In Need of a Hand, An Inhuman Plan, And
Don’t Take the Fish Oil, Dude! #AgentsofSHIELD
#AgentsofSHIELDSeasonFinale
Wow! Like... totes-ma-goats wow!
Wowzereenie, Mr. Feenie! Those are a few ways in which I’m trying
to show you wa-how I feels about this season finale. All joking aside
(don’t roll your eyes at me. You know your inner-child got at least
a chuckle from one of those silly things), I really loved the finale.
Maybe it is because I just saw #AgeOfUltron earlier and had some
interesting feelings about that movie or maybe it was just because it
was a kick-butt finale. I don’t know but let’s find out together.
There was so much going on in this
two-hour season finale, but first I must stop and thank God and the
inventors that blessed us all with the power of the DVR. I was
watching both the Cavs/Bulls game (#NBAplayoffs, #gocavsgo) and this
at the same time. I had to rewind after to catch Agents from the
beginning but it was worth it.
We began with a pretty good fight between May and Skye/Daisy. At first May Mr. Miogi’d/Bruce Lee’d Skye by blocking her every move without much of a muscle-twitch. I nearly thought she was going to turn into Neo and start seeing green numbers scrolling through the matrix, but “Quake” quickly got her act together and actually moved May with a few strikes and kicks. She ended the short battle by using her powers (total cop out) and going off with her family. Meanwhile Jaiying implemented her plan to make it look like SHIELD attacked the Inhumans by instructing her goons to take over one of the quinjets and fire on the compound. After the dust settled, the Inhumans escaped to another secret hideaway with Daisy and Raina in-tow, while Coulson’s brood got away with minimal casualties and Mr. Hyde.
For much of the show we switched back
and forth between Daisy slowly learning that her mother was evil
(courtesy of Jaiying killing Raina right in front of Skye by
accident, something that made old flowers seem like a sacrificial
rose), Coulson questioning Mr. Hyde about his wife’s plan against
SHIELD, and Ward and Agent 33 trying to get Bobbi to confess to her
transgressions against 33. Honestly, the third story was a bit of an
add-on that I could take or leave and served little importance accept
but to show that Ward is still trying to be an evil mastermind (of
which he is not) and to show Bobbi getting shot in the back of the
head/shoulder? I wasn’t quite sure where the bullet actually went
but I know it wasn’t a nice place. They telegraphed the play of
Agent 33 dying as soon as May said she wanted to go and kill Ward.
That was probably the most obvious part of the story but again I let
it go because it wasn’t very important at all. After Bobbi got back
to SHIELD near to death, she did her best Tony Stark impression and
said how she couldn’t do this anymore, though she’ll probably be
back for next season (hopefully, they actually explain that
return). Moving on!
The two important story-lines of the
night came from Mr. Hyde and from Skye. Their ability to track white
nightcrawler—I mean, the inhuman with no eyes now gone, SHIELD had
no advanced warning when he transported a few Inhumans onto their
ship and took it over from the inside. Jaiying imprisoned her own
daughter, saying that it was for her own good and that this was a war
started by Agent Peggy Carter’s people when SHIELD first came to
fruition. While she may have a point, she is also ruthless and
bloodthirsty and kills a few high-ranking agents with the use of a
crystal. With the help of Mac, Skye breaks out and seeks to try to
stop the complete spread of the mist through the entire ship as there
are plenty of agents still unaffected by the mist and the takeover.
Jaiying’s goal is to put the mist into the fan/ventilation system,
as well as to lure as many agents to the ship as possible to have
them breathe the mist. Skye plays directly into this plan, sending
out a help beacon to all of the agency and attracting Coulson’s
attention.
Meanwhile, Coulson interrogates Daisy/Skye’s father about his wife’s intentions. He discovers that the man wants to kill as many agents as he can while there and will use a transforming elixir of his own creation to do it. He morphs into Quasimodo—I mean, Mr. Hyde and runs around like a monster destroying various rooms but not really killing anyone (#NotTheBestDayEver). He and Coulson have a heart-to-heart when he’s pinned against the wall. It is revealed that he only became a monster and only killed all of these people because it fulfilled Jaiying’s desires. He only wanted his family back. He only wanted to be loved. He only wanted her to be... her again. But now that Daisy is in his life and is so benevolent, Coulson convinces him that his wife’s actions will destroy the girl. He agrees to help SHIELD for Daisy’s sake.
It all culminates in one epic battle
after the next while on the SHIELD ship. Daisy/Skye/Quake fights with
a few different Inhumans until finally meeting her mother and nearly
dying at her hands (her mother tries sucking the life out of her
which is how she stays alive and youthful). She halfway ruins her
mother’s plan by sending the ship with all the crystals into the
ocean. In possibly the saddest family reunion, Mr. Hyde manages to
stop his wife from killing his daughter only to bearhug Jaiying to
death. After all was said and done, he’d have to serve his
punishment as a vet living with no memory of his family after a
mindsweep courtesy of the MIB... or the Tahiti program, whichever.
Coulson, Fitz and Mac all got into a
fight with the no-eyes man and managed to trap him in the ventilation
room. It was Fitz who accidentally killed him as the man ghosted into
the end of a pipe he was holding. In dramatic fashion, upon dying the
man dropped a crystal, hoping to break it on the floor and kill them
all. In a second of harrowing heroism, Coulson dove forward and
caught the crystal. His arm began to turn a blackened ash, causing me
to almost completely lose my sh! Then Mac made me jump up and yell,
“what,” as he axed the man’s arm off before the blackness could
spread, Ultron-Klaue-ing off his left arm. Wow!
At the end, everything was settled.
Coulson would survive having one arm. Ward is trying to become the
new head of Hydra—good luck with that. Skye has been put in charge
of a new secret division of powered people. And even Fitz and Simmons
flirted with going out to dinner. And then I lost my crap again!
First, they showed that the crystals that were on the quinjet that
sank into the ocean mixed with the water, was taken in by the fish
which were caught and pressed into fish oil supplements. That could
kill or transform millions of people, though to be fair probably not
that many Americans as we are not nearly health conscious enough to
be taking fish oil. Seriously, no matter where I go I always see the
same dusty fish oil supplement bottles in stock. When was the last
time you bought and used some? But the second and most depressing
part of the show was the fate of Simmons. Gasp! Sigh! I’ve already
said how cute and all-around charming I think that Simmons and
Elizabeth Henstridge is, so when it happened, I wanted to throw
something at the TV. Messing with the secret rock/liquid thing that
was previously in the SHIELD ship, she went to close its door back
when it turned into a liquid washed over her, then sucked her back
into the solid rock-like form. The question: What the hell just
happened to her? Please don’t be dead!
So, what did you all think about the
season finale of Agents of SHIELD? What do you expect from season 3?
While I still believe that Spider-man is going to be the catalyst for
the civil war events (you can read that article here), they could use this newly formed team led by
Quake to sub in for the New Warriors also. Do you think it will serve
a big role in continuing to set up the events of civil war or do you
think they should try to do their own thing? As always, let me know
in the comments section below.
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