Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
No matter what, the release of these big Marvel movies in early May makes it bad timing for Agents of SHIELD to try and tie into them right when MAOS is in the home stretch of the season (presumably, that won’t be an issue for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 next year). That being said, the Civil War tie-in here was done much better than last year’s Age of Ultron one which essentially seemed to pause the main storylines to explain how Coulson and his team were actually part of both finding Loki’s scepter and the helicarrier Nick Fury showed up in.
Here, having the government, in the form of Talbot, show up and demand that the Inhumans on their team be registered felt more natural because the inclusion of the Inhumans and debate about how dangerous they are has been part of the series for awhile. Also notable of course was how Agents of SHIELD was showing a much more expanded reach to the Sokovia Accords from Civil War. In the film, they were basically only about the Avengers having to answer to the UN, but here it was noted they were now “a framework for the registration of all enhanced.” On one hand, it underlined the awkwardness of the Marvel films never truly acknowledging the TV shows, since it would have made a lot of sense for Secretary Ross or Tony Stark to have just mentioned, in one or two lines, “all of these new Inhumans showing up” or “this Devil in Hell’s Kitchen” guy or such.
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No matter what, the release of these big Marvel movies in early May makes it bad timing for Agents of SHIELD to try and tie into them right when MAOS is in the home stretch of the season (presumably, that won’t be an issue for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 next year). That being said, the Civil War tie-in here was done much better than last year’s Age of Ultron one which essentially seemed to pause the main storylines to explain how Coulson and his team were actually part of both finding Loki’s scepter and the helicarrier Nick Fury showed up in.
Here, having the government, in the form of Talbot, show up and demand that the Inhumans on their team be registered felt more natural because the inclusion of the Inhumans and debate about how dangerous they are has been part of the series for awhile. Also notable of course was how Agents of SHIELD was showing a much more expanded reach to the Sokovia Accords from Civil War. In the film, they were basically only about the Avengers having to answer to the UN, but here it was noted they were now “a framework for the registration of all enhanced.” On one hand, it underlined the awkwardness of the Marvel films never truly acknowledging the TV shows, since it would have made a lot of sense for Secretary Ross or Tony Stark to have just mentioned, in one or two lines, “all of these new Inhumans showing up” or “this Devil in Hell’s Kitchen” guy or such.
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