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shallownessAgents of SHIELD 5.7 The Last Day
For much of this episode, I was undecided about whether it was brilliant or confusing on the timey-wimey front, but the work in the final stretch lead to some of the most emotional Melinda May stuff they’ve ever done on the show.
Before that, we had a BIG hug at her reunion with Phil. I mean, the hug with Daisy was heartfelt, but much briefer. Then May and Coulson did not kiss. But Melinda’s key question was ‘what use am I?’ as her injury made her unable to protect the team, he gave a lame answer about being his trusted right hand lady – way to make it all about you and simultaneously not admit your true feelings, dude – but it turned out it was May who would know how to take the team back.
The alternate timeline they were seeking to destroy, what Robin had lived through, only gradually bein poignant (moving through confusing and unsatisfying) as we saw May stepping in to mother Robin after her own mother was killed. By believing in Robin, and believing they could make it where others faltered – I note that of course Fitz flipped at hearing about Simmons’s death, Yo-Yo went bitter after losing Mack, and Coulson was nowhere to be seen – May kept it together. The two intercut bedside scenes with Robin were heart-breaking – great work by Ming-Na Wen. The last day being Robin’s was powerful.
What happened in that past that they hadn’t yet erased was sketched out, but while Fitz was braying that you can’t change the timeline, that’s what they were fighting for, fighting for a way to bring the team forward to warn them so that they stopped Quake (apparently – there’s wriggle room for something else to destroy the world) setting off a mega earthquake and splitting the world. There was a hint that Voss was an ally.
I am intrigued as to how Daisy’s decision will go. I also wonder if they’ll take Deke back with them, given the development or at least screen time he’s getting and what the ramifications of that would be. What are all the pieces that Coulson needs to bring together – the monolith, the bits of Earth, the team? Of course, they have to get through Sinara first – can the Zephyr still fly? And Enoch my have learned more from Robin’s drawings.,,
I am glad that Fitzsimmons got their quickie and that it was a quickie – ie that Daisy or whoever didn’t walk in on them. As the original five reunited, we just had lots of questions, with some answered obliquely, and the cheerful ‘ah well, we’ll make something up and get out of this’ attitude.
Meanwhile, Mack and Yo-Yo had a less interesting action-adventure-horror thing, where Mack tried to make his weapon iconic, even though Yo-Yo proved that she has more to give in a pep talk to Flint (who’s teen bravado withered as soon as he faced a real test) and can destroy the roaches with her cool, cool power. They finally kick-started the revolution among the remaining humans on the lightship. Kasius was high on wreaking retribution, but will probably be taken down low quite soon.
For much of this episode, I was undecided about whether it was brilliant or confusing on the timey-wimey front, but the work in the final stretch lead to some of the most emotional Melinda May stuff they’ve ever done on the show.
Before that, we had a BIG hug at her reunion with Phil. I mean, the hug with Daisy was heartfelt, but much briefer. Then May and Coulson did not kiss. But Melinda’s key question was ‘what use am I?’ as her injury made her unable to protect the team, he gave a lame answer about being his trusted right hand lady – way to make it all about you and simultaneously not admit your true feelings, dude – but it turned out it was May who would know how to take the team back.
The alternate timeline they were seeking to destroy, what Robin had lived through, only gradually bein poignant (moving through confusing and unsatisfying) as we saw May stepping in to mother Robin after her own mother was killed. By believing in Robin, and believing they could make it where others faltered – I note that of course Fitz flipped at hearing about Simmons’s death, Yo-Yo went bitter after losing Mack, and Coulson was nowhere to be seen – May kept it together. The two intercut bedside scenes with Robin were heart-breaking – great work by Ming-Na Wen. The last day being Robin’s was powerful.
What happened in that past that they hadn’t yet erased was sketched out, but while Fitz was braying that you can’t change the timeline, that’s what they were fighting for, fighting for a way to bring the team forward to warn them so that they stopped Quake (apparently – there’s wriggle room for something else to destroy the world) setting off a mega earthquake and splitting the world. There was a hint that Voss was an ally.
I am intrigued as to how Daisy’s decision will go. I also wonder if they’ll take Deke back with them, given the development or at least screen time he’s getting and what the ramifications of that would be. What are all the pieces that Coulson needs to bring together – the monolith, the bits of Earth, the team? Of course, they have to get through Sinara first – can the Zephyr still fly? And Enoch my have learned more from Robin’s drawings.,,
I am glad that Fitzsimmons got their quickie and that it was a quickie – ie that Daisy or whoever didn’t walk in on them. As the original five reunited, we just had lots of questions, with some answered obliquely, and the cheerful ‘ah well, we’ll make something up and get out of this’ attitude.
Meanwhile, Mack and Yo-Yo had a less interesting action-adventure-horror thing, where Mack tried to make his weapon iconic, even though Yo-Yo proved that she has more to give in a pep talk to Flint (who’s teen bravado withered as soon as he faced a real test) and can destroy the roaches with her cool, cool power. They finally kick-started the revolution among the remaining humans on the lightship. Kasius was high on wreaking retribution, but will probably be taken down low quite soon.
