My bloodlust demands that he apologizes to Kara when he puts it all out there. Then I will be sated.

I'm fine with it in isolation (James encouraging Winn), I'm just annoyed that it came about via hug-gate and that both Kara and now James have been made to apologize to Winn over it.

It was a small thing, but I really liked when James was walking out of Dirk's office after successfully playing him, and he just drops his charming smile to breath a sigh of relief once in the clear.

I had a similar, 'wait - did I miss a few episodes' reaction. (particularly, an episode where we see Fisher find her groove in the group; I'm guessing we'll get some of that next week with her and Pablo and Kelly)

I was convinced the scene towards the end where Ash and Fisher nearly kiss was going to cut to Fisher staring perplexedly at Ash, and the whole thing was just another one of his daydreams.

"Also damn Benoist's expression when she flies in to save the schoolbus. She's so happy to be doing this again"

Same. The apology, and the way the whole thing was framed made me unsure if I was meant to find what Winn said terrible. I guess we'll have a definitive answer in the follow-up on this.

"Winn shaming Kara over her friendship with James is all kinds of messed
up as is the fact that she winds up apologizing (!!!) to Winn for
hugging James."

So good. When that scene happened, I had to ask the person I watch these with if I saw right and that was really a kid. (I was multi-tasking at the time and distracted) I'm grateful Starz immediately airs a repeat right after so I could watch it again.

Same. I wish Simmons had more meaningful scenes with members of the team who aren't Fitz. I'm not invested in their romance at all, but I want it to just happen already if only so we can move past what they're doing now.