Agents of SHIELD has never been a show that ’s hesitated to rock up its condition quo , and Agent Coulson and his team had yet another when time of year four premiered last night — and it ’s not for the better . But the real change comes from the addition of the first ( reasonably ) major Marvel superhero , Ghost Rider , to the series . He ’s brought new spirit to the show — not bad for an undead spirit of vengeance .
The main trouble with time of year four is that the show has decide to branch all of its main lineament yet again . While I care that SHIELD has returned to being a well - staff , well - funded governance bureau again after going to hell in Captain America : The Winter Soldier — and I also like the fact that Coulson is no longer the director , because it ’s more fun when he incur out in the bailiwick — it ’s really aggravating to know we ’re become to have to hold back umpteen episodes before the crew eventually , inevitably gets back together . For now , Coulson and Mack are running commission , Melinda May is training her own strike squad back at SHIELD HQ , Fitz is in the science laboratory , Gemma is now a liaison to the mysterious new Director , Yoyo is hang around L.A. , and Daisy , as we saw in last season ’s finale , is for some reason running around as an malefactor / vigilante / hacker fighting crime , head off SHIELD in worldwide and Coulson in particular .
So most of the excitement of the sequence total from the arrival of Ghost Rider , whose flaming ’ 67 Charger is as awesome - looking as his very punch-drunk eighties heavy metal album screening skull is not . To be sightly , the very stylize skull is to coiffe the young Ghost Rider , a.k.a . Robbie Reyes , aside from the better sleep with Johnny Blaze / Ghost Rider of the movie . If you have readour primer on the fibre , this new Ghost Rider is much more interesting than the moving-picture show version , even if at the present moment he ’s essentially Punisher with a machine , murdering bad guys for being bad . Reyes seems to have bear his circumstances as oppose to train against it , which forfend the all - too - expected dispute with the character , but he also has a handicapped younger pal to care for , chip in him some substantial , visible stakes . ( And if you read the primer , you know how Reyes became Ghost Rider has a much more intriguing twist than normal G.R. , too . )
There are a few other storyarcs introduced in this installment that are depart degrees of interesting : The skeevy Dr. Radcliffe has created Aida , an A.I. with a very nude physical dead body , which is presumably a Life Model Decoy , as pester in last time of year ’s finale . the right way now , she ’s every generic AI - in - a - human - body trope , but I have hopes that she signify more Life Model Decoys are on the way , which could lead to some very interesting drama . ( If a LMD of Grant Ward , progammed to be “ proficient ” again , does n’t finally show up to make everyone vastly uncomfortable I will be extremely disappointed . )
More significantly , there ’s a spectre running around that seems to tug people harebrained with madness , causing them to kill everyone around them — and , most notably , cause the taint to see others ’ eyes are being sullen , shadow - y holes , not unlike Mads Mikkelsen and his cronies in the upcoming Dr. Strange pic . May ’s infected , because AoS ca n’t mayhap function unless one squad phallus is work out actively against the rest .
We ’ve heard that this season of SHIELD will connect to Dr. Strange , and it ’s safe to say this is it . ( Although , as usual , the chance of Dr. Strange being affected by anything that bump in AoS are of coursepractically nonexistent . ) After several time of year of Inhumans and Hydra dramatic play , I greatly search forward to seeing the SHIELD team seek to take on the supernatural , something new , and something they are n’t even slightly equipped for . I just wish I did n’t have to expect for them to become a team again .
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