…In ‘Meet the New Guy’, AoS continues to develop the
plotlines that began in the season’s premiere. Too abrupt?
Let us try again. In ‘The Ghost’, AoS has introduced
the new lay of the land as well as the Ghost Rider, this season’s heavy hitter,
and also – a ghost. In this episode, firstly, we meet the ghost for real: it is
a new character, and she comes with her own team of other ghosts, and a
possible scientific explanation for their origin, rather than a supernatural
one.
To elaborate, back in S1, AoS did feature a ghost-like
villain, who proved to be misunderstood, and in love, and was able to pass on
once the team was able to figure it all out. His roots were scientific, not
supernatural, and so the case might be with those evildoers, (who are able to turn
incorporeal and drive people crazy by going through them), although this Ghost
Rider, Robbie Reyes, is clearly connected to them…possibly through his uncle?
(Basically, Robbie became the second Ghost Rider because his deceased evil
uncle fused their souls with their car…or something like that…we will probably
learn MCU’s version in the future episodes).
Either way, ‘Meet’ has given us the greater, further,
general shape of where Ghost Rider’s plotline is going to take us; Robbie is very
different from Daisy, which means…that this is what was probably supposed to
happen with her and Ward, but it didn’t. The end.
Well, just the beginning for Daisy and Robbie, though
for now Daisy is on the outs with the rest of S.H.I.E.L.D., or at least – with Fitz.
Mack and Elena – it is trickier to tell, but still. For the next few episodes,
(and AoS is going to skip a week now, in real life), Daisy will be working with
Robbie, opposite to the rest of the team, giving the show the possibility of
depicting various episodes from different P.O.V.’s. They tried something
similar with Grant & Hive back in S3, but this will probably be more
polished than S3, because now AoS got some of the kinks out it as a show, so
while it won’t be a smooth sailing, neither will it be so bad as it was with S2
& S3, right?
…While Robbie and Daisy are beginning to tentatively
work together at the end of this episode, on the other hand we have the rest of
S.H.I.E.L.D., who have a new director – his name is Jeffrey – and he is an
InHuman. The show isn’t dismissing InHumans at all, (nor the Watchdogs), they
are still going to be an important part of AoS, as it was shown first in the
person of Jeffrey, and secondly, in the next episode’s promo, where the
Watchdogs are back. So?
Well, Jeffrey appears to be some sort of a strange
cross between Andrew Garner (Lash) and the Mayor from BtVS (S3). He has this
really annoying bodyguard, but he is genuinely trying to be a part of
S.H.I.E.L.D., too. Of course he is ruthless as well, as part of his plan
concerning May, (who was driven mad by the ghost woman), is taking her
somewhere in a straightjacket.
To be more precise, ‘Meet’ is developing new
plotlines, (unlike ‘Ghost Rider’), as well as the old ones. It seems that the
Watchdogs are the new main villains in place of Hydra, at least for now, (so
maybe we will see more of ex-agent Felix too). The world has changed, it has
accepted InHumans and other super-powered people – it just may not like them,
and outright hate them, but S.H.I.E.L.D. will have to handle this hatred, and
it will, especially now that it is a part of the U.S. government.
So: the plot continues apace. Part of this pace,
apparently, is skipping a week – other shows have tried it, hell, S.H.I.E.L.D.
itself always had a midseason finale, but this is something else. Hopefully not
because they will have a shorter season, with less than 22 episodes.
Previously, all AoS seasons had 22 episodes, S2 and S3 had two major arcs with
11 episodes each. If this will not happen in S4, this would be bad, especially
since the Rabbs’ tree frog has just gone extinct – oops, this happened in real
life, never mind.
On the other hand, this episode especially was full of
references to the greater MCU – the scriptwriters, the cast, etc., are really trying
to integrate the AoS into it. Considering that even judging by the commercial,
they are already doing (going to do?) with Luke Cage (the TV show, not just the
character), this may be just in time to do so. Why, even the latest Dr. Strange
movie commercial mentions the Avengers directly, so go them!
Ergo, in conclusion: AoS has entered a new era,
alongside the rest of MCU. Let us hope that it will have a better showing now, than
back in S3 (and even the second half of S2). See you later.
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