Agents of Shield Season 2 Episode 1

Well since the new TV season is upon us the next month or so will be writing about the premiers of several shows. Due to the fact that I don't have cable many of my reviews will be written a day late. So today I watched the first episode of the second season of Marvels Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (MAS), and I am here to say that this is looks like it is going to be a very promising season. I'm going to start by saying that like many people I didn't think last season picked up until after Captain America Winter Soldier Came out.

From this point on there will be *****MAJOR***** spoilers. Which shouldn't matter because if you don't know some of this information you have no business reading this review. 

When S.H.I.E.L.D got disbanded in the Cap movie I was very shocked I couldn't believe that HYDRA had infiltrated the best spy organization in the world. My first thought was how will this effect the show, and boy did it effect it in a positive way. MAS picked up so fast after that movie came out it would make your head spin. When it turned out that Grant Ward was a HYDRA agent I was in disbelief. I spent the remaining time of the season trying to convince myself that it wasn't true, and he must be working an angle. I'm glad that Marvel stuck to their guns, and kept him a bad guy though.
So when the new season started I had high hopes. I couldn't wait to see where this season was going to go, and I get the feeling it is going to focus a lot on Skye's parents. It starts out with a flash back to the 40's, and Agent Carter, this was more than likely so people are used to seeing her again before she gets a new show this winter. It then went into the introduction of new Shield members orchestrating the sale of some powerful object that you say earlier in the episode during the 40's flashback. As the episode progresses you learn that Director Coulson (if you don't know why he is director than shame on you, quit reading this review and go watch the first season of MAS) has been flying around trying to recruit new agents, but not on "the bus", but on regular planes. You see Fitz talking to Simmons, and you can tell that their is some lasting brain damage from the season finale last spring. This leads to the best surprise of the episode, but I will get into that in a minute. I liked that MAS decided to keep Ward around. I may not like him as a person, but he makes a damn good villain. It looks like he will be taking on a Hannibal Lector type role in this season by consulting with the team on Hydra's inner workings. Skye seems to be a full agent in the new season also. According to Ward she is being trained by  May. You don't get to see any of this in the first episode, but I think it will be an interesting aspect to look at in future episodes. There was the introduction of a new super powered villain in the episode too. I believe they said his name was Crash I could be wrong on that though. Anyway Crash has the ability to change his molecular structure when he is touching a certain object. For example at one point in the episode he touches a tire, and he makes his hand into the same materiel as the tire. I think that they need to bring Deathlocke back to deal with this new threat seeing as how nobody else is really a match for him. Now the best part of the entire episode was the twist ending. The whole episode you saw Fitz and Simmons interacting with each other, but it turns out that Simmons had actually left the team months ago. Fitz had been talking to himself the whole time. He apparently has more brain damage than we were lead to believe early on. I really can't wait to see where the show takes this angle. It really makes me wonder why Simmons left. To me it seems like a shitty thing to do as a friend but maybe she has a good reason. I am very excited to see how this season plays out.