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The darkness lingers longer than the light
jhudson-1170423 October 2017
Warning: Spoilers
This episode brings us an insight into Ward, both his past and present, as well as some pretty awesome special effects and fight scenes.

Ward's older brother Christian makes his first appearance, played by the ever-wonderful Tim DeKay, and we get a further look at what Ward is doing this season. Regarding his past, it seemed like it could be possible that what Ward told Skye about the well could have been a lie, however, based on the flashbacks that looks doubtful. I'm really glad that Ward isn't going to be a good guy as he frees himself from custody. Ward was so much better as a bad guy last season.

The new weapons shown in this episode, splinter bombs, which are totally awesome and horrifying. Along with that was some good fight scenes, especially between May and Scarlotti, the knife-whip guy.

I will say though that the bickering between Bobbi and Hunter got kind of annoying, however, it looks like they might try to patch things. I really like Hunter as the reckless, sarcastic merc and Bobbi is already awesome.

And of course, I must talk about FitzSimmons. I found it really hard to watch Simmons try to talk to Fitz as if nothing has changed. Fitz was actually pretty well composed with Simmons coming back. I really want these two to come back together as one and Simmons I think isn't really wearing kiddie gloves around Fitz. I'm glad that Mack told her that Fitz is better without her there, and while it is heartbreaking that she agrees, it doesn't really make sense as to why she isn't assimilating to the new, damaged Fitz.

+ Ward Bros. + Action and effects +/- FitzSimmons +/- Bobbi and Hunter - We know it was a well

Final Score: 8.3/10
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noorea-8514713 February 2019
"Sometimes we want things simpler than they actually are, but the tough reality is, we are complex creatures." This episode is amazing, sort of an easy to forget with all the amazing episodes this show has, I really love the way the Ward brothers are written, that dual scene gives me chills every time, it was also good to see the team working together if in a dysfunctional way! Bobbi and Hunter bickering was surprisingly fun, I expected it to be annoying (maybe hindsight?I don't remember how I felt about it the first time) but we do get a fighting duo which is something new, and Bobbi has her own fighting style different from May, it's nice to have variety.
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