What a difference a year and a half makes.
Back when Agents of SHIELD was first rolling, there was a
lot of talk about, among other things, how rather lackluster the show was. It
wasn’t a terrible show, but it certainly wasn’t what people were hoping for. Then
came Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and everything changed for the
better. And then, as the show hit its second season mid-year finale, it dropped
another couple of bombshells.
Among them was the matter surrounding the character of “Skye”,
a woman who when she was introduced didn’t get a whole lot of love, with some
people going so far as to call her out as a Mary Sue. And while she certainly
got better post-Winter Soldier, it still took everyone by surprised when it was
revealed that “Oh, hey, guess what Marvel fans! You already know this
character!”
Turns out that Skye was, in fact, Daisy Johnson, AKA Quake.
An earthquake generating superhero who served as Nick Fury’s right hand woman
during his exile leading up to Secret Invasion and during the Secret Warriors
series. A woman who’s got the power to take out Magneto and training from THE
spymaster himself to operate on the more clandestine side of the coin.
She’s also very much the kind of element fans of the Marvel Cinematic
Universe were asking for from Agents of SHIELD from the get go. And if their
post-Winter Soldier record is anything to go on, it’s a payoff we can expect to
see some great things from.
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