I experienced quite a few emotions throughout this season. I was definitely shocked at the start of the season, but at the same time, I was feeling annoyed that they would go to space, like what else is new. Of course, space is next.
But then the show took it further by placing the team in the future where Earth had been obliterated, and the last of humanity is enslaved by the Kree on a former S.H.I.E.L.D. base, dubbed the Lighthouse because it was an actual lighthouse.
Coulson, May, Daisy, Simmons, Mack, and Yo-Yo are thrust into a cryptic prophecy where S.H.I.E.L.D. would travel from the past and save humanity. But it doesn't come easy. The Kree are ever watching, and the disgruntled humans are down with killing each other for basic necessities. But a select few were willing to help fulfill the prophecy, which includes Tess, a trawler pilot, Flint, a young Inhuman with a passion for helping people, and Deke, A Han Solo-like character that eventually comes around.
Now, you're wondering where's Fitz? Fitz gets captured by General Hale and taken for questioning. Apparently, two minutes before Hale takes Fitz, the entire team gets frozen by some neuralyzer thing and aliens take the team, except for Fitz. Fitz spent six months searching for them while at the same time was sending hateful letters to a British magazine about a soccer team. Six months later, a strange man shows up and claims he's Fitz's lawyer. Surprise, its Hunter! The angry letters were meant to capture Hunter's attention to rescue him. Unfortunately, Hunter was in Bangladesh. Together they encounter the alien that took Coulson and Company, and they lock Fitz in a cryogenic freezer where he will travel to the future the long way.
Simmons has been taken by the Kree to be one of their personal servants because of her set of skills and her flawless complexion. Daisy is hiding throughout the halls, and the rest are chained to a disgruntled rock crusher. Slowly together, they build their plan to save humanity and get back to the present. Once Fitz shows up, in the most epic way, the plan picks up momentum. They were able to defeat the Kree and get their descendants on a trawler where they will venture out to find a place to reestablish the human race.
They get back to the present and now they have to figure out how to prevent the Earth from destruction. It turns out General Hale is in part to blame for setting things in motion. She was wanting Coulson and Company because the Confederacy want Coulson...and some gravitonium. She also captures General Talbot, who was shot last season by the Daisy LMD, and break him during the time S.H.I.E.L.D. was gone. Hale has a daughter, who specializes in martial arts and scary-ass knife discs. These are so sharp that they slice off both of Yo-Yo's arms when she pushed Mack out of the way.
Hale has other plans though; she wants out of the Confederacy. The young daughter wants to rule the world with the lackey von Strucker kid from two seasons ago at her side. She goes into a chamber, very similar to the one that gave Captain America superhero steroids, and starts to get injected with the gravitonium. Unfortunately, she screams painfully, because the people, sucked into the gravitonium, were screaming in her head. She gets out having only eight percent of the gravitonium. While struggling with her new strength, she kills von Strucker. Fearing that the daughter is the known Destroyer of Worlds, Yo-Yo kills her. But the threat of the world's destruction is still very real.
When soldiers of the Confederacy invades the lighthouse, a broken Talbot steps into the machine and absorbs all the gravitonium and defeats the soldiers. But now he's a power-hungry psychopath. He believes he's saving the world, especially for his son. Talbot travels to the ship where the Confederacy is stationed and takes over the ship. He kills Hale, and he kidnaps Robin, a young Inhuman with the power to see the future. But that is another challenge; the future comes to her in fragments and not in order. So it took some doing before she reveals the location of the untapped gravitonium, which lies under the streets of Chicago.
Finally, in an epic battle that everyone feared it would lead the end of Earth, Daisy, nearly consumed by Talbot's new power, takes the serum, that was meant for Coulson, and pushes Talbot into the sky where he suffocated in the vacuum of space.
