Agents of SHIELD: Beginning of the End

WARNING: DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU HAVE SEEN 'Beginning of the End'

Wow. Just wow. 'End of the Beginning' was an awesome season finale for an awesome show. It had it all: action, adventure, heartbreak, humor-the whole enchilada. But, let's get onto the review, shall we?

Synopsis:

Coulson and his team are making one final stand against Hydra forces, run by Garret, former ally turned enemy. The SHIELD/Hydra war is coming to a close-but who will win? And who will lose?

Review:

     I think that was a brilliant season finale. It was hilarious. I lost track of how many hilarious lines were in that episode, and how many awesome scenes were in it. I mean, it was hilarious. It had me bursting out laughing more than once. Though it wasn't all fun and games. Fitzsimmons were revealed to be alive from their trip down to the bottom floor of the ocean, and only a few injuries, including a broken arm for Fitz. Realizing that they are about to die, they began to try and come to terms with their fate, but quickly realize a way out. Blowing a hole in the window would let all the water in, and allow them to escape and quickly swim to the surface, using oxygen in the chamber. This scene would be where I began to cry, because of Fitz's plan, I was just going 'no, no, no! Not happening!'. I am glad that they both survived (for the time being, I don't like how Simmons said 'he's alive'. That didn't sound very good). And don't get me started on how Fitz finally told her (ish) about how he felt (I might've jumped up and down if it wasn't for the heartbreak of it all. I've gotten far too attached to all of these characters, it's ridiculous.)

    The attack against Hydra was awesome, though. Everyone had a part to do, and the explosions were awesome, everyone was awesome, and Skye's line about the bomb was hilarious 'This is a bomb. You know what those do'. Another hilarious line from Skye would've been about her secret weapon, which I'm changing this line, because I'm old fashioned and I do not like cuss words: 'You had a relationship with her, and she's ticked off.'. That line had me laughing so much that I missed the first minute or so of the May/Ward fight, which I was seriously looking forward to. (I told you, I take betrayals personally!)

      Although, boy, Garrett went completely wackoo in the end. Yowzah. The whole scene with the Government officials, that was...that was disturbing (and I watch the Scream franchise, and Bones). I must say the actor that plays Garrett (Bill Paxton) played insane very well.

     Coulson was hilarious as ever, and I particularly liked his 'Well, that was new line' which (of course, being a Whovian) reminded me of the Doctor's line in the beginning of Asylum of the Daleks: 'Well, this is new'. I particularly liked how they brought back the weapon that Coulson attempted to use on Loki in the Avengers. I also found the exchange between Fury, Coulson and Garret, and how Fury was just all like, “You turned Hydra because you misunderstood my 'one man' speech?” Then just turned to Coulson and asked, “You got it, right?”

    Another scene I really liked was the scene at the end, when Coulson was yelling at Fury, about the whole thing being stupid and risky, which I found to be hilarious the way Coulson was going off at Fury. I also liked how Fury called Coulson an Avenger, which seemed to take him by surprise, but let's be honest, he was. He was the glue in the team. And I liked how they sort of made comments on that.

       I was really hoping for a happy ending for Mike (because if a character deserves it on that show, it's him, especially with Ace), and I like how they made the quote from the start of the series be a use to the plot, which I figured would be what Ace would tell her, though I wasn't sure about it as Skye had already heard that in the plot, but then again, either way, Mike would know that Skye or Ace was with him.

But, SHIELD is back! And Coulson's the director, I literally began to clap when Fury made him director. With Coulson in the lead of SHIELD, it will become what it was meant to: a shield against evil, to protect the innocent. I think SHIELD is in pretty safe hands with Coulson at the helm.

      When they landed, and when they saw Eric, or his look alike (Pardon, but I can't remember his name, I woke up extremely early this morning, far earlier than I'm use to), I thought 'wait what? Er....Life Model Decoy? Maybe?'. To be honest, I haven't ever seen one of those, but I know what they are (thank you internet). So that'll be interesting.

     Although, the team has new enemies-well, old ones-to face next season, possibly in the face of Raina, and Quinn. Also, whoever may come back. I have a feeling, though, that that wasn't the last we'll see of Grant Ward. I'm also very much interested in the first end scene-who was Raina talking too? And what was that weird gunk coming off that person's (Skye's parent) arm. Another interesting bit was the end scene, with Coulson. Is he starting to lose his mind? Guess we'll find out in the fall.

       Oh, by the way, ABC confirmed that AOS 'stime slot would be changed to 9:00pm on Tuesdays. With any luck that'll help with ratings, that way it is not competing with NCIS, although now it has to hold up against Supernatural-I think, anyway.

Overview: 4/5

Aw....no next time trailer....that stinks..

What did you think of 'Beginning of the End'? What do you think will happen next? Comment below!

-Tegan