Ok, to start things off, I HATE the "How we got there" trope in television. It is so cheep and overdone and does nothing but pad time and trick the audience into trying to figure out what happened. Now, as the show was going, I was actually thinking this might work, that it was going to use time travel. Since the new artifact they discovered is some kind of machine built with technology from all over time. The first thing they say is that the artifact is millions of years older that the ancient ruins it was in (I'm probably misquoting, but it was basically saying that it was older than the place it was in.)
This made me wonder if they were dealing with some kind of nazi german time machine, but no, instead we get a super laser weapon that the peruvian government secretly built with escaped Nazi scientists back years ago. Really?
But anyway, I guess this is what I get for expecting something new out of a crime drama. It seems they are all the same. overused plot tropes. easily identifiable character tropes. Though I do like the constant inclusion of world events the show is giving us. I mean, the first episode starts by pulling Agent Ward out from somewhere in Europe (I forget where, no one was talking that much and it took only a few minutes) and now we head over to Peru, even though half the episode is actually involved in the plane.
Now let's talk about character development. Skye and Agent Ward seem to be building more of a relationship, which was obvious from the start, but what I like about this is that they seem to be arguing mostly about their own ethics and don't genuinely act like children in this episode. Ward is speaking from the side of someone who has protected the country from threats for a while and has made sure not to let anyone know and he sees Sky as dangerous because of that. Skye sees Ward as dangerous because of what he does and she tries to protect people by showing them what is the truth. There's no one great evil here, both have reasonable sides and I like how it is developing.
What I worry though is Skye's group, Rising Tide, hasn't chosen it's side though and is showing sides of being evil. Especially during her talk of what they believe in. I don't know why, but when she mentioned how Rising Tide is all about taking pieces of ideas from everyone and using it all to form a single idea, really fits with the Centipede project done by the evil organization last episode where they took technology from every movie series in this franchise and put it all together. So it is probably going to be revealed that Rising Tide is the bad guys.
I also fear that maybe Ward or Skye will just end up siding with the other's ideology and there won't be any dynamic anymore. There isn't a single right side things.
Also, Fitz and Simmons got some new character development. It seemed Simmons dragged Fitz on board this team and Fitz doesn't seem that happy about it. He seems to have a lot of signs of having strong OCD, such as in the last episode where he didn't like touching anything in the crime scene. And in this episode, where he almost cost his team their lives when he started freaking out over the order of placement for his flying drones.
We see more of Melinda May's combat experience as well, learning that they used to call her the Cavalry and she seems to be just as good as Black Widow.
It is also brought to question why Coulson put together this team with so many rookies and inexperienced officers. The antagonist of this episode even says he's having a mid-life, or as Coulson puts it, and after-life crisis. Coulson seems to see a lot of potential for them all and I'm looking forward to their progression. Some of his backstory was presented in this episode as well, showing that he used to serve alongside the antagonist and that they had a romantic relationship back in the day.
Now for a little speculation: Agent Coulson as a LMD. I'd LOVE it if this happened. It would be so cool to introduce a new addition from the original Marvel mythos to the Movie Universe. I'm hoping that maybe Fitz might improve on his flying drones and create his own combat technology, like his own Iron Man suit. and who knows, if he gets popular enough, he might make an addition to the Iron Man cast like Coulson did.
I'm really interested to see how Thor 2 is going to play with Agents of SHIELD when it happens? Is Whedon going to make the episodes before and after the showing of Thor 2 connect to it in some way?
Also, I heard that they were doing end-credit clips like in the movies, so I went to take a look and really? the only thing you could think of was just have Nick Fury start yelling at Coulson for smashing a plane? They couldn't have done anything involving plot development wise?
I'm still keeping up with the series since I love the idea of the project, but this might be my least favorite episode in the season.
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