This episode was split into three distinct chunks. You had Coulson, still in captivity, May and Daisy trying to find Robin, and then everyone else at SHIELD HQ trying to figure out what to do next. For the SHIELD crew, that meant Yo-Yo and Simmons trying to prove to everyone that because they knew they were alive in the future, that they were invincible in the present. Some of it was a little silly, like the gun going off and narrowly missing Simmons and Fitz. But the idea that Jemma has bought so hard into this that she’s willing to risk drinking acid is kind of interesting. Maybe we’ll start to see a new side of Jemma as she begins to take more risks.
I wish the series would find something to do with Mack. The poor guy has had zero character development since coming back to earth. Right now, his job is to play the moral high ground and baby Yo-Yo. Because of this, I found myself cheering for Yo-Yo when she took matters into her own hands and helped Simmons free Fitz. She recognizes the need for action and listening to Daisy – who’s still clearly bitter – isn’t going to get them anywhere.
The stuff with Coulson was brief and perhaps the most meaningful? Creel attempting to fuse with the Gravitonium was an interesting experiment. I’m guessing that the voices he hears in his head are those of the scientist who invented the stuff, and the gangster guy from the end credits scene. I’m not sure what this is going to mean in the end, especially given Creel’s currently predicament, but it seems important at the very least.
I’m glad that Coulson and Talbott are free finally as well. It was clever using the space machine to teleport them out of the base. I just hope that we don’t spend two weeks watching them try to survive in the freezing cold before SHIELD comes and picks them up.
Then, you had Daisy and May finding Robin. The poor kid was confused and shut down from all the visions she had. It wasn’t until she saw May, who she considers to be her mother, that she began to open up. Again, not a whole lot happens here. It was a lot of waiting for Robin to open up and draw them what they need.
I’ll be honest, the first time I saw Robin’s drawing it looked like Iron Man and Spider- Man on Titan. Even when they put it up on the screen I didn’t see Coulson and Talbott. But I guess it would have been too much to find a little Infinity War Easter egg in there.
Lastly, I have no idea what the purpose of that end credits scene was. Are we to assume that we’ll be seeing the Gravitonium form into that guy it absorbed at the end? While I’m all for bringing back unresolved plots from previous seasons, I’d like to know where this is all going.
Written by Peter Freeman, AGENTS OF SHIELD Beat Writer
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