As Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. continues from its great season three premiere last week, the second episode focuses a lot on the return of several characters, both regulars and guest characters.
While I’m not really sure what Ward’s full planes are yet, I’m enjoying everything that we are seeing of him. We get introduced to an unexpected Marvel figure, Werner von Strucker, the son of Baron von Strucker from Avengers: Age of Ultron, as Ward recruits him for Hydra 2.0. Only someone like Ward could have a casual conversation with a person while driving a car with a person that’s absolutely terrified and holding on to the hood for dear life. That’s a brilliant return for a character in a new season. I wonder, though, long it will be till Ward faces Coulson and his team.
As I’m taking my time to process the transition for Skye now being Daisy Johnson, it does feel like a cool superhero story, and seeing her just being in better control of her powers is pretty great. As this episode focuses a lot on finding Simmons, Fitz stole the show again like last week, and it continues to show the giant evolution that this character has undergone since the pilot. With this episode, we also see the return of one of my favorite guest characters from Season 1, with Peter MacNicol as Elliot Randolph. Is there any way we can make him a recurring character because his dynamic and role fits in so well this show.
I wasn’t sure how to feel about May’s scenes at all in this episode, and I’m someone who has enjoyed May since the very beginning. It was great seeing another member of her family, her father, who had a great sass to himself. But in the end, she joins Hunter and where it will go from there, we will have to wait to find out. It was nice seeing Andrew again, although there wasn’t a lot of him, but it’s good to just know that he is an active resource for the whole Secret Warriors program.
Whether Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is trying to turn Fitz into a superhero or not, it doesn’t matter because his determination makes him a superhero in my book. But since this was only Episode 2, I was leaning more towards that he would fail to save Simmons from wherever it was that she was trapped in thanks to the Monolith. I keep wondering though if the Monolith that we see here is the same one that I have been reading online about in the Marvel universe. As the show says, it’s all connected, so who knows? Maybe this is one of those times when it’s literally all connected with comics and the media.
But it was a stressful time having to see Fitz almost losing Simmons again during the whole storm sequence. Luckily, he did it and got her back, but I would be deeply concerned if I was Coulson because I have a feeling that the Simmons we got back, isn’t completely the same one that we lost to begin with.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. airs on Tuesday nights at 9/8c on ABC.
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