"Marvel's Agents of South.H.I.E.L.D." Season six Episode eleven Review: "From The Ashes" Creepy [SPOILER] Rises

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At the close of last week's episode of Curiosity'southward Agents of Southward.H.I.E.L.D. "Spring," things were pretty dire. Mournful, sad music played every bit the various members of the S.H.I.E.Fifty.D. team realized the implications of the day. Mere hours after their triumphant celebration, Izel (Karolina Wydra) separated the team, one never to render. As a new twenty-four hours dawns in this week'due south episode, "From The Ashes," all of the answers in "Jump" lead to more questions. Predictably, viewers volition need to wait until the August 2 two-hr finale for a satisfying decision to the Izel threat. However, from the ashes of Southward.H.I.Eastward.50.D.'s good intentions rises a new, more powerful, creepier Sarge (Clark Gregg)…

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…that has Coulson's memories.

That's right ladies, gentlemen, and non-corporeal aliens, Coulson is in there. Throughout the entire season May (Ming-Na Wen), Daisy (Chloe Bennet), Mack (Henry Simmons), and anybody else attempted to convince themselves that Sarge is a big ball of genocidal bedlamite in a Coulson bag. Only its simply not true. All it took was Daisy beating the e'er-loving crap out of him, quake-strangling him, and so threatening to behead him with a harmonic sword. Every fourth dimension he comes back from the dead, Sarge/Coulson is a piddling more than powerful and a footling more…Coulson. Given his history, it is fitting that what finally convinced Daisy that Coulson was office of Sarge was not him calling her Skye. It was him sacrificing himself so the team would accept a better chance at killing Izel. There actually is nothing more Coulson than that.

Speaking of Daisy, she (and, incidentally, Bennet) shined in this episode. Everyone on the team danced around Sarge, worried about what Izel revealed when she took the gravitonium device. While May was trying to coax Coulson out, and Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) wanted Daisy to talk about feelings, just Daisy thought strategically. Daisy wants to connect Sarge with his inner badass, the one that can defeat Izel, not his feelings. May even tries to shame her for it, telling Daisy that Coulson wouldn't corroborate. Finally reading the letter Coulson left for her when he died, Daisy connects with him in a style she previously avoided. In the end, she decides that Sarge, with powers, is their all-time chance at survival.

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Daisy learns that it is Coulson's willpower, his soul, that is keeping his inner alien from obliterating everyone. Coulson's struggle to contain something powerful inside himself, something he doesn't sympathise, resonates with Daisy. She see'southward her own past in Coulson'due south current struggle. When Daisy first got her powers, she freaked out. She was powerful, deadly even. There was a strong forcefulness within her, a part of her, that she didn't know how to control. Now, she is seeing that same dynamic play out inside Coulson. He begs her to impale him, to end the threat he represents. Daisy tin encounter that Coulson is not but sacrificing himself, he is doing everything possible to regain command. Yo-Yo (Natalia Cordova-Buckley) and Daisy are the merely Agents capable of recognizing those feelings in Coulson, because they take been there themselves. It takes a "supe" to help a "supe."

While Coulson's emergence from within Sarge is good for him and skillful for the team, it might be even harder on May. Thinking of Sarge as the big bad wearing her lover's face might be easier than dealing with a Coulson who is simply…different. It will accept a while for the team to adjust to the new Coulson-but-not-Coulson. Non only does he take powers now, but he has a century of experiences thatdon't include S.H.I.E.L.D.. It may be worse for May to accept Coulson, simply not have her Coulson.

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In the groundwork of the hard, dramatic, grief-laden storyline between Daisy, May, and Sarge/Coulson, FitzSimmons (Iain De Caestecker, Henstridge) and their grandson are trying to save the day. Deke (Jeff Ward) is trying to learn how he fits into the dynamic between his grandparents. He doesn't have an official place in the lab, simply they need him. You have to question his intelligence when he asks Piper (Briana Venskus) for emotional advice, nevertheless. When Deke does finally find his groove as part of the FitzSimmons brainstorming process, the look on peace on his face is priceless. Not only tin he make a real contribution to helping the team, only he finally connects with his grandparents in a way he hasn't since coming back to their fourth dimension. Maybe nosotros should start calling them FitzSimShaw?

As the show hurtles towards adjacent week's flavor finale, the team will finally learn whose side Sarge/Coulson is really on, and if Daisy's calculated risk has paid off. Hopefully the creepy await on Coulson'southward face as he wields the harmonic sword means death for Izel, and not for the Agents. The body count for this season is already unusually high.

The 2 60 minutes Flavour 6 finale of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,"The Sign" and "New Life," arrogance Fri, Baronial 2, at 8 p.m. on ABC.

"New Life": With time running short, the squad will have to go to hell and dorsum to stop the cease of everything. Who will survive?

"The Sign": With time running short, the team will take to become to hell and back to stop the end of everything. Who volition survive?

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