual respect and inclusivity, tolerance and diversity – all of which are values that should continue to make us proud that we are Maltese and Gozitans." This Presidency is also going to be engaged in constitutional reforms.
Referring to the four important anniversaries in 2014, Ms Coleiro Preca said that the country should not only honour the memory of our ancestors but also the elder members of society.
President Coleiro Preca spoke about immigration: "While aware of the humanitarian element attached to such arrivals, and the need to give these people all the humanitarian assistance they deserve, our country's size and population density makes it impossible to give our best to these people, who are searching for refuge from conflicts and wars, and aspire for a better life. This fact makes our country dependent for assistance on neighbouring countries and the European Union. Here, my appeal is to the international community to consider it as their duty to help countries such as Malta, to share the responsibilities and opportunities of such a phenomenon."
A voice for children and young people
Ms Coleiro Preca also encouraged children and youths to do their utmost, and show the same courage and will that their forefathers demonstrated before them. "As a mother that closely understands the difficulties that parents face in the different stages of parenthood, I wish to take this opportunity and invite them to make a step forward together to give our children and youths a voice and enough space to tell us what their aspirations are. Let us come together, parents of Malta and Gozo to continue working towards creating an environment where our children, present and future, can achieve their full potential," she said.
Mass at the Dar tal-Providenza
The ceremony started with Mass at the Dar tal-Providenza in Siggiewi.
In his homily, Mgr Cremona said that the Mass was held at the Dar tal-Providenza at the request of Ms Coleiro Preca, who wanted the event to be a celebration of love towards the poor.
He said there were different forms of poverty, including drug and alcohol addiction and children who carried the burden of their parents' problems.
He thanked outgoing President George Abela for the service he gave the country and urged people to pray for the new President who, he said, had a difficult task ahead of her but who was in a position to help people, especially the poor and vulnerable.
Ms Coleiro Preca, who was accompanied by Mr Preca and her daughter listened attentively, and even nodded.
At the end of Mass, Mgr Cremona blessed two Maltese flags, one for Malta and one for Gozo, and handed them to the President-elect.
The one for Malta will be raised at the Palace later today.
Mgr Cremona was assisted by 29 priests including Apostolic Nuncio Aldo Cavalli, Gozo Bishop Mario Grech, Auxiliary Bishop Charles Scicluna and Archbishop-Emeritus Joseph Mercieca.
The bidding prayers were read by children and Ms Coleiro Preca smiled affectionately as she heard them read.
Prior to Mass, the President-elect and Mr Preca greeted well-wishers at the main square in Luqa. Before heading to her home town Qormi, she also stopped to greet well-wishers in Siggiewi.
Coleiro Preca was greeted by well-wishers in Luqa and later she was given a hero's welcome in Qormi, where hundreds of people gathered in the town she loved and grew up in to greet the President-elect. They greeted her waving Maltese flags as Church bells sounded.
She shed tears as she hugged, shook hands with and kissed well-wishers close to where she used to live before she moved to Balzan with her husband, Edgar Preca.
Before taking her oath at a special sitting of the House of Representatives in the Grand Council Chamber at the Palace in Valletta, Mrs and Mr Preca proceeded on foot from Palazzo Ferreria through Republic Street to the Palace.
Sufarelli were let off from the Labour Party Club in Valletta as she arrived in front of the club in Republic Street.
At the President's Palace in Valletta
Speaker Anglu Farrugia greeted the President-elect and her husband at the Palace entrance just before outgoing President George Abela and Mrs Abela arrived in St George's Square.
Brigadier Jeffrey Curmi, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and President George Abela were each accorded a national salute in St George's Square. After his salue, President Abela inspected a guard of honour. He then departed from protocol and shook hands with the people gathered in St George's Square. Some shouted grazzi (thank you).
As the President and Mrs Abela entered the Palace, the House of Representatives was called to order in the Grand Council Chamber. The sitting was suspended for the Speaker to greet the President and escort him and Mrs Abela to the Pages Room. The three were then escorted to the Grand Council Chamber.
During the sitting, President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca took the oath of office as President of Malta. The AFM fired a 21-gun salute from Fort St Elmo before the sitting was adjourned.
President Coleiro-Preca delivered her speech, after which, together with Mr Preca, President Emeritus George Abela and Mrs Abela, she proceeded to the main balcony of The Palace accompanied by the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition and the chairman of Alternattiva Demokratika.
