Note: Full episode spoilers follow.
Having sat out last week’s premiere, both May and Ward returned in Season 3’s second episode, both in interesting, but radically different, new places in life – though it seems these two will soon be encountering each other again.
The look at Ward’s leaner, meaner version of Hydra was fun, with Ward as brutal as ever. This episode didn’t have the action highlights the previous installments directed by the returning Kevin Tancharoen did, but I did enjoy Ward’s fight on the boat, and when he simply shot and killed a man who got in a good punch – underlining this is not a guy who fights fair.
As a Marvel comic geek, it was also cool to see SHIELD pull out the deep cut character that is Werner von Strucker (Spencer Treat Clark), the other child of Baron Strucker’s in the comics, who is often overlooked due to his siblings, the twins known as “Fenris”, being a whole lot flashier. It seemed like a bit of an in-joke/acknowledgement of an MCU misstep when Ward told Werner his father died a “meaningless death,” given it was pretty lame how he was killed off-screen in Age of Ultron, considering his post-credit scene in The Winter Soldier seemed to hint at big things ahead for him.
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Having sat out last week’s premiere, both May and Ward returned in Season 3’s second episode, both in interesting, but radically different, new places in life – though it seems these two will soon be encountering each other again.
The look at Ward’s leaner, meaner version of Hydra was fun, with Ward as brutal as ever. This episode didn’t have the action highlights the previous installments directed by the returning Kevin Tancharoen did, but I did enjoy Ward’s fight on the boat, and when he simply shot and killed a man who got in a good punch – underlining this is not a guy who fights fair.
As a Marvel comic geek, it was also cool to see SHIELD pull out the deep cut character that is Werner von Strucker (Spencer Treat Clark), the other child of Baron Strucker’s in the comics, who is often overlooked due to his siblings, the twins known as “Fenris”, being a whole lot flashier. It seemed like a bit of an in-joke/acknowledgement of an MCU misstep when Ward told Werner his father died a “meaningless death,” given it was pretty lame how he was killed off-screen in Age of Ultron, considering his post-credit scene in The Winter Soldier seemed to hint at big things ahead for him.
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