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Leopold Fitz
Want to read a substantive post with well-considered opinions on racism, economics, war, and government asshattery? Well, this is not that post.
This post is to discuss my favorite (non Bill Paxton, obvs) character on Agents of SHIELD, Leopold Fitz. We know him as one-half of Fitz-Simmons, or as simply: Fitz.
Fitz loves Jemma. They are best friends. Most of us picked up on this well before the halfway point of the first season. Once Agent Tripplett arrives, it becomes even more painfully obvious. He's so jealous, he should have gotten an MA from Jellyschool after finishing up at SHIELD academy.
Also, Fitz is a friggin' genius. He seems to have a more difficult time with that than Jemma. He spends a fair amount of time in S1 being brave, self-sacrificing, and for lack of a better word--manly. Fitz also comes to have great respect for (and trust in) everyone on the team, especially Ward (even after Ward jumps out of a plane and saves Jemma when Fitz was already totally planning to do that.)
When Ward turns out to be HYDRA, Fitz has the most difficult time with that too. Like some viewers, he didn't believe it at all at first. Skye must have jumped to a conclusion. It must have only appeared that way. HYDRA must have tricked Ward. He must have had to pretend to be HYDRA. Someone must have made him kill Patton Oswalt('s clone). Fitz really, really doesn't want to believe Ward is bad. Even when Ward is sending Fitz and Jemma to almost certain death--Fitz is still screaming at him that he believes in him and his inherent goodness. Fuckin' Ward!
As S1 winds to a close, Jemma tells us that Fitz is "alive." We come to expect that he's not much more than that. So, when S2 begins and he's in the lab with Jemma, working on sciencey things like cloaking, we're super happy. Yeah, he seems a little slow, can't quite remember the words for things. But Jemma is with him. She's loving and supportive--finishing his sentences and telling him that he's almost there. That's exactly what we all expected her to do.
Seeing Fitz have such difficulty communicating made me worry that the stress of that would wear him down and leave him vulnerable to--you know, turning evil. After all, most supervillains are basically decent people who are very smart...and then something terrible happens to them.
But then...
We learn that Jemma left the team some time ago. Fitz had been talking to himself for the entire episode--even reacting physically to a touch that simply wasn't there. Tears, weeping, outright sobbing. Fitz! Noooooo. The sadness, despair--I was overwhelmed. It was a sucker punch right in the feels.
When I dried my eyes (seriously, I was really sobbing), I felt some anger at Jemma. How could she leave Fitz in that condition?!? But really, I can't even imagine what a difficult decision that must have been for her. She wants him to heal on his own.
How is Fitz? Finding out that Jemma is gone means that he's actually finishing his own sentences and completing his own thoughts. He's getting better, right? RIGHT?!? Because he did all this so Jemma could live. Because he loves her. Fitz is funny and brilliant and kind and loveable. He deserves better. I haven't been so moved by a TV love story since the Centurion waited for Amy Pond for 1,894 years. Well, and the Season Two finale of The Newsroom. *sigh* Because see, Fitz is so much more than the smart guy who loves Jemma.
If I find out that Bear McCreary is working on a piece called "The Agonizing Death of Fitz" or "Fitz goes Unpredictably Evil," I'm going to be very upset.
This post is to discuss my favorite (non Bill Paxton, obvs) character on Agents of SHIELD, Leopold Fitz. We know him as one-half of Fitz-Simmons, or as simply: Fitz.
Fitz loves Jemma. They are best friends. Most of us picked up on this well before the halfway point of the first season. Once Agent Tripplett arrives, it becomes even more painfully obvious. He's so jealous, he should have gotten an MA from Jellyschool after finishing up at SHIELD academy.
Also, Fitz is a friggin' genius. He seems to have a more difficult time with that than Jemma. He spends a fair amount of time in S1 being brave, self-sacrificing, and for lack of a better word--manly. Fitz also comes to have great respect for (and trust in) everyone on the team, especially Ward (even after Ward jumps out of a plane and saves Jemma when Fitz was already totally planning to do that.)
When Ward turns out to be HYDRA, Fitz has the most difficult time with that too. Like some viewers, he didn't believe it at all at first. Skye must have jumped to a conclusion. It must have only appeared that way. HYDRA must have tricked Ward. He must have had to pretend to be HYDRA. Someone must have made him kill Patton Oswalt('s clone). Fitz really, really doesn't want to believe Ward is bad. Even when Ward is sending Fitz and Jemma to almost certain death--Fitz is still screaming at him that he believes in him and his inherent goodness. Fuckin' Ward!
As S1 winds to a close, Jemma tells us that Fitz is "alive." We come to expect that he's not much more than that. So, when S2 begins and he's in the lab with Jemma, working on sciencey things like cloaking, we're super happy. Yeah, he seems a little slow, can't quite remember the words for things. But Jemma is with him. She's loving and supportive--finishing his sentences and telling him that he's almost there. That's exactly what we all expected her to do.
Seeing Fitz have such difficulty communicating made me worry that the stress of that would wear him down and leave him vulnerable to--you know, turning evil. After all, most supervillains are basically decent people who are very smart...and then something terrible happens to them.
But then...
We learn that Jemma left the team some time ago. Fitz had been talking to himself for the entire episode--even reacting physically to a touch that simply wasn't there. Tears, weeping, outright sobbing. Fitz! Noooooo. The sadness, despair--I was overwhelmed. It was a sucker punch right in the feels.
When I dried my eyes (seriously, I was really sobbing), I felt some anger at Jemma. How could she leave Fitz in that condition?!? But really, I can't even imagine what a difficult decision that must have been for her. She wants him to heal on his own.
How is Fitz? Finding out that Jemma is gone means that he's actually finishing his own sentences and completing his own thoughts. He's getting better, right? RIGHT?!? Because he did all this so Jemma could live. Because he loves her. Fitz is funny and brilliant and kind and loveable. He deserves better. I haven't been so moved by a TV love story since the Centurion waited for Amy Pond for 1,894 years. Well, and the Season Two finale of The Newsroom. *sigh* Because see, Fitz is so much more than the smart guy who loves Jemma.
If I find out that Bear McCreary is working on a piece called "The Agonizing Death of Fitz" or "Fitz goes Unpredictably Evil," I'm going to be very upset.