He could definitely hear Joyce's voice - they made a point of Joyce hearing Jonathan's voice when they were both in the house and Joyce was in the upside Down.

Can't trust that girl with dice, though…

I'm still in mourning for my Simmorse ship. Went down with all hands. It will be remembered.

To quote someone or other, it travels at the speed of plot.

And his not telling *any* of the Scooby Gang about it just plays so so heartbreakingly in character.

With regards to seeing Ward, Coulson seemed to realize instantly what was up there.

They were even closer on the Hedy Lamarr reference than you made it sound - Sousa mentions frequency-hopping as Frost's major accomplishment, which Lamarr actually *did* (co-)invent. That system never made it into production, though, while Frost's fictional one apparently did.

Kind of like how Jews were treated better in the US than in Europe - in one place they were *the* definitive Other, while in the other they were the garden-variety minority that people were still a bit prejudiced towards.

I prefer to think of them as post-consumer brains.

In part because the vampire archetype has drifted quite a bit - the niche is open for zombies to take over :-)

Are you referring the the military in-universe, or to Marvel Worldwide, Inc.?

I think you missed the implications of bipolar disorder in the Cuba storyline - medication, hyperactivity followed by depression, and Cynthia's warning that "what goes up must come down". Which gave that line a bit more meat than just "he did need to recharge".