Here comes the bride
(This review contains
spoilers!)
After the fun Earth-bound trip from
two weeks ago, this week S.H.I.E.L.D
returned to the Kree space station with Fitz along for the ride. I get the
feeling we’re nearing the end of this arc and will be moving onto something new
before too long if the showrunners decided to continue with the pod-style
format that worked wonders for them in Season 4.
This episode was directed by Clark
Gregg, who plays Coulson on the show and in several Phase 1 MCU movies. If
memory serves me right this is the first time a cast member has directed an
episode of S.H.I.E.L.D, and he did a
great job of it. This was one of the most exciting and action packed episodes
of the show ever, with new twists, turns and surprises around every corner.
Fitz is now posing as a wealthy
mercenary planning on buying Daisy from Kasius, also rescuing Simmons as part
of the package deal. Things quickly go haywire though, as it turns out May has
also been entered in the big Inhuman deathbowl, and Kasius’s hipster brother is
on his way with eyes on the Destroyer of Worlds for himself.
Meanwhile, Team Coulson have rescued a
teen who just earned his Inhuman powers from competing in the games, but are
being held captive by their boss who plans to give them all over to Kasius. All
in all, not the best day for the gang.
If there’s one thing this episode does
great, it’s the fight choreography. I’ve always said that S.H.I.E.L.D has some of the best fights on TV, and this episode was
no different. Even better was that the camera actually stayed steady during the
action this time, instead of how the show sometimes makes the camera zoom all
over the place during the action and you end up seeing nothing. The showdown
between Daisy and Sinara was one of the best parts of the season thus far, and
it’s all because we got to see it from a stable perspective.
This episode also pulled no punches
when it came to surprising the audience. Starting off with a marriage proposal
from Fitz despite not knowing Simmons couldn’t hear him left my whole room
screaming in agony, and it just got crazier from there. Supporting characters
were dropping like flies, from the mind reading Inhuman to the boss of Team
Coulson to even Tess. The stakes are getting much higher for our team, but now
that they’re almost all back together it’s probably nearing time for them to
leave.
While them being officially engaged
now is a wonderful surprise for longtime fans of the show, knowing this show
makes me really worried. S.H.I.E.L.D isn’t
beyond killing off main characters (Trip, Ward, Lincoln), and Clark Gregg has
gone on record that the 100th episode coming in March will shock longtime fans,
so I really hope that doesn’t mean one of them is gonna die on their wedding
day.
This was an awesome episode. I barely
scratched the surface talking about all the stuff in it, including Fitz’s
awesome manipulation of Kasius and May’s fight against the mind reader guy.
Clark Gregg really knows how to make an episode insanely exciting and
constantly surprising while still furthering the plot. How about we get him to
do another one before the season’s over?
FINAL SCORE
9/10
Amazing
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