Hats off to the writers for this episode. Such a great and bold endeavor in this one. It really left me wanting this show even more. I didn't even know that this story line was even relevant and wouldn't have wanted to watch it so much if I had known. But after seeing it I have developed a greater interest in these characters and feel that it has justified much of the goings on. My hunger for the satisfaction of seeing the fruition of this story line and where it will take me has compelled me to write this review. I apologize for the emptiness of the latter part of this review as I had intended it to be very short and to the point, but I need to have 10 lines of text so...
10 Reviews
one of the best TV episodes ever made.
namob-4367322 October 2017
one of the best TV episodes ever made.
I have seen better TV episodes, but not many. This is amazing stuff and should have won plenty of awards.
This is a very difficult story to tell, and kudos that they managed to play it out.
I have seen better TV episodes, but not many. This is amazing stuff and should have won plenty of awards.
This is a very difficult story to tell, and kudos that they managed to play it out.
Excellent Episode - Jemma's a Badass
discworld-431 October 2015
Warning: Spoilers
Quoting reviewer *arvanlaar*:: What she actually went through was nothing near the traumatic experience that one would expect her going through. (...drivel...drivel...) or making her actions in the previous episodes as one where she doesn't look like she was immersed in the blood of a multitude of victims who entrails were dangling off her head and now she has to go back to get revenge. ::end quote
Apparently reviewer *arvanlaar* doesn't think being sucked onto an alien planet is a "traumatic experience". Being stranded there for over 6½ months shouldn't bother anyone. This desert environment is devoid of life, water and sunlight. What there is is endless rocks and sand, and several moons in the permanent severe twilight that passes for sky.
Being nearly eaten alive by an alien squid-plant happens to nice British Science Ladies all the time back on Earth, so Jemma should have been totally prepared for this...I guess she missed that day at the academy. Eventually killing and eating the beast, she shows she's made of sterner stuff than previously hinted at.
Captured and imprisoned by an unknown entity, Jemma again refuses to give in, telling him go ahead and kill me now because I'll not be held captive. After her escape, he relents and allows her to live as his companion and fellow lost earthling, not his prisoner. A NASA astronaut from 2001, Will has been stranded on the planet for 14 years.
Cobbling together his old NASA equipment and her Fitz-Enhanced phone battery, Jemma's able to figure out the physics of the wormhole (the monolith) and predict when and where the wormhole will appear, giving her and Will a plan of attack for future rescue.
I hope not all Canadians are like the South-Park-Caricature-Canadian that is reviewer *arvanlaar* and appreciate this episode for what it is, an excellent character expose for a previously under exposed team member.
Watching Elizabeth Henstridge carefully, one can catch glimpses of a young Jennifer Garner, both physically and hinting at future thespian successes. Maybe JJ Abrams can work up a new *Alias 2.0* with both these fine actresses in it...
Bravo
Apparently reviewer *arvanlaar* doesn't think being sucked onto an alien planet is a "traumatic experience". Being stranded there for over 6½ months shouldn't bother anyone. This desert environment is devoid of life, water and sunlight. What there is is endless rocks and sand, and several moons in the permanent severe twilight that passes for sky.
Being nearly eaten alive by an alien squid-plant happens to nice British Science Ladies all the time back on Earth, so Jemma should have been totally prepared for this...I guess she missed that day at the academy. Eventually killing and eating the beast, she shows she's made of sterner stuff than previously hinted at.
Captured and imprisoned by an unknown entity, Jemma again refuses to give in, telling him go ahead and kill me now because I'll not be held captive. After her escape, he relents and allows her to live as his companion and fellow lost earthling, not his prisoner. A NASA astronaut from 2001, Will has been stranded on the planet for 14 years.
Cobbling together his old NASA equipment and her Fitz-Enhanced phone battery, Jemma's able to figure out the physics of the wormhole (the monolith) and predict when and where the wormhole will appear, giving her and Will a plan of attack for future rescue.
I hope not all Canadians are like the South-Park-Caricature-Canadian that is reviewer *arvanlaar* and appreciate this episode for what it is, an excellent character expose for a previously under exposed team member.
