Limerick Review: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. S2E21 and S2E22, S.O.S.

Diplomacy's hit a few snags,
The sort that require body bags.
So war's broken out,
The battle's a rout,
And Jiaying's busy planting false flags.

Now, Raina serenely objects,
But Jiaying needs all her subjects.
So rather than gloat,
She just cuts Raina's throat,
But Skye catches her and defects.

Now Cal seems to be in a clamp,
But a drug cocktail gives him an amp.
And while those prosthetics
Might fail in aesthetics,
MacLachlan's delightfully camp.

The Inhumans will not be barred,
And catch the carrier off-guard.
They capture the ship,
But some give them the slip,
And Mack gets to pull a Die Hard.

Hunter and May found the spot
Where Bobbi was tricked and then caught.
The two win the day,
Although in the melee,
Both Bobbi and faux-May get shot.

Jiaying has Terrigen, and gets to it,
Flying out to more broadly spew it.
Skye's ready to spring,
But then Cal kills Jiaying
To spare Skye from having to do it.

That's done, but there's still more to set,
And there must still be some kind of threat.
So Terrigens fly
Into the food supply
To set up more Inhumans yet.

So Cal, for his dopey part,
Is set loose with blank mind but big heart.
But Coulson and Skye
Must return to play spy.
There's a Secret Avengers to start.

With FitzSimmons together anew,
A few people's ships have come true.
But before that's adjourned,
While Fitz's back is turned,
Simmon's swallowed by alien goo.

For a while, the show had declined,
And I'd written it off in my mind,
But free of that fetter,
This finish is better
Than the rest of the season combined.

Limerick Review: The Flash S1E21, Grodd Lives

Iris finds she's the newcomer
To knowing 'bout Flash. That's a bummer,
So she doesn't tarry
In tracking down Barry.
She confronts him for keeping it from her.

A new rogue, who's dour and unsmiling,
Runs about in milit'ry styling.
Flash takes him to task,
But when they unmask,
It turns out to be General Eiling.

But the Eiling facade is for show,
And the real puppeteer dwells below.
The team goes in madly,
But that goes quite badly,
Wells has Eddie, and Grodd now has Joe.

Barry finds that it's quite a strain
To fight one with a psychic brain.
Though it's not well played,
With Iris' aid,
He defeats Grodd by way of a train.

It's easy enough to be snide,
And the CGI's fun to deride,
But really, whether Grodd
Made you jeer or applaud,
I just love the fact they even tried.

Limerick Review: Arrow S3E21, Al Sah-Him

Ra's Al Ghul has a hidden scheme,
And wants Oliver on his team.
And through some blackmail,
He acquires his grail,
So Ollie's training as Al Sah-Him

We get some more flashbacks for filler,
But Ra's' hand's still on the tiller.
And Nyssa's betrayal
Was beyond the pale,
So Oliver's sent back to kill her.

John's wife, newly un-estranged
Is kidnapped and pulled out of range.
He starts an attack
To try getting her back,
And there's a violent hostage exchange.

As for Nyssa, Ra's still declares her
A traitor, and so he ensnares her.
He says execution's
The only solution
But at the last minute, he spares her.

At the end, we hear the same old ditty
Of population control without pity.
So his ninja clan
Will soon enact his plan
To unleash a virus on the city.