And so, ‘The Singularity’ was aired. What can be said about
it? Alisha, the redhead from Li Shi, finally gets to shine – she has been on
and off since the finale of S2, and apparently she has become evil once more –
or maybe the Hive have brainwashed her into doing this – whatever. The point is
that the Hive is not Grant Ward, all Ward haters are wrong, and one has to give
the actors their due: their job was done marvellously! The writers, on the
other hand…
Well, to be more precise, the cast – it just cannot get
itself together: Elena and Joey are absent altogether, Lincoln is absent from
the second half of the episode and Mack is playing a background character,
period. How did he defeat James?
…James, apparently, is the new Hellfire. Ok, no, just no.
Hellfire – back in the comics – was the first love of Daisy, who betrayed her
and the rest of the Secret Warriors to Hydra, so Fury killed him (without
anyone knowing, for Daisy’s sake) on the sly – wait. Doesn’t this sound like
Ward, especially in S1?
Yes, much more so than some Li Shi reject, who lives in
either Australia or in South Dakota, (it depends on which episode you are
watching). Yes, the comics and MCU are two very different…universes, but still,
if the movies are borrowing from the comics, surely some similarities must be
made in plot, aside from everything else? Instead, all goes helter-skelter, and
we do not even know how his battle with Mack had went. Yes, some cut-outs must
be made, but they should not diminish the plot SO much.
Speaking of the plot… ‘The Singularity’ introduces Dr.
Radcliff, who isn’t Hydra or S.H.I.E.L.D., just some sort of an alien fan, who either
is going to die by the end of S3, or he will be the next super-villain, for
Hydra has fallen.
Yes, that is right, Hydra has fallen. The Hell? Coulson is
correct to feel dissatisfied by Talbot’s achievement: Captain America: Civil
War movie is coming to the screens on May 6, and its villains include baron
Zemo and Crossbones. Baron Zemo is a complex figure; actually, there are
several baron Zemos’ in the comics, so it is for the best to wait for the movie
to be aired to learn which one is appearing in it, but Crossbones? He is Brock
Rumlow, who was Hydra back in Captain America: The Winter Soldier film, so either
MCU is taking a lot of liberties with the Marvel canon (the odds are that the fans
are going to hate that), or Hydra is not as dead as Coulson and Talbot and the
others think.
So: liberties with characters, liberties with canon,
possibly forced interaction with ‘the rest’ of the MCU – Kree are coming, so Guardians
of the Galaxy, anyone – (the sort of forced interaction that went down like a
lead balloon in the S3 premiere, BTW) and the issue with the InHumans: there
almost aren’t any.
No, seriously, the MCU is having problems with InHumans in
general – their own film was cancelled for the moment – and AoS has problems
depicting them on screen. Most of the time it were just Lincoln and Daisy, with
Joey starring on occasion and Slingshot appearing in just two episodes for the
moment. Now there are Alisha and James, plus Hive, (he is not Grant), and Daisy
and Lincoln…who appeared in just the first half of ‘The Singularity’. For some reason,
MCU has problems in depicting them, in finding actors to play them, so yeah, it
is a mystery.
Of course, it does not mean that MCU is having problems, unlike AoS. Agent Carter preformed
wonderfully on its second season, Hunter and Morse’s appearance on their own
show is now a guarantee (and people will watch it, at least at first, to see
where they are going), and a lot hinges on the upcoming Captain movie. This is
not AoS, this is the big leagues. Of course, ‘Dawn of Justice’ of DCEU was
something of a flop, so perhaps Cap and Tony can do better? There are some
concerns, especially about Pepper not appearing in the film, (which does suck),
but maybe Tony can team up with Maria Hill? Either way, it this movie flops,
then AoS will have new problems, much bigger and badder ones than they do now…
Thus, let us wait and see how the Captain movie goes first,
before making any bets regarding AoS. Until next time!
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