Watching Elizabeth Henstridge carefully, one can catch glimpses of a young Jennifer Garner, both physically and hinting at future thespian successes. Maybe JJ Abrams can work up a new *Alias 2.0* with both these fine actresses in it...
Bravo
Re-watch thoughts
noorea-851478 March 2019
Warning: Spoilers
This episode is spectacular, bold, creative, very well written and acted and beautifully looking .It's Agents of Shield at its finest.
Despite absolutely loving this episode, first time I watched it I got really depressed, stories of isolation usually have that effect on me, so I never had the courage to re-watch it until now, I'm glad I did, I got to enjoy the small details since I know how it ends up...I have one issue with the episode, Will doesn't look like he's been stranded on a planet for 14 years, they should have made it less, like maybe 6 years? I get it though, they were making a 2001 space odyssey reference, worth it!
This episode really sells you on the premise, they way they used the blue filter to make it look like it's at night made it very eerie looking, the whole conception of the planet really worked, and the way they did the time passage and changed up the credits, it was set up well. I am amazed that a network show even had the courage to do something like this, sidelining 90% of your cast to tell a personal story about a character who isn't like the main character, it's crazy! and could have gone wrong if not for the amazing acting. Elizabeth just kills every scene, you feel every emotion she does, I wanted to cry every time she did!
They even sold me on the Will & Jemma love story and I'm a hardcore Fitzsimmons shipper, but they built it up well and the actors had great chemistry that I begrudgingly had to accept it. This is also a cool thing about this show is that I hate love triangles but they managed to write one that works, because Jemma was separated from Fitz, it made sense for her to move on and fall in love with Will, but after she came back and I guess her feelings for Fitz are stronger than ever (I mean he became more attractive this season too!) , however with Will left on the planet she feels guilt and worry over him, so it's not as simple as picking the one she loves the most or such, usually love triangles will make people look indecisive and make them unlikable, but this actually a difficult situation and makes me feel more sympathy for Jemma than resent her indecisiveness...I've never been more impressed by writing really, making me like something i usually hate is a superpower!
We also get lots of info about the monolith, which plays a major part in the rest of the season, so it's not like this episode is a filler, even if it works as a standalone sort of thing. I think you can even show it to someone who doesn't watch the show and they would love it, also Elizabeth should have won an award for it.
Astronauts of S.H.I.E.L.D
XweAponX28 October 2015
Warning: Spoilers
Elizabeth Henstridge takes the long-awaited spotlight in this tale of "What I did for 4 months on a hostile alien sand-planet".
Someone suggested not enough happened to Jemma, I think seeing the wrong moon(s) would be enough.
She fell through a wormhole with only one useful item: Her iPhone. I'd love to see an iPhone 6 with a Battery that stays charged for weeks, my 4S used to get maybe 3 days, my 5S gets 16 hours. Whatever Fitz did, I wish could be done in real life. Actually, this episode makes a good case for Jailbreaking Apple Devices, if only Apple would relax on user modifications, the devices would become as useful in reality as they appear in this show. But I was pleased that an iPhone 6 played a major part of this story, modified or not.
So... While Jemma is taking Selfies with alien plant monsters (and eating them), she is being stalked by a movable windstorm that sand-slimes her on occasion. Not fun.
But she is not alone. Dillon Casey is Will Daniels, a NASA Astronaut, who has been there since 2001, left there with plenty of solar powered gadgets, except that the sun only comes out for a few minutes every 18 years. A little more of the history of the Monolith is revealed, including the fate of the poor sod we see getting swallowed in a previous episode.
But whatever this sandstorm-thing is, it's malicious. Will seems to refer to "it" as the whole planet, and occasionally there is a ghostly figure.
This episode was a huge departure from our regular AOS stories, it focuses only on Jemma's adventures after being sucked into a rock and spat out in a desert. But there is more to this story, there always is. The question is, how does it fit in to the other SHIELD conundrums? And, there was a suggestion in a previous episode that if Jemma was sucked in, then something else might have been spat out - Something deadly to Inhumans, something related to the scroll Fitz found with the Hebrew word for "Death" on it. Was it the new huge Blue guy that is carving holes in Inhuman's chests? Or something even worse?
Someone suggested not enough happened to Jemma, I think seeing the wrong moon(s) would be enough.
