Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — The Good Samaritan

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We’ve now hit the quarter mark of the fourth season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and perhaps that’s appropriate with the themes explored in “The Good Samaritan” and the overarching plotlines we’ve seen so far with its latest character, the Ghost Rider. After all, so many of our agents live their lives a quarter-mile at a time. Ride or die. Or whatever, I don’t think any of that has anything to do with anything, but the point is we’ve now hit the point in the season where the game has become clear (or at least translucent) and all of the new heroes and villains of the year, all of those stories told and all of the new developments at S.H.I.E.L.D., that whole slog — it finally got to the point, and that is that the scientist ghosts, bad as they seemed, were all victims of the real big bad… wait for it… Ghost Rider’s uncle…! Continue reading →