‘Agents of SHIELD’ season 3, episode 12 review: Hive’s feast; Bobbi’s escape

Through two episodes of the second half of “Agents of SHIELD” this season, it’s been fairly easy to draw at least a few conclusions. One of them that we can certainly do right now is rather simple: Hive is a pretty crazy-awesome villain. He’s demented and then some, and he also apparently is able to process information like nobody’s business.

Want more evidence? Then just take a look at what he was able to accomplish in a very short amount of time on the show. Not only was he able to figure out a way here to read many leather-bound books, but he also apparently has fed on the human flesh of many to get some more strength. That scene at the end with him covered in all of that goo? Disgusting, but it does just go to show you what the series has planned for the character is very different than anything that you’ve seen on the show so far.

Elsewhere in this episode, we had basically a meeting of the political minds to determine what is the right thing to do in this current superhero universe, otherwise known as the same sort of thing that we’ve seen on the show many times before (let alone every other comic-book franchise out there). Talbot’s betrayal was not exactly that groundbreaking either, mostly because of the motivations for it.

Perhaps the most interesting long-term revelation that came out of tonight’s episode was seeing what could be the beginnings of the “Most Wanted” story, with Bobbi and Hunter going on the run on their personal journey to track down Malick. This one should be interesting in terms of where it goes from here. Grade: B.

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