wraps up its third season with a two-part showdown between Hive and Coulsons gang… Everyone else, apparently, is dead.

It was totally irrelevant to the two-parter season finale that followed.

Before long, the gang have tracked down Hive and incapacitated him.

Moving Hannahs Holden Radcliffe into the S.H.I.E.L.D.

base was an inspired move.

His attempt to remember what all the letters in S.H.I.E.L.D.

stand for was also a neat nod all the way back to Phil Coulsons debut inIron Man.

Simmons snorkelling comment came right out of the leftfield, and raised a really big chuckle for me.

There was still room for heart, too.

Macks scene where he forgave Daisy was really touching, for example.

This was a good cliffhanger, albeit one that was resolved very quickly due to this being a double-bill…

Onto part two, then, another episode that had rather a lot of great moments.

The bit where she tried to stab him to bits and nothing happened was certainly effective.

Thats one way to increase the threat level.

Yo-Yo taking a bullet, although a rather rushed-past scene, had a similar effect.

The things that worked in the first half of this finale continued to work in the second.

Fitz got more cool spy stuff, in the shape of that invisible gun.

Coulson joined in too, calling a Quinjet using his bionic forearm.

he asked, when discussing the imminent transformation of half the planet into deformed Primitives.

Trust him to be thinking of that during a time of such chaos.

Then Coulson shows up as a hologram (cool spy stuffanda Star Wars reference?

What more could I possibly want?

), and Hive gets his squid face out for a few seconds.

Yeah, yeah, Coulson snarks as Hive explains his crusade.

Hes heard enough of these insane villain plans now and clearly cant be bothered to argue back.

A nice twist on the formula, that.

And then, just when things are at their loudest, they suddenly quieten down.

Daisy and Hive are on the Quinjet.

He creepily explains that he smelt her blood.

Lincoln sends Daisy flying as the ship takes off, and suddenly its all over.

Theres no escape now, for Hive or Lincoln.

Theyre trapped with a nuke and headed up to space.

Two mortal enemies admitting defeat, and having a chat before they blow up.

I liked that a lot.

), we suddenly jump forward six months.

Theres a new S.H.I.E.L.D.

See yall in the fall, folks!

Read Robs review of the previous episode, Emancipation, here.