And so, S.H.I.E.L.D. celebrated its 50th episode.
Let us start with that.
S.H.I.E.L.D. is a great show, with many well-developed and
thought-provoking plot twists. Tonight’s twist, which revealed that Dr. Garner
is actually one of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s new enemies, proves this is true. It also shows
agent Morse recovering from Ward’s shot, Hunter living with the consequences of
his recklessness, and Ward, well, Ward actually has been offered redemption.
Since for him the word has some very unpleasant connotations...no. Just now,
Malick has probably judged him correctly, but who knows? The show’s writers have
not finished with him yet, because his big showdown with Morse and May hadn’t
occurred in this episode – instead, the younger von Strucker seems to be gone,
and so’s Kebo. The show’s scriptwriters have done it to perfection! That
anniversary video on YouTube has depicted it very neatly. (Ward may be a
villain, but Brett and Chloe still go around; it's cute, in a weird way, and there's the talk of redemption...yeah).
Sadly, the other aspects of AoS universe lag behind the
visual/auditory ones – i.e. the show itself. The comic is...actually not
related to the show; rather, it is a series of adventures, mostly of Coulson
himself (Daisy/Quake actually appears to have a series of her own) that deals
with saving the world. So far it is only him and May, Fitz and Simmons – and that
is it. Ward, Raina, Whitehall, Garrett – they are all gone, at least for the
moment and probably are not making a proper appearance; Hell, the regular Hydra
villains are not making much of an appearance, and the latest comic
installments seem to lack a common story arc (the first 6 issues had that at
least). Plus, unlike some other comic series, (“Arrow” for example), the
S.H.I.E.L.D. comic is not really a part of AoS universe, it is just inspired by
the series...and only loosely so. Ouch.
And as for at least one of the show’s sites (marvel190 dot
com), it suffers from irregular updates...and just plain sloppiness; one of the
last season’s clips is described as having Ward and May...going after Ward.
Somehow the site got Lance and Grant, aka Nick and Brett confused, and
considering that the two of them are two very different-looking people, which
are just sad.
But in any case, S.H.I.E.L.D. has delivered a very beautiful
episode number 50, which was very pleasant to watch, to put it lightly.
Hopefully, the following episodes will keep this up, and the ignominy of ‘Laws’
(episode 3x01) will be put behind us.
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