User Reviews

The Season Five two-part opener "Orientation" began with some clever homages to Guardians of the Galaxy, Men in Black and Alien, but then we learn the meaning of the last scene of Season 4. The AOS show- runners have decided to make the Coulson team prisoners again, substituting the Kree for the LMD. Maybe the Marvel brain trust is tired since they can't imagine any adventures for the Coulson team that doesn't involve imprisonment. To complicate matters more the Coulson team has been teleported at least 90 years into the future and they discover that the earth has been destroyed. The MCU/X-Men films have certainly presented the attempt several times by someone trying destroy the earth, but apparently now someone has succeeded. There is a hint that maybe Daisy was responsible (earth was "quaked"), but that has to be a red herring. Daisy was teleported long before the destruction occurred, so she couldn't be the cause. (Think: when you do time travel you have to consider all the potential consequences.) Also, Daisy has never manifested that kind of god-like planet-destroying power. She certainly doesn't have the power of Magneto in X-Men Apocalypse. Being teleported 90 years into the future implies that the solution is time travel back, which is a really cheap trick to get the good guys out of a plot corner the writers should not have invented in the first place. We can't fault the actors. They do an excellent job with the script and story they've been handed. The actors may not mind. They love stories full of pathos that will give them an opportunity to exhibit their acting skills. Meanwhile the reason for the existence of the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. seems ignored. Maybe the show should be renamed "Agents of the Kree." They could go off on space adventures with a five-year mission. Maybe they could hook up with Star Lord and do something a little bad. Don't get me wrong. The two-part opener had some interesting elements: one-liner jokes alluding to horror movies, new characters and meeting the Kree. One reviewer suggests that this episode spoils Avengers Infinity War, although it may be no more than a hint. The Avengers movie may well be drawn from the comic stories of the Kree vs. Skrull war. It will be interesting to see how Coulson's team get themselves out of this nice mess.

The first hour of the show worked for me. Maybe it is the 2 hour premiere concept is too much, but the second hour was not nearly as good. We have to also realize that both Star Trek: Discovery and The Orville are on the air, and we have had a bunch of space travel movies recently so this concept might be a bit crowded. It is still better than how season four ended, but this was a mediocre episode overall.

Once again the team is trapped in a terrible environment. Feels like a show in decline where the plots get more outlandish and less creative. Bummed.

Season 5 is rubbish, I can't wait for it to be over, I don't like anything about it, just a waste of time and effort. The characters are different in the way they act, especially Mac and the format doesn't work. Car crash TV. Skip to season 6. Oh and in this episode Jemma gets tinnitus, rubbish overall.