"You wanna meet the real SHIELD now?"
(Or, I butcher a well known line from Firefly).
Well, The real SHIELD. Intriguing, if a little annoying that the "real" SHIELD are equally as bureaucratic as the original.
Of course the real meat of this episode is Skye's handling of her powers. Or lack thereof.
Of course it isn't helped that her colleagues- her family- have little or no faith in her (aside from Fitz, who continues to be a Godsend for this show). They lump her on an official "list" of gifted individuals who SHIELD alternatively want to lock up, use or destroy. Lovely vote of confidence. AND May's ex-husband (a former SHIELD shrink) is bought in to effectively confirm everyone's worst fears. And he sort of does- but at least he's doing it from the angle of 'what's best for Skye, not for everyone else. Which earns him some leeway. The rest? Really Coulson? A psych eval, ordred by you, a guy who died and came back from a 'magical place' without ANY PTSD. At. All. And May, so ashamed of her past and afraid of her own abilities in the first series you seemingly didn't want to join Coulson's team. And Simmons! Who was in so much denial about Fitz, wanting him to be better and yet not accepting of the change in him, of who he was now, she'd rather bugger off on a dangerous undercover mission with HYDRA.. These people are judging Skye?
Bloody hypocrites.
Still very good episode, getting me riled. Bonus!appearance from the Inhumans- who appear to break up the epic level spat between Skye's dad+minions of evil and SHIELD (current SHIELD, not "real" SHIELD. Confused?).
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