S.H.I.E.L.D., Failed Experiments - May 3

And so, as the clock continues to tick down to the season finale, AoS tries to wrap up the stakes, especially considering that Civil War movie is hitting the big screens – or rather, HAS hit the big screens, and MCU’s other assets (well, primarily AoS at this point) are trying to catch up. What can be said about “Failed Experiments”?

The title is supposed to be dramatically ironic, one supposes. Hive was a failed experiment of the Kree; his, and Daisy’s, and Radcliffe’s experiment with the Kree had failed; S.H.I.E.L.D.’s experiments to free Daisy (and any other InHumans) from Hive’s control had failed; and Mack’s attempts to get to Daisy have failed. The only question is why Mack isn’t dead? AoS is toying with its’ audience, trying to rack up as much drama as possible before the big finish, when the good guys win…to a point. Lately, in S3, AoS seemed to have picked up BtVS’ earlier method, to finish an episode with a twist from the dark side, to hint at what the Scooby gang, (or nowadays the Agents’ gang), will be up against next. Well, it works.

And the actors do too – the acting between Henry (Mack) and Chloe (Daisy) was amazing; the other actors slash agents delivered too, but…now what? Yes, the question is rhetorical, for obviously the conflict will be escalating – S.H.I.E.L.D. vs. InHumans with Watchdogs and similar entities thrown in for the spice of it. From now on, AoS will be fairly straightforward, for Hydra has been destroyed and isn’t coming back…well, probably not. At the beginning of S3, all it took Grant is a gang of thugs and some Hydra™ stencils on walls to bring Hydra back. Who has to say that someone, like Baron Zemo, will not hit on the same idea, hm? However, this is theory, and in practice, Hydra seems to be finished, all that’s left is Hive, and either he will be destroyed…or not, since AoS S4, (if there will be one) will need some sort of a designated villain…and apparently Brett is the man to play them all. Even Lash had been taken out of equation for now, (and Andrew had been redeemed, sort of, so why the writers could not have done this for Grant?).

Otherwise, AoS has become a fairly straightforward TV series, which isn’t a bad thing, not considering how S2 had gone down (in part because of the integration of Blood/Hunter and Palicki/Morse, who are gone, and their spinoff is going to be quite separate from AoS, it seems), and so, as the nerves are getting racked up, (and the audience numbers/ratings keep going up, hopefully for AoS), the S3 finale is approaching. Let’s see what’ll happen next!