You hire them to improvise around the tune. To bring their signature to those beats. As the shared universe becomes bigger there could be a tendency to come up with an over-elaborate melody that consumes more and more genuine moments of inspiration. I have not seen that yet and still see it as a strength because of…

There was a joke on Community where the cop says that he heard that, "Marvel really penned in Joss Whedon creatively this time, how could that go wrong".

Tracking drug/mob money used to fund black market weapon purchases/development.

The most interesting thing was his reaction to Ronan killing his henchman.

"And speaking of good Jay Pharoah impressions with nothing behind them, his Common here continues the SNL trend of having Pharoah impeccably impersonate rappers the SNL writers aren’t that familiar with. Jay Pharoah is a masterful voice guy—the fact that SNL has him do the same underwritten parts is one of the biggest…

Because Fury didn't trust anyone and he wanted to keep things off book, like how he hired mercs in TWS.

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Didn't Bobbie infiltrate Hydra and become its security chief?

I don't think there is anything inherently lame about alien genetic manipulation (heck aren't mutants just the result of Celestial tinkering paying off?) or latent "specialness" being present in otherwise normal people (although that is a pretty common scifi/fantasy trope).

I think they are going for an all of the above approach.

I think the selective breeding to prevent dangerous deformities would also play a role. They have to take time to prepare people for the transformation and evaluate their DNA.

Someone pointed out that Cal told Whitehall that he would see his family in the Afterlife.

The lack of overt Alien tech could be explained away because this is a separate part of Inhuman society from the royal family and their flying city.

Are you talking about the double agent plot device or something else? What do you think are the dumb parts about a future plot based on some people siding with intrusive government oversight vs a more hands off, recruitment policy for people with dangerous abilities?

They are internally accountable/open.

He thinks Coulson is compromised with alien blood so there is no cooperation.

Well that is kind of the point, of the 125 largest cities in the world it is #104. It is half as dense as that skyscraper strewn hellscape called Barcelona. It's even less dense compared to London. It's in the same neighborhood as Rotterdam.

If zoning prevents adding housing capacity in a growing area prices go up.

There being multiple SHIELD offshoots makes total sense, the conflict between then (other than just general turf battling) needs to be well earned.

Pumpkin pancakes.