S4:E20 - Jess and Jared recap and discuss “Farewell, Cruel World!"
With this being the "420" episode, and Ghost Rider returning soon to close out the season, Jared laments the lack of planning that failed to deliver on the perfect Season 4 episode 20 title, "Blaze It!" This episode is very emotional as the team's time in the Framework comes to an end. Trip's acceptance of his reality, but refusal to accept his lack of a love interest is dead on. Jemma's attempt to get to Fitz blows up in her face as Alistair pushes her hand and ends up shot, making Framework Fitz hate Jemma completely and destroying Jemma's plans utterly. And Alistair's behavior is like a crash course in abusive gaslighting, feeling proud of his history of cruelty and violence towards Fitz for simply being around. Jemma reunites with the team as they gather at Radcliffe's backdoor out of the Framework to begin their voyage back to reality. Coulson gets used to being the face of the Framework's resistance and May and Daisy's Framework relationship isn't the same as in the real world. Trip suggests what we hoped during our first watch of this season, and breaks our hearts by not escaping to the real world with the team. May accidentally spills the beans about the Framework's reality to Mack but he isn't having it, refusing to leave Hope. Coulson starts to die and reminisces about his past death(s) before he convinces May to take a leap of faith back to reality with him. Fitz shows up to take revenge on Jemma for killing his father and is unbelievably cruel to her as she professes her love to him and he shoots her in the leg and she's saved by Radcliffe. He earns his redemption, though at the price of them fridging poor Agnes to motivate his regrets, and double crosses the Framework Fitz to help get him back to the real world against his brainwashed wishes. Daisy leaves Mack behind, breaking the hearts of Yo-yo, and us.
As the team reels from processing their time in the Framework and then the egg-timer dings and AIDA's Darkhold-built "real girl" body is done, and she teleports Fitz out of there with one of her many Inhuman powers. We reel over Mack's incredibly emotional end scene with Trip and Hope, and appreciate the writers for their depth of emotion, but also wonder if their goal is to torture us.
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