Sure, I agree. I think I just read "forced" as "they shouldn't have been included at all", whereas I do think it's better than nothing that they got token lines when it would have been very easy to keep the SSR as the white-boys' club.

Which is why I think Peggy must have a second "thread" somewhere that will alert her that someone's been into her room. The first is just a blind to make the intruder think they've found her trick and not look carefully for the second.

I agree in general, but if this is the program that produced Black Widow, this is a program that trains people to be ruthless assassins at close quarters. People who shoot other people from a distance already come back pretty rattled; I imagine that if you wanted to train little girls to kill people, they have to get…

Doing something bad during a war and breaking the laws of war are two actually different things.

Why would Leviathan be so invested in killing off a bunch of SSR randoms?

Someone doesn't understand how language works.

AoS is really hopped on its own geekiness. Agent Carter seems cleverer in its Marvel connections, and I think it must go down easier for those who aren't extremely familiar with Marvel comics.

No, it's not odd.

Yeah, I commend Sousa for keeping it together enough after seeing Hayley Atwell in her underwear to spot the tell-tale marks. Good man. Oliver needs to pull it together himself.

Yeah, unclassy, dude.

They're probably the kind that you can flip open pretty easily when they're unlocked. It's clearly a psychological security blanket for her and not so much an actual restraint.

I didn't think Dooley was really calling it a crush—just telling Thompson that "you're behaving like a kindergartener with a crush, so grow up and knock it off".

I enjoy AoS in a kind of passive, understated way, but that show has some of the worst CGI I've ever seen.

There's plenty of super B-villains in costumes, though, which just gets to be an utter drag after a while.

I can't believe you would read that whole bit with Dottie as even faintly erotic. While self-bondage is hot for some people, her age doesn't make it a conscious—and therefore remotely sexy—choice when it's clear that she is obviously mentally unstable, was abused as a child, and is damaged enough to rely on the memory…