So the Pilot starts with a voice over of young woman named
Skye (Chloe Bennett) as she talks about how the world is now different after the events seen in
The Avengers. We see a man named Michael (J. August Richards) with his son. While his son looks at
some toys of the Avengers (still not called that in the MCU) an explosion
occurs and Michael decides to go and help. There we get a classic hero moment
where he uses his super-strength and durability he saves a woman, covering his face with a hoodie. But Skye is there and saw his face and filmed the super
heroic act.
Next we meet Agent Grant Ward (Brett Dalton) doing some classic
international spy stuff in France when he is pulled away by Maria Hill (yep
that’s right the pilot has Robin Sparkles in it!) to join Agent Coulson’s
(Clark Gregg) new special level 7 team to investigate new powered people. Oh yeah Agent
Coulson is alive but you all know this because he’s in every ad and poster with
his own hashtag on Twitter. Their first
mission is to get Michael aka the Hooded Hero as he’s called in the press, but Skye gets to him first. See, Skye is part of this Internet group called
The Rising Tide that I guess is like the Marvel version Anonymous that knows
about SHIELD and all the crazy events that we’ve witnessed in Marvel movies. She wants to help him become a hero and he wants
to stay hidden.
Good ol’ Coulson goes to Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen), who seems to be some
uber badass agent with a awesome comic book name who’s on desk duty and even
though at first she declines, she ends up joining his group as the pilot and seems
to be Coulson’s second in command of the team. Then we meet the two tech heads of the team (Iain De Caestecker and Elizabeth Henstridge)
who clearly are comedy relief in the Whedon way of constant witty banter and fast talk. Coulson’s team finds and
takes Skye into custody to get to find Michael. She doesn’t trust them and they
find out about a secret project called "Centipede" from her. At that time we see Michael has a thing on
his forearm that looks like a Centipede that must be giving him his abilities.
He tries to get his job back and when denied lashes out on the foreman there.
Michael goes to visit the woman he saved in the beginning
and it seems she is in fact the doctor that gave him his powers and wants him
to disappear since he is now a liability. Skye is now trying to help Coulson on
figuring out what cause the building explosion by giving them audio from her
van. Michael, going captain insano right now thinking he’s a hero knocks out
May puts his son Ace in Skye’s van and asks her to drive and help him
disappear. Coulson’s team finds out that centipede is in fact a new version of
Extremis and that caused the explosion and soon Michael will explode if they
don’t save him.
Coulson and crew catch up to Michael and Skye and try to
stop Michael with force, which fails. The Doctor sends a mysterious guy to kill
Michael that fails. Coulson talks Michael down as his team shoots him with
special thing that stops the Extremis chemical reaction. Everyone is saved;
Skye decides to become a SHIELD agent.
Did You Know:
The Iron Man 3 commercial was a clue for the episode because all the Extremis stuff in this episode is all explained in the film. It alsolets us know this takes place AFTER Iron Man 3.
Project Pegasus was mentioned. It’s that place at the end of
the Thor movie and the beginning of the Avengers movie. Project Pegasus was big
deal in Marvel Two-in-One starring The Thing but since he can't be in this stuff
its other known character is the SHIELD Agent Wendell Vaughn aka Quasar. Maybe
some space stuff to connect to Guardians of the Galaxy next year?
Hey guess who made up Extremis in Iron Man 3? It was A.I.M.
– Advanced Idea Mechanics. It was kind of thrown in there and not wrapped
up in IM3 and maybe now Agents of SHIELD is why.
It looks like the Michael character really isn’t a main
character or connected to anything else from the comics.
The Centipede version of Extremis seems to be made from the
different super powered members of the Avengers – Hulk, Captain America, and
Thor (possibly)
Maria Hill and Dr. Streiten are holding a secret about
Coulson’s return. He COULD be a Life Model Decoy with his brain patterns.
Don’t think that Coulson's vintage car Lola is new, Nick Fury in the comics set in the 1960s
stayed having dope flying cars. That’s a SHIELD staple.
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