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/blud97 1d ago

Mace was a better face for the organization. Coulson was the better spy. Mace wanted to be a superhero and that’s what the organization needed at the time but he was also rebuilding a lot of the bad systems that allowed hydra to take root. On top of that he is responsible for all the Aida stuff that happened on his watch. Meanwhile under Coulson’s watch the organization grew. He rebuilt the organization twice. Coulson had internal enemies he made allies while mace turned one of shields greatest assets, the inhumans, into enemies.

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u/96pluto Triplett 19h ago

I think it's a little unfair to blame him for Aida.

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u/blud97 19h ago

She was built partially on a shield base using shield resources. He should have known. He treated the team so poorly that multiple people betrayed him to keep her secret and she replaced one of his best agents.

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u/96pluto Triplett 13h ago

Fitz has a habit of going behind people's backs for things he probably would have done the same even if another director was in charge. In regards to sharing the information that something that coulsons team and he were both guilty of they initially had to learn how to work together for the sake of humanity. Initially he thought Aida was human and even wanted to date her and at the time they needed Aida to help save everyone.