Later, the President and Mr Preca met the guests in The Palace courtyard, who included many elderly and disabled.
Before leaving the Palace, the President was accorded a National Salute and inspected her first Guard of Honour.
At San Anton Palace
From the Palace, President and Mr Preca were escorted by Mounted Police to the War Memorial in Floriana for a wreath laying ceremony and then proceeded to their official residence, San Anton Palace in Attard.
There, they met their staff for the first time and the new President later has private meetings with the Prime Minister, the Opposition leader and the chairman of Alternattiva Demokratika.
[Sources for story and photos: www.timesofmalta.com; www.independent.com.mt and www.doi.gov.mt]
New President's Speech
The following is the in-coming President's full speech in English:
Honorable Members Presidents Emeriti Excellencies Distinguished Guests Ladies and Gentlemen,
The appointment of the Head of State of Malta is not a celebration of one person but a celebration of all the people of Malta and Gozo. A celebration of a proud people who live in a sovereign state. Indeed, this is the day when, as people of Malta and Gozo, we recognise each other as one nation – a nation which although small, managed, in the course of time to grow and become strong enough to take charge of its own destiny.
Today I present myself to you most humbly and with a high sense of duty, commitment and determination, so that together we can build upon the good work of our forefathers. Today I feel the smallest among you.
I want to work with you to continue to develop our nation, for it to become stronger, for our sake and the sake of the children that will succeed us.
Over the course of time, we have proved ourselves as people who can rise to the occasion both in moments of distress and of joy.
My nomination today comes with the support and approval of both sides of the House of Representatives, as well as the respect and trust of thousands of Maltese and Gozitan people. These are sources that empower me and continue to kindle in me love for my country, a country endowed with strong values reminiscient of larger nations.
Our people managed to create a state out of a small rock – a state that engenders wealth and promotes peace.
I consider the strengthening of unity as one of the priorities that we should work for in this journey together.
I dedicate myself to work tirelessly for unity.
I am convinced that just as we have succeeded on various occasions to show this sentiment, the same can be achieved on a daily basis. It would be in the best interests of everyone, but mostly our children.
We should work to push to the forefront the virtue and value of brotherly love among the people of Malta and Gozo in order to safeguard respect, tolerance and dignity for all.
We need to accept the fact that it doesn't matter that we harbour different views. Indeed this is most needed. We need to recognise the fact that there is nothing wrong with offering constructive criticism of each another as this helps to strengthen democracy. However, at the same time we would do well to understand the fact that it is when we come together that we can best understand each other, that we can show compassion and lend a helping hand in difficult times.
This is the way by which a sovereign state and the Maltese democratic fabric are strengthened. It is when each and everyone of us feels free to participate, even when in disagreement, that we renew democracy among us.
We will be living in a truly democratic country when we succeed in recognising our collective diversity.
In the coming years we need to continue working incessantly on this. We must continue to understand the importance of diversity and multi-culturalism. This is a strong social challenge and an important reality that affects us all.
We should understand and recognise that the effects of globalisation are not solely economic.
Social media is creating cultural globalisation and a strong movement of persons. Let us not be afraid of this fact.
Let us all, people of Malta and Gozo alike face these challenges with a critical sense as well as with the awareness that this social change offers opportunities for those who want to mobilise human and material resources in the name of social justice.
On the other hand it is important that we continue to strengthen our Maltese and Gozitan identity. After all, what is that makes us what we are?
We have our own language, flag and national anthem, culture, traditions and the authentic patrimony that makes us a nation with a unique identity.
How many of us recognise this true Maltese identity?
Therefore, while in the years to come we need to enhance knowledge and respect towards cultural and traditional diversities, we also need to ensure the strengthening of our national identity.
It is an identity that makes us a unique nation, who despite its demographic smallness is big because of the contribution it has made to world history.
Malta and Gozo lie at the crossroads of civilisations. Therefore let us work on this, strengthening our role as a bridge that links civilisations and peoples together.
The Maltese Diaspora
We should pause to think of our Maltese and Gozitan brothers and sisters scattered all over the world – those Maltese and Gozitans who for some reason or other left our country but remain Maltese. We should strengthen our ties with them. We should enhance their awareness of this nation. We should show them that they remain part of us. We should help them appreciate Maltese identity.
I also wish that their children recognise the origins of their parents and feel close to us. This is their country as much as ours.
I want to be worthy of the confidence which you are entrusting in me today. I promise to remain the person I always was, a person with whom you can speak with and confide in.
