Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Season 3, Episode 20 Review

After a ham-fisted attempt to tie-in Agents of SHIELD to Captain America: Civil War, this week's episode saw the return of General Talbot, played by Adrian Pasdar. Talbot has become my favourite supporting character on the show, and this episode summarizes why. From his quick-witted comments such as "Daisy-waisy" to his very logical, if a little ignorant views, Talbot is just a really fun character in the series, and I'm glad to see more of him and Coulson interacting in this episode. Can he feature as a main character in Season 4 please?
We also had Lincoln tricking Daisy into tricking Lincoln to trick May and escape SHIELD HQ, a sequence I was so glad was in fact a double-bluff on the part of Lincoln. Either that or he was an idiot and May was an even bigger idiot with that alarm business. It's a much more redeeming thing for  Lincoln to do in the show, and was further justified by pitting Lash up against Hive. That was an awesome moment in the episode, and giving Andrew some redemption before killing him off - as well as curing Daisy - is a great way to end the character's arc over Season 3.
But, in the meantime Hive plans to enact Magneto's plan from X-Men 1 on a much larger scale - turning a large majority of humans into Inhumans...or at least sort-of Inhumans that look like short baby Silence from Doctor Who - who were in fact former Watchdogs. Yeah, the Watchdogs returned in this episode. Not sure if Agents of SHIELD is bringing them back next season or something as they've only had two episodes and we're two episodes away from the end of Season 3 as a whole.
And wow does that feel weird. Another season finale fast approaches, and I'm still working out what this season has been building up to. Maybe its not been building up to anything. Maybe its just more set-up for the next season. Or maybe its just been 22 episodes of fun distraction redeeming a show that I just couldn't get along with this time last year.
Overall, 'Emancipation' was an excellent episode of Agents of SHIELD, with very little truly wrong with it. While this whole Daisy turning to the dark side arc is very familiar (wasn't that the plot of Season 2 in the end?), the show is certainly heading somewhere in the next two episodes. 9/10

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