The Agents of SHIELD season 3 premiere went in with both barrels on the Inhumans.
This Agents of SHIELD review contains spoilers.
Agents of SHIELDseems to be the comic series that has perpetually been waiting for greatness.
Just two stories took center stage as Marvel set up the dominos for a seasons worth of goodness.
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We start with the Inhumans.
Gavin addressed it better than I ever could so go check out thatarticle.
Well, it aint thinly veiled anymore, as it has now become glaringly overt.
The episode really captured the panic of Gutierrez as his powers first manifested.
The episode then set up each character very nicely for the coming season.
But there is a dude with a missing hand as poor Coulson got Luke Sywalkered last season.
She has come a long way from the snarky Mary Sue of season one.
Mack has evolved into Daisys muscle bound aide-de-camp but doesnt really have an arc of his own.
I hope the series doesnt Agent Tripp Mack to raise the stakes for Daisy.
But what of Simmons you ask?
What of our beloved lady scientist who was sucked into some sort of space vortex last season?
Well, it seemed that Fitz was searching the globe for answers regarding the monolith that ate poor Simmons.
The one word was death.
Well, that aint good.
Marvel fans really are a squishy bunch.
Who does that mysterious strike force that almost took down Gutierrez work for?
Where is Melinda May and Grant Ward?
And most of all, where is Simmons?
Maybe it was that dimension that the Fantastic Four visited in this summers feature film.
No, it could never be that horrible, could it?
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After much searching, I cant find the comic book equivalent of Gutierrez or Price.
Of course, the presidents new anti-Inhuman task force echoes countless X-Men tales.
A brief mention of the falling country situation fromAge of Ultron.
A nice shout out to Pym Particles and size changing, yeah, thats the synergy we love.
Lash is a very recent addition to the Inhuman side of the Marvel Universe.
Lash was a pretty big deal during MarvelsInhumanitycrossover and into theInhumanseries by Soule.
If so, nice continuity there Marvel!
It was pretty cool to seeAgents of SHIELDacknowledge this part of Morses rich history.
Rating:
3.5 out of 5
