I’ve done this too, but it’s always jarring to see Lucas Black age ten years over the course of one street race with Toretto.

In this analogy, the Prophets / wormhole aliens are like art historians, or even art restorers.

It’s very weird to read “you stupid fuck” in Cookie Monster’s voice... :D

I would guess that it’s this incident that prompted Starfleet to develop a comprehensive set of scans to tell whether a human is actually a surgically-altered Klingon, and it’s this process that lets McCoy identify Darvin so easily twelve years later.

You could kind of, lamely, handwave it by saying that Thanos’s forces attacked Earth at some point before Ebony Maw’s drop-in on New York at the start of Infinity War, as a kind of “warm-up”, but were stopped by [some group of heroes] in [some story that hasn’t been told yet].

But that wouldn’t fit the Biblical theme naming they’ve got going on.

He should at least be much better at defending himself. He went toe to toe with May in his first appearance, but he seems to get wimpier and wimpier every episode.

I get the feeling that so far they’ve had zero success in finding and destroying the bat parasite creatures before some kind of critical-mass event forces them to destroy the whole planet.

Funny, Maurissa Tancharoen herself described Sequoia’s looks as “Coachella chic”.

Sarge’s team have a pretty lax attitude when it comes to collateral damage, and may in fact want to destroy the world. I wouldn’t bet on the two teams coming together, especially as we’re almost halfway through the season and no other potential antagonists (on Earth) have been teased.

I don’t think anyone’s said the word “Inhuman” even once this season.

The one that died and got autopsied in a SHIELD lab?

They can’t give him a pay bump without a responsibility or title bump, which would make him more vulnerable to outside influences. As you say, it’s a weird catch-22 for his situation but if you need an example of an excessively by-the-book government organisation, why not the FBI?

Even the “setting on fire” aspect is a study in relative cruelty. Bushmaster ties up Mariah and Tilda and sets fire to the house around them, then leaves - intending that they die in the general conflagration or via smoke inhalation. By contrast, Mariah has her men pour an accelerant (rum) all over Anansie, sets him…

This episode is a deliberate study in contrasts between Bushmaster and Mariah. Bushmaster obeys the “rules of the game” that Shades cites in this episode. The only people he targets are those connected to the Stokes family, or anyone who would get in his way like Luke and his associates. Sure, he beheads people and…

Tilda had to be sure that Bushmaster and his goons were far enough away that they couldn’t just shoot her and Mariah if they saw them escaping.

Why does Luke care if Bushmaster is studying him? Luke thinks he’s invincible and that Bushmaster’s just some Jamaican street thug who poses no threat to him. In his current state of mind, his showboating felt natural.

Looks like he’s picking them up on a Tinder knock-off app, and either going on dates with them where they tend to get roaringly drunk, or inviting them to his apartment where the drunkenness continues. Not sure if Malcolm himself drinks, though, given that he’s a recovering substance abuser he might be keeping himself…

Or else Claire would inconveniently suggest that Jessica calls Luke or Danny to help with whatever problem she faces. Bane of all shared universes.... the Fantastic Four are always “in outer space” when you need them, etc.

As the parents are heading into the police station in the first scene, one of them quips “No wonder it took them so long to run away” - I can’t help but think that this is a jab at the fans and critics moaning about them “taking all season to run away”! Then Geoffrey Wilder follows up with “Haters gonna hate”....