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Jul 22, 2016  Along with Ghost Rider, Agents of SHIELD season four will introduce the famous Marvel concept of Life Model Decoys, or LMDs. LMDs are a cross.

I've watched Agents of Shield since the beginning but I was not aware of their announced intention to include Ghost Rider in this season. At this point it seems like a mistake.

The whole Ghost Rider mythology has never fit-in well with most of the Marvel canon and it seems like a particularly bad fit with Shield. There's really no way to address Ghost Rider well without getting into some religious discussion that can only serve to alienate at least part of an audience that is used to a pseudo-science-fiction show. Of course, the whole overtly Christian overtones started in the last few episodes of the previous season with the incessant focus and closeups of that crucifix chain. But, as long as it was treated as a charm that people happened to be gifting around and wearing, it appeared to be harmless.

With Ghost Rider however, the producers seem to have doubled down on that worldview. I'm sure some audience members are Christian enough to feel comfortable with the new direction and yet not so religious as to feel it turns their beliefs into a joke. The rest of us, who belong to other religions or are non-believers, are now forced to swallow this dose of blatant proselytizing if we want to continue watching a show we've followed for several years now. I, for one, would rather not and I think the producers would do well to reconsider this, find some pseudo-scientific explanation for the Rider (a tough undertaking), close that chapter in a few episodes and move on to something more consistent with what the show has always been about. They can always give Ghost Rider his own show.