For those who thought issues had been going to decelerate after Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 7 Episode 5, you’ll have been sorely mistaken.
With most likely the perfect and most painful cliffhanger but, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 7 Episode 6 left us wanting extra of its action-packed goodness.
All the brokers had been coping with totally different threats, and the significance of needing to be on the Zephyr earlier than it time jumped couldn’t have been extra apparent than it was on this hour.
Enoch was left behind within the 1930s on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 7 Episode 2, so one would assume that that will be the final time the staff ever made a dire mistake like that one.
Nicely, the Zephyr disagreed.
Rick Stoner: Your folks blew up my rocket on the Fourth of July.
Coulson: You did not need that factor to succeed in orbit Common. You’ll have discovered that out the arduous method.
Rick Stoner: As a result of time-traveling robots would have turned the lethal lasers upon the Earth?
Coulson: Roughly, yeah.
Mack, distraught at having to kill the Chronicoms that took on the personas of his dad and mom, wanted to take a breather after the Zephyr time jumped.
A nervous Deke adopted him, however nobody might have guessed that the Zephyr would time bounce once more minutes after its final one.
Following the obvious theme of the previous few episodes, my finest guess could be that Deke and Mack are caught within the 1990s. As to wherever the remainder of the staff went, something and wherever is feasible.
Mack and Deke are a peculiar duo to have stranded collectively, however which may be why it will possibly work.
The final time we noticed the 2 of them collectively, Mack was extraordinarily indignant at Deke for killing Freddy and disobeying his orders. Since that anger was by no means resolved, it’ll almost certainly be introduced up once more.
Consequently, they’re sure to speak about Deke’s battle with defining his ethical code, particularly as a result of Mack has all the time stood firmly on his personal. If there’s anybody who could make all of it far more clear for Deke, it is Mack.
The distinction of their conflicting personalities will make for some soul looking scenes as they determine a method out of the mess they’re in. Hopefully, they discover a higher resolution than ready as Enoch did.
Speculating about Brokers of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 7 Episode 7 apart, let’s discuss Mack.
Poor, poor Mack. It was so cute watching how giddy he was when interacting together with his dad and mom in 1976. However that’s tainted now that we all know it was pretend, particularly after the heartwrenching scene when he pushed his “mom” out of the aircraft.
Mack’s mother: Who’re you?
Mack: That is Agent Rodriguez, she’s my girlfriend.
Yo-Yo: Oh, I do not assume these strangers care about that, Director Mack-lemore.
As we realized, the Chronicoms can now tackle the personalities of the folks whose faces they steal.
However since they made it seem to be it was a brand new growth that befell after Venture Perception blew up, there was by no means any hypothesis that Mack’s dad and mom, who had been taken hostage earlier than the occasion, had been Chronicoms.
Not solely are the writers messing with time by having their characters journey by means of it, however they’re additionally utilizing it to tug the wool over the viewers’s eyes.
Is Phil Coulson really lifeless? And what number of instances have we requested that exact same query?
At this level, it is akin to the boy who referred to as wolf when Coulson “dies.” When one character dies greater than two instances, it’s arduous to really feel grief at that precise second as a result of it’s unbelievable.
That and the truth that Can also believes Coulson will present up once more, even after he was blown up, has us pondering the identical. Plus, a personality like Coulson deserves an epic ending, and that wasn’t it.
Could: There’s one thing incorrect with that agent.
Coulson: I do know, you’d assume somebody named Stoner could be slightly extra enjoyable.
Could: No, the girl.
He’ll make his return quickly as a result of he must make up with Could as soon as and for all as they’ve felt too far aside this season.
Most definitely, it will likely be as a result of Coulson survived that explosion and can wait a few years, like Enoch did, to meet up with the staff. However making an allowance for how Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D Season 7 has gone to date, something is feasible.
Earlier than his “dying,” although, Coulson reminded us how smart he’s by leaving us with yet another of his inspiring speeches. This time, it was all about humanity and the complexities and sweetness that come together with it.
Sibyl, who’s a subtlely terrifying villain along with her lack of fear, revealed the reality as to why the Chronicoms consider they need to take over Earth from the people, and it is so simple as mortality.
Chronicoms are immortal, that means that they by no means have to fret about dying the best way people do. People act irrationally due to the data that they might die at some point, and that’s the reason Chronicoms are higher suited to outlive.
Due to Coulson, everyone knows that that’s removed from the reality.
People are worthy of survival due to the feelings they really feel and their willingness to outlive. It jogged my memory of the time Steve Rogers stood up in opposition to Thanos’ military alone in Avengers: Endgame — people are unyielding.
