'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' Recap: 'Rewind'

Written by John Edward Betancourt

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​I have to admit, that the ending of last week’s episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., definitely left me extremely excited about this week’s episode because hey, Fitz found a way to the future and really, how he got there is what made the wait for this week’s episode, ‘Rewind’, so excruciating since I was dying to know not only how he pulled it off, but also what kind of answers were about to come our way because there was no way in hell that Fitz was going into the future without plenty of knowledge.
 
So, what exactly did Fitz learn? Well for a short while there while incarcerated he learned more about his dark side and what was and was not his fault while he was trapped in the Framework, which allowed for him to find balance internally. He also figured out how to get ahold of Lance Hunter to help break him out of jail so that he could finally figure out what the heck happened to his teammates and once he was free, other wonderful little nuggets of truth came our way once this dynamic duo found the alien who abducted the team in the season four finale.
 
It turns out that the alien in question goes by the name of Enoch, and he’s actually not a bad guy, he’s an anthropologist from another world that will only intervene and help in matters when an Extinction Level Event is on the line and his transporting of the team to the future, 2091 to be exact, was all part of a larger plan to save mankind as per the Prophecy, something we’ve heard plenty about this season and the only reason Fitz was left behind was because he wasn’t part of that master plan, that is until he seeks out ‘The Seer’, the person who discovered the end was coming in the first place.
 
Which meant it was time for another wonderful throwback in this episode, since the Seer turned out to be young Robin Hinton, whom you might recall from season three when Daisy stepped in to help her and her mother out and after saving her from the Feds, she was able to see that Fitz was indeed part of the equation and after placing a few weapons around their hiding spot so that the team could make use of them in the future, Fitz froze himself in Enoch’s pod, only to awaken in the future shortly before we saw him at the end of the last episode…
 
So, when all is said and done, it would seem the darker side of Fitz is going to be crucial to the team’s survival in 2091 and I love the fact that now we know that Fitz and the team are indeed in the midst of this wild and crazy mess so that they can save all of mankind. But while this one answered all kinds of questions, one big one still remains, who exactly is that mysterious and angry general working for and I get the funny feeling…her boss is the individual responsible for the end of the Earth. Either way, the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. now finally have a fighting chance in the future thanks to Fitz, and we will have to wait until the New Year to see where this exciting storyline takes us next, until then.

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