He allowed the Spirit of Vengeance to take charge, and his powers increased markedly as a result. At one point in season 4, Robbie Reyes became stranded in a Hell Dimension. He definitely isn't going to like it when he finds out she's working with Ghost Rider.Assuming Agents of SHIELD is indeed a divergent timeline in the MCU, it would actually be remarkably easy for the show's Ghost Rider to make the jump between the dimensions. It also allows the show to continue to explore the question of whether Inhumans can live peacefully beside non-Inhumans, which it delved into in the back half of Season 3, as the Director is trying to distance SHIELD from the now-vigilante Daisy. Jason O'Mara's character's identity has intentionally been kept a secret, and here we learn his name is "Jeffrey." (Some simple Googling offers a pretty good suggestion of which pre-existing Marvel character he might be based on.) More importantly, he's an Inhuman, which is an interesting choice within the world of Agents of SHIELD given the Sokovia Accords. So where does the Director fit into all of this? After playing coy with his identity in the season opener, viewers finally met the new boss (as the title promises) in episode 2. Radcliffe in episode 3's synopsis, that likely will get brought back into the main story soon. No discussion of AIDA this week, though based on the inclusion of Dr. Fitz, Simmons and Mack come around pretty quickly to the fact something is causing these seeming phantoms to appear, though there's still the question of why they are affecting contaminated people like May in the way they are. Speaking of science, Agents of SHIELD smartly didn't keep Fitz, Simmons and the rest of the original SHIELD gang in the dark long about what was in the box. Some viewers might know that Ghost Rider's introduction means a more supernatural side of the MCU, but the slow burn (pun intended) of rolling out the origins of his abilities is the smart route to go as it eases SHIELD from a more science-oriented show into one that is open to other realms of possibility. It's a smart choice to introduce Ghost Rider's origin story from a cynical angle as Daisy writes off his "deal with the devil," instead thinking he's Inhuman. The Bonnie and Clyde dynamic between Robbie and Daisy is delivering on the premiere's promise. At least Ghost Rider continues to deliver it seems SHIELD will continue to have Robbie Reyes transform into his flaming-skulled alter ego instead of having those be one-off appearances (impressive on a TV budget), and Gabriel Luna is owning the role. ![]() Ultimately they weren't very scary, and Agents of SHIELD's brief dip into horror was one of the more fun parts of this episode. The ghosts from Momentum Alternative Energy Labs were the weakest part of "Meet the New Boss." The effects were lacking, and the characters didn't deliver on the great ghost story vibe of the cold open. SHIELD's showrunners have already said that questions from the season premiere will be answered in Doctor Strange, and with the very overt mention that another Momentum lab is in New York and the Darkhold - aka the Book of Sins, which Lucy apparently was pursuing when they all got turned into spirits - being a notable item from the Doctor Strange comics, it could be that this storyline could come to a major turning point in that film. We've met four already, and the fifth seems to be the "Joe" Lucy kept talking about could one of the remaining three be Elias (or some variation of him), Robbie's uncle from the comics who is the key to his abilities? That would be an interesting way to bring everything together, but I get the vibe that Lucy and the rest of the ghost gang are keys to a bigger mystery, and the Momentum storyline is only a conduit to get us to whatever that is. Is Robbie Reyes the key to everything, like he thinks he might be? The show seems to be hinting "yes." That photo he grabbed in the lab seems to show the eight people who worked at Momentum Alternative Energy Labs at the time whatever happened to turn them all into ghost-like spirits.
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