Black Bolt and the Royal Family returned to Attilan to deal with crazy Maximus once and for all. But can Black Bolt fight his temptation of ending his own brother?

That is the major question on Marvel's Inhumans Season 1 Episode 7. Given that we're only one chapter away from the big conclusion, they had a lot to pack into "Havoc In The Hidden Land."

I'm extremely torn on how to feel about anything that went down on "Havoc In The Hidden Land." There are a lot of things here that I've to wonder why they were done the way they were done. Why?

Because this is the penultimate episode before the season finale. If certain things hadn't happened, I would have been extremely annoyed.

Maybe I'm not "getting" Maximus as a character, but let's talk about his "struggle." It's difficult to sympathize with Maximus and his desire of how he wanted his second Terrigenesis to be executed.

In the comics, he is known as "Maximus the Mad" while the show has nicknamed him "The Revolutionary." But perhaps this is a sign that he is completely mad?

How was he expecting things to go his way when he treated his family like this? If this is truly his downward spiral into madness, then I guess this is a way to do it.

But the issue is that most of Marvel's Inhumans Season 1 he has been portrayed as barely mad. He came off more as very strategic and manipulative, but never mad.

Don't get me wrong, Iwan Rheon's performance in that scene was moving. But at the same time, it's a struggle to feel for the character when this feels like such a random switch-off.

If the idea is that this is the beginning of Maximus going mad, I can live with that. It doesn't feel any less rushed, and that might be the largest issue of Marvel's Inhumans.

There are a lot of things that work well on this show. Most of the actors are compelling in their roles, there is a way to side with both sides, and the concept of this race is intriguing.

But then there is the way the stories are done that drive me nuts. Maybe it would have helped to make this show as 10 episodes per season.

It would also have helped if the first six chapters hadn't had 50% dull storylines. How ridiculous was that moment when Crystal went on about how she missed Dave?

She had met the guy only a day ago! Although I will admit that Crystal's speech about how she feels that she belongs on Earth was moving and speaks to how lonely she is on Attilan.

If only they had given Crystal more screen time in the past episodes, we could have explored that. But no why do character development when you can have a pointless romance story.

At least we have the power couple that is Black Bolt and Medusa. It shouldn't surprise me that Black Bolt was keeping so many secrets from his wife, but yet it did.

I didn't know whether to laugh or to be shocked that someone who seems so tight with his wife would be this secretive. I was expecting Medusa to have been aware of Triton and Black Bolt's plan this whole time.

What would Medusa and Black Bolt be like with a marriage counselor? Because obviously, these two have some issues to work on. I still do love their dynamic for many reasons despite Black Bolt's questionable methods.

Auran's sudden regret of helping Maximus sure came out of nowhere, didn't it? We never got the sense in any of the other episodes that she had her own reason to serve him.

That was why I couldn't take her struggle seriously because it came out of nowhere. If she had an issue what he was doing, Auran would have done something a long time ago.

Let's talk about the resurrection of Gorgon. I dig it while at the same time I don't. It made his death pointless, but more importantly, it made Gorgon another obstacle to the main story.

I don't know if he is meant to be evil now after we saw Gorgon in his zombie-like state. Perhaps this twist will be enjoyable when we see it in its entirety, but it feels unnecessary.

Despite the many rushed developments of certain plots and questionable moves...I did enjoy this episode quite a lot. The action stepped up big time thanks to Triton, and the overall story felt like it's coming full circle.

The final moment with Black Bolt and Maximus is something I can re-watch forever. Sure Maximus' stunt echoes what Prometheus did in Arrow Season 5 Episode 23, but that sinister laugh? Delicious.