I'd rather have 22-23 episodes with some "filler" than a shortened 16 episode season which is totally serialized because:

Stanton's reaction really sold it after the guy went through the window - "That's new". I think it's well established that realism in any action sequence on this show can be stretched to accommodate artistic license or witty one-liners.

A great grade might influence me to discover something new (i.e. Rick and Morty, Gravity Falls), but it never dissuades me from my regularly watched series.

I didn't recognize the name - just the part about Cartagena. Leon's good with financial crimes, but if it was a toss up, I'd love to see more Zoe.

They could create a spin-off about a bunch of lovable misfits who keep having their numbers come up because they're constantly finding ways of getting into the someone's cross hairs. As a CBS comedy.

Are they in Dutch?

Most likely outcomes:
- bemused
- annoyed
- eating steak with her bare hands

I think you need to have some breaks in between the big events, so I still like having those isolated "case of the week" types even those last week could have been better. But it had lots of Fusco, which makes it a solid watch in my books.

Not to be facetious but probably because of Disney. SHIELD has to satisfy their master plan to build their cinematic universe as well as be accessible to the mainstream, so there are lots of constraints on the show (i.e. can't show this, major happening has to mesh with the other franchises).

True but in the chronology still exists in the footage - in that sense, everything before Zero Day could be referenced as Day -XXX. I was just surprised when they went more generic with just the "2010" on the footage.

When the general public learns to accept subtitles.
Bear's got to be able to speak to other dogs, right?

I think it's neat to the audience on how it connects these characters in a way which they never realized before, but it would only be relevant to the characters if it moved the plot forward some how.

It's more exciting to imagine that the Machine has everything mapped out already - among it's massive number-crunching of probably outcomes, it has analyzed all of these characters. It's just that as the audience, we're only privy to the narrative which the Machine shows us. There's probably an entire episode you…

Or a certain NYPD detective who's no longer with us.

Maybe and if so, please post it. I just watched the season 2 feature on the DVD set which talks about the making of an episode, and there's a part where they show you John Nolan's office with a whiteboard that lists out each episode, the PoI, and the serialization points they have to hit in the episode. But there best…

Even if it got terrible grades, I'd probably still watch.

That's an interesting point about the retcon. True, it feels like cheating when it inserts characters into the past to make them a plot device now, but this show does it so well. It's not perfect - if you go back and watch earlier episodes, you could argue that certain choices made by the actor in inflecting a certain…

Root doesn't have their numbers - she knows who they are since the Machine just tells her through their direct connection. …by "who they are", I mean name, etc., not what the plan is for sending them all to Cartagena.

As a fellow Psych fan, I tip my hat to you +1000!
…also, that's factorial, not an exclamation point.

Bingo. Wished that the Machine used it's Day XXX label in the footage, but your chronology is spot on.