[CaptainCrunch]

I haven't done a review of Agents of Shield for a few weeks, but I just got done watching "The last Day" so I thought I would put some thoughts down.

Spoiler!

To be honest, even though I liked this episode and clearly there was a lot of thought put into it, it came across as too much and too dense and because of that things tended to get confusing.

There were multiple story lines in this episode as our hero's have split up. Yoyo and make remain in the lighthouse with Flint, ultimately their goal is to protect the remaining humans from the machinations of Kasius the Kree leader.

At this point its clear that Kasius who's sole goal is to get away from the lighthouse has thrown all subtlety away and basically just wants to exterminate the humans so he releases the roaches into the human population. However Flint and Mac and Yoyo find a way to stop it by using Yoyo's power to slap bombs on the roaches. We also saw the return of the Shotgun axe, and a great exchange between Flint and Mac

Flint - Doesn't the axe make it hard to shoot
Mac - Yeah but you can cut heads off with the Axe.

And then after shooting a bug and cutting off its head Flint suddenly gets it.

The main storyline takes place on the Zephyr where Coulson, Daisy, Fitz and Simmons have holed up with Robin the Inhuman little girl that can see through time who is now an old lady and some humans that have survived the surface.

So here's where the episode maybe got a little confusing. Apparently there are multiple time lines happening as we see May and Fitz and Simmons in a time line after the destruction of earth with a young Robin who's visions are incredibly confusing to everyone because like a deck of cards she's seeing different eventualities. In this time line, May refuses to help Yoyo fight the Kree because humanity needs the Kree's help to survive even if it enslaves them. We also see Robin make a suggestion of a time machine to which now apparently Fitz says time is fixed, but this episode proves this.

Meanwhile in the current storyline, they find a piece of a monolith and a device that can open a portal to send them back. However this is the key, in order for the world to be destroyed, Daisy needs to go back and destroy it.

See, I told you, dense multiple time lines.

Meanwhile one of the human survivors who's been looking after Robin decides that to save the world and prevent this timeline he needs to prevent Daisy and the others from going back home and to silence Robin he kills her.

This is always the interesting ethical debate that always starts with, if you could go back in time and kill Hitler before he takes power and prevent WW2 is it the right thing to do.

The answer in this episode and series seems to be a resounding no. By stabbing and killing Robin he simply becomes a killer. The whole background behind Agents of Shield has always been the nobility of self sacrifice.

In the end we get a flashback where May is raising Robin and Robin offers to tell her how to save the world, but May insists that she keep that until the end. So in the the current story May conforts Robin as she dies and Robin tells her how to get home.

But this leaves a lot of questions. What happened to the Agents of Shield that were in the time line where they survived the destruction of the World? Are some of them still alive, or are they all dead?

Also why were they bought into the future if that's what is basically going to trigger the end of the world. If you go by the theory that time lines are independent and fixed, maybe the reason is two fold. One to save the humans in this time line and bring Flint back to the pre-destroyed earth timeline. And maybe this is a hedge in case they can't stop Daisy from destroying the world.

The other theory is that maybe its not Daisy who destroys the world but Flint with his power over rocks that does it.

Its all a little confusing but very thought provoking.

There were some nice scenes in this episode.

Fitz and Simmons finally getting some time alone.

May and Coulson's discussion about May not giving up hope.

And Daisy talking to Deke about bad fathers and putting her father in a somewhat positive light.


Overall this was a good episode, if not especially dour.