When knocked down, people get again up and combat regardless of the price. And that might not be extra symbolic of Brokers of S.H.I.E.L.D. as an entire.
Coulson: I might argue that you simply’re incorrect about three issues, for those who do not thoughts.
Sibyl: Please.
Coulson: First, the distinction is sacrifice. Yeah, time is proscribed, which implies sacrifice comes at an actual price. Not simply knowledge. Coronary heart, and ache, and blood, and sweat, and tears. All the nice human stuff. And we are going to by no means quit.
Sibyl: You mentioned I used to be incorrect about three issues. What is the third?
Coulson: Me. You see, I have not feared dying for a very long time.
Sibyl: Is that so?
Coulson: Yeah. The very fact is, dying, it is sort of my superpower.
Sure, the staff is made up of some Inhumans, however on the finish of the day, they’re only a random group of S.H.I.E.L.D. brokers who’re prepared to sacrifice for the higher good.
They’ve all given up a lot to be a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, and they won’t cease pushing in opposition to those that need to destroy their world till the very finish.
It is an incredible factor to reminded of as we watch the collection come to a detailed.
We lastly had been awarded some solutions about Simmons and the machine in her head.
Simmons has been fairly secretive in regards to the precise particulars of how she and Fitz constructed a time machine and all the pieces that entails. Fortunately Deke walked in at simply the appropriate second and compelled Simmons to confess a few of her secrets and techniques to him.
I designed a organic implant to suppress my recollections. I named her “Diana.” She’s cute and we’re inseparable, actually.
Simmons
Initially, it’s fairly probably the best factor on this planet that Simmons affectionately named her organic implant “Diana,” and secondly, it’s so tragic that Simmons has to have it to remove her recollections of the place Fitz is.
We dearly miss Fitz, so it is unimaginable to think about how a lot Simmons should miss him. And regardless of the heartbreak everyone seems to be feeling now, the reunion of Fitzsimmons is sure to be one for the books.
Given the truth that Fitz is within the one place on this planet the place he can keep watch over the Chronicoms, the matter of his security is of nice concern. However one can nonetheless hope that he returns quickly. Possibly that is the place the Zephyr jumped to?
Whereas everybody else was nervous in regards to the Zephyr and Chronicoms, Daisy and Sousa needed to take care of the power-hungry son of Freddy Malick.
It was terrible to look at as Daisy was used as a lab rat by Nathaniel Malick, particularly figuring out her mom’s previous expertise with Daniel Whitehall.
Coulson: The place’s Daisy?
Sibyl: Kidnapped. By Nathaniel Malick. He desires to take her energy.
Coulson: What are the probabilities he’ll succeed?
Sibyl: Twenty-two %.
Coulson: Will Daisy survive?
Sibyl: Eighty-six %.
Coulson: That is my lady.
Nathaniel needed the identical factor Whitehall did — to accumulate Inhuman powers. Fortunately, it didn’t work in his favor, and Daisy’s quake powers had been an excessive amount of for him. Was it satisfying for anybody else to look at the roof come down on prime of him?
Sadly, the matter of Daisy’s powers is up for debate. She was unable to quake whereas being held captive with Sousa, however let’s hope they return eventually and that she makes a full restoration.
One good factor might need come out of Daisy and Sousa’s kidnapping, although, and that’s the bond between the 2 of them.
There have already been hints that Daisy and Sousa had been rising nearer on previous episodes, however going by means of what they only went by means of will certainly strengthen their relationship.
It’s a difficult matter, nonetheless. For one, they’re from two fully totally different time intervals. Plus, Sousa is, by all means, lifeless.
Daisy: Malick’s little psycho-
Nathaniel: Psycho? Now that is unfair and really well-timed. Wow, proper as I am strolling in. Hello, Nathaniel. Uh, the 2 of you took me hostage, modified my life.
Daisy: Yeah, how about you unchain us and we will hug it out? And HYDRA and S.H.I.E.L.D might be collectively eventually.
However their chemistry is kind of apparent and all however smacks you within the face when they’re onscreen collectively. And Sousa telling Daisy about how he misplaced his leg whereas she was affected by her accidents was a really candy second.
Whereas difficult, one can’t argue in opposition to the truth that Sousa has needed off the Zephyr just about since he arrived, however now he has a cause to remain.
What do you assume, Brokers of S.H.I.E.L.D. Fanatics?
When and the place do you assume Mack and Deke are? The place did the Zephyr go? How will Coulson return this time?
And the way does everybody really feel about Daisy and Sousa?
Let me know within the feedback, and don’t forget which you can watch Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. online proper right here through TV Fanatic.
Brokers of S.H.I.E.L.D. airs on Wednesdays at 10/9c on ABC.
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