Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD season 5 episode 8 recap and review: The Last Day
The drama heightens on Agents of SHIELD as everyone’s beliefs get challenged, both in the Lighthouse and on the surface of the Earth.
I’m welcoming myself back to my recaps for Agents of SHIELD! 2018 has not been kind in regards to throwing funerals my way, so I’ve been out of town the last two weekends. It’s nice to be back.
So where does this week’s episode lead us and leave us? Let’s dive in!
Not-So-Short Summary
We get to see a glimpse of 2018 on the Zephyr as the crew tries to navigate around a gravity storm. The problem is that Robin can’t separate past, present, and future. The Zephyr survived the test of time, and that’s where everyone is set up on the Earth’s surface.
Surprisingly (but not so surprisingly), Deke’s dad remains alive — or so we hear (it’s not actually true). We see Deke questioning everything. Coming to the realization that everything he believes is a lie is actually the truth has to be an incredible amount to process.
Challenging people’s beliefs runs through this whole episode. Robin gives May a drawing of the Zephyr flying through asteroids and everyone starts thinking about the possibilities. I mean, if the ship lasted the world exploding and 80-odd years, why not make it to space?
Agents of SHIELD challenges us as well with those flashbacks to our SHIELD friends after the world gets quaked apart. Their frustrations with Robin muttering about everyone’s deaths and no solutions doesn’t help their motivation. We watch our team fracture apart, make deals with the Kree to put everyone in this Lighthouse mess.
Meanwhile those who rescued our SHIELD friends on the surface lock them in separate rooms to try to kill Daisy … only to kill Robin. Deke’s the one who figures it out, but he gets cold-clocked immediately.
In Robin’s final moments, she tells May how to get back and save the world. Just one question: Who’s Flint?
Post-Credits Stinger
Sinara makes it to the Zephyr. Kasius tells her to show no mercy. Feels kind of lackluster for a post-credits stinger.
Badass Moment of the Week
Elena killing all of the Roaches in slow-motion while the theme song to Stranger Things plays. (It really did sound like Stranger Things!)
Best One-Liner
“I don’t get it. Doesn’t the axe made it harder to shoot?”
”It makes it easier to chop heads off,” Mack explains (and then demonstrates several minutes later).
Also kudos to Mack for finally calling the Kree the “Blue Man Group.”
One fun nugget that gets dropped: The last time our SHIELD friends were seen together in the other timeline was at the diner. That’s going to come up again in future episodes for sure.
Did anyone else tear up at that soft-hearted scene between May and young Robin? We get to see the maternal side of May and how much she wants to help, even when she knows she can’t.
I haven’t even mentioned the piece of the Monolith they found aboard the Zephyr. Pretty sure they need Flint with his rock powers to find the rest of the pieces scattered around the Earth.
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Next week’s Agents of SHIELD involves a bomb on the Lighthouse and the possibility of total human annihilation. Sounds like fun!