I loved the look and feel of the episode in the 30's. And the best thing was when they were admiring the look and feel and then realized that it didn't smell all that great.
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Another great episode tonight, with a lot of unlocks
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We get a major plot point as the vials that Freddy is smuggling is the SuperSoldier serum that we know will be used by Red Skull
Really strong dialogue between Coulson and May. When he said "May I died" she basically responded with "You still are"
The conflict between the team, Coulson determined to save Freddy so Hydra can be formed, but Daisy was willing to take the chance of messing the timeline up by killing him.
Enoch is the star right now. They did the fight between him and MAy with the terminator sounding theme behind it. He gets trapped in 1931 and becomes a bartender for Koeing.
BTW I loved Koenings reaction to being on the Zephyr. and then looking in shock at a battered Enoch and stammering about him being an electro man, and Enoch excusing himself to go fix his face.
Enoch indicated that the Koeings that we see in the future are in fact Koeings grandkids, they're not LMDs.
Not as much in this episode as most others, but it sought to answer the question if you went back in time and you could kill Hitler and prevent the death of millions would you do it no matter the cost?
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That was an amazingly fun episode though it had some huge ramifications going forward.
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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.
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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.
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That was an amazingly fun episode though it had some huge ramifications going forward.
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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.
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a bit pedantic but; mid 50 Groom Lake Nevada (near area 51), and at the beginning of the episode they hear the radio say something about the all new 55 car, i didn't catch the model, at first I thought it might have been a call back to L.O.L.A but i looked it up and thats a '62.
I'm really enjoying the season, but missing the fitz-simmons angle to the team. I like that they are hugging the main continuity of the overall MCU a little tighter than the past 3 seasons right now, and I think they have set themselves up nicely to bump into Bobby/Ward.... towards the end of the show.
Loved that Deke is still concerned about the lack of progress when it comes to sexism and racism between the 1930's and 1955.
Coulson's malfunction after the EMP makes him see the world in black and white and have an inner monologue so they played this like a 1950's detective movie.
Poor Enoch, left behind again, and his reaction to just being a phone swith operator was great.
May's an empath, she can feel the emotions of everyone around her.
Sousa was supposed to die a hero, but Coulson saved his life and he's now a man out of time. Sousa was also onto Hydra infiltrated Shield.
The Chronocoms left a person behind to guide Malik and probably give him future tech to destroy shield.
They do a time jump and end up in the 70's which should be fun if they follow the movie formula's of the 70's.
I didn't know that the actor that played Sousa was an extra as a cop in the Avengers.
Oh and in the previews
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Enoch pulls up in a car and tells the Shield team to come with him if they wish to continue to exist. The Terminator stuff has been a running gag this year.
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This season has been great. Too bad they didn't bring back Agent Carter, but I think we will have some other surprises. My guess is Ward is coming back somehow. Maybe they will jump just to 2010 and interact with earlier versions of themselves.
you know who I would like to see again is Aida. I loved her and at the same time found her to be an incredibly sympathetic villain and her death broke my heart.
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I must have said holy crap about 20 times in that episode. It was a major gear shift as well. Especially after the opener which reminded you of every 70's TV show with the voice over "Starring Clark Greg . . . "
But this episode managed to surprise and terrify and at the same time set things up for the rest of the year.
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The Chronicoms have been busy. They've fully infiltrated Shield Malik senior didn't die which shifted the time line. He's basically the head of Shield, and the events from Winter Soldier are happening 40 years early with project insight nearing completion and with that the extermination of senior Shield Leaders and Bruce Banner.
At the same time we are seeing problems in the team with their powers, Yo Yo is still debilitated, May is only able to feel other people's emotions which is a benefit but also a real problem as she got completely drunk without drinking in the Shield hideout bar. There's a serious problem with Simmons, as she gets confused easily and has memory and focus issues, the returning Enoch seems to know what's happening but we don't dive into it.
At the same time Sousa is a man out of time, and he's realizing how destructive the Shield team going through time is on the time line, and like Deke who regrets not killing Malik, Sousa is angry about being pulled out of the time line, when he could have stayed behind and gone after the Hydra inflitration of Shield.
The Chronicom's are learning fast. They know that the human weakness is strong attachment as displayed by Malik when the Shield agents kidnap Gideon (the future Power's Booth) to negotiate their escape. The Chronicoms then drove forward three years to the future completion of Insight, and also presented what they learned by kidnapping Macks parents preventing Shield from destroying the Lighthouse and preventing the launch of the missiles.
Instead Mack is willing to sacrifice himself and his team by revealing the Zephyr to destroy the Insight rocket and thus putting his whole team in danger.
Meanwhile Sousa and Daisy were kidnapped, and Gideon phones to talk to Daniel Whitehall (remember him) about the surgical technique that can be used to steal Daisy's powers (Remember him chopping up Daisy's mother to gain her powers).
Another amazing episode.
Random thoughts.
Nathan Malik lives, remember he was sacrificed to Hive in the stone drawing ceremony that saved Gideon. Some how Wilfred saved both of his son I wonder if this means that the whole Hive thing is wiped out in this time line.
Sousa's use of the term Trout in the Milk was only surpassed when Deke was asking Simmons about Fitz because if Fitz and Daisy don't "Bump Lemons" Deke's mother might not be born.
Speaking of Deke he finally killed Wilfred, but it was far too late.
