Shadows
- Episode aired Sep 23, 2014
- TV-PG
- 43m
Carl Creel is sent after an item that was stolen from Hydra during WWII. Fitz tries to cope with his mental issues.Carl Creel is sent after an item that was stolen from Hydra during WWII. Fitz tries to cope with his mental issues.Carl Creel is sent after an item that was stolen from Hydra during WWII. Fitz tries to cope with his mental issues.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis marks the debut of Carl "Crusher" Creel AKA The Absorbing Man in live action media. Although in Hulk (2003) Bruce Banner's father gained a similar ability.
- GoofsWhen acting as General Talbot, Agent Coulson refers to the Marine at the gate as "Soldier". As only members of the Army are referred to as Soldiers, this serviceman should have been called "Marine".
- Quotes
Phil Coulson: I know it was a risk. If we went down today, we'd probably be down for good. But now we have a chance to survive. We have soldiers willing to sacrifice, but they need weapons. The enemy has the advantage. We need one of our own.
Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie: You risked that for a quinjet?
Phil Coulson: No. For what we can do with one. Disappear. Become ghosts. That's how we have to live now... in the shadows, to save people, even when they don't know it, don't want it.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Agent Carter: The Iron Ceiling (2015)
- SoundtracksAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Theme Song
Written by Bear McCreary
Let's start with the new tone in the show. Shield basically doesn't exist anymore so they operate in the shadows and its even more intriguing because they don't have the money and manpower available to them in the first season. I also love how Skye is an actual field agent rather than a hacker.
With a new season, comes some new cast members. We have Agent Mack, an engineer who's built like a tank, Hunter, a merc with a mouth yet not Deadpool, Hartley, played by Lucy fricking Lawless, and Idaho, who is there. Half of these don't make it through the first episode, and while I'm not surprised or sad that Idaho is gone, I am sad that Hartley is because Lawless brings something great to anything she is in like Xena, Spartacus or Parks and Rec.
We also get familiar faces from a Marvel movie, The First Avenger, as Agent Carter, Dumb Dumb Dugan and Jim Morita make a cameo that is very welcome and reveals something cool about a villain in this season. A head of Hydra has been around since the 1940s and not only that, but he hasn't aged, which is a great twist and mystery to be explored.
This episode's villain was Carl "Crusher" Creel. While this is a great nod to Daredevil, where Creel was involved in one of Daredevil's pivotal moments, this is where we actually see him. While his personality wasn't anything new or interesting, his powers sure were. And it was really well done for a TV show to show him change his body into any substance.
The humor and writing were also on pace with the last third of the first season, which I enjoy as it is already starting to feel different and better than the first season.
+ Carter and the Commandos + Tone, writing and humor +/- Creel + New Cast - Some gone though
Final Score: 8.7/10
- jhudson-11704
- Aug 6, 2017
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