Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D was one of those shows that had a very rocky start in the beginning of season 1, but fans who stuck with were truly rewarded for their loyalty. Season 2 not only has better pacing and tone but the characters themselves have become incredibly interesting and layered.
Phil Coulson continues to be great as we see him grow more into his role as director of shield and quickly deal with his alien language problem (its kree so you'll find out why its important in a bit)
We have Leo Fitz struggling to deal with his brain damage with the help of Mack
The new mechanic on the team,who really cones into his own, we also have Gemma Simons deal with the factthat she now realises how dangerous super power beings truly are.We go from seeing two bright eyed scientists from the first season truly evolve. Fitz now damaged truly understands what its lije to be an outsider, sympathises with the enhanced people that show up while Simons whose seen what these people are capable of, believes that they should now be taken down with extreme prejudice and locked or cured. The show really sets up the division thats going to take place when the team has to choose sides in Civil war. Melinda May continues to be incredibly badass and in this season we get a little look into her past. The other two new additions to the team being Bobbi Morse, played by Adrianne Palicki and her ex husband Lance Hunter were definitely what mafe this show that much better, which makes me sad to think that thier potential spin off show is very much dead. Grant Ward continues to be a psychopath but gets more interesting as we see more of his clearly fractured mind.
Now we get to the good stuff. Yes both Sky and Raina turn out to be inhumans(descendants of people experimented by the kree millions of years prior, told you it was important). Coulson leads them to an inhuman city where Raina and Sky basically activate their abilities. We then get to see Sky and Raina deal with the burden of thier inhumanity, the shear fear and problems they overcome make this season worth all the bad parts of the first season. The first half of the season which dealt with hydra was good but it clearly was nothing more than away to set up the second half of the season. We finally learn Skys true identity, that being Daisy Johnson aka Quake who , fun fact, served as director of shield in the comics. We also get introduced to Skys father the crazed Cal Johnson aka Mr.Hyde. Cal really had the best arc in this show, showing us that we sometimes denounce the evil doer without trying to understand them. Raina herself evolves as the show goes on.
Finally we meet Skys mother who leads one of the secret inhuman cities, where sky is taken to get control of her abilities. The finale was definitely the best episode of the season but there was one thing that really stuck out to me. In the finale there's a group of rogue inhumans doing their best to start a war to wipe out humanity. This group of inhumans is almost exact same as the brotherhoid of mutants lead by magneto in the comics, even to the point where their leader is blinded by hate and simply wants their superior inhuman race to survive the resembles is uncanny (points to you if you get that reference). This really makes you wonder what incredible things marvel could have done to the xmen.
The violence was also cranked up especially with Coulson and Bobbi. The only down side to the finale is how similar to last season's finale. Soneone we deeply trust turns out to betray our heroes.The shows ties in the Avengers Age of ultron mainly to fill plotholes in the movie lije how Nick Fury obtained a helicarrier. But the things set up at the finale like a new splinter hydra cell, sky putting together a new enhanced human team for Coulson and especially what happens to Gemma, and makes me really excited for season 3, because now truly , something inhuman comes this way.
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