Brick's smart, and maybe he really is keeping up, but also more advanced classes are often just more pleasant—more motivated students, fewer discipline problems, and often more creative teaching.

Among other things, the fact that she has a room to herself went nowhere.

Rising Tide seems cool so far, but the "idealists duped by Hydra, (or AIM, or whoever)" shoe could drop at any time. I kind of hope it doesn't — that might be refreshing.

I think you just spilled some Dunning-Kruger effect on your pants.

wrong spot.

Yes, SHIELD's approach to the dangerous tech here was consistent with last weeks (shoot it into the sun) episode, and that is an unsavory aspect of SHIELD's portfolio.

Definitely, I just meant that Cas knew him, and as someone who wouldn't be working for Lucifer at least, so unless it's not the Ezekiel Cas knows, Lucifer is not likely part of his deal.

It's not just possible, it's downright common. Read up on Massey Energy, Anaconda Copper, W R Grace, DeBeers diamond mining, the entire coltan mining industry, the Portuguese tungsten trade with the Nazis, the Chinese and Russian coal industries, the many problems with cyanicde based gold extraction, the list goes on…

It was another perfectly written and perfectly performed appearance.

Well Cas vouched for him as a "good soldier" so unless we have "hey that's not Ezekiel" moment of some kind, it seems unlikely.

I hate to be that fanwank guy, but aren't angels magically fluent in all human languages? So if they want to refer to "angel radio" in English, they automagically use the only coinage for that thing in English, which is Dean's term?

And the suit would have shrunk and the shirt would have been gray and the blood stains would probably have still been visible.

I like the actress, buy by the show's own mythology shouldn't that vessel be toast?

Yeah, like that guy wouldn't be in on the conspiracy. He even says the moon landings are real :-)

She was a good actress, pretty, and had chemistry with Cas, I was sorry to her go. But once they were in the car with her angel blade out, I knew she was toast.

If you can't tell your possessed, and the possession doesn't effect your thoughts or decisions (both remain to be seen, granted) in what sense are you truly possessed?

He was basically a John Galt style evil billionaire; it worked for me.

And mining has a spotless record with respect to corruption, working conditions, and environmental destruction, so an evil mining magnate is a bigger stretch than gun-eating laser grids. :-)

To me, the weakness in the episode was Ian Holt. Hall's conviction that he was doing the only possible right thing needed to be sold to the audience, and even to Coulson a little, and I don't think he pulled it off. I can't put my finger on it, it just didn't quite work for me.

I think the two other agents were toast, but they were discrete about it. Those wrecks didn't look survivable.