"Don't call me The Cavalry."
In last night's episode, the Agents of SHIELD team was tasked with becoming a team. Do you think they succeeded?! Let's find out!
The Airborne Mobile Command Station, aka "The Bus," which is a really fancy airplane gifted to Agent Coulson after his trip to "Tahiti," is headed for Peru so the team can investigate an 0-8-4, an "object of unknown origin." The team is so bickery! But they do have great special terms that Skye is all about learning, which is very convenient for us, the audience, since we don't know them, either.
Something something Incan temple. Something something Coulson definitely had sex with the leader of the Peruvian national police. Something something the 0-8-4, which is lodged in the wall of the temple, is VERY POWERFUL and VERY UNSTABLE and is definitely powered by tesserat technology (holla, Captain America!) and totally holds a fuckload of gamma radiation.
Back on The Bus, that soldier ain't drinking the booze he wanted which means they're up to no good! A fight breaks out for ownership of the 0-8-4! OH NO! The team is detained away from Coulson, but they will totally figure out a plan to stop the baddies and hang onto the 0-8-4, as each of them only has to come up with one part of the plan because THAT'S HOW TEAMS WORK.
Something something escape. Something something hole in the airplane. Whooooooooops there go the nameless evil minions! Good thing Skye read The Bus' safety pamphlet and knows where to find a life raft she unleashes to plug the hole before Coulson gets sucked out. That would definitely work. It's called science.
Everyone is safe, The Bus is only a little worse for the wear, and the 0-8-4 can be fired into the sun. (But not out of a giant cannon. TOO BAD.) Nick Fury (SAMUEL L. JACKSON ON A MOTHERFUCKING PLANE!) shows up to grouse at Coulson that he won't keep getting shiny new planes forever. The government's in shutdown, you know. The End.
I liked this episode even better than the premiere. It is a very fun show! I said to Iain last night that I would have loved this show when I was a kid, which is not a criticism; it reminds me a lot of the live-action shows The Amazing Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk and Wonder Woman (SORRY, MARVEL!), and even The Greatest American Hero and The A-Team. I loved that crap (she says with profound affection) when I was a kid, and I dig it now, too.
So, long story short: I'm in.
What did you think?
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