Your difficulties are my challenges. Your successes my joys. I firmly wish that this Presidency will be one that inspires goodwill and recognition of the solidarity between us. I am committed and determined to observe political impartiality scruplously.
I am determined that ,together with you, I will continue to highlight those difficulties and challenges that affect the lives of families and individuals in our country. This is to ensure a proper and dignified environment for each and everyone of us, whoever we are, and wherever we come from.
It is only in this manner that I believe we can aspire to have a happy society, giving people the opportunity to do their best to succeed without obstacles.
Our country is one that inspires generosity. Generosity can take several forms, both of a financial nature as well as through dedicating time for others. I intend, like my predecessors before me, to make this Presidency an opportunity to strengthen voluntary work in our country.
Voluntary work is a strong foundation upon which many social initiatives are built. I wish that we continue to strengthen such work and enhance awareness of the importance of voluntary work both in the social and economic sectors.
I wish that we do this hand-in-hand together, through a wide collaboration of all sectors in our country. In this enterprise I see a golden opportunity that will bring us ever closer. I intend to involve everyone – those in the social sector, the business and commercial sector, state institutions and the many Maltese and Gozitans of goodwill that are prepared to contribute towards causes of a social nature.
Let's all work together.
I also believe in a Presidency that listens and facilitates the voice of the people of Malta and Gozo to ensure that the definition of the State will truly reflect that this is a SOVEREIGN STATE.
This is a Presidency with new and wider functions. A Presidency which we should as one people make successful, so that social and economic problems, which leave a negative impact on everyone, are addressed at a national level and are no longer part of a partisan political game.
I believe that the Presidency should serve as a shield to protect liberty, democracy and human rights. For this to take place I am using my energy to see that a culture of social justice is cultivated built on the basis of mutual respect and inclusivity, tolerance and diversity – all of which are values that should continue to make us proud that we are Maltese and Gozitans.
National Anniversaries
The political history of our country is one that testifies to the fact that our people, although small in number, could, with firm determination, achieve what was their right. It is an honour for me that I will be President during this year when we celebrate four important national anniversaries in the political lifeline of our country: the Fiftieth anniversary of Independence, the Fortieth anniversary of Malta becoming a Republic, the Thirty-fifth anniversary since Malta acquired complete Freedom, and the Tenth anniversary since becoming a member of the European Union. Each and every one of these anniversaries constitutes part of an important process in the political history of our nation. A nation that managed to arrive where it is today due to its hard work, courage and determination to succeed in all that it does.
What we are today we owe to our forefathers. Their vision and zeal should serve as our tools to continue moving ahead as one people towards political maturity that makes us truly modern.
Therefore I wish that this Presidency not only honours the memory of our ancestors and their achievements, but also and to a certain extent more, renders this memory more alive in the elderly members of its society.
A society is identified as strong when it recognises the value of its elders, appreciates them and takes care of them.
Regional and international events taking place in Malta
During this Presidency, a number of important events will be taking place in Malta. Next year Malta will host for the second time the Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting (CHOGM), in 2017 Malta will for the first time have the Presidency of the European Union, while in 2018 our capital City, Valletta, will be the European Capital of Culture.
These events, while continuing to show our country's importance in international, regional and cultural fields, are also an opportunity to showcase to the world who we are.
The Presidency is set to play its part in raising our country's profile, aware of the fact that each and every event must not only be a success but also leave a fruitful legacy for those who come after us.
Constitutional Reforms
This Presidency is going to be engaged in constitutional reforms. Such constitutional reforms, while of great importance in the process of our democratic evolution, should ensure that they express the needs and aspirations of an ever-changing society. Such a task, while requiring great wisdom and wide consultation, should also make sure that it honours the first architects of our constitutional development who with great skill and dedication arrived at the constitution as we know it today.
At this most solemn moment I wish to salute and give them due honour in my name and in the name of all the people of Malta and Gozo.
May the seeds sown in our constitutional process continue to inspire us in the endeavours that we have ahead of us in the months and years to come.
May we all realise that respect for different opinions should remain the backbone of every initiative that we take to strengthen our democracy – a democracy that was, and will continue to be crafted by the people and for the people, a democratic system that upholds the human person at the centre of every initiative.
International Commitment
At an international level Malta should continue to retain its major role as a bridge of dialogue that ties the European and African continents together. It remains essential that all parties involved in the peace process be brought more closely together so that the Mediterranean will be a region that promotes peace and prosperity.
