Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV Series) S.O.S. Part 2 (2015) User Reviews

Totally claimed season 3 with the finale

[jayant-1212 · 10/10 · 14 May 2015]

Wow, what an episode!! After setting up avengers and then following it up, this episode has done the job of claiming its rights to season 3 and maybe beyond.

Inhumans are people with gifts and at times ridiculous powers, but this show has set them up so nicely that it is hard to believe that this is all fantasy. Everything is just so grounded. With Gonzales having lost his life to the mist, a war was on cards and it did what war does: change people. Some change in the middle of it and some after it. In the end, everyone in it pays a price and everyone does.

Jiaying, literally Cal's creation, started the war and led everyone into it. This was Inhumans vs SHIELD and Jiaying vs Coulson. Coulson is the director we want, he is the manager that we lost souls at work wants.

This was closure of all the stuff that season 2 presented to us and worked at its best for Coulson, Skye, Fitz, Jemma, Ward, Agent 33, Jiaying, Cal and everyone else.

It will be nice to see where this series goes into Season 3.

10/10

Is this the greatest AOS episode ever produced?

[shaun_sat · 10/10 · 22 May 2015]

So far, this episode is the highest rated production of anything Marvel has ever produced on IMDb. And it is with good reason that it is so.

This episode kept my heart pumping for a whole 45 minutes. Finally, after a terrific seconds season, we get the answers that we've been waiting for. And terrific closure too. Finally, Fitz gets the balls to ask Simmons out, finally, the Skye- Cal relationship comes to a very satisfying close, finally, do we see Ward come back Villain- In- Chief.

It may be not be of Shakespearean proportions, but it is sure good fun to watch, and that I believe, is what Marvel's true spirit is about.

And a note to AOS fans, the current rating of the show on IMDb is 7.5, much too low. I believe this is because the first few episodes were not that great, but the show has really picked up steam since then. So if you gave a low rating then but you love the show now, do remember to change your rating.

The Good the Bad and the Ugly

[A_Different_Drummer · 10/10 · 21 June 2015]

(will tackle this in reverse order, please bear with me and your patience will be rewarded)

1. The Ugly

I am pretty sure that 50 years from now historians and sociologists of the future will flag this series as a turning point in the corporate takeover of human culture. To viewers today, the fact that the scripts are designed -- at the highest corporate level, ie, Disney -- to "assume" that you have ALREADY been to the theatre to catch the missing bits may seem... quaint. To those looking back from a futuristic perspective, however, I suspect that "quaint" will prove to be a severe understatement.

2. The Bad

Actually there is no bad. That was a literary trick just to make the review header work. Since the Brothers Whedon are the most literary tagteam writing in Hollywood today, I did not think they would mind.

3. The Good

What a thrill ride! Team Whedon delivered in spades. Just as Woody Allen is known for his penchant to "deconstruct" traditional story arcs, Team Whedon is known for invariably putting character arcs ahead of story arcs as the season builds and then -- in the payoff -- making every arc pay off like a hot-wired Vegas slot machine. Only 22 episodes and I feel like I know the characters, like I went to school with them. Astonishing writing. Better action than a Van Damme movie. No other TV show even comes close. Makes the STRIKE BACK LEGACY team look like two old guys who spend most of their time playing with their walkie-talkies.

Re-watch thoughts

[noorea-85147 · 4 March 2019]

I love love love this episode...it actually marks the start of my obsession with the show, when I first watched it I was filled with despair realizing I have to wait few months for the next one, couple watches later, even knowing what happens next, I still feel a part of my soul dying! especially that last scene! Cal's story is very tragic and Kyle acted the hell out of it, makes me tear up every time, it also gave Jaiying a more dimensional character as we can see why she is so full of hate and anger, it is an overall tragic situation! It's not all doom and gloom though, this episode gave me the cool Mack I know now , I mean I liked him before but this is where I fell in love! Fitz's "Science biatch" is an instant classic! In fact the 3 guys fighting Gordan is one of my favorite fight scenes, because it is about using tech, strategy and team work to fight off a powered person, there aren't as many of those as I'd like! Also the Fitzsimmons stuff is pretty cute..if we don't focus on that last scene! The effects were great, the music was great, the writing, the twists, the turns, the jaw dropping moments, this episode is just epic, not word can describe it better.

Marvelous

[quobar · 10/10 · 6 April 2022]

This is such a marvelous and very well done season finale. It's filled with great action, great emotional moments and great moments of comic relief. Can't wait to see what the repercussions of these events will be in the next season.

Season Two Review

[southdavid · 7/10 · 19 April 2024]

I enjoyed rewatching the first season of "Agents of Shield" more than I thought I might. The "Whedon" style worked more for me than I thought it might and the integration with the big Marvel Movies of that year was well done. The drift away though is underway now, as the Hydra twist and the fall of SHIELD effectively resets the show for this second season.

Though now operating with no budget and stolen resources, new Director of SHIELD Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) tries to battle the remaining forces of HYDRA, whilst not getting caught by General Talbot (Adrian Pasdar) who is bringing the army's might around in him. Daniel Whitehall (Reed Diamond) leads the Hydra forces, and seeks an obelisk of Alien origin and is using Raina (Ruth Negga) to get it, she has another, superior, leader though.

The first half of this season is spent dealing with the fallout of the HYDRA situation, which leads to the arrival of the Inhuman's in the MCU (Though not the Inhuman's series, that is still a little way away). This gives us the resolution of Daisy's parentage, including a fun performance from the always welcome Kyle MacLachlan. This season introduces Nick Blood and Adrianne Palicki as Lance Hunter and Bobbi Morse, whose chemistry was such that they hoped to spin them off into their own Marvel series, but it didn't progress beyond the pilot stage. The series also finds ways to keep Grant Ward involved in the story.

It's tie into "Age of Ultron" is a little stranger outside of the context of the film. It does explain where the Helicarriers came from in that film, but there's little return context here, or payoff to Raina's visions of "Metal men". In fact, Ruth Negga is perhaps the most illtreated by this season, robbed of intrigue, caked in prosthetics and then killed off.

It's another fun season of the show and I'm still enjoying it, perhaps more than I thought that I would. We'll see long it lasts into season three.

The end of a season that is way worse than the first one

[pintaxandre · 5/10 · 20 March 2021]

AOS always had a problem with consistancy. However, I find it more prevalent with this season. New characters and team members were introduced : yes. There were good ideas (such as "the real SHIELD") : yes. But reducing Ward to a secundary character with a dumb love story with a blatant lack of alchemy was painful to see. The storyline of Daisy's parent is too stretched and by the end of the season, all loose ends are tied and everything can continue as if nothing of consequence hapenned this season. Seriously: what fundamental change or game changing stake did this season bring? I like agents of SHIELD as entertainement, but it has the potential to be more. Add some character development, real consequences and develop the MARVEL universe: that's all what's required. Hope to see something more consistent in the future.