The underlying B story is that Coulson is dying. In Season 4, he was consumed with the Ghost Rider, and that his deal with him was to let him live a mortal man and burn out the GH-325 serum that was keeping him alive. The serum was to save him, even though Yo-Yo kept saying that her future self said that they needed to let Coulson die. I started this whole adventure in Iron Man where I absolutely hated his guts. He was annoying in that movie. He was funny but still annoying in Iron Man 2. He was awful to Jane Foster in Thor. Then he was being arrogant to get Loki to stick 'em up, in The Avengers, and he gets stabbed in the chest. I wasn't sad at all when he died...the first time. When he returns in this show, we watch him go from a by-the-book S.H.I.E.L.D. agent with compassion to a director with almost no rules, and then to an agent again who is now dying. I've actually grown to care for him. He accepts that he was ready to die. Every episode in the second half of this season, I was on the edge of my seat with the possibility of "this is it." He wanted to name Daisy as the director, but she doesn't want it. In fact, when she WAS in charge, she was more about making sure she doesn't destroy the world rather than trying to save the world. Instead, she nominated Mack to be the director, which Coulson agrees. The last thing we see is Coulson standing on the beaches of Tahiti with May, trying to rebuild a romance that was obviously forced. I'm sorry, but they had a chance a long f*cking time ago. It's too late now.
Instead, I'm more interested in the relationship between Fitz and Simmons. Their storyline improved significantly this season. I was annoyed at first that they were once again separated. Then when Fitz shows up in the future as a dashing bounty hunter with the TV-14 mouth of Deadpool, there's the most b*tching marriage proposal during a rescue mission since Disney's Robin Hood. It's better you see it here rather than I explain it to you. Then the marriage; there is nothing in this world that can top this. A surprise to us is when Deke went shopping for the dress and the rings, he believes the ring he picks for Simmons resembled the one his mother wore, which belonged to her mother. Turns out that Deke is their grandchild.
Which, now this fantasy comes to an ass-grinding halt. First off, the earth cracked with a 12.8 earthquake. I found that hard to believe, then I read this and it's entirely possible. But should the earth crack, shouldn't the majority of the pieces fly off into space? There should be nothing left.
Deke says there is a multiverse of the events that is Season 5; Coulson and the Gang are being thrust into the future to save the future and then back to the past to save the present only to fail again and again. They succeed this time, but it makes me wonder if the worst is yet to come. Will the earth be destroyed anyway? Fitz came back to the present with the rest of the group, and he dies saving Robin. But they know he's also out there in space taking the long way to the future. How do we know he's still there? Well, Deke hasn't disappeared yet, so there's hope.
The season ended after the event of Infinity War, and to help support Deke's multiverse theory, it appears this show is no longer in sync with the movies. There was mention of an attack in New York, but that was pretty much it. I was kind of hoping when May and Coulson are on the beach of Tahiti, they would dissolve into dust from the Snap. Or at least one of them. Then there's a decision on who would it be. If it were, it would be ironic because she is there with him so they can spend their last moments together before he dies, but then she dies. But if it were Coulson, it would hit May harder because she never got to spend time with him. But since they didn't, Deke may be right about the multiverse thing. Maybe the next two seasons is the endgame where they'd be repeating Season 5 again, but the long way around.
There is one more thing I forgot to discuss. In the original timeline, May takes care of Robin after Robin's mother dies. When old Robin gets killed the show tugs our heartstrings when it's revealed that May cared for Robin. May always wanted a child and the Bahrain incident ruined for her. Then she finally has a chance to be the mother she always wanted to be, and it hurt when Robin dies. But then the illusion is broken when May goes back in and Robin is nine years old again. Then it becomes weird because Robin's real mother is still alive, and now we don't know where they're going next since Robin's mother is still alive at the end of the season. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
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Aired: December 1, 2017 – May 18, 2018
Rating: TV-14
Stars: Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, Henry Simmons, Natalia Cordova-Buckley
Directors: Jesse Bochco, David Solomon, Kevin Hooks, Stan Brooks, Clark Gregg, Brad Turner, Nina Lopez-Corrado, Garry A. Brown, Eric Laneuville, Kate Woods, Kevin Tancharoen, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Jennifer Lynch, Cherie Gierhart, Jed Whedon
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 100%
IMDb Score: 8.8/10 (Average)
Awards
Saturn Awards
(Click here to view more awards for "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Season 5.)
