S5:E01-02 - Jess and Jared recap and discuss “Orientation."
The fifth season is nuts and confusing, but it's a fun one! We take on the two-part premiere, and start the issue with a little bit of current events diversion from a month and a half ago.
So, after we meet a new weird character we'll get to know better later to the music of the Talking Heads, we learn where the team went in the finale--the future! So everyone but Fitz is in over their head, and we're along for the ride! Our new mysterious friend has a nice pool day at home before picking up everyone but Fitz in a weird van with a Matrix-y shifting logo. Coulson sees that they're in space meets a man named Virgil as they run from space monsters called "Roaches," and learns they're a part of some prophecy. Coulson reunites with Mack, Yo-Yo and Simmons, who isn't impressed with space. Been there, done that. We take note of the gory violence, and the poor lighting Jaclyn mentioned before. Daisy saves the team, and we're introduced to Deke, as is May, who's probably at his most obnoxious, and most Star Lord-y. Deke implants May with a "metric," and we don't know it yet, but he's actually helping. Meanwhile, Virgil thinks they're all part of some predestined prophecy, Mack thinks it's magic, and Jemma mocks him endlessly as a result. We side with Mack, citing Ghost Rider. And Mack continues his movie-based fears, with aliens joining robots. Mack and Yo-Yo are separated from the rest of the team, and tortured by the Kree, but have some great moments together amongst it all. We get some Yo-Yo arm foreshadowing, and Deke has one of those "what drugs are you on, and where can I can get some?" lines. In Roach and Kre fueled confusion and the group's separation, Virgil died. Coulson and Deke start to figure out the time travel of it all, right as Jemma and May see a school bus in space and the remnants of Earth, and Daisy, Mack and Yo-Yo begin to crack the case as well when they find a postcard from Fitz that reads "working on it," in the walls of the station.
In part two Jemma and May are on a trawler being hit by asteroids and survive by turning it off and on again. They ask Deke for help, and all he can do is give them metrics, like he did May. They meet Tess, tell her Virgil died, and they find out the Kree they killed are in charge, and they shouldn't have done that. They find out that Earth blew up and these are the survivors, and see the remnants of humanity, and find out they're in a space station called the Lighthouse. Deke tells Tess that these are the S.H.I.E.L.D. from Virgil's prophecy, and though skeptical, she shows them to Virgil's stuff. Tess crosses paths with Grill and we start to see how the future works for them. Deke's got a Framework arcade, and he really likes Daisy, but it's not *too* bad, yet. Simmons is taken by the Kree after she shows that she's got medical knowledge. When Deke and Daisy come back May explain what happened to Simmons, and Tess tells Deke that she thinks Virgil might have been right, because our team seems weird to them. Jemma is at a well lit Kree bathhouse and no one will respond to her. The head Kree dude, Kasius shows up, and he's a douche. We see their system is insane and Tess kills a scavenger a la Battle Royale to save herself, and the rest of the S.H.I.E.L.D. team. They make a deal to steal a Kree tablet for their metrics, and they end up getting into Grill's servitude because Yo-Yo proved to be so useful. Kasius has the Kree enforcer, Sinara, kill a dude Jemma fixed up for being imperfect, and he's just the worst. Daisy follows Deke into his Framework to lecture him for using it keep people placated and oblivious, and he shows her video salvaged from the past, Daisy was the one who broke the world. WHAT?!?! Also, Kasius has made Jemma a slave, because he's the gross. Coulson, May, Yo-You and Mack are slaves to Grill, and this is *rough*. And where's Fitz?!
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