Unfortunately this season gets worse every single episode :(
It’s hard to watch…
Not bad, slow sweet filler episode ♥
civil war is coming to show!!!
This season really needs to speed up.
Ahh, here we go. You can always tell when it's 2016 with these superhero shows...the Agents of SHIELD's biggest threat naturally has become "speech".
The Watchdogs stuff is oddly (and unfortunately) topical in recent times. More than the writers ever would've thought, I imagine.
Bobbie and Hunter were written off just so skye and lincoln could have more screen time!!!! Like how pathetic!!! They went from having the best and most competent agent MISS BOBBIE MORSE (after may, of course, but I consider may more like in a leadership position) and one of the most charismatic characters and with huge character growth Hunter, for like the two blandest characters with zero chemistry, I WILL NEVER FORGIVE THIS
Daisy was just plain stupid throughout this episode.
THE FRICKIN SHOTGUN AXE!!!!!! Also I enjoyed seeing the new pairings between the team
a little of civil war in this episode
Family, secrets, "And since I am practically the only woman here who can not kill with his bare hands"
worth watching. not to boring. it was okay
First mention of "Damage Control" Daredevil Easter Egg, Cool looking effects all in all a slow episode.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2016-03-31T22:14:52Z
I rated this a giant meh, and I stand by it. Getting to see Mac team up with his little brother who's sympathetic to the watchdogs is a nice enough idea on paper, but the execution is a little too easy and cornball to really work. The "I stayed, you left" routine feels ripped out of the usual family drama playbook, and while there's a certain sweetness to Little Mac appreciating his brother after he sees what he's capable of in a tense situation, the whole story is a little too rote to work.
At the same time, Daisy going militant against the watchdogs feels like a pretty weak X-men retread. There's some perfunctory debate about civil liberties and other mild attempts to show that the series is at least aware of the political and social implications of this, even if it doesn't quite have the facility to actually explore them. Fitz's gak infection felt mostly like a waste of time you knew they were going to find an easy solution for anyway.
Coulson's team up with Lincoln in order to test him out was a watered down mentor/mentee pairing that never crossed the line into compelling. The show hasn't done a great job at dramatizing Coulson's new harsher demeanor post-Rosalind since it came back from hiatus, and here you kept his frostiness to Lincoln to just be a put on. The eventual fake out with the Watch Dogs' leader is at least an attempt to use the show's history a bit, which I appreciate, but Lincoln is such a boring character to begin with that I don't really care about him joining the team or about his supposed control issues.
Oddly enough, the slightest storyline in the episode was the best. Simmons and May make a great team, and the way that May helps Gemma by telling her that what Andrew did isn't her fault is a nice moment between the two of them. May is the kind of person that Buffy the Vampire Slayer grows up to become, and to that end, it's interesting to see her deflect Simmons's attempts at encouragement with respect to curing Andrew. If she has hope that he can be saved, then she can't do her job, which is to subdue him and protect innocent lives. Simmons is feeling that guilt too, but still wants to save the man beneath the beast.
All-in-all, it was a pretty weak episode. It wasn't as basely insulting to the audience's intelligence like the last one, but it was a spate of wheel-spinning whose storytelling weaknesses prevented it from genuinely deepening any of the characters (a missed opportunity given that Mac got more focus than usual) or advancing the plot.