But then the show took it further by placing the team in the future where Earth had been obliterated, and the last of humanity is enslaved by the Kree on a former S.H.I.E.L.D. base, dubbed the Lighthouse because it was an actual lighthouse.
Coulson, May, Daisy, Simmons, Mack, and Yo-Yo are thrust into a cryptic prophecy where S.H.I.E.L.D. would travel from the past and save humanity. But it doesn't come easy. The Kree are ever watching, and the disgruntled humans are down with killing each other for basic necessities. But a select few were willing to help fulfill the prophecy, which includes Tess, a trawler pilot, Flint, a young Inhuman with a passion for helping people, and Deke, A Han Solo-like character that eventually comes around.
Now, you're wondering where's Fitz? Fitz gets captured by General Hale and taken for questioning. Apparently, two minutes before Hale takes Fitz, the entire team gets frozen by some neuralyzer thing and aliens take the team, except for Fitz. Fitz spent six months searching for them while at the same time was sending hateful letters to a British magazine about a soccer team. Six months later, a strange man shows up and claims he's Fitz's lawyer. Surprise, its Hunter! The angry letters were meant to capture Hunter's attention to rescue him. Unfortunately, Hunter was in Bangladesh. Together they encounter the alien that took Coulson and Company, and they lock Fitz in a cryogenic freezer where he will travel to the future the long way.
Simmons has been taken by the Kree to be one of their personal servants because of her set of skills and her flawless complexion. Daisy is hiding throughout the halls, and the rest are chained to a disgruntled rock crusher. Slowly together, they build their plan to save humanity and get back to the present. Once Fitz shows up, in the most epic way, the plan picks up momentum. They were able to defeat the Kree and get their descendants on a trawler where they will venture out to find a place to reestablish the human race.
They get back to the present and now they have to figure out how to prevent the Earth from destruction. It turns out General Hale is in part to blame for setting things in motion. She was wanting Coulson and Company because the Confederacy want Coulson...and some gravitonium. She also captures General Talbot, who was shot last season by the Daisy LMD, and break him during the time S.H.I.E.L.D. was gone. Hale has a daughter, who specializes in martial arts and scary-ass knife discs. These are so sharp that they slice off both of Yo-Yo's arms when she pushed Mack out of the way.
Hale has other plans though; she wants out of the Confederacy. The young daughter wants to rule the world with the lackey von Strucker kid from two seasons ago at her side. She goes into a chamber, very similar to the one that gave Captain America superhero steroids, and starts to get injected with the gravitonium. Unfortunately, she screams painfully, because the people, sucked into the gravitonium, were screaming in her head. She gets out having only eight percent of the gravitonium. While struggling with her new strength, she kills von Strucker. Fearing that the daughter is the known Destroyer of Worlds, Yo-Yo kills her. But the threat of the world's destruction is still very real.
When soldiers of the Confederacy invades the lighthouse, a broken Talbot steps into the machine and absorbs all the gravitonium and defeats the soldiers. But now he's a power-hungry psychopath. He believes he's saving the world, especially for his son. Talbot travels to the ship where the Confederacy is stationed and takes over the ship. He kills Hale, and he kidnaps Robin, a young Inhuman with the power to see the future. But that is another challenge; the future comes to her in fragments and not in order. So it took some doing before she reveals the location of the untapped gravitonium, which lies under the streets of Chicago.
Finally, in an epic battle that everyone feared it would lead the end of Earth, Daisy, nearly consumed by Talbot's new power, takes the serum, that was meant for Coulson, and pushes Talbot into the sky where he suffocated in the vacuum of space.
