Enjoyed the ploy to get the various Hydra heads to turn against each other. Very Dash Hammett, or maybe Godfather.
Of course, two more will take the place of each assassinated operative, so…
There was so much anger expressed amongst the S.H.I.E.L.D characters that I was wondering if some plot point was being made about the underground city having messed with their minds, but apparently not.
I didn’t really get why, after showing no compunctions about savaging several hapless mooks for no particular reason earlier, Raina let Cal live.
I saw the train a comin with Skye being made the star of the show, the special snowflake, early on, which is a shame since I despise the character. But Whedon has always been a fan of waif-fu, so that was inevitable.
I also liked that Terrigenesis was used in the first few minutes of the episode.
I liked the episode especially because I think they are handling the team’s varied responses to what happened to Skye and Tryp.
I don’t like that we’re already into a secrets for no (or little reason).
They were definitely using green color motifs when he was introduced. The character in the comics he’s based on wears green, but yeah you can’t refer to getting angry and super-strength and use green lighting without making people think you are referencing the Hulk in some way.
Solid episode, the interweaving of different threads in the same episode, is why I found Agent Carter wanting.
Total decapitation of Hydra, obviously they wanted the hydra thread out of the way to concentrate on the inhuman angle and Adama’s entrance.
I was under the impression that Cap 3 civil war was supposed to be intertwined with the series, one would take direction from the events of the other. Had me looking cross eyed at the decapitation scene, I expect sometime that hydra will be reconstitued, leadership wise, but the shenanigans of Bobby and Mac, with the tool box, have me wondering if thats the lead in to civil war.
I suspect Bobbi and Mac’s secret has something to do with Stark and Ultron, and that it’ll be the show’s buildup for Avengers 2, just like they did for Winter Soldier last year.
The mention of Baron Strucker was probably the start of Avengers 2 buildup, since he’s already confirmed to be in it.
It occurs to me that there’s a No-Prize waiting to be claimed from this episode: Coulson said it was okay for Gemma to come back because the had enough men in the field to look for Raina – but he implanted a tracking device into Raina not too long ago. It’s should’ve been a ten-second phone call “Oh yeah, she’s over on the highway; go pick her up.”
That was one thing that bothered me about the episode. Raina was never represented as blood thirsty or that vicious before. Those killings were unnecessary and exceedingly violent. Perhaps that’s part of the terragenisis, or just the result of expecting to become a super being and instead becoming a freak.
The latter, I think. She’d been told she’d become something wonderful, and she turned into a freak. On top of that, Daisy remained the same (externally.) The violence was just Raina lashing out at the world.
Realistically, this should disrupt Hydra for a year or more. We just saw that Hydra doesn’t have a stable promotion system. This was the problems they had when there was only one vacancy to fill in the second-tier management level. And now all five positions are vacant. Third level managers will be killing each other for months along with the associated collateral minion casualties.