She fell through a wormhole with only one useful item: Her iPhone. I'd love to see an iPhone 6 with a Battery that stays charged for weeks, my 4S used to get maybe 3 days, my 5S gets 16 hours. Whatever Fitz did, I wish could be done in real life. Actually, this episode makes a good case for Jailbreaking Apple Devices, if only Apple would relax on user modifications, the devices would become as useful in reality as they appear in this show. But I was pleased that an iPhone 6 played a major part of this story, modified or not.
So... While Jemma is taking Selfies with alien plant monsters (and eating them), she is being stalked by a movable windstorm that sand-slimes her on occasion. Not fun.
But she is not alone. Dillon Casey is Will Daniels, a NASA Astronaut, who has been there since 2001, left there with plenty of solar powered gadgets, except that the sun only comes out for a few minutes every 18 years. A little more of the history of the Monolith is revealed, including the fate of the poor sod we see getting swallowed in a previous episode.
But whatever this sandstorm-thing is, it's malicious. Will seems to refer to "it" as the whole planet, and occasionally there is a ghostly figure.
This episode was a huge departure from our regular AOS stories, it focuses only on Jemma's adventures after being sucked into a rock and spat out in a desert. But there is more to this story, there always is. The question is, how does it fit in to the other SHIELD conundrums? And, there was a suggestion in a previous episode that if Jemma was sucked in, then something else might have been spat out - Something deadly to Inhumans, something related to the scroll Fitz found with the Hebrew word for "Death" on it. Was it the new huge Blue guy that is carving holes in Inhuman's chests? Or something even worse?
Poor Fitz
SHU_Movies31 December 2020
woah
akgonen6020 May 2018
Warning: Spoilers
The planet she got stuck on was crazy a place where there is no sun ? n just an enless sea of stars in the twilight ...dust and sand .. a planet in another solar sysstem where u can see the stars around the clock and still breath in the terrain
i gotta aadmit thats a pretty interesting world they the writers came up with .. what a insane rrush it would be to be on a planet like that but stuck there for more then 4 thousand hours im good but what a sight to behold even for a brief moment
and whats sad is that the dude on that world is still trapped there with no way out at this point and he ben stuck there for 14 years DAYUM thats just crazy
i hope they end up rescuing him cause what a way to go
A very dangerous episode...
A_Different_Drummer28 November 2015
Warning: Spoilers
... for reasons that have nothing to do with the content. Once again (discussed in many of my other TV reviews) I am seeing a pattern where the producers create a successful formula -- in this case one based almost entirely on "team" action and "team" effort and "team" dynamics -- and then, playfully, the way a cat plays with a mouse, try to burn that formula to the ground.
Of course, to say this episode is a "departure" is an understatement, given that it takes place in another solar system.
And to suggest that this episode is merely a complex love story is also understatement, given that, for a few moments at the end of the episode, a single woman is alone on an entire planet accompanied only by two men, both of which are in love with her.
In my reviews I try (really really really try) to talk about "connection" because, when the party is over and the band is packing up, and all the clever IMDb reviews have been written, that is all you have left of the experience.
This one gets 10 points for effort (hey, there are two hour theatrical movies that are LESS ambitious than this single episode!) but the result is awkward. The audience is forced to make the transition from survival story to love story --- and frankly the shift is not as seamless as the writers hoped.
One suspects this odd episode looked better in the early writing than it does as a finished episode.
And that is not a sterling endorsement.
Of course, to say this episode is a "departure" is an understatement, given that it takes place in another solar system.
And to suggest that this episode is merely a complex love story is also understatement, given that, for a few moments at the end of the episode, a single woman is alone on an entire planet accompanied only by two men, both of which are in love with her.
In my reviews I try (really really really try) to talk about "connection" because, when the party is over and the band is packing up, and all the clever IMDb reviews have been written, that is all you have left of the experience.
This one gets 10 points for effort (hey, there are two hour theatrical movies that are LESS ambitious than this single episode!) but the result is awkward. The audience is forced to make the transition from survival story to love story --- and frankly the shift is not as seamless as the writers hoped.
One suspects this odd episode looked better in the early writing than it does as a finished episode.
And that is not a sterling endorsement.
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