The underlying B story is that Coulson is dying. In Season 4, he was consumed with the Ghost Rider, and that his deal with him was to let him live a mortal man and burn out the GH-325 serum that was keeping him alive. The serum was to save him, even though Yo-Yo kept saying that her future self said that they needed to let Coulson die. I started this whole adventure in Iron Man where I absolutely hated his guts. He was annoying in that movie. He was funny but still annoying in Iron Man 2. He was awful to Jane Foster in Thor. Then he was being arrogant to get Loki to stick 'em up, in The Avengers, and he gets stabbed in the chest. I wasn't sad at all when he died...the first time. When he returns in this show, we watch him go from a by-the-book S.H.I.E.L.D. agent with compassion to a director with almost no rules, and then to an agent again who is now dying. I've actually grown to care for him. He accepts that he was ready to die. Every episode in the second half of this season, I was on the edge of my seat with the possibility of "this is it." He wanted to name Daisy as the director, but she doesn't want it. In fact, when she WAS in charge, she was more about making sure she doesn't destroy the world rather than trying to save the world. Instead, she nominated Mack to be the director, which Coulson agrees. The last thing we see is Coulson standing on the beaches of Tahiti with May, trying to rebuild a romance that was obviously forced. I'm sorry, but they had a chance a long f*cking time ago. It's too late now.
Instead, I'm more interested in the relationship between Fitz and Simmons. Their storyline improved significantly this season. I was annoyed at first that they were once again separated. Then when Fitz shows up in the future as a dashing bounty hunter with the TV-14 mouth of Deadpool, there's the most b*tching marriage proposal during a rescue mission since Disney's Robin Hood. It's better you see it here rather than I explain it to you. Then the marriage; there is nothing in this world that can top this. A surprise to us is when Deke went shopping for the dress and the rings, he believes the ring he picks for Simmons resembled the one his mother wore, which belonged to her mother. Turns out that Deke is their grandchild.
Which, now this fantasy comes to an ass-grinding halt. First off, the earth cracked with a 12.8 earthquake. I found that hard to believe, then I read this and it's entirely possible. But should the earth crack, shouldn't the majority of the pieces fly off into space? There should be nothing left.
Deke says there is a multiverse of the events that is Season 5; Coulson and the Gang are being thrust into the future to save the future and then back to the past to save the present only to fail again and again. They succeed this time, but it makes me wonder if the worst is yet to come. Will the earth be destroyed anyway? Fitz came back to the present with the rest of the group, and he dies saving Robin. But they know he's also out there in space taking the long way to the future. How do we know he's still there? Well, Deke hasn't disappeared yet, so there's hope.
The season ended after the event of Infinity War, and to help support Deke's multiverse theory, it appears this show is no longer in sync with the movies. There was mention of an attack in New York, but that was pretty much it. I was kind of hoping when May and Coulson are on the beach of Tahiti, they would dissolve into dust from the Snap. Or at least one of them. Then there's a decision on who would it be. If it were, it would be ironic because she is there with him so they can spend their last moments together before he dies, but then she dies. But if it were Coulson, it would hit May harder because she never got to spend time with him. But since they didn't, Deke may be right about the multiverse thing. Maybe the next two seasons is the endgame where they'd be repeating Season 5 again, but the long way around.
There is one more thing I forgot to discuss. In the original timeline, May takes care of Robin after Robin's mother dies. When old Robin gets killed the show tugs our heartstrings when it's revealed that May cared for Robin. May always wanted a child and the Bahrain incident ruined for her. Then she finally has a chance to be the mother she always wanted to be, and it hurt when Robin dies. But then the illusion is broken when May goes back in and Robin is nine years old again. Then it becomes weird because Robin's real mother is still alive, and now we don't know where they're going next since Robin's mother is still alive at the end of the season. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
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Aired: December 1, 2017 – May 18, 2018
Rating: TV-14
Stars: Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, Henry Simmons, Natalia Cordova-Buckley
Directors: Jesse Bochco, David Solomon, Kevin Hooks, Stan Brooks, Clark Gregg, Brad Turner, Nina Lopez-Corrado, Garry A. Brown, Eric Laneuville, Kate Woods, Kevin Tancharoen, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Jennifer Lynch, Cherie Gierhart, Jed Whedon
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 100%
IMDb Score: 8.8/10 (Average)
Awards
Saturn Awards
- Best Superhero Television Series - Nominated
(Click here to view more awards for "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Season 5.)
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