Ward is not a good villain, and this new Hydra is lame as hell. Also, why is Bobbi still out of commission months later from one gunshot, when Ward took like 3 shots point-blank in the stomach from Skye and was completely fine afterwards?
I really can’t stand watching anything hydra/ward related, it’s so pathetic!!! Hydra has been reduced to a whining man who has a revenge against three women, Ward is no worthy villain, Hunter’s vendetta is pointless, and we never get to see much about May’s and Andrew’s dynamic so I couldn’t get too emotional with the ending.
I think it's wonderful.
Why is hunting inhumans? What hidden Simmons?
What does Simmons need to tell Fitz?!?!
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParentSpoilers2015-10-21T15:57:47Z
Pretty lean stuff for something so action-packed. This episode was Agents of Shield leaning into its worst tendencies -- action movie quips and soap opera-style acting, cheesy fakeouts, and trumped up conflict.
I get the Daisy-Coulson-Rosalind circle of mistrust, but it's just not that interesting. Coulson and Daisy's bond has always been more spoken of than actually shown or sold, and so it makes the whole storyline feel kind of forced. Plus the flirting between Coulson and Rosalind is getting past cute and into annoying territory, though perhaps that's the point. Either way, throwing in a CATS-reject with spikes to wreak havoc who, it turns out, is the Mr. Hyde to someone's (Rosalind's?) Dr. Jeckyl, doesn't do much to compel me.
Hunter's story was, as usual, boosted by his amusing delivery, but the firefight with Ward and the threat against Andrew didn't do much for me. It struck me as cheesy Bond villain maneuvers that it's hard to take seriously. May and Andrew's relationship has been one of the more interesting elements in recent weeks, but again, most of their interactions felt like soap opera-type stuff than real human interactions, which tells me it's the writing and the direction given that they've both acquitted themselves well as actors in the past. The same goes for the May-Coulson scene, which should be momentous and instead felt far softer than it should have. The cynic in me suggests that they're setting up Coulson to get burned by Rosalind, and May to get burned by Andrew, such that they end up in each other's arms (May telling Coulson that he looks good without the tie seemed like a feint in that direction.)
And then there's FitzSimmons, with a mostly superfluous Bobbi involved. While Simmons's scenes with Andrew were interesting, this seemed to be an episode about stalling for time on this storyline, with little development and nothing for Bobbi to do besides play middleman and have premonitions about Hunter. (I did enjoy Fitz and Simmons being of the same mind on the blue ziploc bags).
Pretty damn meh all around, with that sense only doubly felt in light of a cheap way for the bad guys to scurry away, and what feels like a pretty clear fakeout at the end. What are you gonna do?