Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Who is the clairvoyant.

[hoy-small-fry]

So if there was ever any doubt, this week's episode closed the case on the Clairvoyant. We're done here folks

EDIT: Oh wait, apparently not
At this point it's just wilful ignorance...

 

[hoy-small-fry]

Fair enough. Although I'd say I'd hold you to this, but you also said you'd end it when the season ended without any additional reveals that tied anyone else as the Clairvoyant. What if that person is revealed to not be the Clairvoyant, but they show another shadowy person sitting down? Will that person be the Clairvoyant? What if they show another shadowy person standing up? After all, Nash could not move at all. The person shown at the end could move his arms and hand. Clearly, if Nash could do that, there's no reason to think he can't stand up.

 

[BloodHound]

Anybody wants a blow by blow account of how my theory works out, I'll be glad to PM when I get the time.

I would actually like to recieve a PM of the theory. As of now, I am with the majority in believing that Garret is the Clairvoyant, because that makes more sense to me, but perhaps I would be convinced otherwise if I saw more details, so to speak. It would be cool if Thomas Nash returned in some way, because the scene with him in episode 16 is awsome, and Brad Dourif had the perfect voice over there. But alas, I doubt that as of now.

 

[InternetPeople]

This argument about 'who is the Clairvoyant' seems eerily similar to the 'IM3 hasn't happened yet' theory and we saw how that worked out.

 

[InternetPeople]

http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/05/14/shield-finale-postmortem/

Now that we’ve pretty much closed the book on The Clairvoyant, does that mean there’s going to be a new Big Bad for season two? Maybe someone else involved in Hydra?
BELL: I don’t know if that’ll necessarily come out of Hydra. Villains are hard to sustain in season long arc because you know it’s a villain. You catch them, they get away, you catch them, they get away, and then it goes on and on forever, like the coyote and the roadrunner.

Clearly they want to bring the Clairvoyant back according to that quote

And so part of the reason we held off on the reveal — we talked about The Clairvoyant, but even that came later, and then the reveal was later so that you didn’t feel like you were going back and forth.

Yep, they really liked the get'em and lose'em concept

And we have people on the villain side who survived, like Raina, like Quinn, like Ward, who still exist. And so we have a through line, but I think there’s also an opportunity for us to make season two wholly its own rather than just a continuation of season one.

AOS S2: Age of the Clairvoyant is a go

I gotta admit, I was sad to see Garrett go, as much as he deserved all of his deaths…
BELL: Mr. Bill Paxton came in and he was such a good friend to the show. He knew from the beginning that he was going to be The Clairvoyant and arise to be the Big Bad, but he just played it with such relish. And he and Clark [Gregg] hit it off so well that was really fun to watch that relationship grow, and then the onscreen betrayal…and then after Garrett gets shot up with GH-325, the wild spin that sends him on. Bill just leaned into that as much as possible.

Oh the mystery! I can't quite put my finger on who the Clairvoyant is. I mean, this guy is being so indirect.

There is no evidence to support the conclusion anyone was else was "likely" told they were the Clairvoyant. What is "likely" is that each actor was told exactly the character they were going to play and how they generally fit into the season story arc.

 

[Human Torch]

When Coulson himself did a pointer scene literally pointing between the word "Garrett" and "Clairvoyant",I thought the writers were spelling it out particularly for those who were having trouble grasping the concept.

As if the reveal to Coulson ("I led you right to the g3-whatever") and to Quinn/Raina in the Havana barber shop wasn't enough to get the point across.

 

[hoy-small-fry]

The only way the deniers would be convinced at this point is if Deathlok had had a shirt which said "I'm with the Clairvoyant ->" when he stood next to Garrett...

 

[Human Torch]

The only way the deniers would be convinced at this point is if Deathlok had had a shirt which said "I'm with the Clairvoyant ->" when he stood next to Garrett...

 

[metaphysician]

This argument about 'who is the Clairvoyant' seems eerily similar to the 'IM3 hasn't happened yet' theory and we saw how that worked out.

Eh, its not quite that bad. "Who is the Clairvoyant" actually was a legitimate question at one point, after all. "IM3 hasn't happened yet", by contrast, was *always* nonsense from episode 1, pushed forth purely out of some insane house-that-jack-built attempt to justify why SHIELD didn't have a big role in IM3, as far as I could tell.

 

[metaphysician]

The only way the deniers would be convinced at this point is if Deathlok had had a shirt which said "I'm with the Clairvoyant ->" when he stood next to Garrett...

Nah. Why would they believe Deathlok when they don't believe anyone else, including the writers themselves?