Centennial
(This review contains
spoilers!)
Well, we made it. The big episode
one-oh-oh. They said this show wouldn’t make it past the first season, and yet
here we are. This show’s had some really high ups and really low downs, but
it’s undeniably been a wildly unpredictable ride for the most part.
And how did we decide to celebrate?
Why, with Coulson facing off against his inner demons, of course!
Yeah, not exactly the most exciting
thing they could’ve done, but it was…all right, I guess.
After the explosion from last week,
the three monoliths hidden in the Lighthouse have broken, opening a rift to an
alternate dimension that manifests your greatest fears. Someone’s gotta go down
and close it manually, but risk being sucked into the wormhole in the process.
Coulson nominates himself, explaining that the deal he made with Ghost Rider
last season removed the alien goop keeping him alive, and he wouldn’t be long
for this world anyways even if he doesn’t come back.
After a bit of arguing from the team,
Coulson goes downstairs and meets with a vision of Mike Peterson, aka Deathlok,
except less cyborgy and more humany. Peterson tells Coulson his greatest fear,
which, ironically is the greatest fear of any fandom: the entire show up to
this point was all a dream he’s been having as he died in the aftermath of Avengers. Oh goodness.
I also really liked how they brought
back Deathlok after having him absent since, like, Season 2. He was the big bad
guy in Episode 1, so it was pretty fitting to have him be the big bad guy in
Episode 100 too. I also liked having the real guy show up and fight off a few
villain cameos at the end of the episode (I guess Brett Dalton wasn’t
interested in coming back cuz we got like a 2 second cameo of SquidWard Hive
and then nothing). It’s cool seeing him again after so long being absent.
And yes, let’s talk about the ending.
While the rest of the episode is pretty self-contained and kinda boring, the
ending is something we’ve been waiting for since the early days: the wedding of
Fitz and Simmons. It basically turns out to be everything we were hoping for
from that, and is really sweet and a fitting way to potentially close out these
character’s romance arc. We also got the reveal that everyone on the internet
expected: Deke is their grandson! I guess that means that even marriage can’t
stop Fitz and Simmons being punished as the apocalypse continues to draw closer
and closer.
All in all, this was a bit
underwhelming. Maybe without the hype of “Holy smokes it’s the 100th episode
get ready for everything to change!” it would’ve been better, because aside
from the ending and a few cameos of old characters this felt like a pretty
average, business-as-usual S.H.I.E.L.D episode.
It wasn’t bad by any means, just not what I was hoping for.
FINAL SCORE
6/10
Okay
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