I think this show is on the bubble enough that its showrunners will be at least aware of the need to consider that the season finale might be the series finale.

I think it's possible that Ward's new personality is due to regrets of Coulson's. The only way I can see Ward's backstory being rewritten enough to explain his about-face in the framework is if Coulson's biggest regret was murdering another human being with a side-order of wanting a normal life.

"Any science which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic" goes the quote I vaguely remember on this subject.

Only Radcliffe believed that. I would assume that it depends on each individual's view of what their life is… just like one person deciding to commit suicide doesn't mean that everyone's down for euthanasia.

Makes more sense than the flat-earthers too.

It'll be interesting to see how his revised backstory shakes out since his changed personality is the consequence of the alterations caused by the regrets of others, and since May and Fitz are the only ones in his circle legitimately programmed into the framework, it must be their changed circumstances which affected…

… except that Richmond doesn't actually know anything about computers, he just got shoved down to IT because of his fall from Reynholm's grace.

I wonder if anyone will make the connection between people appearing on the alt-right's zombie hit-list and purported victims of the Chaos Killer…

A teenager can still give consent even if said consent is not valid in the eyes of the law.

But at least then he could order Liv to eat Martin-brains until she visions on how the series ends.

Lowell also made the point that Liv has more visions because she goes out and digs into the victims' lives and is actively looking for triggers.

True, but having every case-of-the-week end with stonewalling and 'I want my lawyer' would get pretty stale fast.

You want to see Mack tested, wait until he finds out that by shutting down the framework, his daughter will die. That will be an interesting moment for him.

The people who are uploaded to the framework will die for real if they die in the framework. I'd assume that because the brain interprets that world as real, it would react the same way in the event of trauma, by shutting down organs and destroying cells to preserve life until the point of death.

It's a far more interesting story if Fitz is really evil, so I wouldn't expect them to backtrack from that.

The regret coding is only added for those who Aida inserted into the framework. Since Daisy and Jemma hacked their way in, they just took over their existing avatars without any reprogramming of the world.

That's if someone lets slip that his daughter is dead on the other side.

Don't bother.

It all depends on how much of the arc they spend in the framework. I suspect that they'll be in it until the final episode, and if that ends up being the series finale, there won't be a lot of time to explore the ramifications in the real world.

That misplaced loyalty was the best/most terrifying part of the episode for me. Recontextualising the 'I'd cross the universe for you' from once being the greatest gesture of love, to now being a gesture of pure evil.