Note: Full spoilers for the episode follow.
SHIELD gave us our first genuine supervillain origin story this week, pulling a pretty notable character from Marvel Comics into the series and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. (As an aside, I have recently been reading the West Coast Avengers Omnibus, so I was particularly amused to Graviton pop up here).
If you know your Marvel history, you might have known who Dr. Franklin Hall was right away – or had your memories jostled by all this talk of "Gravitonium." But if not, I think the episode worked pretty well in presenting the obvious, flashy villain, in Ian Quinn (David Conrad, doing good work with his character's laid back approach to his grandiose plans) and hiding the true "This guy's about to become super powerful" character under our noses. Like the pilot, this episode of SHIELD had some good veer left when it looks like you're veering right moments, including Skye basically revealing the truth about her double agent status to Quinn – but as a ruse to get him to drop his guard – and Hall turning out to have planned his capture in the first place.
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