‘The Last Day’ got aired last night. And?
And it was something of a letdown, primarily because of
Robyn the InHuman seer, or more precisely, because of how she was depicted. As
a young girl, Robyn came across as a vapid, annoying, so naïve that she’s
actually dim girl, rather reminiscent of Sansa Stark…in some fanfics. As an old
woman, Robyn was…the same, and perhaps even more childish and mentally unbalanced
than she was as a girl. ‘The Last Day’ may have also supposed to have start May
exploring her more maternal side…but this was already began to be explored back
in S2 in relationship to Daisy, (the entire Phil & Mel as parents dynamic),
so on one hand ‘Day’ didn’t give us anything new, and on the other hand…what
happened to Robyn’s mother, to Morse and Hunter?
…Well, we already know that Palicki, (who played Morse), got
a job in a non-MCU-related movie in RL, so it’s simply unlikely that she’ll
re-appear in AoS anytime soon, but surely some throwaway scene of Hunter,
(played by Blood, remember?), could’ve been put into ‘Day’? …Apparently not,
since there was no sight of him, but rather Daisy bonded with Deke, (sort of),
over their fathers: she has mentioned Cal… just not by name. (What gives?)
There goes this reference of an earlier season for this week. And apparently
Deke’s last name is Shaw; how nice; for a show that has made a big whoop over
racial diversity since the very beginning, AoS certainly likes to avoid
interracial couples; WASPs are paired with WASPs and PoCs with PoCs; there are
Phil and Mel, but they are often downplayed, and frankly their relationship in
canon is depicted in different ways from one episode to another.
…Right, never mind that, back to Hunter? No, not really,
though Enoch certainly seems to be coming and going and no one appears to
notice when he does that, even though by now all of the titular characters got
stuck on the remnants of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s old Zephyr megaplane or whatever it is
supposed to be. Of course, this also raises a question as to why the xenomorphs
have not invaded it and eaten everyone, because Synera was able to find it
without much trouble, but-
Yes, the new monsters technically are not xenomorphs from
the AVP franchise; they are based on an MCU alien race, but in the comics, the
aliens in question are sentient, and the not-xenomorphs are not. When shown
more clearly, they are a mix of future predators, (giant derived futuristic
flightless bats), from ‘Primeval’, (remember that show? It was good!), and the
alien cockroach from the first ‘Men in Black’ movie. Wow. The audience must be overwhelmed.
…And why were the xenomorphs shown more clearly? Because
Mack and Yo-Yo were helping Flint the teenage InHuman in saving the rest of the
remaining humans from them. So far so good, but what was Flint wearing? Is he
being set up, (by the show), as some sort of a king/leader? You know, as AoS’
attempt to tap into the upcoming ‘Black Panther’ movie, because of obvious
reasons? It could happen, because otherwise, the teen in question looks simply
ridiculous, and that is not right.
Anything else? A bunch of ragged followers of the seer tried
to kill Daisy to prevent her from returning to the past, thus saving the world –
they failed. The agents are returning to their present time – they just gave to
defeat the Kree here and now, so odds are defeating the Kree and fixing the
present to prevent the future is going to occupy them for the rest of S5 to
come. Fair enough. Good luck to them, then.
…And as for us? See you all soon!
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