User Reviews

I mean...if Professor X has a school where he teaches people to understand, use, and control their powers, OVER YEARS OF TRAINING, then he should recruit every one of the people that have been given their powers this season, right? Like the guy that just got teleportation handed to him and he instantly knows exactly what to do. Nightcrawler is a veteran teleporter and he's terrified of BAMPFing into a wall. I feel as if there should be some sort of mishap with every single, newly powered rival, yeah? Because they all seem pretty experienced with a superpower that was just handed to them.

I did not expect this to meet the high standards of last week's episode, but this was still not a bad hour of television. It just seems like there is no story this season: no clear drama and no clear bad guys. They are just jumping from timeline to timeline and while that may seem fun for some viewers, I want a little bit more originality and excitement and I want things to matter.

Why is there a guy with the skin folded up over his eyes? This is not Star Trek.

I just think they didn't fully plan this final season through which is such a shame because it will surely impact the legacy when we look back on SHIELD.

This episode made me a quite nervous for where this season is going.

Following the incredible direction and story of the previous episode, I was disappointed we have to come back to such a simple flat villain like Nathaniel. For one, the actor playing the character does not have me convinced at all, nor does this Kora character. From what I can gather their primary goal is revenge on Jaiying and then...anarchy? That's the goal of our final villain? What happened to Sibyl? Where is she? We know she's feeding the villains information about the future, but why? To keep SHIELD distracted? She should be targeting and destroying them to secure their future refuge in earth. After all that is what each previous episode has been about: sabotaging SHIELD in vulnerable or critical events in the past. Does she just not care anymore? Did nothing important happen in shield past 1983? What about the origin of Nick Fury? Coulson? We found out in season 4 in the framework that without Coulson in shield, hydra takes over and "wins the war". Is this not worth looking into for the Chronicoms? They were working with Hydra already so this should be a win-win!

BUT NO! We have to focus on Nathaniel, who was the more honest and reasonable of the Malick boys, who will was willing to be "the traveler" had Gideon not cheated in the stone ceremony. He was ashamed his father was a coward, and they agreed to be "better men". Also, the Malick faction of hydra was uninterested in "Whitehall's Hydra" yet he is now following in Whitehall's footsteps despite his father not dying in 1970. Do you remember why they visited Whitehall in prison? Whitehall wanted them to join his Hydra because their faction was foolish and their father was a coward and now he's dead, but Wilfred Malick did not die in 1970! So they would have never went to meet with Whitehall! Nathaniel would have no interest in Whitehall stealing inhuman powers until they bring back the hydra god on Maveth. Why is Nathaniel working toward "anarchy" rather than bringing back Hive? THAT IS HYDRA'S ULTIMATE GOAL! It's just upsetting that they took this character from the past, made him a villain, and in doing so contradicted who the character is!

And it doesn't end there. I was desperately hoping that this band of inhuman misfits would be a distraction from the real fight and that they would be defeated leading to a greater villain (like how Ruby was killed in season 5, leading to Gravitonium-enhanced Talbot). What is the most upsetting is that they bait exactly this. Daisy tries to come to terms with her past with her mother in this timeline, but Nathaniel ruins the moment by telling her the future. Despite this Jaiying protects Daisy by "life-sucking" him but Nathaniel kills her. This could have set up an epic and dark moment of revenge where Daisy kills Nathaniel and we move on to the real fight.

Here's what actually happens: She stands up, the lights flicker, the earth rumbles, Nathaniel is about to get the full wrath of the destroyer of worlds, but then May shows up! And shoots at him! AND MISSES! When has May ever missed a non-moving target? He wasn't even facing her! He was a sitting duck! Imagine the possibilities if May would have actually killed Nathaniel. Daisy could have reacted similarly to her father when Coulson killed Whitehall, having a "HE WAS MINE!" reaction. We could have a dark moment between her and May that needs to be amended before the conclusion and the team is no more.

I also find it jarring that Nathaniel says he is more powerful than Daisy because "he has had the powers longer". SO WHAT? Daisy is crazy powerful. Remember when she shattered a Kree Reaper's spine? When she used her powers to "quake-jump" in season 4? When she blasted Madame Hydra out of an elevator? When she shattered the Mack LMD out of pure rage? She was definitely angry in this instance, looking at the man who just broke her mother's neck, but she just kind of "quake-pushes" him at a wall!

This is not the worst episode of the series, but it is the most black and white transition from the previous excellent episode to this convenience-fueled series of events. The show has 3 episodes to make this right. We need to get rid of Nathaniel and move on to bigger-picture things for the series finale.

I'm willing to accept the power-stealing DNA-altering (?) just-transfer-some-fluids bs but damn that was bad. Now everyone is in almost perfect control of his/her new powers with no effort whatsoever. Why kill the inhuman after draining his powers? Daisy regained her powers so why not re-use him again and again? Why the f... did May miss the shot? Seriously? I know SHIELD would be boring if YoYo or Daisy would use the full extent of their powers every time but since when is May that useless, as well? Recentley, she easily defeated Enoch and now she can't hit an unmoving target... Not to mention an 1-dimensional bad guy with a all-knowing bs device and no real end goal is boring af. Maybe it is because the previous episode was excellent... still I hope they will wrap up this hydra-inhuman mess quickly.

It's sad that the final bad guy of the series is the worst one yet. Nathaniel is just so blah. He's annoying, played terribly too. I hope the final few episodes rectify this. After the highs of the previous episode, this is a low. Not that the episode is bad bad. But he's just that bad.