Iām sure weāve all seen the many many manyĀ fs gifsets paralleling Jemmaās actions in the premiere with other similar moves theyāve made throughout the seasons. (Seriously. Did anything elseĀ happen in this episode? Because I thought this show was called agents of SHIELD not F!tzsimmons Forever.) But Iāve finally seen one that chronicles just about every parallel possible and I cannot let it go by - but Iām also not enough of a bitch to reply to a gifset some poor shipper spent hours working on and really believes is #goals so Iām making my own post to explain why this ship is garbage scene by scene.
1x06 - Fitz puts his life at risk twice to save Jemma. The first time is fine. Breaking the quarantine is a typical self-sacrifice move, very noble, but also very needless. Thereās no reason he couldnāt have worked from outside and thereās every chance putting himself at risk like that would only break her concentration. So I guess Iām taking back myĀ āfineā assessment. Itās my list, I do what I want. In the second instance he attempts to jump out of the plane to save her, which likely would have ended in them both dead as it is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. People DIE from midair impacts because the speeds youāre travelling at are so great even a little tap can be fatal and itās a miracle Ward pulled it off. So while Fitzās heart was in the right place these were both very Bad Decisions and heās damn lucky it worked out the way it did. (This will be a recurring theme.)
1x22 - They both try, briefly, to sacrifice for the other, but Fitz makes the hero move and I honestly have nothing against this. Good on you, kid.
3x01 - Fitz running all around the world, putting his life at risk to get intel that might (and does not) help him to save Jemma. Presumably either because the literal spy agency he works for deemed these kinds of things too dangerous/fruitless (which is unlikely given that itās Coulson in charge) or because they were just too slow/asking that Fitz not be at the front lines of these things, maybe not get himself killed here. Not cool. Ridiculously stupid and risky to SHIELD as a whole because if heād been kidnapped it wouldāve been a whole mess.Ā
3x01 again - exposing himself to the monolith, the first. This is downright suicidal given everything he knows about the monolith at this point is the wordĀ ādeathā and while I get the depths of his despair here, it really should not be held up as if itās a good aspect of their relationship, that he loves her so much heād willingly walk into death without her.
3x02 - exposing himself to the monolith, the second. They know exactlyĀ Ā N O T H I N G about the planet at this point. For all Fitz knows it rains acid twenty hours a day, thereās no sunlight and heāll freeze solid before he can scream Jemmaās name once, thereās an alien god on the other side waiting to eat anyone unlucky enough to come through. And even if thatās not the case, Jemma could be NOT RIGHT THERE, kind of a huge possibility since she hasnāt jumped back through any of the times the portalās opened since she disappeared through it. And the worst part is that they had a PLAN. He put himself at risk, hell, he put JemmaĀ at risk because if she hadnāt reached him they wouldnāt have been able to try again, and he put Daisy at risk. All because he couldnāt wait and do things reasonably or logically in the way that stood the best chance of saving her life. This was an incredibly selfish move and it is infuriating that Jemma, who likely doesnāt know the whole story, later refers to it as romantic.
5x05 - Fitz freezes himself to go to a future he knows nothing about without making any effort to stop the tragedy he knowsĀ is coming and which will make life for him and the whole team that much harder in the future. He does this after approximately two seconds of thought and consideration to how stupid it is and for some reason chooses to leave himself exposed and vulnerable by sleeping for the next few decades (thatās worked out great for him in s6) rather than following the team via monolith. It is a shit pla. (Yes. I am purposefully withholding the N. It doesnāt deserve to be referred to as a full plan because it isnāt one.) Also Iām gonna be extra petty and just point out that his badass cover is 100% Enochās doing and all he does is cause more trouble for everyone once he shows up. Not surprising given he has thought nothing about this through.
6x01 - I didnāt even watch this episode and honestly I donāt think I can stand to. Just seeing gifsets in which Jemma apologizesĀ - she KNOWS what sheās doing is wrong - and then potentially strands her friends in deep space is sickening. (Hm. Letās all think. Which character should be most wary of being stranded in the depths of space with no way home? Hmmmmm.) This is easily more selfish than anything either of them have done before (though that time in late s5 when they agreed to help build a machine they believed would directly contribute to the destruction of the planet just to save each otherās lives is pretty damn close) and I would hope the show might address it as such, but given how itās framed all of the previous instances of fsā selfishness as the height of romance, Iām not holding my breath.
tl;dr fsā love may conquer all but that will include the decimation of everything and everyone around them and they wonāt even give a fuckĀ oh wait thatās practically canon in s5
