Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — Lockup

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Every week in these recaps it seems I fail to mention something important that happened in the previous week’s episode, and every time so far it’s been because I have yet to be interested by any of this season’s overarching plots and would much rather just watch the Agents messing about. Last week, we discovered the existence of the Darkhold, a sinister-looking book of dark magic that… I don’t really know, I never really cared about any of that Ghost Rider/Johnny Blaze/Midnight Sons era of ’90s comics. I think all we really need to know is that it’s evil, and this week we learned that as much as we can read it, it’s reading us right back. It’s like the abyss that way.

In “Lockup”, the Agents’ plans to spring Ghost Rider’s uncle from jail before the psycho scientist ghosts get him go awry when they, basically, screw everything up because of personal issues. Continue reading →

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire

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So far this season, the reasons I’ve liked Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. have all been character-based with some very strong interactions between our favourite agents as they gradually move closer and closer back to the way things were last season. In “Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire”, our prime example of that is seeing Simmons and Daisy team up to take down some Watchdogs and check in on and maybe even recruit last season’s JT “Hellfire” James in a glorious sequence of events that wound up with the Ghost Rider using his hellfire chains. Ah, Ghost Rider and hellfire chains — together again for the first time. Continue reading →

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — Uprising

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I’m going to be honest here… I fell asleep watching Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. I did go back to review the parts I missed — I would never claim to know what I’m talking about if I hadn’t — but I thought it was important to tell you guys that up front.

So the first thing I have to say about “Uprising” is that I can’t believe I forgot to talk about Daisy’s goth look in last week’s Superhero Showdown. Seriously, not only is it tonally ridiculous, it represents a serious regression for the character, the once immature but promising hacker who grew into an effective field agent and Inhuman ambassador now acting out and dressing like she’s 14 years old. Bad news for everyone involved on that creative decision for the character. Continue reading →

In our ongoing efforts to bring you the best television coverage we can here at GOO Reviews, we decided to take a different approach to our weekly television coverage this year. Every Monday, we’ll be releasing our roundup of the week’s shows in something we’re calling “Superhero Showdown”. Because they’re all comicbook-based shows. And they’ll all be competing with each other. We’ll be recapping episodes, providing our commentaries for each, and letting you know which show reigns supreme over the course of the season. We can’t cover every different comicbook-based show, however, nor should we because a bunch of them are pretty intolerable.

So, the shows that made the cut: Continue reading →