Agents of SHIELD Season 5 Episode 3
The world building is hot and heavy this week as Agents of SHIELD continues to expand the Marvel cosmos. Lots of stuff going on with our time and space tossed agents. Anywho, Kasius promises to train Abby as a warrior and sell her to a newly introduced white-skinned Kree aristocrat named Basha. Through Abby, we get to see the human/Kree/Inhuman dynamic at work in the future. Simmons Yodas the girl up and teaches her how to master her powers, but poor Abby must fight some Bane-looking Kree gladiator dude to prove to Basha that Abby is worthy of sale. I really dig the use of the Inhumans as a Kree slave race just to show how much has changed in this horrific future. I mean, it’s ironic that now humans and Inhumans are on equal footing as they are both slaves to the Kree. And seriously, yikes, Agents of SHIELD. But you guys, check out Simmons, doesn’t it feel as if she is taking in every little detail about Kasius so she can use that big Simmons bran of hers to get back at the blue-skinned summabitch? It has only been two episodes, but I already am burning to see both Kasius and the iron balled Sinara get their asses kicked. You know there’s a May versus Sinara throw down coming to see what lady has the biggest balls on Marvel TV. It’s May, you know it’s May (or Jessica Jones). As for the rest of the Agents, Coulson, May, Mack, and their new space pal Tess connive their way into space to try and figure out who was sending that mysterious signal last week. We get a horrific view of what remains of Earth (I kinda think Canada survived) as Coulson and company must deal with their chaperon sent by their new slavemaster Grill. While all this is going on, Yo Yo manages to awesomely use her powers to mess with Grill while Daisy tries to find a way off the space station. Daisy must also deal with the fact that she seemingly was responsible for popping the Earth like a pimple. Being the destroyer of words can’t be easy to live with. Neither is betrayal, and that’s just what happens this week when Deke reveals himself to be a pawn of Kasius. Oh Deke, we totally trusted you too, what with your handsome face and Star Lord like mask. I guess Deke heard about what happened to all Daisy’s other former boyfriends. But now Daisy is captured as well, and considering we now know that there’s an Inhuman fight club, I think we can sense where this is going. But there is hope as Coulson and company are able to get a signal that is seemingly coming from Earth. There are people out there, and as everything seems lost, that faint signal spells a little beacon of salvation for our Agents. If Fitz is down there all old and just waiting for Simmons, I don’t know if my emotions can take it. So far, Agents of SHIELD has done a very good job hopping genres and delivering a very unique and fun adventure that is not in any way derivate of anything the series has done so far in five seasons. Agents of SHIELD on the December Sci Fi Fidelity podcast (at 38:44): Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Soundcloud Is Basha the first time we see a white-skinned Kree? Of course, in the comics, it has long been established that the white-skinned Kree are a minority as the blue-skinned Kree were always the elite race. Marvel’s first Kree hero Captain Mar-Vell was a white skinned Kree. One wonders if the upcoming Captain Marvel film will introduce more white-skinned Kree to the mix. You have to wonder in this reality where Earth has gone all explodey, where the heck are the Avengers?
