I can't wait for the Skye-centric "One Hundred Years of Attitude."
Hmm. What else?
"The Director in His Triskelion."
"The Autumn of the Supreme Hydra."
"No One Writes to the Level Eight Agent."
"The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Grant and His Heartless Brother."
"The Story of Two Shipwrecked Science Babies."
"Memories of My Melancholy Mutants."
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You should see the episode titles for this old TV show:
Breaking Point (1963 TV series)
Fun titles, though they don't really fit the theme of adapting the titles of Gabriel García Márquez books.
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I don't think we've seen the last of Hydra by a long shot. Not only is, as noted above, an upcoming episode entitled "Love in the Time of Hydra," but they're still this huge antagonist driving the series. Yeah, we've got the Inhumans, Ward/33, and Cal running around, but SHIELD doesn't have a clear beef with the Inhumans, and the other two are much smaller potatoes.
And on top of this -- yeah, SHIELD just manipulated Hydra into killing several of their major leaders, but the organizational infrastructure below each of those leaders is still in place.
Speaking of which -- did anyone else, in watching the Hydra leaders, get a distinct "Circle of the Black Thorn" vibe, a la
Angel Season Five?
I still have a bit of cognitive dissonance over seeing a sheik in full Arab garb as a member of an organization that started out as Nazis. I suppose this goes back to my general skepticism over the idea that a Nazi cult could ever evolve into one that isn't racist.
Jemma's sudden preoccupation with the idea of aliens as contagion was unexpected, but I can see it. They never acted on it, but I think she and Tripp had feelings for each-other, in addition to being friends -- remember, they survived the Hydra uprising at the Hub together; that kind of shared trauma has to bind people together at a deep level. So literally seeing him shattered into a million pieces must have been a huge psychological blow. Add to this the fact that she herself almost died of a Chitauri virus? And the various other traumas she's seen her friends undergo as a result of exposure to alien biology -- Mack having his body taken over and Coulson becoming obsessively fixated on the Kree city markings... And all of this to say nothing of the general fact that almost everyone's first exposure to aliens in the MCU was the Chitauri invasion of New York?
Yeah, I can see her becoming fixated on alien-biology-as-contagion. I just hope it's a phase.
No real movement on the Fitz/Simmons front. Oh well.