Agents of Shield Season 6 Episode 5 Review

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season half-dozen Episode 5 Review: The Other Affair

Agents of South.H.I.East.Fifty.D. delivers a terrific episode that sheds some more than calorie-free on its supporting characters.

Curiosity'south Agents of SHIELD delivered a terrific episode this week as information technology delved into the show's supporting characters, shedding some light into their motivations. We got a sense of the wider Chronicom race and their issues as well as Sarge's gang and what Sarge-Coulson himself is up to, all interspersed with some A-grade editing. In essence then, The Other Thingreally did testify us a peek into the side that our protagonists have been squaring off confronting for so long.

This was the commencement episode since the season premiere that combined all running subplots and it did so effortlessly. May had some corking dialogue with Sarge where nosotros finally understand what his canaille scavenger gang has been up to: ridding worlds of strange alien creatures that infect their hosts and emanate crystalline spikes out of them. In a certain sense and then, Sarge isn't really an antagonist; his plan of ridding the very planet that these monsters have chosen to inhabit side by side simply puts him at odds with the S.H.I.E.50.D. agents, especially May.

For Melinda May though, the odds are stacked against her for one more reason: Sarge's face. Reminding her of Coulson and her last days spent with him, presumably in TAHITI (it's a magical place), manager Lou Diamond Phillips nicely cuts and contrasts those moments with her present-twenty-four hours interactions with Sarge to further push the notion that these are ii entirely different people, organisms even. Phillips uses an incredibly large amount of closeups, to muffle the evidence'southward budget constraints that probably prevented them from shooting in TAHITI or Hawaii. Of form eventually, there'due south got to be some connection but for at present, it's safe to assume that the show is saving that reveal for the terminal few episodes. The nearly logical explanation at this point is that Coulson is a Skrull, though that doesn't fit equally neatly with his intentions every bit explained in this episode.

Meanwhile in space, the gang finally come up shut to Fitz but to finish up being captured by Chronicom Latara (or is information technology Natara?). She informs Enoch that their unabridged planet has been obliterated on account of some disturbances and nudges Enoch to help save their race by coercing Daisy and her captured gang to build a time traveling machine. It'due south nice to see Enoch existence torn between his planet and his newfound best friend, as well as see some hints of Chronicom sex and indirect sexual tension between the ii Chronicoms. Joel Stoffer displays a wonderful residuum of restrained stoicism and simply a tinge of emotion, with hints of his Chronicom persona developing a human being conscience. All of this go a long way in fleshing out the Chronicom world instead of something that exists purely for laughs.

The "anomalies" that spread across planets is reminiscent of Thanos' snap from Avengers: Infinity War, which kind of bothers the MCU enthusiast in me. It's sad that the prove isn't maintaining continuity with the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies whatsoever longer but these drops certainly advise some efforts towards at to the lowest degree alluding to what's happening in the movies. Information technology's just so anachronistic though that it doesn't marshal at all and the only explanation I'1000 self-convincing myself is that the time-traveling somehow brought them in a parallel Multiverse of sorts, where their reality branched out with those of the movies.

Anyhow, back to chat on the episode, author George Kitson (is that who the testify named the third episode on?) gives some groovy material to the SHIELD team, peculiarly Mack, YoYo and Marcus. The loss of Keller hasn't actually hit as hard as it should have, given that we barely got a chance to know him and his romance with YoYo in the space of 4 episodes. In this episode though, the effects of his demise are emphasized strongly as a grieving YoYo and a stressed Mack discuss the problems bothering them aboard the spy organization. Mack comes out about the challenges he's facing keeping a team together and living up to Coulson's role as well as coming together up to his unspoken expectations and lofty standards and he clearly misses Coulson's presence. While it's all conveyed subtly through earlier episodes, seeing him acknowledge these points to YoYo in a private moment does hit you difficult.

We also get a sense of how Marcus is struggling to deal with these bizarre happenings effectually him. Foreign, man-looking aliens that pop out of portals, creatures crystallizing inside humans that can be killed with the stab of a special knife, these are things Marcus certainly wasn't prepared for when he signed up to work with SHIELD. We also acquire a scrap about his past with his husband (a reminder that Marcus is yet some other LGBT graphic symbol in a mainstream Curiosity show) as well as his land of mind after the demise of his better one-half, and those are nice tidbits to pause and ponder over in a show that'due south generally concerned with advancing the plot forward.

Technically, the fifth episode probably stood out the most unique of all the episodes I've seen. While every other outing this season has had that "commission" affect to it, as if handled by an executive squad, this 1 felt a bit personal, cheers to how Phillips handled sequences throughout besides as how Kitson wrote the episode to center more around conversations rather than action-spectacle (not that there wasn't enough spectacle). It's probably a expert reminder that spicing up an episode with your own flair a bit can arrive stand out quite a lot.

The Other Thingwas a thoroughly enjoyable episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.Fifty.D., one that brought out the homo side of all its characters and making us see things from their perspective. Without doubt, it is thus far the best episode of Season 5.

Agents of SHIELD Flavour vi Episode 5 Rating: ix out of 10

Also read our review of the previous episode: Code Yellow

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