Titled: “No Regrets”
This week’s episode barely pauses for breath after last week’s heartbreaking ending. Coulson and Mace stage a car crash so they can hijack a Hydra bus, hoping to find Daisy. Unfortunately, there’s nothing but body bags onboard. The whole premise of Hydra taking over the Marvel Universe is very big right now, but I love the way this show’s version of the idea constantly throws in these little horrible details to underline just how cruel and authoritarian the society of the Framework is.
Similarly, I love the way AIDA (or Ophelia, or Madame Hydra, or whatever new name she’s given herself inside her personal sandbox) has brainwashed Fitz. He tells Daisy that he knows the truth about her world, because AIDA has told him they’re all invaders from a parallel world. Which is just enough of the truth to work, especially since it already plays into Hydra’s bigotry and xenophobia. One of the key ways fascism enforces order is to keep pointing the finger at new scapegoats, and that’s what AIDA has done here. But before they can totally focus on the new invaders, Hydra has to deal with the scapegoat they had already: The Patriot.
Mace, in this universe, is a true hero. His powers even appear to be natural Inhuman powers, rather than the serum-induced kind that underlined his personal superficiality back in the real world. When Simmons tries telling him that his world is fake and meaningless……
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