Agents of Shield Season 3 Episode 5 Review

This episode of Agents of Due south.H.I.E.Fifty.D. is out of this world, literally.

In "4,722 Hours" nosotros spend the bulk of the episode in flashbacks, finding out what Jemma experienced over the last vi months stranded on the alien planet that the monolith deposited her on.

Even though we know Jemma makes it home, and that she's condom and audio retelling these events to Fitz, the episode is still an emotional rollercoaster. Throughout the episode we see Jemma go through various stages of denial, grief, anger, hope, and immeasurable bravery. At first she keeps herself going past thinking of Fitz and keeping updates on her status and the planet on her telephone (with an incredible battery life can be attributed to Fitz, can he claw u.s.a. all upwardly with phones like that?).

Jemma: I know you won't give upwardly, so I won't either.

Jemma proves herself not only brilliant, but incredibly resourceful. She keeps herself alive for a month, living off mysterious pond water and tackling the foreign snake-like fish that inhabit the pond for food, all the while still trying to figure out how to become dwelling. Jemma finds out she isn't alone on this planet when she'southward taken hostage by Will Daniels, an astronaut who has been stranded on the planet since 2001.

Their human relationship is off to a rocky start when he keeps her in a cage for the commencement several days of their acquaintance. When Jemma tries to escape he brings her back in, the 2 of them barely escaping a sand storm that Volition claims contains an unknown creature referred to every bit "it" that but brings death. He tells her how he came to the planet on a mission from NASA, how "it" got to his young man astronauts and made them go mad and finish their ain lives.

We see the two of them grow closer and come to depend on each other. Jemma remains a constant source of hope while Will keeps them grounded as the phonation of reason. They aren't FitzSimmons just they certainly residual each other out well. Information technology looks like her brilliance volition exist their saving grace when Jemma figures out exactly how the portal works and how they can find it and get dorsum through it. When their simply known chance to make it back is thwarted nosotros encounter the moment Jemma gives up hope, the moment she mentioned to Andrew in her therapy.

Jemma: This isn't our dwelling, this is hell. You were right, at that place's no hope on this planet.
Will: That's what I used to think, then you lot showed up.

Then Jemma kisses Will. While many dice-hard FitzSimmons are up in artillery over Jemma's choice here, personally, I discover her  relationship with Will endearing. I'm even rooting for them, to be completely honest. If this is what Jemma needs to do to be okay, so it is more than alright for her to take comfort from the person she's come up to care well-nigh and depend on for the last 5 months. Information technology doesn't cheapen or diminish her human relationship with Fitz if she has relationships with other people. Furthermore, it doesn't lessen Jemma as a character; she tin desire a romantic relationship and nonetheless be an incredibly intelligent and capable scientist. Jemma Simmons is not 1-dimensional.

Will and Jemma conveniently trek to i of the planet'south poles to watch it's very cursory sunrise on the day that Fitz finally manages to open the portal from the other side. They're stopped past "information technology" on their way and Will tells Jemma to run, essentially sacrificing himself so that she tin make it domicile. Back at S.H.I.E.50.D. where Jemma is telling all of this to Fitz she explains that that'south why she has to go back. Without Will she couldn't have survived and if he'south still alive she cannot leave him backside.

Fitz'south emotions are unreadable at first as he leaves the room, choosing not to react at all initially. However, when Jemma follows him to the lab, he pulls up all of the information on the monolith and promises to help Jemma bring Will back. His friendship with Jemma is unshakable and he'll do whatsoever it takes to make certain she's okay. The relationship betwixt Jemma and Fitz is the most solid relationship on the show and it's continually entertaining to see them overcome every obstacle in their path.

Other thoughts:

• I need to know more about NASA and what they were doing with the monolith.
• Will is withal alive, merely will Jemma and Fitz actually be able to bring him dwelling house?
• Does the planet that Jemma and Will were on play a bigger office in the MCU or was this all a ploy to requite Jemma a new love interest?
• Next week'south promo claims Andrew is expressionless and I still don't believe them, merely if it brings Melinda and Bobbi back into the field I'yard okay with them believing it, for now.

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Agents of Southward.H.I.Eastward.L.D. airs Tuesdays at nine/8c on ABC.

Samantha (she/her) is a social media specialist by solar day and a sci-fi junkie past night. As a freelance writer and podcaster, she also enjoys live-tweeting, blogging, good music, and better television. Her current favorite television set shows include Star Trek (yes, all of them), Riverdale, and Stranger Things and in that location will always exist a identify in her center for Battlestar Galactica, Leverage, and The Westward Fly.

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