Coulson’s team are the only competent people onAgents of SHIELD

Last night ’s installment of Agents of SHIELD was pretty solidly entertaining — and all of themembers of Coulson ’s work party of misfit were both likable and good at their occupation . alas , their hyper - competence comes at the disbursal of the respite of theirorganization , which comes out look kind of sapless .

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This is n’t really a criticism of Agents of SHIELD , the television show , mind you — huge faceless organizationson television often tend to be kind of bad at their jobs . But still , it was notable how much of last night ’s episode depended oneveryone who was n’t one of our core heroes letting the formal drop curtain .

In the episode ’s “ A ” patch , a distich of scholar atSHIELD ’s science academy basically ramp up a WMD under SHIELD ’s nose . They thendeploy miniature versions of that WMD on campus , hazard to targetthemselves , so that agents Fitz and Simmons will be brought to the Academy tohelp inquire ( because it ’s partly ground on Fitz ’s and Simmons ’ technology.)This is because they ’re still having difficulty with the superbattery that powersthe WMD , and they hope Fitz will glance at it and come up with a resolution , which he does .

Nobody at SHIELD ’s academy thinks to try and decipher where therare and expensive parts for these WMDs ( even the miniature variant ) come from — and when our squad does that , it strike them five minute to figure out thatthe source is Ian Quinn , the evil billionaire who was experiment withGravitonium several sequence ago .

In the end , one of the two kids is killed , while the moretroubled of the two , the sad loner Donnie Gill ( play by Dylan Minnette ) getsice - based superpowers and is apparently becomingthe supervillainBlizzard .

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Especially since we ’re told over and over that the Academyis full of cameras and ruler , and everybody is watched all the time — which iswhy the student want the semi - underground Boiler Room as a place to gasconade off steamwithout being watched all the time — it seems a bit bizarre that these twokids build up a arm that can make superstorms , and nobody noticed . But on theother hand , I wish the musical theme of SHIELD ’s science academy as a place where peopleare constantly build insane asshole in their dorms , and nobody bats an eye . I’mhonestly more bothered by the fact that nobody endeavor to hunt the materialsafter the miniskirt - weapon of mass destruction are used ( apparently ) to attack two students .

The thing is , the lack of basic competence on the part ofanyone who ’s not a unconstipated passenger on the woodworking plane is kind of clever — becauseit allows our core teammembers to shine by contrast . They call for the questionsthat nobody else thinks to ask , and we applaud them for it . Plus we get to seeFitz being a wise man to the troubled Donnie , Ward being wizardly and devious ashe antecedent out the conspiracy , and Skye impersonating a information processing system bookman . Everybody catch cool hooey to do , and it ’s nice to see the team work as ateam .

Meanwhile , in the sequence ’s “ B ” plot , we also findout the secret backstory of Skye . Melinda May already knew that the broker whodropped Skye off at the orphanage , Linda Avery , was killed shortly after . But nowshe and Coulson track down Avery ’s mate , Agent Lumley , who ’s been in hidingever since Avery was kill . ( And May is partly hop this fact - findingmission will get Coulson ’s brain off the revelation that SHIELD did a ton ofweird - scientific discipline operations to bring him back from the utter . )

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So they get Lumley , and he delivers the nugget ofexposition you may see above : he was part of a five - person accompaniment squad for anoperation to regain an 0 - 8 - 4 ( an aim of unknown origin ) from Hunan Provincein China . An intact Greenwich Village had already go to protect the 0 - 8 - 4 , and then sodid the two agent sent to recover her — because the 0 - 8 - 4 was a babe .

And here ’s the part I do n’t quite get : there ’s a baby thathas unsung superpowers . As in , Lumley does n’t know what they were , andapparently neither did Avery . loads of people have already died becausesomeone wants this child , including seven or eight SHIELD agents . So they putthe baby into the foster charge organisation , with a nearly invisible communications protocol designedto keep the kid moved around every few months .

What if this baby ’s superpower is that she spatter out toxicgases every few months and pour down everybody for a few miles around ? What if sheoccasionally become into a giant superbaby and stamp urban center ? We do n’t know , andneither did the agents who let her go . Also , the fact that they do n’t trusttheir own organization to keep this shaver safe , once they ’ve got her backstateside , is kind of telling .

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You lead off to see why Coulson does n’t intend SHIELD is thesafest lieu for Lumley decently now .

In any case , though , this was a pretty fun instalment , in whicheverybody on the team got a opportunity to fall and the characters were actuallycute as opposed to having force prettiness . The cast of characters is continue to gel , whichis a very good thing , and thecharactersare also being pen in a less one - dimensional way — this metre around , Maygets to be bigmouthed and caring , Ward gets to be concerned about the loner kid , Fitz gets to be wizardly , and Coulson gets to be kind of depressed . All of themain lineament are open out a bit .

And to the extent that this episode had a point , it wasabout what SHIELD means to these hoi polloi — visiting the Academy lets us seewhere Fitz and Simmons arrive from , and how this constitution formed them intothe hoi polloi they are . We see the wall commemorating the numb SHIELD agents , including Bucky Barnes . We hear vague story about SHIELD fighting Hydra .

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And when Skye get wind the verity about her origins , she turnsit into a story about how SHIELD sacrificed to protect her , given that a bunchof SHIELD agents go and this one guy cable gave up his life story . And she feels more asthough SHIELD is her real category . Which , okay .

So all in all , this show is come along , and becomingsteadily more watchable . I just go for at some point , we can see both the coreteam and the expectant SHIELD system being skilful at their jobs .

Oh , and there ’s a promo for the next episode , in which StanLee guest star and apparently there ’s a series - alter event that seeminglyinvolves someone conk out :

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