“Speaking of useless technological developments, Fury escapes Russia using a fake face mask. Sonya looks at it and goes, “A billion dollars of research and development, and all the widow’s veil can do is cloak your face?” Even in the MCU, spending all that money for this shit seems dumb.”

I think some of this season also has still dealing with COVID restrictions during at least some of the filming.

I just think Melissa Navia deserves some more opportunity to show of her acting chops. I’d like to see her get a girlfriend or something, perhaps with some existential angst due to conflicted loyalties or something. Or a “meet the parents” episode al-la Worf. Something of a history. Anything. Sibling who shows up as a…

 It seems like everyone except Ortegas and Chapel have a fairly well developed back story, which is a shame. I’d like to explore their history more. They’re both characters I love and what we have seen of them is interesting (particularly their interactions with each other in season 1, which is about all we know about…

The question is who will the Super Skrull fight? Don Cheadle has said that Rhodey won’t be wearing the War Machine armor in this series so who are they going to bring in to deal with a Skrull that has Groot, Extremis, Cull Obsidian and Frost Beast powers?

I’m not crazy with the characterization in the First Class movies, but at least they gave Mystique agency. Of all the characters to turn into (nearly) mute henchmen, that was a terrible choice.

I’m still pissed that there’s never been a proper depiction of Mystique in any of the “Fox-Men” movies. She’s supposed to be a self-sufficient bad ass spy, who, and this is kind of important, not only speaks regularly, but almost always wears clothes. 

Now she’s moved on to something totally new — a decades-old science-fiction franchise where she has to play a character who conceals her special genetic status from the general population.

Also, it’s super cool to see them resurrect the Extremis plot from like, 10 years ago. 

I think people are missing Fury’s “Nobody calls me Nick” from this episode.  Who called him Nick last episode? Rhodey. 

One thing I love about this show is that when a character only has very tiny scenes in an episode, they consistently manage to mine it for all its worth.

Timey-wimey plot aside, I just loved that moment of Spock radiating agitation that someone dared to file a noise complaint against him.

This episode was so much better than it had any right to be. When I saw that it was a time travel episode and an episode that featured Kirk it felt like they were reaching for stunt plots that are normally reserved for the end of a show’s run when they need to goose ratings and don’t have anything left in the bag.

The Romulan chick said something to the effect of “All this Kahn stuff was supposed to start in 1992, but factions in the temporal wars had changed stuff.”

So it’s not a retconn in as much as it is a clue that there are outside forces mucking with the timelines.  

That brings up a good point; Where are the New Asgardians in all this?

I toyed around with making a Plex server for years, but it’s become a priority now.

Either that, or Bo and her older sister Satine growing up.  Maybe you see roots of when the two of them shifted focus on how Mandalore should protect and serve its people (either through its traditional warlike ways or a civilized, pacifistic approach).

Remember when Morbius flopped hard and the internet made fun of it and then Sony thought that meant people actually did like it and put it back in the theater to flop again?

Give it to me now!

I don’t know if I entirely buy the Hill death, yet. Fury made the same play in Winter Soldier with Hill assisting him. I would wager after their talk at the bar, Fury laid out a plan that’ll pay off in the finale. Maybe positioning Hill to run SHIELD, now that Fury is on the SABER.