So here it is trill believers what we’ve been waiting for, the proof of concept with expanding the Marvel Cinematic
Universe to television while more movies are being released. If you’re confused
as to what I’m talking about it’s that this episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
crossing over with the very recent Marvel release of Thor: The Dark World. Now
unlike the pilot, which had a lot of stuff from Iron Man 3 five
months after it's release, this right here is fresh, so fresh that really I bet there are a
lot of folks who haven’t even gotten to see Thor 2 yet. Good thing for them
that the connection to the movie is very tenuous and doesn’t really have much
to connect to the plot of the movie other than England.
The episode begins with Jemma essentially giving us an overview of what we know about the Asgardians, at least from the
earth perspective, with clips from both Thor movies. Then we get to see our good
old team of Agents we’ve watched for the previous 7 hours. Too be honest as a
person that saw Thor 2 twice this first 3 minutes of the show is the only real
connection to the movie. The team is in the big library that Jane Foster and Erik
Selvig were in doing crazy marvel science in the last act of the movie.
Basically cleaning up all the glass and random little parts that were still
left from the giant spaceship. That’s all. That’s it.
From there we see a couple in Norway in a national park of
some sort and cutting down a tree as they follow the directions from some old
story. Inside the old tree is a broken metal rod with Asgardian markings all
over it. The female grabs it first and it glows red. When the couple is
encountered by two police officers she attacks one and kills him. Now our
SHIELD team is in Norway figuring out what happened. They easily deduce it’s Asgardian.
Since most don’t know much about Asgardians on earth Coulson brings the team to
a professor who helped SHIELD way back when Mjolnir (Thor’s dope hammer) was in
the desert. Professor Elliot Randolph
talks with Coulson and his team and tells them the story about a Asgardian
solider that had a weapon that makes them berserk which gives the user more
strength by tapping into a warriors rage.
With help from the Randolph they go to where the next piece of the weapon is located. Ward and Skye end up going for the
next piece and end up running into Professor Randolph. Ward ends up holding the
piece and being overcome with rage, which triggers a memory of a kid in a well.
Everyone loses the weapon piece to the couple that now has an Asgardian
believer army. They find out that Randolph is in fact the Asgardian from the
story he told them. On the way to the
third piece the Nerds try to find out if the rod did anything to Ward and he
snaps on the nerds and Skye (much in the way I feel about Skye I might
add). Coulson and Ward talk to Randolph
as he explains his reasons and how the story came to be. Once at the third
place Randolph goes to where he thinks it is and discovers they are too late as
he is straight up stabbed in the heart.
What happens now is Coulson and the nerds attempt to save
Randolph while Ward goes on to fight the leader of the group, take both of his
pieces, and take out the entire army for the most part as we see the painful
memory of Ward’s brother dying in well as he failed to help him. Now spent from
full berserker rage beasting out, the Leader’s girlfriend enters the fray with
the first piece in tow. Now instead of Ward fighting, Agent Melinda May tells
him to fall back as she grabs both pieces, grunts and proceeds to beat the hell
out of the woman while completing the weapon, a staff, in the process. Randolph
survives because he’s an Asgardian and they heal fast. Skye and Ward have a
close moment in a bar after which he turns her down for alone time. Back at
the hotel May leaves her door open and Ward enters. Coulson has a weird dream
about Tahiti as he’s starting to question how he came back to life.
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