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Jebuz

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With three episodes left in this season, we've now moved from hectic to breakneck speed, and episode 19th named option 2 certainly threw the Shield engine into over drive.

Basically I still love the crazier aspects of the show, starting the episode by talking about preparing the Zehphyr for space travel so that they can fling the Gravitonium into the sun thus breaking the loop was such a strong start and it almost takes you off of your guard, but we all know and I keep saying this that this season is about the inevitable and destiny and the Shield team is hurdling towards their destiny now.

In order to get people to relax this episode started like a character building episode as the team has now pretty much broken down as they argued about Daisy's leadership and Yo Yo's decision to kill Ruby, then they moved on to a heart breaking breakup of Yo Yo and Mack. I will say that Mack's stance that Shield is there to protect and turn the other cheek is strange consider his whole "I'm the guy who kills Gordon" stance at the end of season two. However he is kind of right that Yo Yo is so obsessed with breaking the loop that she's doing more harm then good.

Meanwhile Daisy is off to find a cure for Coulson and the conflict of what Robyn has told the team members has come into sharp focus. On one hand members of the team believe that Coulson will bring together the pieces while Yo Yo believes that Coulson has to die.

Meanwhile we continue to see the dynamic between Deke and Fitz Simmons develop as Deke firmly believes in the multiverse theory while Fitz believes there is one time line and Deke is the canary in the coalmine which means that if the loop does change Deke never exists. Its funny with Fitz about how heartless he has really become, there was always a pragmatic edge to him, but the combination of our Fitz and the Hydra fits has made it difficult for him to be anything but blunt and straight forward.

Its at this point though where the switch is flipped and we lose our breath as we see a massive ship appear over the lighthouse and the Aliens now called Mauraders demand the Gravitonium.

But Shield is never shield without some humor as Patrick Warburtan's recorded message appears and lets them know that there are options, of course in a wink to wargames Coulson selects the defense against Nuclear War and the Lighthouse seals itself for 15 years and Coulson realizes that he should have read the whole menu and picked "Alien invasion"

As a break in the review Clark Gregg is so brilliant at dead pan humor. His speech to the Aliens was hysterical, and his other quips like "Light em up, I always wanted to say that" are so well delivered and so in character with the run of this character that you can't help but hope that he survives this and we get more Coulson going forward. However May wins the line of the year with "You always listen to the whole menu, always"

Anyways, the Alien mauraders were brilliant as they have a personal EMP that darkens everything around them and they use 10 inch claws to kill. It gave the episode a real horror moviesque feel and a real sense of claustrophobia.

As things get desperate they flash to Daisy who meets with the Candy man and gets the centipede device to save Coulson but she's informed that she needs an extra healing component that John Garrett had found for it to work and is given information on where to find it.

Meanwhile at the lighthouse the team is desparately fighting for their life and moving into their last stance when Talbot knocks poor Gemma out and steps into the infusion device and uses all the Graviton, and thus unless there are more swerves we see the creation of Graviton, in this case a super powered being made up of the broken psyche's of Talbot, Hall and Ian Quinn who has the ability to control and create gravitation fields.

I know, I konw, what can possibly go wrong when you get a crazed scientist, a malignant psychopath and Talbot's lack of impulse control in one mind controlling the most powerful force in this world.

Well at first you'd thing, nothing, you've got a gosh darned hero right? And at first you'd think so as Graviton gruesomely crushes the invaders and breaks the light house containment with Coulson, but you just know, and the previews gave it away that nothing good is going to come from this and Talbot might be the guy that destroys the world in a confrontation with Daisy.

Its funny as this show is going to come down to a battle of a natural inhuman and the beneficiary of Hydra tech.

Anyways with the Maurader threat wiped out Coulson and Graviton are going after the Mauraders. Meanwhile Daisy is doing some grave digging.

Overall a solid episode with great action and acting and a twisted development that I kind of knew was coming, but I expected Ruby to be Graviton.

Random thoughts

We got a hint of the Avengers link as Candy Man mentions the weird stuff in New York and Daisy snorts "I don't have time for that"

The May Yo yo interaction was really great after Mack broke things off. Basically its not about Yo Yo's killing of Ruby its how other people are perceiving her now.

The grave that Daisy's digging up is her mothers. Remember that she had the power of not only healing but siphoning life from other living creatures.

Deke just kills me, but at the same time you feel so bad for him because he desparately wants to survive, but he just takes a beating from Fitz all the time. But the don't call me granps line was only superceded with the Let me be clear, Deke is never right and the debate about the multiverse vs the unbreakable loop where Fitz brutally cuts him off with a "You don't know what multiverse means.

3 episodes, a crazy possible new Big Bad, Coulson's possible death and the breakdown of the team. Could be a ride and a half.