All roads lead to a better show (I
hope)
(This review contains
spoilers!)
I miss looking forward to S.H.I.E.L.D. Honestly. I miss eagerly
anticipating Tuesday nights, counting down the days, predicting where the
season would go next only to be blindsided by an amazing twist, and getting a
little nugget of the MCU from the comfort of my home weekly.
Nowadays I’m only still watching the
show out of obligation, and if they do get cancelled I want to be able to say I
was there from premiere to finale. This season has been a bad one, at least for
me. But judging by the fact that no one aside from the Coulson/May pairing fans
and tweenage fangirls only here for Dove Cameron (“She deserves an Emmy for
playing Ruby!” said one intrepid fan. I respectfully disagree.) seems to be
tweeting about the show, I think S.H.I.E.L.D
will be joining Agent Carter and
(let’s be honest here) Inhumans in
the graveyard of fallen MCU TV properties when the season is through.
So…where to begin?
Fitz and Simmons are finishing up work
on the super soldier pod for Ruby, all the while she “torments” and “threatens”
them for working too slowly. I put those in quotations because honestly her
threats came across as ways that would impede their progress even more than
something actually worrying.
Besides, Fitz and Simmons are
apparently invincible, so I have no reason to care.
Meanwhile, Daisy is finally stepping
up as leader, taking May on a mission to infiltrate the HYDRA base and…do…a
thing. I’m actually not sure what they were trying to accomplish by doing that.
But they manage to run off with Hale
and are led to where Ruby and Strucker are keeping Fitz and Simmons.
And while all that is happening,
Coulson, Mack and Deke spend their day discussing women and lemons. Also Talbot
is insane and tried to kidnap Robin. So that was fun.
The good news is that this episode has
a great ending: Ruby is dead! Praise the lord! She was honestly some of, if not the worst characters this show has ever
seen. At no point watching the first four seasons did I think “This is good,
but you know what it needs? A whiny tweenage bad girl straight out of some kid’s
fanfiction who spouts lines like ‘I wanted to be you, but now I want to beat
you’ or ‘I ship it’. I think that’d really improve it.” Especially after this
show created such deep and compelling villains with complex motives, like Hive
or especially Aida. Ruby just felt like flat, fluffy nothingness only there to
get some extra views from her Disney Channel-age fanbase to try and give the
show one last boost to try to keep it alive.
Also Strucker’s dead too. Oh well.
You know, I wonder if anything else is
going to happen in the MCU before next week’s episode airs…
Oh well, even if there is, I’m sure
they’ll just completely ignore it.
FINAL SCORE
3/10
Bad
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