No, it has literally been days. There is no way that Ward and Garrett escaped the plane from the snowy mountain region they were flying in, went to some backwoods barber shop rendezvous point, went to the skyscraper in the middle of a desert, back to the rendezvous, and then somehow flew to Canada in a couple of hours.

"So, I kinda get why you picked such a crappy sniper spot against Centipede, but then why did you actually help rescue Coulson afterward?"

He tells them they can leave by jumping off the plane while it's flying above the ocean.

I'm not really sure how much authority the US government has over SHIELD, considering this show has never explained it. But even so, running off in a plane is the worst thing you can possibly do when your intelligence agency has been accused of being terrorists.

So is it just me, or is it now impossible to root for Coulson? Another intelligence agency calls him and tries to provide some oversight after their entire management staff was revealed to be HYDRA, and rather than deal with that he runs away by himself and leaves the rest of his agency to deal with the consequences.

Because people with stupid taste are the majority.
Because Lindsay Lohan was in it.
Because you have no life.

"Despite the name sounding like an anime about a high school for ghosts"

yeah, but shouldn't Garrett know whether or not Ward is a traitor? And wouldn't Hydra test him when he gets wherever he's going?

Also on the subject of stupid writing, coulson gives a big speech about not killing people preemptively despite doing exactly that three episodes ago.

Your post is contradictory. If the natural response is to lie, a non-HYDRA agent wouldn't do anything else.

Which would make the possible 'Agent Ward triple cross' hard to take seriously.

Yeah, for every 'so that's why he picked such a crappy sniper position', there's 'why would he be fighting back against these guys who are on his side'? To replace it.

Except that 'good guys' Coulson and co. are also all totally ok with it.

I don't think Hannibal actually has a lower budget than most shows, it's just NBC doesn't have to pay the full cost.

Am I the only one who doesn't think Ward turning traitor forgives his complete blandness and stupidity of the previous 16 episodes?

Umm, he didn't seduce mae, she led him on. And he had nothing to do with choosing to go on the mission with Fitz.

Oh, and that 'shot and killed and innocent man last episode to protect your love interest'? Fuhgedaboudit.

They really weren't set up as bad dudes.

I haven't Cap 2 yet. I didn't mind them cycling through the plot points of that movie, but I still didn't like all the plot holes the episode had like normal.

Better, but I still don't think this is as good as Oliver is trying to make it sound. This still had all the stupidity the older episodes had, it just had some cool twists on top of it.