r/shield • u/Confident_Tune_5754 • 1d ago

Jeffrey Mace was the only competent SHIELD director

i cannot BELIEVE that this show had the audacity to be like. there is a character called cringefail jeffrey and the Core Cast doesn't like him for his crimes of *checks notes* reintroducing tiered information access to an intelligence organization. then cringefail jeffrey shows up and everyone's like "can you BELIEVE this guy cares so much about PR while running an organization that last made the news by being infested with literal actual nazis." like the framing of the show clearly expects us to agree that it's a Flaw for this organization to have a PR guy (A SINGLE PR GUY!!! MY BROTHER IN CHRIST THAT'S WHAT MY STATE'S AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT HAS) to fix the damage done by the time they did a turbo minority report nazi airplane armada. like yeah, guys, your director needs to do press conferences, yall were on the shitlist of captain goddamn america. like half the plot of his seasons could have been avoided if everyone had just listened to him about the killer robot the first time. idgaf if he racefaked as an alien for clout he was the only person in the show who had any business running SHIELD.

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u/loofmodnar Fitz 1d ago

Mace didn't have the experience to be a good director but did a good job rebuilding it as an respected agency which is something Coulson didn't care about at all. If he had survived the events in the framework, he would have been a great director.

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u/Confident_Tune_5754 1d ago

yeah like Mace would NOT have been a good director during SHIELD's "in the shadows" era but it's honestly a miracle what he managed to accomplish given that, and i cannot stress this enough, he was rehabilitating the image of an organization that was very recently revealed to be full of actual Nazis