Hey youtubers it’s Charlie and this is my Agents Of SHIELD episode 5 video.
Lots of awesome stuff like Mockingbird from the comics, a big WTF with Skye’s Dad.
And Marvel dropped a pretty huge bomb.
Next week they’ll be posting the first official Avengers 2 Trailer during the agents of shield
episode.
I already did a breakdown of the comic con trailer they showed off.
But the trailer they’ll post next week will be all new footage.
That’s going to be the first video I post that night.
So be sure to subscribe to get it.
I’ll talk more about the footage I think we’ll see after I we get through SHIELD
craziness.
Careful for spoilers in case you haven’t seen the episode.
Starting with Top 5 Moments,
Number 5 - HYDRA is trying to weaponize the Obelisk
That group in the beginning they were testing it on were people with Ties to SHIELD.
They weren’t all SHIELD agents, but HYDRA was using them as a test.
They used cells from the woman in the cafe to try and reverse engineer the effects.
There aren’t that many people that have touched the obelisk, so when Kraken was talking
about Tissue cells he was talking about her.
Before shit went down, Simmons was probably going to start working on Obelisk research.
There was actually a big Hell Cow Howard the Duck easter egg when she was in the lab.
They were talking about milk from a hell cow.
It’s a character named Bessie that appeared in Giant Sized Man Thing Issue 5.
The story goes that she was a regular cow.
Dracula drank her blood, she died, her farmer buried her and 3 days later she rose as a
vampire cow.
So she’s a cow with humanoid vampire qualities.
She had a crossover with Howard the Duck.
So that’s what the Bessie Hellcow Milk stuff was about.
Number 4 - Raina Is In Trouble
I feel kind of bad for her character.
It’s the classic situation where the evil temptress becomes sympathetic because she
gets mistreated by the villains she serves.
It’s like Mystique turning against Magneto.
It just seems like they’re setting up Raina as a double agent inside HYDRA.
She wants evolution and as we saw at the end.
Kraken and Skye’s Father only care about themselves.
Tiny Violins of course, she is a verified scumbag.
So of course she’s going to burn Team Coulson in the end.
She really is the Mystique of the series.
Regardless of what battle lines are drawn.
She’s just going to skip around the chess board and escape at the end.
We did get a little teaser for her backstory.
Skye’s father did something to her.
It sounds like it was way more than just give her a place to live and food to eat.
Like he helped her attain some skills.
She seems like she has low level passive mutant abilities and she’s trying to unlock her
true potential.
Which just screams Inhumans to me.
The Obelisk is an alien device, so it could be what Marvel is using to represent Terrigen
Crystals.
If that’s the case, the map could be a map to Attilan.
Number 3 - Coulson Comes Clean About the Alien Markings
Based on the way he talked about the carvings just coming out without him actively thinking
about them.
The carving is an unconscious thing, he doesn’t think about what the map is supposed to look
like.
I’m thinking 2 possibilities Inhumans or Guardians of The Galaxy.
I’ll explain Inhumans first.
The whole idea behind terragenesis is that it unlocks something inside you that is hidden.
Or just strips away the shell.
So if Coulson’s subconscious is forcibly working it’s way to the surface it could
be an early stage of what happens when you take in the terrigen mists.
Not everyone survives them, sometimes the mists kill people.
The ones that survive become inhumans and get crazy powers.
It’s like a way of saying there is a brave new world coming, not everyone is meant to
live in it.
Like Garrett.
Coulson said he thought Garrett wasn’t meant to survive the Kree formula.
Marvel is pretty convoluted when it comes to who has the rights to what characters.
I think they have the rights to Inhumans, so they could do them if they wanted.
If that’s what’s going on, the map could be a map to Attilan, the city of the inhumans
or it could be a genetic map.
The other possibility with the carvings is that it’s a literal map to something from
the Guardians of The Galaxy stories.
Like outer space map.
And Marvel is using Agents of SHIELD to link those things to their earth based Marvel stories.
I think this is less likely, just because James Gunn said Guardians 2 wasn’t adding
any new human characters and he just wanted it to be off in it’s own corner of the Marvel
Universe.
Meaning that Guardians stuff would not directly overlap with the other Marvel Movie stuff.
So I’m 99 percent positive they’re not going to do marvel in space.
But regardless, I do think the Obelisk or the Diviner is Kree in origin.
Number 2 - Shit Goes Down at HYDRA
The standoff between Raina and Coulson was actually pretty funny.
Coulson just not buying her shit.
We knew that Mockingbird was going to be a double agent, the promos pretty much explained
it last week.
But seeing her go all Black Widow was awesome.
Simmons is always pretty hilarious in situations like that.
Which I think made it work better.
I don’t like SHIELD as much when it takes itself too seriously.
It’s a lot more fun to play the Simmons lols off the crazy Bashki villain.
It’s like a cross between Borne Trilogy parkour and Avengers Humor.
In real life, the actors were sitting right next to each other live-tweeting the episode.
I always laugh a little when you see villains and heroes on shows just chilling out like
bros in real life.
The rooftop stunt was really cool too with the quintjet reveal.
They keep giving simmons crazier and crazier stunts, so I’m interested to see if she
and Fitz get a big action moment like this now that they’ve been reunited.
That was big, them being in the same room together but it ended up feeling like a downer.
I’m sure they’ll slowly get back to fitzsimmons by the middle of the season.
and my Number 1 Moment - Mockingbird joins the Team
I feel like back when they announced she was going to be on the episode and Hunter went
on and on about his ex-wife we all wondered if it might be Mockingbird.
It just seemed like it would be too sweet.
I was so happy when they confirmed it, it just means the team will get to have that
much more fun giving Hunter, admittedly a douche bag, a bunch of shit about it.
Based on her rapport with the team, she goes way back with most of the older members of
the team.
The reference to her hair was just a nod to Mockingbird in the comics being Blonde.
Also adrianne palicki was blonde on Friday Night Lights.
So you could either take it as a wink to the comics or to that.
Palicki did an interview recently where she said there was potential for her character
to cross over into the movies.
It’s too late for her to show up in Avengers 2, they’ve already finished the film.
But she’ll probably cameo in one of the phase 3 movies.
Captain America 3 would be the most likely since those are always feature a lot of SHIELD
characters.
Just as a bonus I wanted to talk about Skye’s Dad, he didn’t really fit into any of my
other moments, but he’s a huge character.
Very clearly affected by the Obelisk.
I’m guessing he studied it for a long time and was changed.
We didn’t see him transform or anything but it did seem like he had super strength.
Skye called him a monster, so don’t be surprised if he physically turns into a monster by the
end of his arc.
I’m hoping he makes it past the mid-season finale.
The Garrett character made it through a whole season.
So right now I’m thinking of him as the new Garrett.
Kraken is the big bad, but think about HYDRA this year being a version of masters of evil.
With a couple top tier villains.