Loki Sceptre/Staff Thingy, Bad-A## Simmons
and 90s References Galore #AgentsofSHIELD
It’s the week of the Avengers: Age of
Ultron premiere! Yes, many of you are drooling over that fact and are
going crazy trying to fit in every possible movie, TV show and comic
book tie-in you can before going to see it, refreshing yourself on
those tiny factoids about each and every character so you can catch
all of the easter eggs and act as if you knew all of these things
from off the top of your head while talking to your friends about the
movie. But before you entrench yourself in that #MarvelMovieMarathon
(as an aside, if you need something to eat, check out my Philly
Cheese Steak Soup recipe tonight; next post) we still have one episode of
#AgentsofSHIELD to talk about.
So, the last episode before the movie
saw the old band getting back togther. We had Fitz on the background
vocals, May coolly playing the drums, Simmons on keys, Ward—yes,
Ward!--on the base and Coulson on the lead vocal. Oh, and Daisy
Skye Daisy playing the tambourine. Don’t laugh at
her, she’s really good at shaking that tambourine. How did they get
together? Well...
It all started with Coulson turning
himself into “the real shield” because there is an important
mission for them to complete that involves rescuing deathlok and the
guy that has been flirting with Skye from the inhumans hideaway.
Edward James Almos plays his part well here but what is most
interesting is the little throwaway comment that Coulson makes about
the thing in Almos’ SHIELD ship. Secrets abound as Almos nearly
blushes at the mention of it which makes me wonder if they’ll ever
explore it, and what exactly is it.
Meanwhile, Daisy/Skye knows that she
has to go and at least rescue the guy who her mother sent to follow
her and was captured with Deathlok. She is only allowed to reconnect
with her SHIELD buddies when porcupine—I mean, Raina has a vision
of it. She, just like I did, correctly identified who Raina was. No,
she’s not Tigra or that chick from the comics with the yellow
jumpsuit. She’s clearly Sonic the Hedgehog and she’s been all
pissed not because she hates what she has become, but because no one
will give her a chili dog and no matter how many times she tucks
herself and presses down and the B button, she can’t go fast enough
to beat her all-time record (#MillenialsGetIt). As if that wasn’t
the best 90s reference, the writers had to fit in a Candyman
reference because, you know... pop culture!
While working through it all, Fitz and
Simmons have a conversation that starts with him thanking her for
sandwiches because while nearly drowning may have messed with Fitz’s
head, it didn’t mess with his heart. Simmons changes the subject to
more ruthless weapons to be used on Ward partly because she wants to
kill him and partly because I suspect she still has the fever (don’t
act like I’m the only one who saw her in season one drooling over
Deathlok before he was Deathlok and making googly eyes at Trip. Side
note: Ms. Henstridge is unbelievably charming to me. I might have a
thing for her). She is quick to volunteer for the in-field work so
she can work on Deathlok when they find him. But she also uses this
time to try killing Ward as she promised, instead disintegrating
Bakshi.
After all of that, it is revealed that
the team went to procure intel on the location of the sceptre that
Loki was poking everyone with in the first Avengers film. Viewers of
the last Captain America already know that it is in the care of Baron
Von Strucker. This leads Coulson to have a conversation with Maria
Hill and send fanboys and fangirls squealing with anticipation as he
tells her that they need to reactivate the Avengers and have them go
get the sceptre which people assume is the opening scene of Age of
Ultron.
What did you think of the episode? Did
you like it as a lead-up to the Avengers or would you like to have
had a deeper connection with the film like the show did with Captain
America? Are you excited for what the Marvel television and cinematic
universe has in-store for the coming months? Let me know in the
comments’ section.
As always, I look forward to reading
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Until then, “No Doc, I’m back. I’m
back from the future.”
P.S. Doc Brown? Yeah that came from Back to the Future when Calvin Klein said it after burning literal rubber. Part deux! As we’ve all known for years, the sequel is always better, right? Right? Amazon
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