[CaptainCrunch]

Ok, my thoughts on Rise and shine

Spoiler!

Have you ever watched a TV show over a series of years, and then decided that as it neared the end that it would have been awesome if you had been more detailed oriented as you watched the series.

This is probably one of those episodes where everything over the last few years was actually neatly bought together.

First of all, this episode was all about parts. It focused on answering a lot of questions about General Hale and her rise in Hydra, we dealt with the ramifications of frameword Doctor Fitz, who isn't going away. And we got the whole what's happening with the destroyer of worlds thing.

First of all, why was this episode cool to me, because you basically start with Hydra 902010 as a young Hale wakes up and goes to Hydra high, messes around with a young and now dead Sitwell and deals with a bullying future head of Hydra. Young Hale as ruthless and bright and dedicated and ambitious. She also has a dog. well err did.

We see the role that Daniel Whitehall had (remember him) as he's apparently like a combination of evil Dumbledore and Himmler at this school during a class Whitehall talks about building a machine that would allow a man to absorb and use elements Absorbing man) no he talks about a machine that cane fuse a man with the power of the Tesseract, however Hale brings up the idea of a machine that allows the merger of a human and alien technology.

Later after the graduation and Hales murder of her dog, which is a Hydra right of passage for flushing your weakness. She's called into Whitehall, who informs her that he's actually more interested in her lady parts, err he wants to use her as a surrogate mother to give birth to the future leader of Hydra who will be put into Whitehalls machine.

We flash forward to 2 years ago and we see and meet the future of Hydra in Hales daughter Ruby. The first thing that we can see is Ruby and possibly Hale are not normal Hydra, Ruby refuses to kill her dog and take part in the right of passage. This makes us see that there is some out of the box thinking here. But at this point the relationship between Ruby and her mother seems to be ok.

Then we kind of come to present day and we see General Talbot who is obviously still suffering from taking a bullet to the head. Its sad to see as he's clearly damaged to the point where his lack of impulse control and frustration makes him dangerous to his family. Of course Hale swoops in and "transfers" him to a Hydra facility.

Here's where we see again the Ruby Hale breakfast interrogation technique, and poor Glenn falls for it. However he's interrogated and refuses to cooperate.

the next flash forward is Coulson, and this is one of my favorite scenes this year as they attempted the same breakfast trick with him, but Snarky Phil isn't having it, he basically insults the breakfast layout as a C rate Holiday inn, then see's his favorite cereal and states that he'll be in his room.

Its been a long time since we've seen funny Phil at work so this was great.

finally Hale meets up with Coulson and shows him the Chitari device which allows them to see the Confederacy representative. We find out that they will protect earth in exchange for Gravitonium and inhumans. At that point, Hale mentions that Hydra has another plan, and they want to put a person in Whitehalls chamber and infuse that person with Gravitonium. Whitehall called the project the Destroyer of Worlds.

So first of all we get a hint about how Daisy's power evolved, but second of all, we get the first hint that Daisy isn't the destroyer of Worlds, Ruby who is destined to be put in that machine is likely the destroyer of worlds.

Ok, meanwhile on the other side of the fence, we see that Fitz is slowly getting more comfortable with his role as doctor evil, the ends justify the means guy. But Daisy outright hates him and uses her power on him. Its actually a bit sad to see.

May basically wants Fitz to be a weapon against Hydra, since he's a ruthless super villain when he wants to be. Daisy basically wants to beat him up and pull his underwear over her head. And Simmons finally reveals that he's Deke's Grandfather, to which Fitz discloses that "he's the worst".

Yeah it was a chuckle scene in that way, but it mad Fitz realize that he and Simmons are going to be ok and have a daughter and make it to the light house if the world is destroyed.

In a lot of ways this was an awesome episode even though there was no real action in it. But we got to see the world prior to AOS and what Hydra was up to. We also got to see some pretty awesome world building of the Confederacy who might or might not be saviors of mankind, we also got to see Hydra at its deceitful best, but we gained some understanding of what they were after. Yes they are basically technology driven Nazi's, however they feel that they doing this to save the world and make it better.

One other added note, for a while the question has been, what kind of a leader is Coulson and what's he willing to give up. the summed this up nicely in this episode.

When Talbot was offered the same deal he reverted to type, he wouldn't betray the flag of his country not matter what the cost. Coulson on the other hand knows a possibly good alliance no matter the cost, and is willing to sock his moral hatred of Hydra away in order to win.

Random thoughts

Coulson reacting to the Welcome scenario in the Hydra Bunker with extreme snarkiness before finding his favorite box of cereal was hilarious. it also put him in a better bargaining position with Hale.

Coulson looking a Ruby and commenting on the failure of home schooling. sometimes he just scores verbal sparring points without trying.

Daisy - "Hale is Hydra" only to realize the wordplay.

Fitz on learning that his grandson is Deke - "But he's the worst".

I loved the little easter eggs, the creation of the Absorbing man, the Chitari giving Hydra the device, all brilliant, but I loved seeing Whitehall back. He was such a menacing villain back in season two. I also loved that Phils reaction was "I buried him . . . go team" when Hale mentioned him.

Poor Talbot, he was Coulson's bitter enemy, and in the end when Hale had him taken away he was left with the idea that only Coulson could save him.

Ruby is obsessed with Daisy and its creepy and while the plan by Hale was to put Quake in the machine and fuse her with Gravitonium. You get the feeling that Ruby is going to betray her mother and enter the machine so that she can destroy Quake.

Great episode lots of stars, and now I want a series called Agents of Hydra.