Misadventures of AoS continue. Last week’s episode was the
second lowest; only ‘Life Earned’ was lower, (though not by much). This week’s
episode – ‘Inside Voices’ – show why is that: AoS is back being a mess.
For example, the Hintons are back. This time, Robin is still
a girl, so she is back to being annoying, rather than insipid, as she was in
the future, the older version. That isn’t bad enough, but the last time we saw
her and her mother, the Hintons were under the protection of Hunter and Morse –
and yet there is no sign of either of them, while Carl Creel fought Ruby, (in
this episode, again), with batons, as Morse used to. So, he is what? Some sort
of a substitute for Hunter and Morse? I, for example, was never the biggest fan
of the HuntingBird duo, but to replace them with Creel? It is simply strange…
This strangeness continues. AoS continues to treat Talbot…vaguely.
Sometimes he is a comic relief, sometimes he is certainly not. Again, is it so
hard to pick a theme for the character and keep it? In addition, what is his relationship with Creel? In other
news, the canon name for his wife is…Carla Talbot, so maybe the good
general-brigadier has a fetish? If so, then we certainly go into a strange
area, here…and the fact that Coulson has used Hydra’s loaned alien tech to zap
himself and Talbot into what had been Canada back in S1, does not help either.
Creel now…he seems to have survived his fight with Ruby by going inorganic, and
this is important, since he also has acquired a bond with gravitonium. This
means what?
On one level, we had a brief cameo of Ian Quinn and Raina,
back between S1 and S2 of AoS. In it, however, gravitonium ate Ian, just as Dr.
Hall was, back in S1 gravitonium episode proper. This week, gravitonium tried
to eat Creel, but general Hale’s minions got him out in time. This makes the
gravitonium similar…not so much to Hive, but the Kree monolith that sent
people, (including Jemma Simmons) to Hive’s planet. It is also similar to the
extradimensional entity that bonded with Whitney Frost back in AC S2 as well,
and hey – Raina. Pre-Puerto Rico Raina, to be more precise, meaning that AoS
got Ruth Negga to come back, however, briefly. Good for them, and we will wait
to see if Ruth will appear in the future AoS episodes, cameos or otherwise. (She
is wonderful at the ‘Preacher’, whose third season is coming this year as
well).
Anything else? ‘Blindspot’ will return later this April, and
as it was pointed out, AoS is still suffering from a morass of a mess. It
continues to recycle old ideas and characters with varied effects, and not just
from a semi-intentional ‘mix and match’ strategy. They have a general idea of
where they are going, but it might not be good enough, especially if Gregg,
(Coulson), will be returning to MCU movies in the near future instead. In that
case, AoS might have to kill him off…only he already died in this episode, and Creel
resuscitated him, so now Coulson and S.H.I.E.L.D. owe Creel one: we’ll just
have to see what will come of that, or will AoS just let it go…
Well, this is it for now; see you all soon!
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