First off, sorry everyone for the late review, I had to drive home for the holidays and had to miss the latest episode until now. If it makes any of you feel better, I got into a car accident, so I'm already being punished for being late. Second, I would like to make a retraction on something I said last time, Jed Whedon did not write the last episode, i had gotten my intel from wikipedia and have suffered greatly from it. If wikipedia is telling the truth this time, it is THIS episode that Jed Whedon has written, but that's probably wrong too. In fact, for all I know, JOSH Whedon could be writing this whole show behind hundreds of different pen-names.
Now, onto the episode. This series is pissing me off in the best way it can, by hinting at the idea of one super-awesome-superpower and pulling a red-heron on us by giving us another awesome power instead.
The episode was advertised with Telekinesis being the power of the victim here, only for instead the culprit to be a dimension jumper trying to protect the victim unsuccessfully. (And I just spoiled the plot twist of the episode right away, good job me, your doing great at winning people to your show). I really like this idea on multiple parts, but it all centers to where Tobias (the dimension hopper) says he's returning to: Hell. Now, most would joke and say it's just symbolic or feels like hell, but Marvel actually HAS a Hell, and that means we'll be getting a whole adventure involving Mephito, the Marvel Devil. Of course, even if this isn't the case, it still leads to a second awesome thing that could happen.
In Marvel comics, there's a race of Mutants called Neyaphem that have demonic features and powers. Their leader, Azazel, actually showed up in X-Men: First Class as the Red version of Nightcrawler (you know, the teleporter). Now, first, this is PERFECTLY awesome if they decide to introduce the demon mutants this way. Now, in the comics, they were called mutants, but this was probably just because they wanted a cool explanation for Nightcrawler's demonic appearance. Here, they could just make them a race of demonic people with powers.
Also though, word has it that Marvel is trying to make their Inhumans more influential in the marvel universe since they can't use Mutants in the Cinematic universe. And I'll stop talking about this because nothing has anything to do with todays episode anymore.
The reason I spent this time explaining this whole thing is because aside from the reveal of Tobias being a dimension jumper, the story itself isn't that hard to follow from the standard AoS formula. This episode is actually, strangely enough, a Melinda May episode, where we learn just why she's called the Cavalry and why she is the way she is. It isn't really worth explaining since it's pretty much her being too tough in the line of work and she can't really forgive herself for some of the stuff she's done, but it's also nice in how they dealt with the affair going on between Melinda and Ward.
Normally in shows like this, they'll play it with cheep drama by having them get antsy or too smile-y around one another, but they made Ward and Melinda too professional for that and aside from Ward pausing at a joke about Melinda's sex-life from Skye, nothing was even made clear to the audience what was happening. I mean, if they hadn't of shown the two getting dressed together at the beginning of the episode, and I hadn't seen anything so far, I would have not even noticed really.
Another great thing about this episode is it's work with lighting. There were some moments that genuinely felt like a horror movie, with flickering lights and Tobias's teleporting power being used very well together.
Again, a very good episode, and I'm hoping this ends up leading to a subplot with Hell and the potential isn't just passed over like that.
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