Throughout the episode the necklace goes around like hot potato - anyshow would do this to build suspense. Also foreshadowed in the promo where Fitzis holding the necklace.
Everyone ends up in near death situations - it’s a finale. Andpromoters of the show have been hyping up the fact that someone will die.Obvious way to build suspense and create red herrings.
Fitz and Simmons are couple-y and use science to save people and escapesuch near death situations - based on every single episode of AoS ever.
Elena and Mack have a moment where trust is important - I’m assumingthey’re love interests so it’s obvious to me that they would get a moment. In3x17 she tells him, “I trust you.” This was broken a bit by the end of theepisode. They would come full circle and emphasize that she trusts himcompletely again. Let me reiterate that I did not predict that she would get shot.
He also has a moment with Daisy where he says he doesn’t blame her forher actions - at no point has Mack ever blamed Daisy for her actions. Ifanything, he has always blamed himself. He has always seen her as his partner.Also, they were hugging in the promo.
May is…May - …self-explanatory.
At some point Coulson finally decides that Lincoln is a good agent -Coulson said he’d decide if Lincoln is good enough to be an agent in 3x14. Thiswould come full circle in the finale where he finally decides that he is. Justin time for Lincoln to die of course. Tv, man. I didn’t predict that Lincolnwould quit instead.
Daisy feels guilty but also wishes she was still with Hive because of herwithdrawal - for the first part, you could tell how guilty she felt whenshe said that Andrew died for her. She could barely look at anyone. For thesecond, I know how addiction works. I figured she’d tell someone, but I didn’tpredict that she’d get on her knees and beg to be with Hive again.
Hive ends up in the base. I’m assuming they capture him and bring himthere as that sounds extremely stupid and therefore most likely - Ward,Malick, Lash, and Cal where all captured and brought to the base. It’s notoriginal. It’s still dumb.
We finally see Hive’s real face - the fact that they hid it in 3x16and haven’t shown it since means they were waiting to pull it out for thefinale.
Daisy tries to sacrifice herself with the warhead - based on howguilty Daisy seemed to feel in 3x20. It didn’t surprise me that she wouldbelieve it should be her on that jet. People on tv always seem to jump to that.Also, the writers really love Daisy and would put either her or Coulson at theforefront of the biggest moment of 3B. I bet on Daisy because of the guilt andbecause I guessed Lincoln would die.
but Lincoln stops her and sacrifices himself instead with Hive on board- Lincoln was the obvious choice for the death. Elena and Joey, while loveable,aren’t important enough. Coulson and Daisy would obviously be fine (he’s ClarkGregg, she’s the show’s central inhuman based on a comic book character and theshow has extensively invested in her). Mack receiving the necklace in 3x20screamed red herring to me. And honestly, I didn’t think they would dare killMack so soon after killing Andrew because of the racist tag that would follow(and people are still upset about Trip). Not Fitz because they showed himholding the necklace in the promo and that was also an obvious red herring tome. May and Simmons were more plausible to me and I wondered if it could be oneof them instead a couple of weeks ago, but I ultimately came to the conclusionthat it wouldn’t be: not May because they just lost Bobbi and Hunter so losingthe best field agent seemed unlikely. Also Coulson just had his “a woman I caredabout died” storyline and rehashing it so soon also seemed unlikely. And not Simmonsbecause they run the risk of losing a lot of viewers and I don’t think they canafford that tbh. And once again, Fitz’s “I lost the woman I love” storyline didn’t happen that long ago either. In the end, Lincoln was obvious and the easiest. His deathwould leave a serious void in Daisy, so it would be important, and because hesplit audiences and wasn’t on the show that long, his death is unlikely to risklosing viewers. Also a) there has been an underlying theme about whether he’sgood enough, whether he can make the right decision, whether he can be a hero (accidentally killing his only friend, trying to kill Lash, threatening to torture Alisha etc)so I figured it would come full circle b) he almost killed his lastgirlfriend - they may as well have put a bright, neon sign on him saying, “but Iwill die for my current one because redemption!” c) he showed in 3x19 that hewas willing to die for Daisy in a heartbeat d) it’s obvious he was filling thevoid he feels (as all inhumans do) with Daisy, and doing anything for thatconnection was a big theme in the last few episodes. I think everyone predictedthat Hive would be on board?
Daisy and Lincoln have an emotional goodbye before he blows up - thisalways happens on tv. Doing it right before he blows up just makes sense? Whenelse are they going to do it?
Daisy leaves SHIELD - this one was mostly a guess (and confirmed tome earlier by another blogger, see previous post) but basically got this fromBuffy. It is a Whedon show, even if it is a different Whedon. Also people on tvseem to leave the people they love when they lose someone/feel overwhelmingguilt.
