The team encounters an Inhuman that gives them a glimpse of the future. And things with Ward and Mallick heat up in a variety of ways.
Well, you can’t say nothing happened in this episode. I’m not a huge fan of time travel storylines but they handled it pretty well here. Everything glimpsed came true, just a lot of bad interpretation. I liked the use of the one way mirror.
Finally, something interesting with Hive, starting to work his magic on Mallick. Not a huge fan of the boardroom scene but it served it’s purpose. Finally Mallick becomes more interesting, and without knowing what he saw when the Inhuman touched him we can only guess what he fears.
Not a huge fan of the Lash storyline, but at least we’ve got movement. I’m sure that something will still come from the vaccine. Maybe he’s still transitioning.
I’m still midway through watching the episode, but two thoughts so far:
Fitz’s explanation of multi-dimensionality is pretty good. I’m glad to see something like real science in a show for once (let alone this show.) Not to say that time actually works that way in our universe, but it’s a good depiction of how it does, if it does.
Outside of being a good looking guy, I’m still failing to see how Lincoln is meant to be likable in any way. He looks like he’s dyspeptic or something at all times, and he’s got no sense of humor. Whatever Stokholm syndrome made Skye become attracted to him, way back at the village, should have worn off by now. Nor is it clear why he’s attracted to her at all, other than maybe she’s the only woman he’s met willing to look over his attitude. Smile for once, dude!
I don’t know, after the first few minutes and “This is when I die”, I just thought this entire episode was pretty boring. The Andrew & May scenes did nothing for me, and Malick’s “real power” being some crappy exo armor that lets him crush someone’s skull was lame. Fitz was pretty good though.
I don’t think that has anything to do with Malick’s power. Squidward wanted to turn Malick into a True Believer ™ but the touch from This is Your Life Guy turned him against Hydra. He’s probably still a bad guy, but An Enemy of my Enemy …
Nice tie in to the flash forward of the Quinjet filled with blood exploding in space. Have we seen anyone else wearing a cross besides Yo-Yo?
My point is that after the conversation Malick & Hive had, where Hive offered him “real power”, (as opposed to the $9.2 billion and fingers in every government in the world he already has), having the “real power” be some cheap exoskeleton, that frankly, even Hawkeye could take out was a serious letdown.
That wasn’t the real power. The real power was killing someone with your own hands, the exoskeleton was just a means to an end. The parallel with Coulson killing Ward using similar technology is interesting, but I don’t think the actual mechanism is all that important.
So we are meant to think that This is Your Life showed Malick his death, which scared the ever-loving shit out of him. I disagree with the above that he’s against Hydra now, but I think he’s WAY more scared of Ward than he was before.
Also, we have This is Your Life touching Daisy who sees…Yo-Yos death? I thought that you saw YOUR OWN death. And actually, while I’m here, I thought the death was completely inevitable? How did This is Your Life finally, after years of trying and torture, finally save someone? Pure coincidence? Plot convenience?
The flashes of the future weren’t necessarily of the person’s death. The CEO wasn’t shown his own death, he was shown the deaths of others. Although it’s possible that he saw his own head being crushed by Malick, we never saw that. And as far as we known Daisy didn’t see her own death.
The store owner saw his own death but we didn’t confirm anyone else saw their own death. I could have missed something.
For all practical purposes, Hive IS Hydra. As the Malick’s security chief said, Malick isn’t in charge anymore, Hive is.
Best episode since the season started up again. First one that kept my interest.
Least. Surprising. Outcome. Ever. SquidWard shows himself at the same time Lash, a metahuman killer, comes back? Not that I have a problem with it, but it would be much more surprising if Chekhov’s psycho had nothing to do with SquidWard’s plot.
Agreed, fun episode. Okay, so Grant/Hive is “Squidward” - cool, I will roll with it. Just wanted to make sure.
Yeah, the use of Lash has been predictable but used reasonably well. What was the one thing that could swap May out of the mission? Only Lash’s Inhuman-mitzvah. Who is the one guy “programmed” to attack Inhuman threats like Squidward? Who was foreshadowed in this ep as, perhaps, having a “higher mission” that we just can’t see yet?
As long as they sell it well.
ETA: I will say - if that is where things are going, I kinda hope that Squidward is not eliminated completely. Ward’s character has been fun to see go through such big changes. Remember when he was a pretty lunkhead?
I had no problem with Malick’s “real power” involving taking lives up close and personal. Why Malick wouldn’t put on a helmet or other armor so he wasn’t a vulnerable meatbag and would withstand an attack is one of those things they tend to do so their plots resolve nicely.
You see someone’s death. The first person to touch Charles was his wife, and she saw her mother’s death in a hospital. And as she said, what really freaked them out was “when the visions started coming true”.
And it wasn’t years of trying and torture. More like months - he walked out on his family “in July” according to Coulson. And the death was inevitable, Daisy saw Charles’ death, not her own.
Did anyone else feel like maybe Andrew had contact with This Is Your Life man? He gave himself up, he knew he was about to change permanently, and he said something along the lines of “I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be” to May.
I think that relates more to Lincoln’s point that Inhumans were engineered for a purpose. They get the powers they need to perform the tasks they need to, and that may be Lash’s ultimate purpose - to oppose Hive.
That would mean that the Kree would have known that Squidward (I love this) exists, knew that somehow he would get to Earth (also when) and know that he would do whatever it is he’s planning to do.
That takes a lot of forethought/precognition. I think he was just saying that he was happy to be there with his ex-wife.