Hey youtubers it’s Charlie and this week agents of shield finally revealed what real
life simmons has been up to and we got to spend some more time learning about the big
villain Doctor Whitehall aka Kraken.
The interesting thing is that even though they had a super powered comic book character
in the episode.
He wasn’t really the biggest thing in the episode and I really like that they did that.
They made Simmons the main character.
Lot’s of big stuff this week so few announcements at the end but careful for spoilers from the
episode if you haven’t seen it yet.
I’ll wait just a sec...okay, top 5 moments.
Number 5 - Kraken Is Stealing SHIELD Agents
Did anyone else catch the reference to Sound of Music, it was the “Very Good Place to
Start” line.
It’s the Do-Re-Mi Song.
Very sinister.
Of course that story took place in Nazi Germany and Kraken was a Nazi so it’s totally appropriate.
It gives the whole rest of the episode this Sound of Music theme where Clark Gregg is
the Christopher Plummer character, Captain Von Trapp and he’s trying to keep his family
safe from the Nazis.
I guess that would make May the Julie Andrews Maria character.
They did dress Skye up kind of like a Nun with her black hood here.
It’s just a fun meta way to look at the episode, Music was a big part of the episode
too and Sound of Music was a Musical.
Kraken bookened the episode, so we’ll see more of him in the future.
But aside from the Sound of Music moment, my favorite part was the big oh shit at the
end when they implied they might try to brainwash Simmons.
Number 4 - Donnie Gill aka Blizzard is Back
I love that they had some more fun with the powers in the episode and that they kind of
buried the lead a little.
He wasn’t the biggest part of the episode, so I’m glad we didn’t spend more time
than was necessary with him.
Yes powers are cool, but this was all about Simmons, so Blizzard was just in here as a
way to explain how HYDRA’s conditioning works.
That also explains last week’s episode where Absorbing Man got all creepy.
Compliance will be rewarded.
Turned out Donnie had been brainwashed the whole time and HYDRA just reactivated him.
And the fact they didn’t find the body at the end of the episode just means that he’s
still out there in the world alive.
They didn’t kill him off, that was what the whole Skye, crossing someone off bit was
at the end.
Number 3 - Skye Is Trying To Keep It Together
It’s really all about whether or not she has it in her to “Cross Someone Off”,
they kept repeating that theme.
I thought the watch they made her wear, the one that tracked her pulse, was unecessary.
It was just May explaining that her pulse was a good way to measure whether or not Skye
was keeping herself under control.
Like when Ward told her about her dad and the watch had a heart attack.
She lost it for a sec and then calmed herself down.
She’s just trying to become a really good agent like May, which requires control.
Or Compliance I guess, depending on which team you’re playing for.
I love the way Team HYDRA and Team Coulson’s story arcs are mirroring each other.
Like Kraken is an evil version of Coulson.
Number 2 - Fitz almost kills Ward
Loved Fitz in the episode, did not love Ward.
And I think that’s how the writers want us to feel.
Fitz hasn’t really had a confrontation with Ward since the finale last year, so this was
a long time coming.
I know a lot of you have theories about Fitz maybe turning evil this season.
I think the bit with Coulson at the end provides some more context.
Coulson has the Dad moment where he explains, yes.
I am keeping things from you.
I’m your dad, I’m trying to protect you and deal with a ton of other unrelated bullshit
in the world.
But you are an important part of this team.
I felt like he was going to give Fitz a hug for a sec.
I think Fitz will still be stuck like this for most of the first half of the season.
Something really significant has to happen with his character though.
I just keep wondering if it’s going to have something to do with the HYDRA plot or Skye’s
Father and the Obelisk.
Characters have to change.
Matter only has two states of existence, Growth and Decay.
So either Fitz has to keep getting worse or he has to evolve somehow.
Evolve doesn’t necessarily mean something good.
He could get wrapped up in the Simmons HYDRA plot.
and my Number 1 Moment - Simmons is HYDRA
She was by far, the best part of the episode.
They could have just done the Simmons scenes and it still would have been an amazing episode.
The name of that song that she woke up to is God Help the Girl.
Which is funny, because Coulson brought food, helping the girl.
Thus Coulson is God.
He is kind of Immortal inside the Marvel Universe, so you could say he’s like a God.
It seems like based on that last little bit in the episode, Simmons will stay inside HYDRA
for most of the season, or at least until Kraken learns she’s a double agent.
And that will definitely happen.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they did something like that during the mid-season finale.
So just look forward to learning more about Kraken when we get our Simmons scenes.
Because they’re literally moving her upstairs, she’ll be working directly with Kraken and
this guy.
It’s like Simmons is getting promoted to work inside one of these crazy Baron Von Strucker
labs.
His operation is way more advanced than normal HYDRA.
It’s like the way Red Skull said HYDRA was way beyond the Nazi’s in terms of scope.
Baron Von Strucker and Kraken are way beyond the scope of HYDRA.
Just pushing the boundaries of science.
Let me know what your favorite part of the episode was, and what do you think they’re
going to have Simmons doing in that upstairs lab?
Next week they’re going full fan fiction with Coulson and May, and I am 100 percent
on board with it.
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