Blovation?

Durance had some pretty horrid material over the years. But admittedly, the way they've structured Iris isn't such that the actor can rise above mediocre or (not yet really inflicted, yet) terrible scripting. In short, the problem with Iris is structural, not simple nuts-and-bolts scene writing.

The top two that come up from a Google search is Song of the South and The Story of Menstruation. Somehow I doubt the latter was something shown in theatres.

That's what underlings are for. Why get gunpowder residue on your hands when you have mooks to haul your victims into killing rooms to be disposed of?

Why does Samaritan or the Machine tolerate permanent dead zones? One or both of them should be employing rent-a-tech human cats-paws to seed those blind spots with cheap private remote sensors and cameras. Not to mention that "god mode"'d minions can be wired to act as human wi-fi hotspots, sensor packages, and…

Are they? I don't closely follow the M&E politics of media, I didn't realize that was the case.

They're setting up Stark Enterprises to be somehow indirectly to blame for Finnau, perhaps as part of some sort of Mad Science Lend-Lease program. Box 17 was recovered in the post-accident visit that concluded with Stark coldcocking a brigadier and flying off in a huff, either way.

Yeah, but networks get tetchy if you start sharing continuity with a show on a rival network. Whedon used to piss off the WB over Angel/Buffy crossovers.

It seems like there's a Rachel "St. Pancake" Corrie joke here somewhere, but I just can't find it. Maybe under that bulldozer?

I'm thinking they left something about MMA training and Fusco on the cutting room floor, presumably edited for time.

"Thank you my dear, but I'm afraid I need a majority."

The Cambridge Ring was a pretty big "oops". Same with Fuchs. But the classic case of the Bolshies running rings around *everyone*, including the Brits, was "The Trust". They literally wrote the book.

One trusts that our heroes have not descended to the point where they have to look for reasons to not kill people. That's sort of the point of the whole episode, Claire trying to seduce Harold and yet unconsciously demonstrating that the SOP of Team Samaritan is "kill the problem away" as opposed to Team Machine's…

Well, by that standard, I've heard of Faustus, too, but I can't imagine they're the same character.

Eh. The comics, like history, are a source for ideas and easter eggs, not a straightjacket. They've been working from a tabula rosa continuity from the Iron Man jump in the MCU.

If they want to go realistic-historical, Leviathan should have had wartime Hydra compromised five ways from Sunday. The Nazis were really kind of terrible at spookcraft, even the British ran rings around them. The Soviets were the Big Leagues when it came to mucking about in the shadows getting you to shoot your…

No, that would be the idiot star of Cloudy, With a Chance of Meatballs. (Don't watch, it's a peculiar blend of dreary and awful.)

Except "Mrs. Diggle" is a super-spy with a code-name that identifies her as a potential future superhero, IIRC. Harbinger, wasn't it? Admittedly, the Lyla we've been shown has *nothing* in common with the Triplicate Girl knockoff who kicked off Crisis on Infinite Earths, so who knows what's up there…

And finally they showed a married woman! Albeit an imaginary or hallucinatory one. So close!

Hat-operator lady with her hand on the holster reminded me of the little old lady with the sub-machine gun in Captain America: The First Avenger. In my head-canon, she's carrying on in her deceased aunt's family tradition of ruthlessly guarding the secret entrances to SSR facilities.