Well thanks Agents of SHIELD, for giving us the single most WTF-inducing TV moment of the year so far.
Tonight’s two-hour episode wrapped up the show’s Inhumans arc (for now), but not before teasing something pretty wild. If you thought that Kree statue thing was just a MacGuffin, I was right there with you, until it swallowed a major character.
So what happened to Jemma?
Let’s breakdown what we know of the statue, aka the Kree Stone. The Stone is an alien artifact that was being held in a SHIELD aircraft carrier called the Illiad, before being moved to the Playground in tonight’s episode.
It’s at least a few centuries old, and came about in the aftermath of a war that the Kree (those blue aliens) were fighting. Experiencing heavy casualties and running out of soldiers, Kree scientists turned to genetically modifying other intelligent species across the universe, in the hopes of replenishing their forces.
Earth was the site of one of these experiments, resulting in the creation of the Inhumans. At some point though, the Kree decided that making the Inhumans was a mistake, and were preparing to use the Stone to eradicate all of them. For whatever reason, it didn’t work, and the Inhuman descendants would continue to have superhuman powers, although those powers would remain dormant until activated by a Terrigen Crystal.
So basically, the Kree Stone is a doomsday weapon for killing or de-powering all of the Inhumans… which begs the question, why the heck did it eat Simmons?
Is it a defense mechanism? It seemed awfully aggressive about it; it’s not like she walked in there after all. Even more confusing is the fact that Simmons didn’t seem to do anything to activate it, she just tried to close the door. Perhaps the Stone is somewhat intelligent, and was trying to prevent Simmons from sealing it away?
I can’t seem to find anything particularly similar to the comics, so Agents of SHIELD could really go anywhere with this set up.
For her own sake, Elizabeth Henstridge doesn’t think her character is dead. Instead, she thinks Jemma has been transported somewhere (or… sometime?).
“I think I’m somewhere,” she told EW. “I think it transports me somewhere. We’ve had so many theories on set. ‘Maybe she can go back in time and kill Ward,’ or ‘Maybe she goes back in time and for whatever reason Fitz doesn’t know who she is and no one knows who she is,’ or ‘Maybe she goes invisible and no one can see her,’ or ‘What if she’s just trapped inside the rock?’ That would be terrible. There have been so many theories, but I think it’s a transportation device.”
Time traveling is something I hope they never introduce to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but a space travel angle might be interesting. Could this be our link to Black Bolt and the Inhuman royal family? Or perhaps Season 3 of Agents of SHIELD will have Coulson’s new team hopping around the galaxy Stargate-style in the search for Simmons?
Or maybe I just really want this to happen.
What do you think it is? A time machine? A space travel device? Just hungry?
Great review! The plot of the episode was interesting. Intrigued to what happens next.
After watching the latest Agents of Shield, this re-affirms that this show is directly related to the MCU for the Avengers series. The particular location at where Gemma Simmons was located is probably trying to tie in the Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and also Doctor Strange if it’s going to go off the comics. The show so far to my knowledge is to bring up the background, and I didn’t start watching it until i’ve watch the Age of Ultron and then also watched Agent Carter. Agents of Sheild and Agent Carter are to help provide additional back story to characters, because the first explosive from Agent Carter is very similar to the explosive that Hank Pymm had used on his own lab, but more refined, but I digress. I am overall looking forward to more from Seasons 3 of Agents of Shield and season 2 of Agent Carter.
Read the older comics people and yes read…. I said it. Jemma is she hulk before she is Jemma look it up. This is why she is targeted she is the most powerful and the kree know this. Nuff said good night all.
I think it will make Simmons able to destroy inhumans.
What if the Kree Stone Ate Simmons to take her body so it could move be human be a weapon to kill Inhumans like a hunter.
Personally I think the stone used to be the Kree’s modifier. Much like the stuff humans created (I.E. Nuclear power creating both an energy source and a weapon.) The stone and many like it, was probably used originally to create the inhumans, but later modified and reprogrammed into destroying it. Either Simmon’s is a dormant Inhuman, which would bring light to her hate of them since she’d be one of them; and effectively destroyed as a result of it. Or the stone they have wasn’t the one designed to destroy inhumans and she’s currently becoming one.
My bet is that the writers will, like they did with Mac (makes sense because its from the same source), have it infuse her with the whatever anti-inhuman powers, but more in a Lana from Smallville way so that she is still consciously Simmons, but unable to control an anti-inhuman power. That would not only provide the show with a new problem, but it would also provide the writers with their next big relationship drama that the seem to love so much. That’s my two cents.
I think the stone will give her powers to kill Inhumans, or at least take their power away. What I would really like to see, Marvel connect the MCU with the TV shows by more than just mentioning a characters name. Let’s get some cameos going.
