Hey youtubers it’s Charlie and this week on Agents of SHIELD we finally got to me Coulson’s
Cellist and there was a ton of awesome comic book references.
If you’re not watching, now is a really good time to catch up because there’s only
three more episodes left.
In case you missed it, I also announced I’m not doing a bonus Marvel Movie video this
week just because I’m working on some special bonus videos for Arrow.
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So let’s talk some Agents of Playing Video Games, who wouldn’t want to join that team.
Here’s my top 5 moments.
Careful for spoilers if you haven’t seen the episode yet.
Here we go, Number 5 - Coulson Tacks Down Marcus Daniels
So many awesome things about about the infamous list of meta-humans.
It’s really Skye that calls out the superpowers aspect of the list.
Pretty much everyone in the Fridge has broken out and they don’t really go too deep into
which super villains were in there, but Marcus Daniels is the freak of the week.
In the comics he becomes Blackout.
I really appreciated that Coulson explained the mechanism by which he gained powers.
What is it about the Marvel Universe and cosmic radiation?
All I could think about was the Fantastic Four.
It was a nice payoff to the Daniels arc that Gamma Radiation based tech was the solution.
Also providing a nice opportunity for a Hulk shout out.
The biggest question I had after Daniels explained what happened to him in the Fridge was why?
Was it HYDRA scientists just conducting research like Baron Von Strucker with Loki’s staff.
If you didn’t catch it at the end of Captain America, HYDRA is experimenting with super
powers, but Von Strucker had Loki’s staff.
Which had the mind gem in it.
We can talk more about that in another video.
Number 4 - Patton Oswalt asks everyone what’s in The Box?
Every time someone asks that question I always get a Seven flashback.
I wonder if there’s an outtake with one of the actors say “there’s a head, the
thing inside my mystery box is a human head”.
The chair itself just felt like the ultimate SHIELD geek chair, which was basically who
Agent Koenig was.
He was like the ultimate Nick Fury fanboy.
Which actually brings up a really good question let me know who you think is a bigger Nick
Fury fanboy, Agent Koenig or Agent Coulson?
My favorite part of the interrogation scene was that Doctor Who shout out from Simmons.
Perfect answer.
Although I feel like a more honest answer would have been “The Doctor”.
But if she had said that I feel like people who don’t watch Doctor Who would have understood
what she meant.
But everyone understands what the TARDIS is.
Be sure to let me know in the comments what’s in your box.
Number 3 - Ward makes his move on the hard drive
I’m including him speechifying his backstory in this.
It makes it a little easier to put the pieces together on how he ended up with Garrett.
He said he rescued him from a bad situation.
And I think he was being honest about his brother and his parents.
Garrett probably killed his parents and took Ward into training.
I think the show will probably explain this in greater detail once the rest of the team
figures out he’s HYDRA.
I was really bummed to see Patton Oswalt eat it, but he will be avenged.
If you didn’t catch it, the reason he had to take Skye and the Bus to Peru is because
the hard drive can only be unlocked at specific locations.
Number 2 - May Quits Team Coulson and Tracks Down Maria Hill
Kind of two big things, but really I don’t think anyone thinks May actually quit the
team, she just needs some time.
But not only did we get to meet her mother, who I’m guessing was a spy for the Chinese
Government or the Canadian Government or whoever.
But May is going to track down Maria Hill.
Marvel revealed she was coming back to the show after Winter Soldier premiered.
So it’s not a big surprise.
We’ve know next week was going to be her episode for a while.
I’m curious to see how she ends up helping them, but as of right now.
She’s an employee at Stark Industries trying to do something positive for humanity.
As opposed to invading everyone’s privacy in the name of global security.
Either way, expect several awesome Tony Stark jokes next week.
and my Number 1 moment - Amy Acker debuts as The Cellist
The part was really short, but my favorite Cellist moment was when she was explaining
how she met Coulson and their history together.
I actually expected him to reveal himself, but we can debate whether or not he should
have in the comments.
If you never saw her on any of her other Joss Whedon shows like Angel or Dollhouse.
She also starred in his movie Much Ado About Nothing.
Which Clark Gregg was in.
That’s an amazing movie all by itself, it’s like whedonverse heaven.
Seriously make sure you watch it.
They were kind of vague on it, but that speech from Couslon at the end about telling her
when the time was right just leaves the door open for Amy Acker to come back in the future.
If they do get a season 2.
She could always come back in a movie too.
But let me know what you’re favorite moment was?
Seeing the supervillain Blackout or meeting the Cellist?
For me it really was meeting that Cellist.
She was such a huge teaser in the first Avengers movie that I’m surprised they didn’t make
the cameo bigger.
I guess we can pass that to tumblr to fill in the gaps with fan fiction.
Overall I gave the episode a B plus, I loved the A story, that Cellist Marcus Daniels story.
But I felt like the B story, Ward’s HYDRA mission kind of pulled the episode down a
little.
I just don’t feel like Chloe Bennett was able to pull off the double agent scenes.
I loved her and Ward before she discovered his secret, but the way they edited the Patton
Oswalt reveal with the Cellist scenes didn’t resonate with me.
I just don’t think it works when Skye is acting.
Chloe Bennett acting ask Skye acting as secret agent Skye trying to deceive Ward.
I’m not a big fan of characters acting like other characters.
Unless it’s Tatiana Maslany on Orphan Black.
To be fair, the Cellist was such a huge pay off.
It’s been like one of the long con’s of the Marvel Universe, this person that’s
so important to Coulson, but that we’ve never met.
And we’ve only been living with Patton Oswalt for one week.
I was really sad he had to die though.
I’m hoping they eulogize him in some funny way whenever they try to take down Ward and
Garrett.
Let me know what you’re final thoughts are on the episode and do you think Coulson should
have revealed himself to the Cellist?
Like I said, because I’m starting special Arrow bonus videos there’s no Marvel Movie
video this week.
I’m still going to do a couple Spider-Man videos when that comes out in the United States
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High Fives!