about half the questions we all had were answered, some they’re teasing for Season 2 and then

in the last 15 minutes a whole mess of new questions came up. Because Season 2 was already

confirmed here’s what I’m going to do.

I’ll start with top 5 moments, then do my review and then do some theorycrafting on

Season 2 based on what we know.

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So careful for spoilers from the episode if you haven’t seen it yet. Here are my top

5 moments, Number 5 - Fitz Sacrifices Himself For Simmons

I feel like the sacrifice means more when it’s not a superhero. Like when Thor jumps

into a hurricane. You’re 99 percent sure he’s going to escape without a scratch on

him. But drowning at the bottom of the ocean and confessing your love for someone is just

so much more meaningful.

They kept talking about life on the bottom of the ocean I half expected some atlanteans

to swim up and save them. But I think that was just an easter egg.

Coulson took more chances with his life, but since he’s already been proven unkillable,

Fitz made the biggest sacrifice in the episode. And as a result is paying the biggest price.

It sounds like his character, when he does come back is going to be fundamentally different.

Number 4 - Nick Fury Saves The Day

He got an introduction in the episode befitting his level of badassery. If you’re confused

about the timeline between the end of Winter Soldier and now, it’s basically moving in

real time. So it’s only been a couple months. Fury formally quit SHIELD, or what’s left

of it and is pursuing the remnants of HYDRA personally.

In the episode he really felt like he was walking onto a holodeck, like he knew nothing

would hurt him. I loved his call out to the one man speech. One man can be Part, Part

of Something Greater.

When he left at the end too and said I’m everywhere, it was the writers leaving room

for him to cameo on the show again next season. It’s funny the way Marvel never throws characters

away. Which actually ties in to my next moment.

Number 3 - Coulson Takes Down Garrett

More like liquifies him with the Tesseract Gun. This was just like the moment at the

end of Avengers where the Hulk thrashes Loki around. Garrett has this moment of evil triumph

like he thinks he’s escaped and bam, you get that Joss Whedon head jerk to Coulson.

I just love how nonchalant he is about the whole moment to, it just completely subverts

our expectations and that’s why it’s so good.

It was moments like that early in the Marvel Movie Universe that made Coulson such a fan

favorite. Just him casually reacting to extreme situations. Oh Asgardian Robot killing everything

in the desert, hmm.

The only bad part is that those types of things spoil us, and because you can’t do them

every week I get bummed out it’s going to be Guardians of The Galaxy before we get to

see something like that again. Actually technically that’s November, SHIELD will be back before

then. So let’s say the Season 2 premiere before we get another “Coulson Reacts”

moment.

Quick side note too. We now know that the Tesseract gun is more powerful than the Destroyer

Gun.

Number 2 - Skye Is An Important Part of The Evolution

We didn’t get an official answer one way or the other, but Raina and Garrett mentioned

the words evolution and becoming something greater in almost every scene they were in.

I’m going to save some of the theories for the season 2 part of this video, but I love

the way the show is doing this crazy cosmic comic book rhetoric in a way that allows them

to not have to show it to us. I actually kept expecting Garrett to morph into something

else after Deathlok smashed him.

Earlier when he said this is the beginning of the end he was talking about throwing things

into the next stage of evolution. That really made me think Terrigen Mists and Inhumans,

because something similar happened in the Marvel Infinity comic book last year. And

Marvel is trying to develop an Inhumans movie at some point.

And Skye’s Father at the end. He and Raina and Skye all make me think that there are

multiple types of new aliens on the show. The problem is it all depends on whether an

Inhuman would be able to take a transfusion from a Kree, a la TAHITI Blue Alien. For the

sake of argument let’s say maybe, but Raina is probably an Inhuman. The term Monster just

fits so well, since sometimes inhumans turn into physically monstrous looking things when

they inhale the Mists. So in a way, SHIELD is setting up multiple big galactic things

in a really subtle way.

The show doesn’t cross over with the movies very often. But both influence each other.

So things that happen on SHIELD will have an impact on the plot of movies.

Number 1 - Fury Tasks Coulson With Rebuilding Shield

I suspected this might be the case, but I never predicted Coulson would become director

of SHIELD. That black box is going to be the maguffin of Season 2, we can talk about that

in a sec. But we found out they have another new secret base with another Patton Oswalt.