There have been cameos. Fury, Hill, and Syf have all showed up. Not sure what else you expect from network television.
As long as Simmons is alive and ends up with Fitz by the end of Season 3, I don’t care what the stone is.
Agreed!
Agreed!!
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Wherever this is leading, I don’t think it’s going anywhere good. The stone was made to obviously do something bad to inhumans. There’s a few options, all of which aren’t good.
She’s inhuman and she’s been transported somewhere.
This somewhere could be a prison, a torture place or somewhere that sentences her to death. I doubt she’s dead, so it’ll be the other options.
She is inhuman and the stone is going to turn on her powers and turn her against the other inhumans.
She’s inhuman and she’s been straight off the bat killed.
She’s not Simmons. She’s an imposter and real Simmons is elsewhere. Unlikely because of her reactions after Fitz left the room.
She’s been taken as a host for the stone or part of the stone so she will return as evil Simmons. Like evil willow on buffy.
She was taken for her scientific human knowledge? Far fetched but could be used on gaining Intel on the current inhumans. She’ll be out of the stone in no time.
She’s been absorbed and the stone will make her hate inhumans but since she already knows how to kill them with science, no additional tuition or powers are needed.
She’s been randomly teleported to god-knows-where.
Orrrr we will kick off the season 3 with everything normal. A few weeks have passed. Fitzsimmons are a thing and no-one suspects something has happened to Simmons, which will leave the audience wondering what happened in that break we have lost and how Simmons has changed… Or if she’s even Simmons anymore.
Whatever. I am crazy scared for her future. Hopefully there will be a happy ending for Fitzsimmons and they will both be alive and happy by the end of season 3. Uurkk the drama of the unknown.
From my angle I saw The door clicked open after the fact leading me to wonder if this thing has some kind of chaos power that allowed it to unlock the door, I fear that Jemma is either dead or in even worse hands, this thing could supposedly wipe out all inhumans so it seems likely to me that it is some kind of intelligent weapon that has plans for Jemma, probably as a host for this things power, which will most likely be very OP, sinister, and lethal to at least a few agents and inhumans…sadly either way barring the use of ‘Deus Ex Machina’ Jemma is probably a goner and Fitz is probably going to be forced to ‘pull the trigger’ metaphorically speaking.
If it was developed as a doomsday weapon against the Inhumans, I think it took Jemma purposely. Maybe it sensed her distrust/dislike if “Powered People”.
The kree monolith is probably a doorway to the Negative zone, an antimatter dimension in the marvel universe where everything has a negative charge. The Negative Zone is often visited by the Fantastic Four as Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic) discovered it, and has mapped portions of it extensively. I dont think its a coincidence a new fantastic four film is coming out.
Fantastic four is fox not mcu buddy, gotta look up facts bro.
I wouldn’t be so quick if i were you, friend. The negative zone could exist in both “MARVEL UNIVERSES ” realities (As a tie-in for a crossover incentive even) and a future collaboration, no matter how unlikely, is at least distantly possible so long as fans demand it vigorously enough (and there is a ton of money to be made).
BTW: i did look up the facts i’m just an optimist.
Gotta love it, this unknown alien dohickey, put the most anti-alien member Mac in charge of it, and it’s behind some super protective case (we’ll suspend disbelief for a second here and assume that’s more than just acrylic), and apparently leaning against the thing allows it to easily unlock.
Based on this article and comments from Elizabeth Henstridge about being “somewhere”, I think the black object is a teleporter of some sort. The thing that always bothered me about the Inhumans in AoS is the fact they never seemed like the real Inhumans to me. The way they where lead was total wrong. While Skye mom could have been a governor to her group she still should have answered to the royal family, which was nowhere to be seen. I believe those objects at some point roamed the earth swallowing up inhumans and sending them to a prison like place they cannot escape. The inhumans being trapped does have roots in the original Fantastic Four comics from the 60s, although that was caused by Black Bolts brother.
Or it might be Symbiote? and we will be exploring the symbiotes on the next season. Agents of shield and the inhumans fighting them or containing them.
Any interesting twist….all season she’s been quick to want to exterminate everyone with any trace of alien influence.
Terrigen Crystals turn people into Inhumans – a Kree weapon. Kree Stone can turn people into a weapon against Inhumans.
It might be holding her hostage. “Get me out of here, or she bites it.”
Door opens when Fitz slips on it trying to be all cute and flirty.
My theory is we will find out Simmons was an Inhuman (irony, considering she held such a grudge against the for most of the season) and this is somehow the stone’s method of ‘destroying’ Inhumans. (Not that the stone liquefied every time an Inhuman came near it.) Hopefully Simmons will survive the attack.
I thought it just liquified every few seconds anyway. I hadn’t thought that it might have been because an Inhuman was nearby everytime.