“Afterlife”
Directed by Kevin Hooks
Written by Craig Titley
I hope this is the week I finally get back to doing recaps. Because, last week’s was so awesome in my estimation that I was just about bursting to talk all about it! I can’t wait to see how Skye fares. What’s up with Bobbi, will she stick with SHIELD by committee or will the hunting of Skye push her over the edge? Is the impaling with tree branch enough to push the doubters to really hate Skye? I guess we will see!
(How cool was that Hulk print. I think it’s coolnes was slightly lessened by the “Banner built this cabin” spoonfeeding. But, still fun.)
Good job Fitz and Simmons! I knew something was up but wasn’t sure what. I figured it out just before the end reveal.
Didn’t expect Mike to be the backup. Kind of deus ex machina, but anyone would be the same. I was thinking Fury, Xena, or Hawkeye.
Not-Adama is a pretty well written character. He’s multi-dimensional, and seems to learn from his mistakes. I think Gonzalez is a good character but I still wonder where SHIELD 2.0 was during all the major battles with Hydra.
Not sure I follow Coulson’s logic about reconnecting with Ward but I’m glad to see him back in the mix.
Oh, almost forgot about Skye’s mom being alive and sewn back together. Healing power like Wolverine?
Man this episode was not long enough, felt like it ended 30 minutes too soon.
As a character, Gonzales impresses me again. He gives me the impression that he would have liked to have reached out to Coulson sooner and not in this way. Hopefully we get more back story about the cruise of the love boat and why they were not in the fight.
May must be severely conflicted. A life long shield agent of the old school, and she has to choose the badge or the man.
Nice to see Dichen Lachma’s back, in all her praying-mantis beauty. Do we know why she didn’t tell Skye she was her mother? Or why she and Skye’s dad have the relationship they do? He thought she died, he went crazy and chemical-ly/Hyde-y, so when they encountered each other, it was under very different circumstances?
That’s Dichen *Lachman *- sorry. Regardless of the spelling, she still carbonates my hormones in ways I don’t quite understand
Oh, and: “with a light pesto aioli” - Nice. So Fitz is back up to speed from his brain trauma? I am not challenging it - plots have to keep moving, regardless of medical accuracy - just trying to clarify.
So the conversation with Deathlok about the Hydra leader who’s kidnapping and experimenting on Powereds seems to be leading right up to the Avengers movie. I hope they let us know when to stop watching the show and watch the movie instead, like you had to for Winter Soldier.
I’m guessing she didn’t tell Skye she’s her mother because she doesn’t want that to influence Skye’s decision whether or not to join the Inhumans. She wants Skye to come willingly, because she believes in the Inhumans cause, not because she found her Mommy.
And presumably she’s also still upset that Cal killed everyone in the village after he found that Daisy had been kidnapped. It seems his poor impulse control has turned her off to him.
It would handicap the coming Inhumans movie unreasonably to introduce any of the Inhuman royal family now. We won’t be seeing any of them.
Plus, over the past few years the comics continuity has established that there have been Inhuman enclaves living scattered around Earth for generations; probably in preparation for just this sort of plotline.
I agree we won’t see the Inhumans who will be in the movie probably, but this hidden city we’re seeing now looks like a main city/refuge. The Inhumans movie probably isn’t even written yet and there could be lots of changes so AoS will have to be careful how much they flesh things out.
I rewatched the show again last night before bed. The scene where Bobbi it talking to Simmons about the cube and Simmons says it’s a lab problem and walks off, and Bobbi smiles… first I thought she was smiling because Simmons was helping, but now I suspect her knowing smile was actually because she knew Simmons was pulling another fast one. Bobbi is almost all but back on Coulson’s team I think.
I noticed that as well. While not ignoring his disability completely, they seem to have minimized the impact dramatically. If you just watched the episode without ever having seen the show you wouldn’t have thought Fitz had any issues.
Yes probably. It also seems Gonzales is big on democracy and he’s willing to be voted down by his senior agents and this tribunal thing he wants to form.
I also noticed Gordon’s apparent strength. Geez, what can’t he do? Teleportation, force fields, strength and some sort of super locating and hearing ability. And Chicago deep dish pizza night every week. I want to marry him.
The sandwich was one of my favorite moments all season. So much information and inference packed into one lunch bag. Awesome.
These last couple of episodes have been very busy. I think our end of season cliff hanger is going to be huge. This is a lot of build up and a lot of threads to wrap neatly in a little bow in just a few weeks.
Maybe it will be like the Buffy-verse trope where no matter what you were before–become a vampire or demon, etc you get super strength AND martial arts skills.
Inhumas get some level of superior strength…and pizza fondness.
Me either. From what I caught, Coulson said he needed to find Skye and the only way to do that is through someone that had a connection to both her and those super-powered people. I think he must have been thinking about Grant’s connection to Raina and all those experiments, but its a bit of a stretch for him to think that Grant knows the teleporter guy.
Now that I think about it, has Grant even interacted with Raina not under the guise of a SHIELD agent? In the first season when he was good, they tried to get her, so as far as Coulson knows, he knows just as much about Raina as Grant does. Then Grant gets captured for a while, he escapes, kills his senator brother and has been on the run. Am I missing something? Coulson knows Raina was an unwilling partner of Whitehall and Grant was a willing partner, so why would he think Grant now has some info on Raina and the super humans?
