And so, S.H.I.E.L.D. is back. Real life being what it is, I cannot make guarantees that I will be able to follow in the upcoming weeks because of real life reasons, but I got to see this one, ‘…comforts of home’, so let me warn you – spoilers ahead. Got it? Now we continue.
…Yo-Yo loses both of her hands. Yes, this is a variation of the past episodes – the S2 finale, when Coulson lost one of his hands because of the bastardized Terrigenesis mist, and the S3 finale, when she got shot repeatedly and had to sit the actual final showdown with Hive and his Primitives, (when Lincoln got blown up alongside Hive by a nuke, and Luke Mitchell left AoS for ‘Blindspot’)… Basically, this is another rehash of the former AoS episodes…and seasons: somehow, after all of the adventures, the intrepid septet has arrived pretty much at the S2 beginning, save that this time instead of Grant or Tripp they have had Mack – and Yo-Yo, until Ruby, Dove Cameron’s character, cut off both of her arms with a chakram. Why? Because she is a psychotic assassin for her mother, General Hale, who plans to bring down S.H.I.E.L.D. with a team of her own, and for that reason, she has recruited Carl Creel, who is a villain once more. Go team Hydra!
…Oh wait, General Hale does not seem to have any Hydra symbolism associated with her; maybe she is just evil. That said, Carl Creel has entered the MCU as a minion of Whitehall and Bakshi, in the S2 premiere special, so it probably is not too surprising that he will become another one once more. Hydra or no Hydra – and there were signs that it was returning to AoS’ corner of MCU even outside of the framework back in S4 – he and S.H.I.E.L.D. are in for another rerun, and with Daisy’s powers still on the fritz, the Department is on the defensive, again.
Let us pause and recount for a second. Yo-Yo is down – until the FitzSimmons build her new hands or something, she will not be of any use in a field. Daisy’s powers are still blocked by a device of Kasius, and the FitzSimmons had not had yet a chance to try and extract it, so she is back to the S1-S2 seasons’ version of Skye, as she has shown, when she got Deke out of the brig.
This is worthwhile mentioning because, on one hand, Deke has come to the present alongside the ‘last’ agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. …so this means that we probably will not see the Ghost Rider/Robbie Reyes any time soon, (played by Gabriel Luna), and – the character of Yo-Yo, (played by NCB) is also down for the count. Hm. Piper Vasquez from S4 is back though, playing some sort of an ambiguous character, caught between S.H.I.E.L.D. and General Hale’s forces. Yeah, we have been there before, so we will have to wait and see just what AoS will do with her…unless it is a simple substitution switch: Piper for Yo-Yo. AoS before, (in S2 – Mack for Tripp), did this sort of character change, so it is not off the table either.
As for Deke…it’s anyone’s guess as to why AoS decided against bringing the Ghost Rider back, but, frankly, for a while Daisy went through various boyfriends/love interests every season, and maybe she still is, so let us hope first that Deke doesn’t die for real at S5 finale, (or before that), but…Coulson is dying, apparently, so does that mean that Clark Gregg has had enough of AoS and MCU and is leaving? If so, then maybe Jeff Ward, (who plays Deke Shaw), will stay on AoS as a part of a regular cast, but this has happened to Palicki & Blood (Morse & Hunter), and now there’s no sign of them.
No, seriously – there is no sign of Lance and Bobbi, of young Robin and her mother, even though the agents are back at the Lighthouse. Guess Palicki & Blood had enough of MCU after their show, ‘Marvel’s Most Wanted’ failed to launch and instead got assimilated into AoS. Just what is going at AoS behind the scenes?
…Finally, Coulson’s prosthetic arm has also taken a downgrade with all the space travel and is apparently back down to doing only what a regular flesh-and-blood limb can do. Why? It’s anyone’s guess, though it’s very likely that this is because of real life budget issues – all the space and aliens and their actors’ make-up and what-not cost AoS/MCU enough so that Gregg’s character, as well as Bennett’s, are down to being depicted as regular humans, (albeit trained agent ones), and NCB’s character – Yo-Yo – is also down for the count in a very intense way, and instead we got agent Piper, (played by someone else), who’s a regular human as well. (At least she was back in S4, since then yes, things could have changed). Now what?
Now we will get to see the jubilee 100th episode next week – if real life permits. AoS has done some clear structural, well, restructure, rearrangement, if you will, and is now ready to deliver. We will just have to wait and see what the next episode will bring us.
Until then – see you soon, (hopefully).
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