Ah, Diane didn't "have a baby" - she aborted the fetus - there wasn't a 'baby'.

There are literally hundreds of thousands of people who have seen mass slaughter worse than that scene and they don't just go catatonic - its not like every person who has lived through a mass bombing in a place like Iraq for the past decade walks around like a zombie. I am sure they certainly don't talk much about…

Ah, the straw-mans…so much straw….

Huh,,,,,Yeah?

At the time that several African tribes converted to Islam beginning in the 8th century?

He needs to pick up the pace.

Well, this gives you the rates per 100,000 of a lot of causes of death:

Come on Internet, you won't even post the full name of the Agency, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene? Such a wonderful old fashioned name.

Most municipalities don't have the kind of data automation that NYC has - which is why NYC Department of Health can put this together relatively easily.

Enough with the stupid "organic" nonsense. Betty being in that office wasn't "organic" - the writers decided to thrown a complication into Elizabeth and Philip's mission, one that has long term consequences. Its a plot choice, just like the random violent crime. Both make as much sense given everything else, your…

You claim not to mean contrivance pejoratively and yet at the same time, having Betty be in the office isn't a contrivance…so plot point you like - naturalistic, plot point you don't, contrived, but of course you don't differentiate between the two in quality….

That you dislike the direction the writers chose to take the Paige-Elizabeth relationship at this time does not make the plot point they chose to use as the driver of that change "a contrivance", which is your claim. You acknowledge that random crime, including attempted violent sexual assault, does happen - to say…

So you don't believe random crime happen in Washington DC in the early 80's? Because in real life, random shit happens, and people have to deal with the fall out of that. Betty being in the office when Elizabeth and Phillip went to retrieve the bug was just as much of a "contrivance" as this attack was.

Finding the Diviner and the city was the end result of all his terrible experimentation though - what really was left? Also, him getting shot by Coulson helps feed the enmity between Cal and Phil. And finally, why do people think that all exists have to be grandiose? Sometime people just get shot and die, or have…

More people watch Agents of SHiELD than watch Arrow currently (and last year, and the year before that).

So…no problem with alien microparasite infections, but god darn it, they better get the neuroscience of dendotroxins right!

And? Through those two protagonists the events of seasons 1 through 3 affect everyone in season 4.

AoS get hate that is utterly disproportionate to the actual quality of the show in comparison to all the other superhero shows out there on broadcast TV.

They weren't invalidated - a by the middle of season 4 Olivia had remembered everything that happened in those seasons, and we got Peter back.

Did Whitehall really have much potential left once we found out Daisy's identity? I mean, the Diviner is gone, so what was motivating him is physically gone from the show and also that show had to skirt the issue of the the take down of Strucker in the movie, which makes having the TV show showcasing another big bad…