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| The Inhumans. Jack Kirby at his weird finest. |
You have to expect Marvel TV will try to hit us with some doozies tonight, so I felt the need to go ahead and venture some guesses about what we'll see both in this finale and next season as well. If you don't want me to potentially ruin something, run away now.
- Is Garrett the real Clairvoyant?
- A few clues have been dropped that there still may be someone behind the curtain. Mike Peterson's "eyeball instructions" referred to Garrett in third person. My official guess and hope is that we aren't being misled and tonight will be the last time we have to deal with the C word.
- Is Skye an alien?
- Yes.
- What kind of alien?
- Kree is the easy answer. They're blue, just like Coulson's guy in the tube. But, now I think she may actually be an Inhuman. Brace yourself, you're about to be neck deep in 50 years of geek mythos here. Thousands of years ago, the Kree were at war with the Skrulls and, from their strategic outpost on Uranus (we can hear you snickering), the Kree noticed that humans had evolutionary potential while their own evolution had become stagnant. So... they began to experiment on humans, hoping to create stronger Kree warriors. They created a new race (the Inhumans) that would mutate when exposed to mist from Terrigen crystals. Yeah... I know. The mutations are completely unpredictable. (As you can see in the picture, one of them is basically a giant, teleporting dog.) They say that the Terrigenesis process reveals what was already lurking underneath; the true selves of the Inhumans. Okay, SO, last week Raina was going on about Skye's origin and DNA and said her parents were the monsters yeah, yeah, yeah... But, the writers carefully planted another line in the mix. Raina says she stays with Hydra because she's waiting for "what's inside to be revealed." Later, she also drops the word "transformation." That couldn't possibly sound more like the big Inhumans storyline that started in the comics about six months ago.
- Can Ward be redeemed?
- Yes and no. Can he come back to the team? No. I mean, I really, really... reeeally hope not. In all the promo images for next season, Ward is in the group. That certainly indicates he'll be around. I'm thinking his role will be the complicated antagonist that sacrifices himself for his old team at the end of Season 2 and finds redemption with his death. That's the only method that makes sense. The other options are that 1) he does something heroic and all is forgiven and he's given a second chance (that would be horribly stupid considering how many innocent good guys he has shot point-blank in the head or strangled and hid in the drop ceiling) or 2) Ward was a double, double agent all along, Victoria Hand and Patton Oswalt aren't really dead and all the murders were a giant ruse to allow Ward to stay undercover and save everyone from Hydra. Obviously, THAT, would be insane and ridiculous. So, let's hope that I'm right on my original prediction even if it is a tad predictable.
- What is the fate/mission of the team for Season 2?
- I really don't know. That's the most interesting question of all. How do you have a show called Agents of SHIELD when SHIELD no longer exists? My best guess is that Nick Fury will tell Coulson that the world needs his team. That they need to do the things that no one else can. That their little six-person squad is SHIELD now.