Furthermore, Malta is also a member of the European Union and of the United Nations – regional and international foras in which we should continue to engage, as we always did, to make sure that we leave a better world behind us. It is with great satisfaction that I note that Malta has excellent relations with many countries around the world. This is an endeavour our country should continue.
The geostrategic importance of our country continues to gather significance against the backdrop of the huge influx of immigrants arriving on our shores.
While aware of the humanitarian element attached to such arrivals, and the need to give these people all the humanitarian assistance they deserve, our country's size and population density makes it impossible to give our best to these people, who are searching for refuge from conflicts and wars, and aspire for a better life. This fact makes our country dependent for assistance on neighbouring countries and the European Union.
Malta has the support of neighbouring countries, as well as that of Non-Governmental Organisations and the United Nations, who, while sympathetic with our country's experiences, also acknowledge the fact that Malta is a special case. They also demand a lasting solution to stop this human tragedy.
Here, my appeal is to the international community to consider it as their duty to help countries such as Malta, to share the responsibilities and opportunities of such a phenomenon.
This Presidency is also concerned with this, hence I believe that we should continue working in the direction of finding long-term solutions and be catalysts in the process to break-up internationally organised criminal trafficking circles that are wrecking havoc for thousands of lives.
As political instability continues in neighbouring Libya and war rages in Syria, my appeal to the Diplomatic Corps present here today is to strengthen our efforts through effective dialogue to get solutions.
I strongly believe that dialogue remains an effective instrument that brings people together.
It saddens me how our region, the cradle of civilisation, still cannot manage to establish peaceful coexistence. It is a coexistence that could reach its aim if there is recognition and respect towards the different cultures and peoples, the opinions and the different beliefs, as well as languages and multi-ethnic traditions.
I consider us a fortunate people as in our case strong coexistence and solidarity exists between our families. We are fortunate that our forefathers realised the need to keep together and develop without fear, the will to discover new opportunities that made them and us stronger in whatever we engage ourselves in.
I wish to take this opportunity, of this celebration of the Maltese State, to encourage our children and youths to make their utmost, and show the same courage and will that their forefathers employed before them.
As a mother that closely understands the difficulties that parents face in the different stages of parenthood, I wish to take this opportunity and invite them to make a step forward together to give our children and youths a voice and enough space to tell us what their aspirations are.
Let us come together, parents of Malta and Gozo to continue working towards creating an environment where our children, present and future, can achieve their full potential.
This we can fulfil by safeguarding the environment, education, health, sports and culture and our historic and natural heritage.
Today I reiterate that I feel truly humble in front of you, aware that as Head of State I represent each and every one of you, aware that I have the responsibility to bring forward all your dreams and expectations, your desires and achievements.
I want to be worthy of this beautiful country that possesses such a rich and unique heritage.
I want to be worthy before you by serving as a catalyst to unite after recognising each other's needs and aspirations.
On such an occasion I want to pay heartfelt tribute to all the Presidents that came before me, who with their wisdom and skill succeeded to raise the dignity of the State, through their official and social commitment, in the best interests of our people.
With my work I also want to be worthy of the legacy that they left, confident that it will lead me in the years to come.
Driven by your incessant support, and the love of the people for whom and with whom I am committed to continue serving.
Guided by the values that my parents instilled in me and which, I hope bear witness to the values of every one, I pray to God that together with my husband and daughter, I'll be worthy of the service to my country in whatever I do.
Finally, I want to state before you that whatever I do will only be an expression of the profound love that I have for Malta and the people of Malta and Gozo.
May God be with me.
New President's Biography
President Marie Louise Coleiro Preca
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca was elected President of the Republic of Malta on the 4th April 2014. A Parliamentary resolution on 1st April 2014, approved her nomination as the ninth President of Malta.
At the age of 55, Coleiro Preca is the youngest serving President of Malta and only the second woman to hold the post of Head of State.
Her nomination marked another development in the constitutional history of Malta, as the President was elected with the unanimous approval of all Members of Parliament.
Coleiro Preca was born in Qormi on 7th December 1958. She was educated at St. George's Primary School in Qormi, Maria Reġina Girls' Grammar School at Blata l-Bajda and at the Polytechnic, Imsida. Later she graduated with a BA in Legal and Humanistic Studies (International Studies) and obtained a Diploma Notary Public from the University of Malta.
