Agents of Shield the Best Laid Plans Review

Marvel's Agents of SHIELD: "Best Laid Plans" Review

Let'southward Practice the Time Loop Once more.

Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.

Marvel'southward Agents of SHIELD worked to simplify and streamline its convoluted fourth dimension-travel story this week, with "Best Laid Plans" - but not by much.The biggest stride here was the full-on acknowledgment, by Fitz, that the team was in a time-loop. That they were destined to travel a certain path that constantly pushed them alee through time and then back through fourth dimension. They're brought to the time to come to exist told how, basically, they inadvertently destroyed the earth - while trying to save it (from aliens pursuers that they bring back with them from the future, probably). They so, forever and e'er, figure out a way to go dorsum and...practise the affair where they inadvertently destroy the earth.

Not that many fans really believe that Daisy's the real crusade of the planet's demise (though Robin, plainly, was the one who insisted she was). There's no hard bear witness that she did and there are so many moving parts to this arc that it'due south easy enough to believe something else did it.

Still, with the acknowledgment of the time loop, and the realization that they'l head back to the present just to live out the rest of their lives in a scorched Earth hereafter (dying, most likely, a handful of years before their future selves show up all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed) came the idea too that our heroes can somehow go back and alter things.

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Coulson's all about this, thinking everyone can travel back and stop the world from blowing up. What's the truth here? I know nosotros'll somewhen find out, simply it's just an odd notion to think that Coulson and company will exist able to change things this time. Because in every scenario where the world goes kaploeey, it'south acquired by a SHIELD team who's already been to the future and seen the horrors to come. This is what Fitz confirmed for himself this week.

Sufficed to say, this whole storyline has get savagely mixed up. All will out, in due time, I know, but I wish there'd been a more tangible SHIELD-centric story to latch onto this year. There are loftier points hither and at that place, merely mostly this space saga has featured a ton of new characters with congenital-in relationships that mostly occurred off-screen. Flint and Tess are good friends (Hah! I knew her death was too abrupt for her not to render somehow), I go information technology, but information technology'south not going to tug on my heartstrings. Likewise, Deke's relationship with Voss and the father we never got to encounter? We're coming in right at the terminate of these characters' lives without the time invested to intendance about them.

It also didn't help matters that Deke was placed dorsum in a situation where he's tempted to mitt Daisy over to Kasius once more. He'due south already betrayed her once and now he's mulling it again. At a certain indicate, information technology only won't matter if he makes the "right decision" because he'll have become someone, overall, we don't want on the team anyhow.

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I'll say this though: The visual effects were pretty cool this week. The "gravity storm" the Zephyr had to maneuver through, with all the tornadoes and debris, looked pretty great for Telly. And information technology provided a nice backdrop for the fight Daisy had with Sinara - which led to Sinara's bloody decease. Likewise, speaking of activity, it was fun seeing Kasius finally start getting the tables turned on him. We may not know, or care nearly, the rebel humans that Mack and Yo-Yo are leading around, but we know Kasius enough to exist able to enjoy when he's super pissed off and having his day ruined.

Information technology's virtually a given that, past the fourth dimension the dust settles on all of this, the world of SHIELD will return to a state of normalcy. And if this is the final season, nosotros might even get some sort of domestic-style closure. In that location's e'er been a family unit vibe to the squad - particularly between Coulson and Daisy, merely this week May was able to fall more into the fold thanks to her experience last week with crone Robin. Coulson was able to tell her that he idea she'd make a great mother (or will, once again, if things merely keep playing out the aforementioned way) while Daisy was sitting correct off to the side. Now that May has this sudden maternal quality, which she herself just learned about in a very strange style, the surrogate Begetter/Mother/Daughter connexion began to seem more complete. Information technology was a dainty feeling.

Some decent visual effects, a cool fight, and some soft moments betwixt Coulson, May, and Daisy helped breathe a piffling life dorsum into this space saga - and the squad is at least at present acknowledging that they're in a loop - just the plot notwithstanding feels overly tangled and besides dependent on characters we don't care about.

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Kasius tried to recapture the "Destroyer of Worlds" while humanity began to fight back in the Lighthouse.

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Source: https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/01/27/marvels-agents-of-shield-best-laid-plans-review

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