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I must have said holy crap about 20 times in that episode. It was a major gear shift as well. Especially after the opener which reminded you of every 70's TV show with the voice over "Starring Clark Greg . . . "
But this episode managed to surprise and terrify and at the same time set things up for the rest of the year.
Spoiler!
The Chronicoms have been busy. They've fully infiltrated Shield Malik senior didn't die which shifted the time line. He's basically the head of Shield, and the events from Winter Soldier are happening 40 years early with project insight nearing completion and with that the extermination of senior Shield Leaders and Bruce Banner.
At the same time we are seeing problems in the team with their powers, Yo Yo is still debilitated, May is only able to feel other people's emotions which is a benefit but also a real problem as she got completely drunk without drinking in the Shield hideout bar. There's a serious problem with Simmons, as she gets confused easily and has memory and focus issues, the returning Enoch seems to know what's happening but we don't dive into it.
At the same time Sousa is a man out of time, and he's realizing how destructive the Shield team going through time is on the time line, and like Deke who regrets not killing Malik, Sousa is angry about being pulled out of the time line, when he could have stayed behind and gone after the Hydra inflitration of Shield.
The Chronicom's are learning fast. They know that the human weakness is strong attachment as displayed by Malik when the Shield agents kidnap Gideon (the future Power's Booth) to negotiate their escape. The Chronicoms then drove forward three years to the future completion of Insight, and also presented what they learned by kidnapping Macks parents preventing Shield from destroying the Lighthouse and preventing the launch of the missiles.
Instead Mack is willing to sacrifice himself and his team by revealing the Zephyr to destroy the Insight rocket and thus putting his whole team in danger.
Meanwhile Sousa and Daisy were kidnapped, and Gideon phones to talk to Daniel Whitehall (remember him) about the surgical technique that can be used to steal Daisy's powers (Remember him chopping up Daisy's mother to gain her powers).
Another amazing episode.
Random thoughts.
Nathan Malik lives, remember he was sacrificed to Hive in the stone drawing ceremony that saved Gideon. Some how Wilfred saved both of his son I wonder if this means that the whole Hive thing is wiped out in this time line.
Sousa's use of the term Trout in the Milk was only surpassed when Deke was asking Simmons about Fitz because if Fitz and Daisy don't "Bump Lemons" Deke's mother might not be born.
Speaking of Deke he finally killed Wilfred, but it was far too late.
I thought it was Nathaniel and not Gideon? Gideon was hitting on Daisy at the hideout.
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Coulson's super power is dying, so he sacrificed himself to blow up the Chronicom ship.
Daisy gets brutally tortured as Nathanial surgically stole her powers, but he learned what she initially had to deal with that the quake power shatters your own bones.
Poor Mack, he goes to rescue his parents, gets them out and then found out they'd been replaced by Chronicoms and had been dead for some time, and Mack was pretty much forced to kill his parents again.
Simmon's implant that keeps Fitz' location a secret was malfunctioning and she had to get it fixed which means that she forgot where Fitz is again.
Mack goes for a ride and Deke goes to find him and the Zephyr jumps leaving them behind.
Really well done episode but just brutal in terms of what happened in it.
The next jump is to the 1980's which should be awesome.
I didn't realize that Sybil the predictor was played by the actress who played the teacher in Serenity.
I still think that Sousa ends up being the cop that we see in New York during the Avengers movie.
I remember when the series first started, people complained that Chloe Bennett couldn't act, but she's come a long way in this series.
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I started watching again from season one, and its amazing how much you forget.
On rewatching, it was actually a pretty strong season that got really strong by the end.
First of all, I miss Bill Paxton, he was brilliant as John Garrett, especially in his descent to madness.
The first season established a lot of things that echo'd throughout the season. Centipede, Death Lok, Gravitonium and Glenn Talbot were all introduced.
We got the exceptional story line around the Clairvoyant which later turned out to be Hydra. We also saw the direct link with Winter Soldier and got to live through the collapse of shield.
We got really good performances by the cast, and Saffron Barrows as Victoria Hand was really good, we also got cameo's from Sam Jackson as Agent Fury.
The turn in Episode 7 was shocking. I still love the "Out of the Darkness and into the Light" moment. On top of that Brett Dalton did an amazing character change in 2 seconds when he betrayed Shield and revealed himself as Hydra. After a whole season of him saving Simmon's life and befriending Fitz and being the reliable gentle field agent he became cold and callous and Ruthless.
I think more highly now of season 1 then I did before. The dialogue and writing and throw away lines were really good. The effects were solid and the story lines were good.
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Can't say I was a big fan of last night's episode. It was awkward, campy, over-referenced, and the excessive gore was really out of place and off-putting. Now, I suppose exhaustively nauseating 80s is what they were going for, but it missed the mark for me.
However, I'm going to choose to believe the reason it was so campy was because Deke was the one debriefing May (similar to Coulson in the noir episode).
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Yeah, it had some good moments but more missed moments for me, I guess the excessive gore and such was a reflection of the slasher style of movies in the 80's and yeah it was Deke being debriefed.
Clearly Sibal is on her own now, We can't even be sure of that representation of Mack in mourning. Though I did find it funny that he was ripping off future hits.
The Coulson stuff was really awkward and didn't work for me though.
They're moving ahead to the next phase, which looks to
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jump back to the inhuman's phase and Daisy's loss of her powers.
I wonder if the Chronicom code somehow makes it into the LMD coding that lead to AIDA and her ruthlessness.
I would love to see Aida back.
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