Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD season 5 episode 16 review: Inside Voices
This week’s Agents of SHIELD takes our team on three different paths: Coulson’s escape, finding Coulson, and finding the old Hydra tech.
Agents of SHIELD slows its pace a bit this episode, but a lot still happens. It’s just in a smaller scale. Onward and forward!
Not-So-Short Summary and Analysis
Watching Carl Creel touch gravitonium is very much a first, both for us and for him. What exactly happens? It latches onto him, messes with the gravity in the room, and lets him go. Because it’s alive. Don’t forget about Dr. Ian Quinn!
Kudos to the SFX people who got to have some fun with Elena’s arms. They are pretty cool looking and do make her stronger. Let’s not focus on how it’s not realistic for an actual prosthesis timeline. Plus she has her cybertronic arms from the comics!
MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. – “The Devil Complex” – As Fitz and Simmons race to find a way to seal the Rift, they are faced with one of their greatest fears manifested, on “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” FRIDAY, MARCH 23 (9:01-10:01 p.m. EDT), on The ABC Television Network. (ABC/Eric McCandless)
MING-NA WEN, CLARK GREGG, BRIANA VENSKUS
Daisy goes after Robin in hiding in hopes of leading them to Coulson. Simmons breaks Fitz out of jail to go after real Hydra tech leads. Her method is honestly… insane. She does a drinking test with four beakers: one has acid, the other three have water. She’ll drink three of the four and they’ll all be water. Because she’s invincible.
I, for one, am not a fan of how crazy Simmons has gone. Fake drinking the acid to trap Mack doesn’t seem like something she would do. But like she keeps saying this episode, they need to try new tactics.
But the emotional heart of the episode comes from May and Robin. Robin’s in a mood… until she sees her foster mom, May. It’s such a heartfelt scene and it almost breaks you when Robin comments that she knew Flint would get them all back safely.
We even get a Coulson death scene! It’s not the very end thanks to Creel, and Coulson and Talbot make it out safely — and by the landmark Robin drew!
MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. – “Rise and Shine” – Coulson uncovers General Hale’s true agenda, and it could be the end of the world if S.H.I.E.L.D. doesn’t help her, on “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” FRIDAY, MARCH 30 (9:01-10:01 p.m. EDT), on The ABC Television Network. (ABC/Byron Cohen)
CATHERINE DENT
Post-Credits Stinger
Four years ago, we get a fantastic throwback with Raina and the gravitonium, which eats that one dude whose name I don’t remember. He was a bad guy. Anyway, the gravitonium wanted him. So it’s not that Quinn is in the gravitonium — it really is alive.
Badass Moment of the Week
Creel and Ruby’s fight scene is pretty damn entertaining.
Best One-Liner
“You die more than anybody I’ve ever met,” Talbot tells Coulson. He’s not wrong.
“Deke is our grandson.”
”Wow… I’m sorry,” Elena responds.
Did anyone else catch the Dr. Horrible reference by Coulson? The Evil League of Evil! Also, Talbot is my new best friend thanks to his Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid reference.
Oh, I didn’t mention Baby Strucker’s mental ferocity. It doesn’t do much for the episode — he’s trying to rebuild his father’s notes for the machine to create the Destroyer of Worlds.
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Next week’s Agents of SHIELD looks like Rubt’s Finally going to rebel against her mother. And we get a fun Daisy/Ruby showdown finally!