Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Season 3, Episode 15 Review

Self-fulfilling prophecies are difficult to handle in stories. Quite often it can seem like the teases for the future are developed before the writers actually work out what happens in the future, and sometimes the teases can be really obvious, making the characters seem a little bit stupid for misunderstanding them when you, the audience, can.
"Spacetime" falls into the latter category, with Daisy encountering an Inhuman with insight into future events, who upon falling into the hands of Hydra spurs Daisy and the rest of the agents to go after him and try and avert a potentially horrific future. There are some interesting if complex time-travel ideas at play in here, especially given that Marvel haven't really dealt with time travel as a concept prior to this, but one can't help but draw comparisons to The Flash, which has also been dealing with lots of time travel and alternative reality concepts recently.
It also doesn't help that the time travel elements build up to a big climax that just...ends. Pretty much everything this episode sets up it resolves, meaning that a potentially interesting concept seems to have been left as the standalone episode-of-the-week plot. I suppose Malick seems a little shaken by his glimpse into the future, but otherwise, little in the status quo has changed.
It occurred to me that without Mack, Hunter or Morse in this episode, the team of Agents seemed much more compact and developed. The focus was mainly on Coulson and Daisy, as it should be - they are the two main characters, after all - with the others acting as supporting cast. I'm assuming Mack's excuse for not being here is that he's in hospital (or was probably filming the previous episode at this episode's time of recording). Other than that, nothing from last week's episode of Agents of SHIELD has made a difference here, which is a little odd. It brings to mind how many plot-threads have found their way into this one season.
Overall, "Spacetime" focused on characters I like with an intriguing premise, great direction (some of those shots looked amazing) and while the time travel elements felt a little anticlimactic in the end (even if they made sense), it was still very, very good. 9/10

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