I really liked Kasius (the blue alien guy) - he anchored the first half of season 5 very well, and it was a shame that he went out like a chump.

It makes more sense for Marvel to not explicitly set out the chronological relationships betweeen any of TV series and the movies, from AoS to Defenders-verse to to Cloak & Dagger and Runaways. It lets them keep their options open for the future: as long as they’re still telling stories in the MCU, they can retcon…

The film About Time used this as a central rule to its time travel: if you travel back to before your child was born and alter anything, upon your return your child will be completely different. But, as it points out, this only matters once your child is born: until then you can change things as much as you want, as…

Yes, the episode dropped the “May orders Deke to report” framing device about halfway through and doesn’t return to it even at the end, which was disappointing - and also a cheap way to manufacture suspense, as you end up thinking “did something go wrong? why isn’t Mack being interviewed too?”, but it turns out that…

Aida was an artificial intelligence, whereas LMD Coulson is effectively Coulson from shortly after the end of season 4 - he’s as “real” as Coulson’s consciousness from when he was inside the Framework. That consciousness is operating a mechanical body in the real world rather than a digital avatar in a virtual world,…

She was also not wearing a uniform. I thought that saluting while out of uniform was not the done thing in the US military?

“They built trenches to set on fire, and then they exclusively relied on magic means to light the fire? It’s not that hard to ignite flammables!”

As Melisandre herself would say: “Thank the Lord of Light, not me.”

To be fair, Dany doesn’t have any citizens of her own to protect. Dragonstone is a virtually abandoned island; we can see various farmsteads in the distance when Jon is looking out over the ocean but there’s no evidence of any native population. All of Dany’s group are her soldiers or political and military advisors,…

Her achilles heel has always been her sense of entitlement: she’s been told practically since birth that the Iron Throne and the Seven Kingdoms are her birthright, and she cannot let go of this notional ‘wrong’ done to a father and a family that she never knew, even after almost everyone involved in overthrowing the…

But not a waste of time for Arya, who’s picked up some valuable fighting and sneaking skills. Her entire journey has been her passing from one mentor to another - Syrio Forel, Yoren, Tywin Lannister, the Hound, now Jaquen H’ghar and the Waif - learning bits and pieces from each along the way and using it to better…

Winterfell is always in the credits, even though it’s been a smoking ruin for the last two seasons or so, because it’s one of the centrepieces of the sequence. During the Winterfall animation, as the tree sprouts up from the ground, notice that the camera is angled towards the sun - then we cut to a close-up of the…

Yeah, the HFR plays havoc with their shot composition. Many scenes looked to me like they were filmed on a digital backlot instead of on location. Also, Lee used some atypical editing techniques at various points - for example, using a dissolve as a scene transition, which is very uncommon nowadays and especially in…

Sophie Turner knocks it out of the park in that scene. She captures perfectly Sansa’s realization that she’s merely exchanged one gilded cage for another. Her story arc up until this point closely mirrors her sister’s, despite seeming worlds apart - they both think they’re making progress towards a goal (of freedom;…

The best thing for Katy to do here is just to apologise, throw up her hands and say “yes, I was at that party and regrettably I had too much to drink and may have behaved inappropriately; I will take steps to moderate how much alcohol I drink in future, so that this doesn’t happen again”. That’s exactly what I’d do if…

The Western world’s contemporary popular culture “memory” dates back to the early 20th century. Why don’t we recall anything except the very best music and theatre productions from the Victorian era? Most people can name Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and other famous composers, and perhaps some less common ones, but…

Snowflake who? She disappeared entirely, no conclusion at all. Presumably she was still locked up somewhere in the Lighthouse when the Chronicoms took it over. I would have liked to have seen her be the one to round the corner when Fitz and Simmons discover all the dead agents.

That was the conclusion I jumped to as well. They are stuck in a room full of Framework mind-copying tech, they have two “spare” Chronicom bodies (albeit a little shot up but I’m sure that could be fixed), and Enoch says they have to “change the nature of their existence”. They’ve totally been uploaded into Chronicom…

If I had to make the “without form” thing make sense, I’d say that what we saw on the other side of the portal was only a representation of what life is like over there, something that May could relate to - so from her perspective the temple is the temple, the “priests” are stereotypical creepy hooded figures and the…

I got pissed off at them for that, if only because someone must’ve told them about how X-Men: Days of Future Past also used it (in a much, much better way) and they got someone to cover it rather than use the original.