As a flutist, I actually know who he is, and I got way too excited for that reference.

I love that his word cloud was the exact plan, already formed.

I'm disappointed with this episode because it seems too predictable for this show to do. It's done so many delightful things with more original ideas, so this feels, in a way, lazy.

So I've been what the end game is here. Are they going to date for eight months, break up, and that's a one-season tv show? Are they going to try to alter the premise next year, and make it about them breaking up/getting back together? Are they going to make the "eight months" gimmick last a couple seasons?

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Fair enough, you might have to rewrite it in a way that doesn't preserve the timeline of this particular plot.

I think you're mostly right; it was a well-choreographed fight. I just meant to suggest that the outfits didn't add much. That's an interesting perspective, though. Interestingly, this week's Gotham featured a pretty bloodthirsty girl fight, and it got almost the opposite reaction over in that comment section.

I think it's probably safest not to think about anything on this show too deeply.

And she didn't have time to put on a pair of sneakers?

Only if you write the drama in such a way that it leaves you only that choice.

Ok, they "regular amount of sexualized" her. It's still not a great choice.

I don't know. The reason it stood out to me is because they had the conversation, "We have to go check in with our team, can we push back this meet?" and, "Meet me at [x place] in an hour." So she had a window of time to go get those flats she was asking about.

…so the only way your pants fit is if you have an erection. That must make for some seriously awkward job interviews.

That is a totally fair point, and not something I considered.

She could have changed before going to meet Talbot. She made a point about hating the outfit earlier in the episode, anyway.

No, I would have preferred that she change into clothes that are good for fighting in. I think it's weird that a SHIELD agent wouldn't pack a good pair of shoes, at least, wherever she was going.

It's implied that the mask somehow changed her body, as well. Before she puts it on, we see her wearing May's dress and it's baggy and ill-fitting. Then she becomes May and it fits again.

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Did they not think a May vs. May catfight would be hot enough if they were just wearing regular clothes? Was the lingere totally necessary?

Me, too. When they showed him making the phone call, I thought it was suspicious that Hydra could have gotten past the government's purge, but then I thought, "oh of course Talbot is Hydra, that's why he's such a dick all the time." Then they got me with the face-swap reveal.