[CaptainCrunch]

That was an amazingly fun episode though it had some huge ramifications going forward.

Spoiler!

Its interesting that this episode was shot months ago and yet it struck a huge tone about racism in America with the cover of the 1960's right to the point where Deke is chosen to be the only agent that can successfully interrogate their government agent prisoner and he walks away muttering about White Privileged.


Overall this episode was all about continuing to link the importance of saving Shield to save the world by travelling through time to various moments in shields past. In this one they end up in 1960's Rosswell, New Mexico which was an experimental Shield research and development facility. We see that the Shield science division is on the bleeding edge of technology as they proudly show off a massive cumberson wrist watch radio with a foot long antenae, a massive EMP device that they proudly brag about blanking out all electronics over a 30 meter range. It was hilarious to watch and I wanted to see Coulson stealing tech for his collection.


We had a strong link to the Marvel Universe and the excellent Peggy Carter series as Simmons impersonated Peggy Carter (BTW she looks amazing in 60's garb) unfortunately they run into Daniel Souza who was in Peggy Carter.



There was a lot of hilarity in this episode. To discover who the Chronicrons are they have to elicite an emotional response and seeing Simmons and Coulson interrogate using sad stories, insulting John Wayne and using the word "Moist was so hilarious and campy.


The Chronicoms plan is to detonate an ion generator which would kill all of the Shields senior leadership. But it gets interesting as we find out that Yo-Yo can't super accelerate probably due to the changes caused by the Shrike infection, and May seemed to break down emotionally in combat. But in the end they did stop the Chronicoms and save the day.


However Simmons modified the EMP to stop the Chronicoms and they seemed to indicate that it had an effect on Coulson, so a bit of foreshadowing there.


The best scene was the epilogue where Mack and Deke decided to preseve the time line and released their hostage and then hovered over him in a Quinjet, and Mack informed him that if he talked they would return to probe him. The look on Deke's face was priceless.


I can't call this a throw away episode because a lot of plot moving points were made. BTW we also know that the brains behind the Chronicoms is Sybil the Predictor who seems to be able to read time lines.


Overall a great episode.


Notes


Coulson and Simmons were having a tough time keeping a straight face when Coulson was using the word "Moist to elicite a emotional response. The John Wayne insult was brilliant.


The touch on racist america was so well done, from the captured US agents refusing to cooperate with May, Yo Yo and Mack because of their skin color was well done, as well as the waitresses look as she was serving MAck and Yo Yo in the cafe.


The effect that they used to show that Yo Yo can't accelerate was brilliantly done. A brief blur and a power up sound effect then a snap back to where she was. Its also clear that May is suffering from a form of PTSD, she's had a rough run over the last few years.


Deke and Daisy are not on the same page over her orders to have Deke kill Malik. It was funny to see Deke taking the morality position over Daisy's kill one to save many.



I kept waiting for Enoch to show up with long hair, and bell bottoms.