I had a friend in high school who would sing a few lines of the "Love Boat" theme, and then transition to their arch-enemies on the "Hate Tank".

I knew there was a 4th, but couldn't remember the details.

I'm trying to remember all the faux-Supermen during the time after he died.

That actually would have been interesting.
(Especially for an outsider like Skye to comment on SHIELD's dubious morality. Coulson would have ignored her warnings, assuming she is still in her "secrets are bad" hacker thinking.)

That "dog fight"…
I was watching an old Mythbusters, where we see what effect high-G forces had on Adam (blacking out, puking). When Garrett's jet did video game barrel rolls, I expected the next scene to be the bloodied cockpit, with pieces of Garrett centrifuged onto the walls.

This comment might be funnier, if the show wasn't so cavalier about torture.
Bad guys do it = wrong, good guys do it = righteous.

Disagree.
The previous shows knew that excessive exposition can be boring, so they used humor and cliche subversion to make even those scenes interesting. This show lacks the self-awareness, and uses up-tempo music to try to give energy to those scenes.

A constipated Ward is sitting on the can.
He is straining, and upset that Garrett is still talking with him through the bathroom door.

I agree with this. We are given one sentence reasons for Ward and Skye to join SHIELD (bad orphan experiences), but little they do is built on that. May used to be a big prankster, but that only existed in that one episode.

The show has done a piss-poor job of showing what SHIELD was, beyond "high-tech uber-spies", which takes away drama about SHIELD being disbanded.

Aha, that must be clever commentary about the US making laws to take away basic rights in order to prevent the terrorists from taking away our freedoms.

That is to set up the shocking reveal, that the hard drive handed to Ward was full of false information since Coulson knew that Ward was a double agent.

I'd agree with that. He was just so bland that even giving him a different name made him more interesting.

"May is doing better than you, Coulson.

SHIELD: we give almost unlimited authority for law enforcement officials to torture and kill people they don't like, when the agents are feeling upset.

And experienced spy Coulson lets on that he knows while Garrett is still free.

I almost delayed watching Cap2 for this coming weekend.
If I had, I would have been beyond pissed for this mediocre show to spoil a good movie.

I was looking at it from the guard's point of view when Coulson's team shows up.

They used night-night guns in the episode before and after this one. The only reason to use actual guns that time, and kill the two guards, was plot contrivance: to continue the mystery of what was going on.

Agent Throbbing Manpanties