History Recap / AgentsOfSHIELDS5E8TheLastDay

* ShoutOut: Mack says [[Theatre/FunnyGirl "Hello, gorgeous"]] to his shotgun-axe.

** Yo-Yo appears to be wearing gloves when she goes out to confront the Kree whereas everyone else is not. [[spoiler:Later on in the season, we find that she is actually using her mechanical arms.]]

* StableTimeLoop: We are treated to a series of flashbacks of young Robin with the team, who already know about Flint and Voss, indicating that it is a FlashForward from their perspective, after they've already returned from the future. (Alternatively, they may only know Flint and Voss as names Robin told them.) However, Robin implies that the loop is not actually stable, and that they're doing things a little bit differently every time, inching closer to finally saving the world. WordOfGod explains that those scenes are from the original timeline when Enoch never abducted them from the diner.

* BlessedWithSuck: This episode '''really''' stresses how much of a burden, if not outright ''torture'' Robin's powers are. She constantly sees Past, Present and Future at the same time, can barely tell them apart and is so incoherent to most people it borders on TheUnintelligible.

* DeadAllAlong: Deke is told by Voss that his father is out on a mission and will be back soon. Turns out that Deke's father was actually been murdered ''by'' Voss quite a while back.

* GladToBeAliveSex: After everything they have been through since the beginning of the season--not to mention everything that happened in the Framework arc last season--Fitz and Simmons waste no time doing this after they have a moment alone.

* NotNowKiddo: Young Robin in the Lighthouse's original timeline urgently tries to inform others of important events or remind them of when her visions will be relevant but is repeatedly brushed aside by everyone except May.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Elena and Mack blast off several limbs of a Roach, and then the latter decapitates him.

* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Robin keeps repeating that this is "the last day". [[spoiler:Actually, it is the last day of ''her'' life, as she's killed by Voss.]]
** Yo-Yo is wearing what appears to be gloves in the future timeline before confronting the Kree. [[spoiler:It's actually her mechanical arms that she picks up later in the season. Not only does this foreshadow her role as Kasius's Seer in the finale of the first half of the season, it also foreshadows that at some point, she will lose her arms.]]

** This is ultimately revealed to be the reason the team were brought to the future in the first place. In order to save the whole team from the destruction of the world, Robin sent Enoch to collect them from the last place they were all seen together before it happened. In order to get them the information necessary to prevent the world breaking, they were then sent forward to the future, specifically to just a little bit before Robin's last day of life, by which time she would hopefully have had the vision which tells them how to do it.

* UnstuckInTime: Robin perceives all of time at once. This means she says things when she ''thinks'' they are relevant but are either before or after the fact. She tried to tell Elena and May about the importance of Fint fifty years before he was born, for instance.