*HUGE SPOILERS FOR EPISODE FOLLOW*
Lately Sheild has just been getting better and better each week topping the last and I didn't think that they would be able to keep up with that pace but boy was I wrong. Now I know this is a bold statement but I would say that this week was the best episode yet of the season, and no matter how much I hate Agent Ward he makes a damn good villain. With Agent Konieg, Ward and Sky playing massive parts in this episode it was explosive, brilliant and had some great tension in it with the last 10 minutes being utterly brilliant.
So shall we start with Agent Konieg starting with that lie detector test and mentioning Widow was a brilliant reference to Winter Soilder and the rest of the Marvel universe. (It's great to see them tying it in now so well with the rest of the cinematic universe) It was great watching him asking e same questions to each member of the team and just hearing thier answers which all differed. My highlights were Fitz and SImmons who are fast becoming my faviroutes of the show as they both gave these over complicated answers to a simple question of what's the difference between a egg and a rock. This was a great chance to see the differences in every members of the teams minds and how they deal with diffrent situations like what's in a box on a desert island. As they differed from a gun, to a laptop and a tardis it was a brilliant scene. But what made this scene and made it the stand out scene of the episode was Ward and Konieg as he asked him the questions and slowly became more and more suspicious of his answers. Which led to the photo above as he aimed his gun straight for Wards head and all I could shout was just pull the trigger and get rid of m already do us all a favour. But you know Ward he can turn his brain on sometimes and make his way out of sticky situations as he mentioned Sky. I bet even Romanov couldn't fool her way out of that one. It was a brilliant scene that not only made the episode but signed Koniegs death sentence. Which to be honest I suspected to happen no matter how much I didn't want it to and he was a brilliant new member of the show. He brought a breath of fresh air to the show so to see him die this week was quite sad to see but was expected.
Now this is something that I have mentioned in a previous post but I feel that we are finally seeing the real Sheild and the real show they wanted to create. Now that they are a small team on the run from the rest of Hydra we are finally getting more character focused episodes and seeing the show be tied into the rest of the marvel films and universe. The only probelm is that some characters are now just being side lined and left out in the cold literally. By this I mean Agent Mai who was left in the cold by agent Coulson who just annoys me at the moment as no matter what she tried even when the proof is there that she isn't lying he still hates her. So she left the team this week which might work out for the better for Mai as she is one of the more interesting characters in the show and still has so many secrets still waiting to be uncovered. We also saw her mum this week at the end of the epsiode where we see where she gets her cold ice woman charms from but it also makes for some interesting conversations and dialogue for the next episode. Her mother also mentions her agency so it makes me wonder just what sort of team she has behind her so that should make for some interesting scenes we can hope next week. So while she was left out in the cold we might be getting some more character driven episodes going into the next few episodes for agent Mai.
Character driven episodes didn't really count for Coulson and the rest of the team this week those as they were side lined and made into a B grade storyline. His storyline could have easily been left out of the episode this week as it just slowed down the episode as the main part of the episode and brilliant scenes came from Ward and Sky. Even those this slowed down the episode it still didn't stop the epsiode from being fantastic the only part of Coulsons team that I really enjoyed was poor old Fitz. As Simmons and Tripplet become closer he tries desperately to pluck up the courage to tell Simmons just the way that he really feels. Fitz is the comedic releif of the episode that I think will make up for the loss of Konieg this week as him and Coulson stood in the gallery getting ready for the imminent arrival of Daniels. So Coulson, Fitz, Simmons and Tripplet were dispatched due to the fact that the criminals of the fridge has been released and some of the them are just plain psychopathic. So this storyline just annoyed me really because I knew that Coulson could be a moron at times just be was just appliances stupid this week. As they shon lights at Daniels to make him into a human battery when it's overloaded but what he forgot is Hydra controlled Sheild so they were making the people in the fridge into super soilders so they did the same with Daniels made him stronger. It was just plain weak this storyline for them this week and it just felt like it wasn't needed and it was just added to get them out of the picture for a few hours. With the Fitz, Simmons and Tripplet love triangle to try and make it interesting it just made it feel clunky and less and less needed it slowed down the pace and was just plain awful. But like i said Fitz was the comic releif for that small b grade storyline as he desperately tried to find the courage to tell her the truth.
But let's get on to the good stuff the place where this epsiode just worked brilliantly and made Ward go from simple foot Soilder to cold blooded and twisted killer. So after Konieg started to slowly realise that Ward wasn't the loyal Soilder he said he was Ward came to the conclusion that he had to go. Which was sad like I said he had been a breath of fresh air for the show and I feel that they killed off a character that had massive potential for the show. But what it did do was give Sky a chance to be the first of the team to relaise that Ward was Hydra as she saw his body above her. Ward and Sky feel like Romeo and Juliet this week just not destined to be with each other as she started to fall for him just for her life to come crashing down to earth. It was a sad moment for Sky but it also opens up chances for us to start finding out more about her history and who her parents were. My theory is that her mum and dad were killed for knowing that Shield were really Hydra but who knows I'm sure that we did out in the coming weeks. So as Sky tried to find a way out of this situation she was left with the only conclusion of that she would have to go along with him and plead ignorance to the whole situation at hand. While Ward feels that she is oblivious to what's really happening I hope Sky is thinking up a plan so that she is able to get herself out of this mess. The last 10 minutes of that episode were brilliant they were tense, shocking and we finally got to see some great dialogue and character episode from the show that the fans have been crying out for. Watching as Sky ran into the toilet and realised he as Hydra watching as he ran through the facility looking for her my heart was in my mouth wondering just how the hell she would get out of this situation. Until you came to the relaisation that there was no way out of it and that she would just have to let it run it's course.
Overall we had another brilliant episode this week of a show that started out slow and on the rocks and has become utterly brilliant over the last few weeks. It's become fast, character focused and the plot is intertwining with the cinematic universe more and more everyweek. Even with the loss of Agent Konieg this week it still hasn't taken away from what was a brilliant episode but I do feel that thus have missed out ona. Great opportunity thier with him. The whole Coulson storyline felt un needed this week and messed up and all over the place lets just hope that it's just a one off. But what I will say those is that we are finally getting brilliant episodes of a show that has finally found its feet and if this is anything to go by then the other Marvel Tv shows that are in production are going to be just as great.
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