Yeah, and how did that work out?

Spy agency keep secrets from OTHERS, not each other. Internal secrecy is generally an operational problem, unless you have significant reason to believe that some people would spill the secrets. Fury trusted May with the knowledge he was still alive - what then could Theta protocol be that Coulson wouldn't trust May…

The ratings have been improving over time - last time I checked, SHIELD wins its time slot among the 18-49 crowd, which is what matters most to advertisers, once DVR numbers get included, and I don't think Palicki has much to do with that, given the size of the ensemble. If anything, loosing Hunter is a bigger hit, as…

Not shown, sadly, though one has to assume they decided to let Lincoln in on the secret, which makes sense but does conflict with what Jiaying had said.

Wouldn't she be Madam Mask?

She doesn't like that Coulson has been hiding a massive project involving powered individuals (with whom we know she has a bad history) from her.

MANIMAL just likes trashing the show - pay no attention.

5. Stand back and watch the successful gentrification of the area.

Tough crowd….

Regarding Geillis' origins, IIRC from the book, Claire begins having some questions when she discovered what her husband was poisoned with, which was cyanide. While obviously the natural examples existed in the 1740's, it was not actually synthesized as a separate chemical until the late 18th's, and the word cyanide…

I have the feeling Jiaying is more than capable of handling herself in a way that could mess people up rather effectively - as her talk about becoming ruthless and not recognizing who she was talk hints at.

It was totally a dramatic plot contrivance.

Who else but other SHIELD operatives would know to look for cameras there, though?

Would shaking apart by disassembling be the path of least resistance, as opposed to the parts breaking apart themselves?

To begin second, no evidence? Where the mass graves not visible on your screen? Or the statements by the Russian girl that the world had been struck by multiple plagues not audible? We clearly see Cassie in Chechnya in 2015 were everyone is fine, but by 2017 the plagues have spread around the world, just as they had…

This is incorrect, as was explained above - the first attempt in the episode to get Cole back to 2043 happens at the time the strike is happening. That means that every time we see Cole in the episode he is in 2017, which is why he is relative unharmed. The splintering that failed, and finally killed the power source…

You are thinking about the wrong jump - the jump that moved him two years into the future is the one at the very beginning of the show, the one in which the machine sort of cut out but still had power. At that point the mission to Spearhead is launched to borrow the manifest - then they try to pull him again, this…

This show works specifically because characters don't act in a morally monochromatic way like you seem to want them to act.

Outer Space is heavily radiated - the grounders have the Earth's atmosphere, as we do, to protect them from that radiation. The Ark population on the other hand lived for decades in a much more irradiated environment than even the Grounders.

The blood of her people for the blood (and marrow) of the 44 - seems a pretty good deal.