Marvel’s Agents of Shield 5x17 "The Honeymoon" Episode Review
Welcome to another review! Agents of Shield delivered a fantastic episode centered around antagonist Ruby and the honeymooners FitzSimmons. The long awaited battle between Ruby and Daisy went down, Fitz and Simmons kicked ass, and Yo-Yo reveals a secret she's been keeping about the future.
Spoilers ahead. My episode review:
We start where we left off with Coulson and Talbot in the snowy mountains. Ruby follows them there using the same machine thing and starts throwing her Frisbee thing. She almost kills them both, but Daisy intercepts using her Quake powers. Coulson and Talbot escape to the plane while Daisy distracted Ruby. I got excited seeing the two of them finally confront each other.
Ruby tells Daisy how pretty she is, how her poster is hanging on her wall, how all the other little girls wanted to be Quake. Then Ruby eagerly tells her how she waited for this perfect moment: not to be her, but to beat her. I have underestimated Dove Cameron's acting skills when she first debuted on this show. She has proved herself and brings great energy to her role as Ruby, hard-core assassin.
Daisy is not the least bit intimidated and welcomes the challenge. They get into a fierce fight with Daisy keeping the advantage. Ruby goes down for the count. Before Daisy and Deke can take her in for questioning though, Hale opens fire and nicks Deke. They have to escape and leave Ruby behind.
Hale takes Ruby back to their base and locks her away. Her mother took her stuff out of the room too. INCLUDING QUAKE POSTER AND THE COLORED WALLS! Ruby was heartbroken. The Von Strucker kid opened her door, but she refused to leave because she has some attachment to her mother. I assumed it was because Ruby loved her mother and hated disappointing her. I was partly right...
When Hale returned to check on her daughter, Ruby went into Liv and Maddie mode. She told her mother how she tried her best and hated being a failure in her eyes. Hale comforted her daughter and assured her she didn't. This is where it turned. Ruby told her mother that she was her weakness - their love for each other. She flipped her distraught mother onto the ground and locked her in the room, leaving with Von Strucker to become the Destroyer of Worlds.
If Agents of Shield gets renewed for a sixth season, please let this show continue, Dove Cameron has to stay. I don't know what her role would be, but she is a joy to have around the show, and a great rival to Quake. I hope to see more of their rivalry developed before the season/series? finale.
Deke is in critical condition from the gunshot wound and needs his grandparents' help, but they bailed with Yo-Yo for their own secret mission. Great! Guess Deke dies this week. Mack and Piper have no choice but to step in and operate... like what? They read through chapters on how to do this and successfully save him. Okay...
But it did lead to a hilarious moment with Deke drugged going on about wanting to kiss Daisy because he likes her and wishes she liked him back. He also thinks she's pretty and "very smart". It's sweet in its own way. Luckily he stops right when Daisy shows up to check on him. Mack and Piper awkwardly stay silent.
Yo-Yo, Fitz, and Simmons go to the Hydra facility to find their secret weapon. The plane scene was a throwback to how far FitzSimmons have come as agents and as a couple. I loved how they held hands before stepping off the plane together. But Yo-Yo refuses to play third-wheel she tells them early on.
The location of the facility is also Simmons' home country - England. Thus, the name of the episode makes sense now because she wanted to honeymoon there. The trio get inside the facility and destroy the infusion component, ruining the weapon Hydra created for the Destroyer of Worlds.
Before they can make their perfect escape though from the robots trying to kill them, Yo-Yo's new arms malfunction. Her mechanical arms can't keep up with her super speed! Her pain was real. I'm surprised they didn't consider that flaw when designing the arms. Interesting. Maybe they should've asked Cisco from The Flash for help when it came to building cool toys for speedsters.
Fitz and Simmons decide to stick together, vowing never to separate, while Yo-Yo went to get help. This scene had me thinking how far these two have come from the geeky scientists who had never seen action before. They used guns, held their own, and took out a couple of the robots, but the badass moment slipped away when Simmons jammed her gun. They're still those geeky scientists at heart. But if they didn't think of something soon, they're goners.
Yo-Yo runs into trouble heading back to the plane. Our old friend Ivanov is also at the facility and he stops her. He is beating her because he can't feel pain. Great. This gives Yo-Yo the idea though to run him out a window, smashing him into pieces and disabling all the robots. This act also saves FitzSimmons from getting killed. Maybe the Invincible Three is legit. I think they're safe for the rest of the season.
Maybe not. Ruby and Von Strucker storm the facility, taking the couple prisoner. Ruby threatens to end Simmons if Fitz didn't fix what they destroyed. It looks like Fitz will listen to her demands because he won't let his wife die. Even if letting her die saved the world.
In the closing moments, Daisy helped Talbot through his broken state and let him call his wife, who reads him instructions on a piece of paper. He agrees to comply, which is probably code for something. Similar to Bucky and the Winter Solider brainwashing back in the Civil War movie.
This episode was a pretty solid one. May told Coulson she loved him, Daisy beat up Ruby, Ruby stood up to her mother, FitzSimmons went on their honeymoon oddly, and Deke survived his gunshot wound. I'm looking forward to what happens next with Talbot and Ruby forcing FitzSimmons to fixing the machine.
Share your thoughts in the comment section. I would love to hear about theories for future episodes or how Infinity War may tie in to the season or next season if we're blessed with another one. Otherwise, I'll see you all in my next review.