It’s the latter. It sounds really dumb when you summarize it, but while you are watching the episode, you don’t care because it’s damn fun.

I was never a big Gina person but losing a core character always sucks.

She’s going straight to video.

Ward went from being one of the worst parts of Iron Fist at the beginning to the absolute best.

I’m glad he’s back.

YOUR FACE HAS OVEREXPOSED COULSON

Would have been a great way to do it. Prince Philip sneezes and he’s suddenly an old Scotsman.

And here I was expecting Peter Capaldi to follow him for some reason.

The revelation that Loki has trashed his cell after Frigga’s death is extremely well done.

Oh you’re right. Cal’s super villain team was there for only one episode I think? And I totally forgot Hale was even building a team, yeah that never went anywhere. For every team-up, at best it lasts for one episode or it goes to nowhere. Even the fights like Lash VS Hive are very short. Maybe that contributed to why…

Agreed, I actually miss the humor in season 1, it seems like a lifetime ago now. And the lighting! Season 5 was so damn dark! (literally and metaphorically)

Maybe because season 1 while being procedural and not particularly interesting in its early episodes, it has the fun and humor?

“Agent Beige Drywall). Once his true colors

You had me until you got to Kassius. He was just a waste of space as far as I’m concerned. I love a good villain and I did not get satisfaction from his arc.

Whose this “Ward” fellow you speak of? I only remember...

I started to enjoy the creativity they had to utilize to keep Ward around. He just kept getting more and more evil. And then they curveballed us with the Framework’s version of Ward as... a good guy. A genuinely good guy, despite openly being a member of Hydra there. I felt bad when Season 5 went by without a guest…

“One of the team’s own, Daisy Johnson, was revealed to be one, finally giving the S.H.I.E.L.D. team a super-powered individual of their very own.”

It still trips me up how different shaved and non-shaved Brooks look.

I find this article available.

She looks so much better wearing Capaldi’s old clothes than she does in that Mork from Ork cosplay outfit.

I did appreciate the value of the diversity in the fifth doctor’s initial crew (one of my favorites)--Adric was an alien from another universe (E-Space), Nyssa was an alien princess, and Tegan was, well, Australian.