I kind of hope they can bring Alexis Denisof back as another MCU character at some point. It’s not like anyone recognized it was him in this role anyway.

The Real SHIELD in hindsight is really the weak link of that whole thing. It did it’s job in setting other things in motion but it wasn’t really that well thought out. Whenever you have an opposing force of good guys it never seems to work out that well. You see similar issues in Buffy and Supernatural.

Hive was a pretty solid baddie and I think he gets a bit of the shaft because of the Ward thing and what not. But that whole arc with Daisy really packs a  punch and in general the guy had a prescence. AIDA was solid but her ending really didn’t do her justice at all. Ward of course is probably the most iconic of the…

For me personally I kind of liked the Framework stuff the least out of those 3 pods. Although a lot of that might have to do with the anti-climax that wrapped it up (it was overall fine, didn’t help that S5A tried to ape it tho). LMD part was probably my favourite of the 3 and Ghost Rider was pretty neat.

I kind of feel like Talbot deserved a better send-off. Plus a lot of the group fighting got resolved waaaayy too neatly. Like Daisy was friggin’ tortured and I guess we’re just supposed to shrug that off. NO THANK YOU.

I wasn’t really a fan of that episode either personally. You are right that did seem to be the point where critical consensus was at a real low. It picked up after the halfway point at least but the show’s overall rep wouldn’t really get a whole lot better til S2-3. Definitely by S4 when the Netflix shows were…

I wouldn’t really skip the whole first season cause part of the fun is seeing them set up a bunch of the major revelations for later. What some of the characters end up being isn’t quite as wild if you don’t see what they initially seemed to be. At best I might say skip a couple in the first 10 or so. But other than…

Season 3 seems to be a make it or break it season for some people cause it’s either where they really upped their game of people just really didn’t care for it that much. I can understand either opinion but it’s still probably the best one for me personally. Lot of good stuff. Here’s to Season 6-7 I guess.

While I haven’t done a full rewatch personally I tend to think on Season 1 a lot more fondly then as it was airing. Getting away from AV Club snark and knowing where everything is gonna go makes you kind of appreciate the various tidbits from clips and recaps a lot more. I’d definitely rewatch Season 1 again before…

Maybe it’s because I didn’t see this in full until the build-up for Ultron (and a couple of things had been spoiled before that point) but I didn’t really care for this one as much as some other people. Like it’s a fine movie just not the top of the pack imo. The best thing it did for me personally was open the…

Yeah it’s kind of miraculous they were able to do as well as they did (give or take a The Girl in Question). Based on what people have said part of that probably is they at least had Wolfram and Hart as a background prescence since the beginning so any finale involving them was gonna be somewhat appropriate (along…

Well it’s not like they haven’t been doing this with Daisy to some extent anyway. And even if she were to get her ass-kicked she would still be a nice prescence to have around (and frankly more welcome than some of the other characters at this point).

Whoops

Make her a regular in AOS you cowards!

SPHERE DATA BLOW UP THE DAMN SHIP!

Never used deglazeddonut but I might have to use that for something now.

I mean sure but I know people who haven’t seen them. Plus if you were gonna binge this series some day you might not even know that Short Treks are a thing until after you’ve gone through a couple seasons.

Overall this wasn’t particularly great. If I actually gave more of a crap I guess it might have been effective but they got really over indulgent in their drama.

That Runaway Short Trek isn’t part of the main season of Discovery. It shouldn’t really be expected for you to have to watch those to get a full feel of the characterization. The recap was helpful but it’s kind of cack-handed that something like that was from a mini-sode. At least with the Sisterhood of Karn lady…