She has been active in national politics for the past forty years, since the age of sixteen. Within the Partit Laburista she has served as a member of the National Executive,
Assistant General Secretary and General Secretary.
As General Secretary (1982-91), she was the only woman to have served in such a senior post of a Maltese political party.
Coleiro Preca has also been a member of the National Bureau of Socialist Youths, President of the Women Section of the Party, founder member of the Ġuże Ellul Mercer Foundation and publisher of the Party's weekly newspaper, Il-Ħelsien.
She served as MP in the Maltese Parliament from 1998 to 2014. In the 2008 General Election she was the first elected MP.
Coleiro Preca has served on the board of directors of Maltacom plc (now known as GO) and Libyan Arab Maltese Holding Company. She was a member of the National Commission for Fiscal Morality.
As an Opposition MP, Coleiro Preca served as Shadow Minister for Social Policy, Shadow Minister for Tourism, Shadow Minister for Health and also as member of the Parliamentary Permanent Committee for Social Affairs and another for the Family Affairs. She was also a member of the Delegation for the Council of Europe.
On 13th March 2013 Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca took the oath as the Minister for the Family and Social Solidarity.
Throughout her year in office she embarked on a series of reforms and strategies in the social sector.
The main reforms were related to social housing and an integrated ICT strategy aimed at bringing simplification to the social benefits process. Infact by the end of 2014, the retirement and widower's pension, marriage grant and children's allowance will be issued automatically.
As Minister she started working on a single-means testing mechanism and on a welfare reform. She also introduced an effective system against benefit fraud. Throughout her year in office she started developing a pensions' strategy and addressed a number of anomalies faced by retired dockyard workers.
The number of social measures taken while in office includes a full widower's pension and the rescheduling of the children's allowance payments to help families in their budgeting.
As Minister, Coleiro Preca proposed in Parliament a number of legislations, including the Child Protection Act. She also set up Malta's first sexual assault crisis centre known as SART.
In December 2013, with the European Union Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, László Andor, Coleiro Preca launched the LEAP project. This project, co-financed by the European Social Fund, is part of the setting up of Family Resource Centres that will offer services in the heart of the community.
In January 2014, together with the Prime Minister of Malta, Coleiro Preca launched a Green Paper: A Framework for Poverty Reduction and for Social Inclusion. Furthermore, she introduced a number of measures to address poverty including a child supplement aimed at 22,000 children at risk of poverty.
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca is married to Edgar Preca and has a daughter.
[Biography source: Department of Information, Malta]
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As of today, Aug. 20, Pearrygin Lake State Park is also closed at least through Monday, Aug. 24. However, because conditions during wildfires can change rapidly, State Parks recommends that people wanting to get updates about Pearrygin Lake and other state parks should visit the Parks Alert Center online at: www.parks.wa.gov/AlertCenter.aspx?CID=9,">. From here, visitors can sign up to receive text or email alerts.


By: Daniel R. Ruthrauff, Lee Tibbitts, and Robert E. Gill Jr.
The study of avian movement has detailed a spectrum of strategies for the timing and use of sites throughout the annual cycle, from near randomness to complete consistency. New tracking devices now permit the repeated tracking of individual animals throughout the annual cycle, detailing previously unappreciated levels of variation within migratory systems. Godwits (genus Limosa) have featured prominently in studies of avian migration, but information derived from repeated tracking of individuals is limited. The Marbled Godwit subspecies Limosa fedoa beringiae breeds on the central Alaska Peninsula, and little is known about basic aspects of its migration ecology, including the repeatability with which this population times its annual migratory movements or uses migratory and nonbreeding sites. To address these questions, we equipped 9 Marbled Godwits breeding at a site near Ugashik, Alaska, with solar-powered satellite transmitters. We tracked individuals from July, 2008 to October, 2015 and obtained repeat migratory tracks from 5 of these birds. Individuals exhibited high fidelity to breeding, nonbreeding, and migratory stopover sites across years, but in contrast to congeners that conduct consistently timed, long, nonstop migrations, beringiaeMarbled Godwits exhibited low levels of individual- or population-level repeatability in the timing of migratory movements. Their relatively short migrations may enable the integration of local environmental cues, potentially facilitating individual flexibility in the timing of annual migratory movements. Curiously, if local cues ultimately drive the timing of Marbled Godwit migratory movements, the population's relatively constrained distribution during both the breeding and nonbreeding season should serve to synchronize birds if they are responding to similar cues. That our sample of Marbled Godwits nonetheless exhibited within- and between-year variation in the timing of their migratory movements suggests a complex integration of annually variable internal and external cues.


