I must admit some trepidation going into last night’s episode of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, after all the commotion the show caused here in Whimsieville last week. What if we had another sad episode that triggered unpleasant memories? 
The Whims love this show so much, I hated to think what two disturbing episodes in a row might do to them.
But my trepidations were all for naught, as this episode was simply full of excitement and humor, not a drop of sorrow to be found. The Whimsies enjoyed it immensely, as you can tell by their conversation.
Let’s listen…
TILLIE. Well! That was cool! Most enjoyable!
TESSIE. Yeah! The superpowers were awesome, don’t you think? A little scary—
TRIXIE. But scary in a good way! Scary in the way that you keep thinking, well…that will never happen to me, it’s just a story, and it’s fun and it’s exciting, so let’s see what happens.
TESSIE. And we didn’t know what was happening, did we? Not for most of the episode, anyway.
TRIXIE. And it was Skye who figured it out. She figured out that the guy who was stuck between earth and hell was really trying to protect the girl with the long blonde hair…
TILLIE. Hannah. Her name was Hannah.
TRIXIE. Yes! It was! Tillie, you’re so good with names.
TILLIE. Well, I always liked the name Hannah. Jennifer used to have a friend named Hannah who would come over sometimes to play records and board games with us. Hannah always used to like to play Trouble.
TRIXIE. Haha! Remember that game? It was in The Hoard. But most of the pieces were missing, so we couldn’t play.
TILLIE. Hannah always won when we played Trouble. I think that’s why she liked it so much.
TESSIE. Yeah, Till, but I’ll bet your Hannah was nothing like the one in SHIELD! I mean, did she have things flying all around her all the time, and a crazy guy following her?
TRIXIE. Wait, Tess! That guy wasn’t crazy at all! He was creepy, sure…but if he was “crazy,” he was just “crazy in love.”
TILLIE. He was obsessing on her. He CAUSED the accident that got him and everyone else blown up, just because he wanted to see her. I’d call that crazy!
TESSIE. But he didn’t MEAN to. He just wanted to see her.
TILLIE. So it was a love story?
(The other two stop and think, then…)
TESSIE. Yeah. Sort of.
TRIXIE. A love story with big consequences.
TILLIE. Well, those are the best kinds of love stories, aren’t they?
TRIXIE. This one was. I mean, we start out thinking it’s all about superpowers, maybe MUTANT powers, then we think it’s about a demon, then we think it’s about a ghost, and finally we learn it’s just about a guy who wants to protect the girl he loves.
TESSIE. It was nice not knowing what was going on for most of the show. It was suspenseful.
TILLE. And it was nice how they all worked together to figure it out. It wasn’t just Skye, you know. Fitzsimmons did their part too.
TRIXIE. And May! She did a lot.
TILLIE. Yeah, in fact, it seems like the only person who didn’t do much in this episode was Agent Coulson.
TRIXIE. Yeah, that was kind of strange. We didn’t get any more clues about him, about what happened to him in Tahiti. I was starting to think we might get clues in every episode. In fact, I was waiting for it…but it never happened.
TILLIE. Well, that’s good. Right? Keep you guessing! And besides, we had lots of stuff to learn about OTHER people last night.
TESSIE. Especially May.
TRIXIE. Well, wait. Did we? Really? We heard a bunch of stories, but in the end, all we know is that she rescued some people, and after that she was never the same.
TESSIE. Only in the end, she “pranked” Fitz! So maybe…maybe something’s changing for her?
TILLIE. It’s always good when things change for people. A lot more fun to watch people who are learning and changing, instead of just always staying the same.
TRIXIE. I agree. It was good to see her crack a smile. Well, almost crack a smile. I hope she can get over whatever’s bothering her.
TESSIE. Say! Speaking of pranks…what did you all think about the pranking?
TILLIE. Well, making up stories about May was not much of a prank, was it? But the prank on Fitz at the end was pretty good.
TESSIE. And did you like the thing with the mop?
TRIXIE. (laughing) Oh yeah!
TESSIE. (laughing) Fitz told Simmons earlier, “You screamed like a girl!” And she said, “But I AM a girl.” And then, when he saw the mop, HE screamed like a girl!
TRIXIE. That was funny!
TESSIE. And it was especially funny because he was the one who set up the mop! So he pranked himself! Haha!
TILLIE. (rolling her eyes) Yeah, Tess…I thought you’d enjoy that. You were giggling like crazy!
TESSIE. Well, that’s the cool thing about this show. One minute you’re hiding your eyes, scared to see what’s going to happen next, and the next minute you’re laughing like crazy!
After this, the Whimsies went on talking about other funny things that happened in the show, and in other shows they’d seen, and soon started talking about their favorite funny books, like Oh What Nonsense and Never Tease a Weasel, so that by the time the finally decided to go to sleep, they drifted off between occasional fits of giggles and poetry.
It was a MUCH better week than last week.