I’m going to go ahead and say Life Model Decoy. Wouldn’t it be funny if there was

a copy in ever single one of the super secret Nick Fury Black Sites. Just 50 or 60 Patton

Oswalts playing video games in the dark by themselves. Or maybe a massive Call of Duty

Lan Party.

I think my favorite quote from the episode was Garrett saying I’m the key to the future

of the Universe.

But now it’s your turn. Let me know what your favorite moment or moments were. It’s

hard to pick. But I felt a lot of Whedonverse mojo in this.

Overall the episode was a solid A. Definitely a high point for the season. Bill Paxton was

a breath of fresh air for the show and I’m only sorry he didn’t come on sooner. I think

that was mostly because when they started. The show only had a six episode commitment.

So they didn’t even know if they’d get renewed. They even shot the first three episodes

before episode 1 ever aired. So they didn’t even get feedback from the fandom until they

were mid-way through the first half of the season.

But now that the heavy lifting task of developing the core team members is over. The show can

start to have some more fun and get even more meta. I love what they did with Ward’s character.

Brett Dalton is still growing on me, his fight with May is the perfect metaphor for how most

people reacted to him until we learned he was Hydra. It was like he was trolling us

the whole time with the vanilla quarterback routine.

Coulson was already a great character when the show started. But now that we’ve got

to know him so much better he’s so much more complex. Before Agents of SHIELD he was

essentially the setup man for Tony Stark jokes. Which isn’t a bad job, but Nick Fury named

him as a core Avenger in this episode. So Marvel and Disney just made Coulson as important

as Captain America and Iron Man.

I don’t think that means we’ll ever see a Coulson movie, but I’m totally fine with

that. A lot of the credit this season goes to Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancheron. They

really did most of the work this season. A lot of people realize that even though Joss

Whedon was involved in getting this show off the ground. They were the ones that ran the

show all season while he was away working on Avengers 2. So if you really like the show.

They’re the ones to thank.

When it was announced SHIELD got renewed for Season 2 they even posted themselves dancing

crazy on instagram, so high fives to them.

Now it’s time for some Theorycrafting on Season 2. So everybody start scanning dialogue

and easter eggs again. First off, the plot.

That little black box Fury gave Coulson will be where most of their ideas for missions

come from. They used it to find their new base. So they’re going to just keep “finding”

interesting things in that database to investigate.

Just because Patton Oswalt was in the base when they arrived doesn’t mean he’ll be

in every episode, but he’ll definitely cameo again. They’re probably going to spend most

of their time on the plane traveling places.

As for the rest of the team, Triplett is probably going to replace Ward as the muscle man for

a little while. But Brett Dalton isn’t off the show. Ward will still be a main cast member.

Coulson said they’d use him to get HYDRA intel. So either they’re going to permanently

house him inside that special room on the plane, or they’ll keep him locked up at

that base. My money is on them keeping him close by. So Ming Na can slap him around once

a week.

Fitz is the big question mark right now. They made it sound like he’d lost some brain

function. So maybe part of his arc next season will be learning how to be a team member when

he’s not super smart anymore. Like learning to contribute and be special in a new way.

He’s not off the show either, so he’s definitely still on the team.

Garrett is definitely a puddle of goo, so he won’t be the villain again. That honor

will probably fall to Skye’s mystery Father. The Inhuman. He’s definitely not a Kree.

That’s funny too, because the macguffin this season was the super blood and on Arrow

it was the mirakuru. And next season it looks like SHIELD’s villain will be Skye’s Father

and on Arrow it looks like Thea’s father or Felicity’s father might be the villain.

I know they’re not copying each other, but the similarities in story elements is just

too weird to not think about.

Moving on to Skye’s heritage. Like I just said, Raina, who I suspect is an Inhuman who

hasn’t taken in the Mists of Terrigen, has a pre-existing relationhip with Skye’s father.

Who did not look like that Blue Kree alien. Ergo, my best theory right now is that she

is an Inhuman. But she’s not like a princess or anything. Black Bolt is still king of the

Inhumans and that guy did not look like Black Bolt. He seemed pretty evil. And in case you

couldn’t see, he was covered in blood for unknown reasons.

I expect this Inhumans secret to be like the Coulson TAHITI mystery next season. It’s

going to take most of the season for the show to fully explain it.

Let me know what your big theories for season 2 are and if you agree that Skye is an Inhuman

based on all the evidence.

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