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The Five Best Moments of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Season 3

By | June 14th, 2016
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All this week, we are taking a look back at the TV series that we covered during the year, and sharing our five favorite moments from each. We will be doing similar retrospectives in July, August, and September, focusing on different aspects of each show. Enjoy!

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 3 turned its focus almost entirely to Inhuman issues, with Hydra splintering, re-growing, re-forming, and generally becoming more of a background threat. There were plenty of ups and downs this season, but let’s take a minute to look at some of the ups, and see what the best things to come out of this season were.

5. Shotgun Axe

Okay, so this is a very minor thing, but I love it anyways. It started with Mack taping an axe to a shotgun, for melee and ranged combat, and it ended up as an awesome signature weapon. So when he busted out a sleek and shiny S.H.I.E.L.D.-made Shotgun Axe during the finale, it was enough to secure it a spot on this list.

4. May vs Giyera

Back when I reviewed the episode “Paradise Lost,” I described the fight scene with Agent Melinda May versus the telekinetic Inhuman Giyera as the “fight scene of the season.” I stand by that claim. The fight choreography was fantastic, the actors pulled off some great moves, and the cinematography of that scene was impressive by the show’s standards. It was an excellent martial arts match, one with high stakes and high adrenaline, and one that definitely deserves praise.

3. Secret Warriors

Even before season 3 began, promotional material came out talking about the Secret Warriors, which the show later revealed to be S.H.I.E.L.D.’s team of Inhuman recruits, using their powers as sort of a mini-Avengers unit. For all their potential and powers, they admittedly weren’t utilized very often, and were broken apart even before the “Civil War” crossover.

But when we did get to see them in action, the show made good use of their powers. The four members of the Secret Warriors were all characters we’d at least met and gotten to know a little bit before now, so there were personal stakes in their survival, and the expanded use of superpowers made it feel more connected to the ever-growing Marvel universe.

2. Showdown on planet Maveth

The first half of the season came to an end as Coulson and Fitz fighting Ward and Hydra on Maveth, the mysterious planet of doom that Hive was stored on. Not only do we see some clever thinking from Fitz (who even fights a Hive-possessed Will with a flare gun), but Coulson gets some well-earned revenge on Ward.

Of course, that still led to the Hive plot for the second half of the season, but after all the trouble Ward had caused S.H.I.E.L.D. since he was revealed to be a Hydra agent, it was a pretty satisfying moment.

Meanwhile, the rest of the S.H.I.E.L.D. team is fighting Hydra in their home base, which provided some nice action scenes, furthered the Lash subplot, and ended in a nice big explosion. All in all, a good way to end the first half of the season.

1. S.H.I.E.L.D. vs Hive

So if the mid-season finale was worthy of the second-best spot on the list, is the season finale deserving of first?

Yes. Yes it is.

We have a nice bit of espionage, more great fight scenes from May (Ming-Na Wen is fantastic in every regard), a some clever thinking from all the tech and science agents, plus a great scene where Coulson uses a hologram to trick Hive, before succumbing to the nerdy impulse to quote “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi” even in a high-stakes scenario.

And it ends with a literal bang, yet very peaceful at the same time. Acceptance, sacrifice, and some nice last words ensued, as Lincoln sacrificed himself to make sure that Hive would not escape.

I may not have cared much for Lincoln throughout most of the season, but I can sure respect a well-done death scene, and his brought the season to a nice conclusion.

There you have it. My top five moments from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 3. What moments from this season really stood out to you? The Kree? The Inhumans? Fitz-Simmons finally getting together? Let me know in the comments, and in the meantime, we can all theorize about what happened during the time skip before we learn the truth in season 4.


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