Now then: the latest AoS episode – ‘Together…’ was aired.
And it worked.
Kasius and Sinera were given their time in the spotlight,
and they are still not redeemable, but are proper, scheming villains. In ‘Together
or not at all’, the audience has learned more about their back history than in
the first six episodes combined. Yay! And Kasius killed his brother with an AKM
bayonet! …Wait, what?
…This incident has reminded me of the last time I saw anyone
killed like that – it was on DW, in an episode titled ‘IRA vs. Taliban’. (It was not aired in UK, BTW). Basically, in
that S1 episode, the DW hosts and guest experts put the bayonet – of an AKM-47
gun - against a slingshot. The bayonet won. The Taliban, ultimately, lost, but
that episode also established to the DW hosts that the AKM was one of the best
guns there was, you should’ve seen them struggle to give the Armalite-17 of IRA
the edge, and it didn’t really work – but we digress.
The other time that DW has shown a bayonet in action was
later, in S2, in ‘Ming Warrior vs. French Musketeer’ episode. In this case, the
bayonet was not a part of any weapon list at all, it was just depicted as part of
the French musketeers’ proverbial musket; (it got the advantage over the Ming
warriors’ nest of bees). In both cases, the bayonet was shown as a perhaps
outdated, but all the same lethal, weapon; seeing it back in action in this
week’s AoS episode was cool…
…DW flashbacks aside, anything else? Just as back in a
previous S5 episode, ‘Together’ introduced – or rather, re-introduced – the framework,
so has ‘Together…’ re-introduced the gravitonium from way back in S1.
Hopefully, both of them will play a greater role than just an Easter egg for
the fans. We will just have to wait and see.
In other news, Tess is dead. It seems that the Kree did kill
her last episode; pity, but it seems that the new characters introduced this
season are coming and going hither and yon, and none of the fans have picked up
on them; not on the Kree, not even on Deke. How did he get out of the chamber
that S.H.I.E.L.D. stuck him into? Maybe it is just a plot hole that got barely
smoothed over, but we can still hope…
…In an unrelated mention, ‘Blindspot’ continues to thumb AoS
– in their episode of the week, not only Weller jumped out of a plane in a very
Grant-Ward-like style, he also killed a Russian terrorist, who was very similar
to Bobbi Morse, (as played by Adrienne Palicki). Clearly, the relationship
between the two shows is something else.
…Back to AoS, it seems that Robin the seeress has returned
to the show, this time as an old lady who might actually have the key to
getting the agents back to the past…or to have them free Earth’s last humanity
from the Kree instead. ‘Course, now that Kasius and Sinera are planning to blow
this joint and go and confront Kasius’ father and kill him in a GoT sort of
way, as they have with Kasius’ brother, the local Kree might be leaving by
their own will, leaving the humans – and the InHumans – over to the xenomorphs.
Yes, they aren’t really xenomorphs, but they look like them…and
the aliens they are loosely based on in the comics are actually sentient,
though kind of nasty…but still sentient. What gives? It is just like ‘Runaways’
– a new, original interpretation of the source material…
Back to Hunter and Morse? Back in ‘Rewind’, Hunter promised
that he and Bobbi would look over Robin while Fitz and Enoch travel into the
future to rescue the rest of Fitz’s team. Maybe next time we learn as what has
happened to him and Bobbi in the meanwhile? …Considering that Blood’s (aka
Hunter’s) interview with Marvel™
regarding his return to AoS was abrupt and perfunctory, there are doubts…
Therefore, there we have it – ‘Together’, yet another
episode where the viewers are beginning to respect AoS S5, as it should be. See
you all next time!
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