Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks, which brings us to
AoS. It is not real, but it is not doing much better than real life does,
albeit in different details. Pause.
What is the big berk about this week’s AoS episode? It is
yet another reboot of the old material; fans of Ward and Kara will look at
Nathaniel Malick, (himself rebooted from his S3 appearance), and his new friend
Kora, and sigh.
…For the record, just who is Kora? If the name sounds
familiar, thank the Greek myths – in there, Kora is the alternate name of
Persephone, as in the queen of the underworld and Hades’ wife. This is one of
the best-known and most popular Greek myths in the modern times, BTW, so any
similarities to agent 33’s actual name – Kara Lynn Palamas – is wholly
accidental, I’m certain.
Moreover, there are two characters named ‘Kora’ in the MCU.
However, they are episodic characters and do not appear to have appeared in the
overall Marvel universe for more than a couple of appearances. One is a native
of Lemuria, (and we have not seen too much of Lemuria in Marvel recently),
while the other is an associate of the so-called Machine Man, and he has not
made much of an appearance in Marvel either.
…Really, if Kora lasts until the end of S7/AoS proper, she
might not be too different from Sarge from S6 – a secondary character who was
given a primary status because the same actor played him as he did Coulson,
(i.e. Clark Gregg), and who shared a name with several other unrelated Marvel
characters, (i.e. Sarge). Is she worth time to dwell upon? Not right now.
…The Kora issue aside, the fact is that in this week’s
episode AoS tried to reboot its’ S2 InHumans… again. They were very important
in AoS’ S2 & 3, but afterwards they became rather diminished as apparently
no one in Marvel/Disney knew what to do with them once Marvel’s ‘InHumans’
series flopped after the first season. More specifically, in this episode, any
reference to the Daisy/Jiaying connection was carefully scrapped and/or
avoided, and instead it was focused on Yo-Yo trying to recover her powers.
Daisy, on the other hand, was put into the metaphorical storage – apparently,
she could recover by herself after all the abuse that Nathaniel Malick had put
her through, right?..
No, seriously, last week’s trailer presumed that Jiaying would
help Daisy, and maybe even mend
bridges with her before all the deaths – but wait! Silly us, team Time Bus does
not want any changes, it is trying to preserve
the original time line, and this brings us to Yo-Yo meeting Jiaying… right.
What will happen to Daisy now that she had missed her chance to recover at Li
Shi? Come to think of it, is Malick working with the Chronocons still a thing?
…Well, yes, they probably are, given what we have seen of
‘the excellent adventures of Mack and the D’, but this brings its’ own
problems: AoS is trying to balance several plotlines simultaneously; sometimes
it works really well, (I.e. AoS’ S4), while in others it doesn’t, (I.e. S6).
Between this and the fact that AoS should be getting to its’ final hurrah, its’
final showdown between good vs. evil, (S.H.I.E.L.D. vs. Hydra?) and so far
there’s no clear evidence that this will happen.
…True, there is no indication that the abovementioned is what
is going to happen, but if it does not, then odds are that AoS’ fans are going
to feel stupid – but AoS itself is almost over, it may not care! …Still better
than what team GoT did at their series’ finale though. Where were we?
…Moving one more step closer to the AoS’ series finale, that
is where! Moreover, for now, this is it. See you all soon!
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