The MacGuffin (an Asgardian staff that gives you super-strength but also makes you hyper-aggressive) is cool, Peter MacNicol is great in a guest-spot as a working-class Asgardian who’d rather chill on Earth and the glimpses into Ward’s abusive childhood are good early teases at how complicated we’d eventually find out he is.īut the showpiece is seeing Ming-Na Wen finally get to cut loose as Agent May – first in a standout fight scene and later in the first character-oriented “Whoa!” stinger of the series when she invites Ward into her room. Me? Well, while the tie-in may have been lame I still contend that this is one of the standouts of the season. A lot of fans still have a chip on their shoulder about this one, owing to how it was sold: Heavily hyped as a tie-in to the just-released Thor: The Dark World (and thus the series finally getting around to being the MCU reference-fest some are still demanding), instead its movie connections turned out to be tenuous at best ( Aww, man! You just missed Thor! He was totally here!) and after a jokey opening moved on to a Thor-adjacent story that could’ve been done anytime movie or not.
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