Wednesday, 11 May 2016

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D Review: “Emancipation”

Lashing out
(This review contains spoilers for this episode and for Captain America: Civil War!)

          The penultimate episode of Season 3 has arrived, and with it comes a Civil War tie in. With the Sokovia Accords now law, Talbot’s arrived at the Shield base and is trying to get the Inhumans registered.

          At the same time, everything seems to be going off the rails, as Lincoln is supposedly trying to escape, Daisy is giving up blood to help Hive, and a small team of Watchdogs have been turned into weird, primitive human type things.

          I gotta say, I’m not a fan of how those primitive humans look. I like the idea behind them, but they look more like a rubber mask you’d find at the party store than a real threat.

          As much as I liked the big twist involving Lincoln’s escape, it’s sad that his character’s gotten so predictable that we would fully believe he’d try to escape from Shield to get to Daisy, and for no other reason than that. When watching the episode, I was like “oh okay, he’s doing this now” instead of wondering if it wasn’t what it seemed.

          But the reveal that Lash had been sent instead of Lincoln was one of the best. We got an amazing fight scene between him and Hive, and he cured Daisy of her mind-control. That being said, it’s kind of bittersweet to see him get killed off. He was a great villain, and he really went out in style. Still, I can’t help but feel that there was a bit more with him they could’ve done.

          With the reveal that Hive is prepping a warhead that will turn a significant part of the world into Inhumans, the 2-hour season 3 finale is set up to be action packed, with the promise that someone is going to die. My money was on it being Mack coming into this episode, but as it stands right now I feel like it’s a bit too obvious to be him. We’ll just have to wait and see.

FINAL SCORE
8/10

Great

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