HYDRAwarts
(This review contains
spoilers!)
I think at this point it’s safe to say
that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D Season 5
has been a pretty big miss for me. The budget restrictions have been pretty
blatant with the constant reuse of sets, episodes go by without anything of
value really happening, and the overarching plot really isn’t that compelling
if you ask me.
But we have had a few winners in the
overall sludge, and this episode was one of them. This episode had the humour,
surprises, and best of all the fun that made me fall in love with this show in
the first place, and even better this was the first episode in years that truly
embraced the ties S.H.I.E.L.D has to
the greater MCU.
Also, Cap’n Crunch is HYDRA. I always suspected
something wasn’t right with him.
Coulson has been taking to the
ultra-secret underground HYDRA base where Hale tells him that it’s time
S.H.I.E.L.D and HYDRA work together to stop an oncoming alien threat (Thanos
tie-in maybe?).
Through flashback we see her origin in a creepy HYDRA
boarding school alongside several baddies from MCU past, including Whitehall,
Von Strucker and even Sitwell. This episode was full of fun nods to the wider
MCU, something we really haven’t seen from this show in ages. In an age when
fans are relentlessly debating whether to count the TV shows as canon to the
universe or not it’s nice to have some new arguments for it.
It was also nice to see Talbot return again as we finally got
a concrete answer of what happened to him in the wake of Season 4. His
one-liners were as amazing as ever, but it was also nice to have a bit of a
darker side to him this time with his injury. I’m really looking forward to
seeing where they go with his character.
Speaking of awesome character development, Fitz had a few
brief scenes this week too, one with Daisy and one with Simmons. It’s pretty
clear that Daisy isn’t exactly a fan of his anymore, especially with him
refusing to apologize for what he did last week. His scene with Simmons is far
more interesting though. According to her since Deke is their grandson (much to
Fitz’s hilarious disgust) the two of them are invincible, since they know they
can’t die before raising a child.
I’m sure that’s going to go over well when they inevitably
change the timeline.
Finally, we got a bit more development towards what’s going
to cause the future we saw. It turns out Hale has a project that will infuse an
Inhuman with gravitonium to allow them to destroy the oncoming alien invasion.
The project’s name? “Destroyer of Worlds”. Coulson is of course unhappy with
this revelation, and is put away for safekeeping.
The only real thing I wasn’t huge on this week is that I’m still
not sold on Ruby as a character. She just seems like the type of character an
angsty teenager would come up with: a ninja badass who cuts people’s limbs off
with her frisbees of doom and just doesn’t care about anyone else around them?
Yeah, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen her before on fanfiction.net. She doesn’t have
any real personality as a result, meaning that I’m neither invested in her as a
person nor am I entertained by her as a villain. Hopefully she’ll get some
development down the line because right now she’s basically Sinara from the
first half of the season except less blue.
This episode was a ton of fun. The HYDRA High School was
cheesy in a good way, bringing back all these old characters and references to
the outside MCU was great, and I loved all the great jokes and surprises. If we’re
finally changing course back to the S.H.I.E.L.D
I know and love, I can’t wait for next time.
FINAL SCORE
8/10
Great
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