I loved the latest episode, it just moved incredibly fast and once it was over you basically said "so soon"
There were two story lines in this one, first of all the Yo Yo, Mack episode where the rebellion starts against Kasius and the Kree.
The second was the rest of shield trying to get the Zephy off of earth and back to the lighthouse.
For Mack and Yo Yo the problem is that Kasius has rigged the station to blow, and because of the situation with earth last survives the humans are too cowed and paranoid to unit.
What was very cool was that Kasius bought Tess back from the dead using the same technology as Shield used to bring Coulson back which was a very well done tie in to earlier seasons.
She's basically sent back as a warning device, Kasius has all the cards, surrender unconditionally and give all the children to Kasius or the whole world burns. But the biggest writing tool is that we can always depend on the miscalculation of the villain, or their ability to be dumb when they need to be dumb. We saw that in discovery and we've seen this here as Kasius plays the insane megalomaniac to a tee. Surrender ba ha ha or die, and when you surrender, I'll brutally torture and kill you, and maybe bring you back. How the hell is that motivating.
But Mack who has been fairly despondent since the end of last year, has nicely become the hero that everyone needs him to be. They blow up the inhuman making stuff, get the now united humans to get rid of the bombs and oh Kasius loses his girlfriend who was the big bad on the Zephyr, but he like the humans has a seer.
Meanwhile on the Zephyr this was still actiony but not as much as the other story as it bends around the concept of getting back to their friends, however the Zephry is old and not functional and the story is a race against time plot device as a gravity storm is approaching. Not to mention that Kasius squeeze is on the ship wanting the old revenge against Daisy. In the midsts of this breakneck plot we learn that Fitz had heavily modified the Zephyr using future tech, so this kind of answers the debate about the eventuality of the time line. Basically they're meant to go back in time and Daisy is meant to destroy the world. So their efforts here might just be futile and they can't stop the end of the world.
Meanwhile May is a mess because of the Robin thing. Deke seethes for revenge over his dead father but doesn't take it and Sinara eats a part of the ship through the chest as Daisy kills her. Then they get the Zephyr up using the forces of science and gravity.
We're now heading towards the end of this storyline and like previous seasons the second part of the show will be a new storyline, this one around preventing the inevitable destruction of the Earth.
This season has been really ambitious and a lot of fun to watch. The writing is strong and this cast really works.
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