AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. lost in space? That’s not even the biggest twist in the thrilling season five opener of the series.
The two-hour premiere felt like your favorite agents were caught up in a DOCTOR WHO episode in an ALIEN film with a twist of LOGAN’S RUN.
The story picked up just before last season’s cliffhanger when Coulson and company were abducted from a diner as they celebrated a victory after a previous season of Ghost Rider, LMD’s and The Framework. Coulson was on a space station looking out at an asteroid belt.
Before we continue here’s a SPOILER ALERT!
If you have not seen the Season Five Season Premiere stop reading now.
Seriously.
OK.
Here it comes.
It’s not where Coulson and company are but WHEN!
We meet the mission leader in his home. Just a day in the life of a guy who wakes up, swims, gets in the shower – after taking off his skin. We see an unusual silhouette in the shower that is not human.
We pick up with Coulson looking out of a space station. We learn Phil, Yo-Yo, Mack, Simmons and Daisy traveled separately to this station after an encounter with a white monolith (similar to the one that took them to Maveth) that exploded in front of them. May turns up separately but meets a mysterious man. All of them see dead humans who are dehydrated, drained of fluid.
Coulson and team encounter what seem to be human scavengers and strange monsters referred to as “roaches” on the station. The station is run by Kree soldiers – the blue skinned aliens who came to Earth centuries ago to create the first Inhumans. Ronan the Accuser, the villain from GUARDIANS OF THE GALALXY was a Kree.
Virgil is a scavenger who recognized Coulson and the Agents and treats them like legends who will save humanity.
May sees a scavenger named Deke cut what he calls a “metric” from the dead humans. These are circles embedded in their arms by Kree to track them. In a strange ceremony some humans have their metrics light up making them targets for a vigilante hunt.
The Agents learn they’ve been pulled into the future. Those asteroids are remains of Earth. The planet is destroyed. Remaining humans live in this station called the Lighthouse with Kree-per overlords.
Simmons is pulled into what you could call a space spa, told to clean herself then taken to a garden to meet the Kree in charge of this station. Kasius? This is a Kree but with dark hair and weird coloring around his eyes who refers to the view being better than on Hala, the homeworld of the Kree Empire. Jemma ends up becoming one of this overlord’s chosen ones – perfect humans he paints with gold and inserts a weird tech in their ears that affects their hearing and behavior. Jemma is there when Kasius welcomes his guests – on a spaceship.
Daisy’s search for Deke takes us on an even stranger detour. She finds him in a “speakeasy” in space with the humans dreaming on a drug. Daisy inhales, passes out and wakes up in a simulation of old Earth. Deke sells these “escapes” and he’s pieced together history. He knows Daisy is Quake and she is to blame for ripping apart Earth. When S.H.I.E.L.D. tried to save the planet – they destroyed it.
Big burning questions:
How far into the future are they? The station looks old. The humans tells Coulson is was built 90 years ago.
How was the Earth destroyed? Who were the Agents fighting at the time? How did Quake rip apart the planet?
Do the Kree rule the Marvel Universe in this future? Will we see the Supreme Intelligence?
Will there be hints to Mar-Vell and Captain Marvel? In comics the Kree warrior Mar-Vell became a hero on Earth known as Captain Marvel. Carol Danvers was exposed to a Kree weapon and became Ms. then Captain Marvel – also a 2018 movie.
Where’s Fitz? Is the super scientist really left behind or hiding somewhere in the future?
Is there another monolith to take them back?
Producers went big with a major earth-shattering, pardon the pun status quo for the series with an action, effects and humor packed debut.
AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. airs Fridays at 9pm on ABC.
By Editor