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Struggling hotels want more returning travellers allowed in
Increasing the inbound travel caps would enable more hotels to participate in the quarantine programs and boost occupancies.
by Mike Simpson
Image by Nel Botha from Pixabay
Struggling Australian hotels would like to see the government increase the cap on the numbers of returning residents being allowed back into the country.
They hope that this would help to increase hotel occupancies, given that many hotels have very few traditional paying guests and would therefore like to participate in the quarantine program.
Hotels are desperate for business
According to Michael Johnson, the Chief Executive of Tourism Accommodation Australia, hotels are "absolutely desperate for more business" and see the program as an opportunity.
However, it would likely be contingent on more travellers being allowed back into the country – and therefore into the hotels – to complete their mandatory 14 days of isolation.
"There has always been this perception that at least quarantine was keeping the hotels full to make up for the loss of tourism. But many hotels in our CBDs are running at under 10% occupancy," he told Guardian Australia in an interview.
Initially thousands arrived daily
He said that when the government announced mandatory hotel quarantine, the industry "stepped up with very little notice".
"When quarantine first started we were taking 3 000 arrivals a day in Sydney alone … so the government are aware there's availability on our end. There are a number of hotels prepared to participate in quarantine."
Johnson told Guardian Australia that only a "handful" of larger hotels, mostly with more than 500 rooms, were being used for quarantine, but that "all the other hotels are absolutely desperate for business".
Caps for Aussies travelling home
"Introduced by the government in July and subsequently tightened, the passenger caps affect Australians with valid exemptions returning after brief travel for compassionate reasons," the newspaper reported.
"But many citizens living overseas who heeded government advice to book return flights, but required several months to finish jobs or sell their homes, are also among those stranded."
The current caps on arrival numbers are in place until late October, when they may be reviewed.
Sydney is capped at 350 arrivals a day
Sydney airport is capped at 350 international passenger arrivals a day. Perth's limit is 75, while Brisbane and Adelaide are restricted to 70 each. Melbourne is not accepting any international flights.
According to Executive Traveller, international travellers flying into Sydney pay upwards of $3 000 for their mandatory two-week stay in hotel quarantine. There is an additional charge $1 000 for each extra adult and $500 for each child aged three and over.
"Travellers will be handed the bill when they leave quarantine, with payment due within 30 days, although a hardship scheme will be available to help people facing financial difficulties," the publication reported at the time the new self-payment rules were introduced in July.
"There'll be an exception made for travellers who booked their flight before 11.59pm on July 12, regardless of when that flight is, who will not be charged for the hotel quarantine stay."
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Seasonal Staff Picks – Crooklyn [In-Person Only]
This event took place Aug 3 - Aug 6, 2022
$10 Student/Child/Senior
Series - Seasonal Staff Picks
⚠ SAD NEWS: We had planned to show this film on 35mm, but due to shipping issues, we will no longer be able to. DCP will have to suffice!
(Spike Lee, US, 1994, 115 min, in English)
The day-to-day joys and frustrations of Troy, a young girl living in 1970s Brooklyn with her four older brothers and her loving but complicated parents. Spike Lee's semi-autobiographical tale recalls a season of jump rope games, Knicks super-fandom and the burgeoning influence of Soul Train.
Synopsis courtesy of MUBI. Stills on this page are copyright ©1994 Universal City Studios Inc. All rights reserved.
Picked by Kendra Sherrill
Festival Director - Children's Film Festival Seattle
Being the CFFS Director, it's no surprise that I'm drawn to films about growing up. I love how Crooklyn takes the nostalgic coming-of-age film to a whole new level. It truly is through the eyes of a child – and not a passive one either! Little Troy goes through her summer days taking matters into her own hands and learning along the way. This Spike Lee joint is filled with warmth and humanity and features many of his signature creative choices that I am truly a sucker for (including a jarring play with anamorphic lenses and aspect ratios!).
Crooklyn is a perfect summer watch! Taking place during the hot summer days of 1970s Brooklyn, the film is vibrant, loud, and lively. Spike Lee is a master at creating a tangible experience for his viewers – you can truly feel the heat, smell the smells, and get caught up in the carefreeness of the summer season.
Sun Aug 14
Seasonal Staff Picks – Thief (In Memory of James Caan) [In-Person Only]