Head-Aida. At the end of the previous episode, when Radcliffe was talking to Aida 2.0, she said something like “My predecessor had the Darkhold in her hands.”
I assume they got her memories from when she had been touched by one of the ghosts in the first half of the season, and Radcliffe and Fitz they were building a model of her mind to figure out how to cure her. Remember, when they decided to “reboot” her?
I’ve got to say, I like this half of the season a lot better than the Ghost Rider stuff.
Just caught up on it last night. The first episode was one of the funnier ones in a good few seasons. I enjoyed how Mac and YoYo kept referencing movies since that was what I was doing during the mid-season break.
I also can’t help but feel that having Radcliffe revealed as the big bad, as opposed to AIDA, is just a swerve until they reveal that AIDA actually IS sentient and wants to live and blah blah android trope. The only way I can see that not being godawful would be if she eventually joins SHIELD and you can use her as an R2D2 instant hacker/fish-out-of-water person. Kinda like Data from Star Trek. She can instantly look at security cameras to identify where a hostage is, but during the heist she asks a funny question about human nature. Actually, she’d be more like EDI from Mass Effect.
I’m OK with the MACE reveal too, although I don’t understand why everyone’s so pissed. So he’s literally Captain America, only his medicine wasn’t one-time (or German). Who cares? Iron Man has a suit, Mace has drugs.
Lastly please, please, please, PLEASE GOD NO COULSON MAY ROMANCE!! It has zero point, makes zero sense, and is going to be worse than the Daisy/Sparky romance. We love Fitz and Simmons, we love Mac and YoYo…just leave it at that!!
But since Coulson and crew have lied their ass off to Mace many, many times, the fact that they seemed angry at him for keeping a secret seemed more than a tad hypocritical.
So what happened to Senator what’s-her-face’s brother?
I got a little overzealous on the DVR remote, and remember seeing his body in the water, but did it do anything special after that? By the sounds of ya’ll talking it did, but I must have missed it.
It was actually a bit comical, the weight was pulling his body down but then the weight hit the ocean floor (making the rope go slack) and the body kept descending at the same speed. Although I guess you could say the weight was to keep the body on the bottom since I understand bodies tend to bloat and float.
It’s interesting that they aren’t downplaying how horrible the Darkhold is. Anyone who reads it seems to become obsessive, paranoid, and warped over time. It’s even more surprising because Radcliffe initially rejected it entirely and tried to avoid it.
It doesn’t really work, though. The bad guys had the briefcase the minute the recovered the PR guy’s body and chopped off his hand. Why didn’t they get the heck outta there? The episode just strikes me as an excessively convoluted way to “out” Mace, and that vaguely annoys me since I kinda like Mace and in this episode he went from convincingly-competent director to semi-helpless bumbler. Does the serum increase his confidence/competence so that when he’s on it, he comes off as more commanding?
Frankly, I was kind of hoping he’d get a rematch with Ghost Rider at some point and kick his ass.
See, this is what I don’t like about LMDs; they turn storylines into Swiss cheese. If Maybot and Coulson start a relationship is it real since Maybot is essentially a rebooted May with all her thoughts and memories? How did Radcliffe learn how to program human emotions to make Maybot not want to tell the team what she’s learned or not to harm Radcliffe? Arghh, these convoluted storylines turn people off of comic books, it will do so here as well.
Having said that, not an awful episode but not one of their best. I love Yo-Yo and Mack together, but the silly drama of baby Hope and the ex was pretty heavy handed. The team getting caught by Senator Nadir was just plain silly, and I don’t think we know yet who tipped her off, do we? Fitz said it couldn’t have been Aida 1.0’s activated head since she didn’t have access to that information. Is there still a mole? The fake out with May fighting and escaping from Aida 2.0 dream was well done. The resolution of May’s resistance by having her finally rescue the Inhuman girl in Bahrain is too trite and cutesy for me. I didn’t buy that it would be the driving force behind May’s attitude. The Radcliffe LMD was a nice little twist, but it’s exactly what I hate about LMDs. You’d think a simple metal detector (don’t all bases have them) would solve the problem. I thought the scene with Daisy and Mace went well; I like his character more and more. But not having answers for the senator’s questions isn’t very believable. How could they not prepare for that line of questions?
I liked the mid-episode fake out of having us second guess who was additional LMD even if I didn’t like the resolution. Every scene had the audience looking for clues. I assume that Radcliffe was the only other LMD and now he’s gone.
Senator Nadir and her whole storyline isn’t working for me. I hope that improves or at least progresses when we learn who “The Superior” is. We had “The Clairvoyant” back in season 1, do we really need this now?
Not many fun lines in this episode although Coulson said something funny about broccoli at some point.
