Marvel's Agents of Shield

Sorry I'm late this week, busy weekend and hoped to see the new Avengers movie, did not pull it off. Instead I'm going to talk about Agents of Shield, the series that takes us behind the senes of the superhero movies and show ordinary people dealing with extraordinary situations. There are a lot of things going on in this show, but the big deal right now is the Inhumans. The Inhumans are a from a relatively obscure series about people modified by technology from the Kree from Guardians of the Galaxy. Long ago the Kree used terrigen crystals to modify chosen humans giving them gifts of inhuman power often at the price of inhuman deformity, hence they were known as Inhumans. The Kree abandoned these people, but hey kept on their traditions without the Kree and now a small group of them still remains hiding in secret. The really cool thing is, Skye is one of them. Her mother, Jiaying, was an Inhuman gifted with immortality and now Skye went through the terrigen mist and has the power to create tremors. Her real name is Daisy Johnson and she's actually a character known as Quake, who will some day join the Avengers, so that's cool. Bad news, her father is Mr. Hyde, though we haven't seen his full power, but we can connect the dots. He's not Inhuman, but he's...like evil Hulk. Then there's Gordon, the blind teleporter, and Lincoln, a doctor who can manipulate electricity, and Raina, a woman who aspired t be Inhuman until it happened and her body became covered in thorns and she has precognitive abilities.

Meanwhile, they have also brought us Deathlok and laid the groundwork for at least two other villains who will either come back later in the series or go straight to the movies. Along with movie tie-ins like cleaning up after Thor the Dark World and fighting with Hydra after Captain America Winter Soldier, this series is actually so awesome. The Hydra situation alon could drag this out for years, the whole cut one head and two grow back in its place thing seems serious, it seems like Hydra went through three or four heads in just this past season, and there will be another whenever the plot calls for it, I am sure. but for now, it's all about the Inhumans and tomorrow night will be the first episode since Avengers and the introduction of Inhumans, so it'll be good. Last week foreshadowed the movie with Raina having a vision about Ultron and Coulson asking Maria Hill to bring in the Avengers so the clean-up crew will have their work cut out for them!