It’s also just occurred to me that Ruby has a lot of parallels with Faith Lehane going on. she’s a young lady with power who’s jealous about our protagonist being given the limelight over her. She also has that bad attitude going on and a relationship with a parental figure that parallels the one the protagonists had…

By God, you’re right. I flicked through and there are some quite prominently placed books on personality disorders. Some terrific setup there, and yet practically no-one saw it coming.

Not only that, if you look at his reading material 7 minutes into that episode, no fewer than 8 books dealing with mental health and brain trauma are visible in that stack of books on his desk. He’s been trying to self-diagnose ever since they got out of the Framework.

Hot damn, it was good to see Adrian Pasdar again. Also, it was nice of the SHIELD writers’ room to give him some of the best lines.

And their appendages are neither tentacles nor legs: they are arms.

I thought about something like that, but the season will go on past the release of Infinity War by a few episodes - I know the show has been decreasing its timed tie-ins since Civil War, but it’d be a pretty big event to skirt around.

I feel like this season will end with them stopping the Confederacy and preventing the world from cracking, then the stinger will be them looking up in the sky and seeing Thanos’ ship(s?) arriving.

I thought that was weird too. She was so quick to dismiss that possibility but I’m hoping she comes around soon and that will be how they stop the world from quaking apart.

“It looks like Hydra took a page from the spy training in Kingsman, but missed the part where you’re not actually supposed to kill your dog.”

Also, nothing like a forced breeding program to remind you that Whitehall was originally a Nazi.

Hale is life-long inner circle Hydra and a General in the USAF. She has seen literal Gods both attacking and defending New York City. She has seen Ward return from the dead possessed by another kind of God, and personally been instantaneously teleported across the universe to meet with aliens who wield enormous power…

Is no-one here presuming the big-ass spaceship coming for Earth is something to do with Thanos and Infinity War, and THAT’S what the Confederacy is offering protection against? Seems pretty obvious an assumption to me.

Poor Talbot! :(

SO THIS FUCKING SHOW

That’s one thing that kind of worked about the Framework story was that for the most part the threat was the fates of the characters inside it (the external threat was more later on).

I would like to applaud Talbot’s insults in this episode. They were hilarious, and calamari Mata Hari is the best thing I’ve heard in a long time. XD

I like the show and the smaller MCU tie-ins, but there’s a little of trying to have your cake (referencing the MCU films a lot) and trying to eat it too (having a threat so big it threatens the entire world but not calling the Avengers) here.

What I hate is how a lot of superhero shows seem to think stories are only…

Adrian Pasdar was on point in this episode.

Hydra High, please, it was clearly Hydrawarts.

Boy, they’re really milking this Deke is FitzSimmons grandson thing. This is the fourth episode in a row where its been used for a big reveal moment at or near the end of the episode.