Monsters from Hunan? Please be the daughter of Fin Fang Foom or something. And then blow the entire second season's budget on a CGI dragon.

What, you think Garrett, an out-and-out villain, wouldn't consider any of his human resources expendable?

I dunno, not wishing literal death upon even your most hated foe seems like a pretty human reaction. Have you willingly watched your enemies killed, and not tried to stop it?

Think it's too late to campaign for Ward's total and irreversible villainy? Then again, this is Whedon, and he's never truly had a straight-up bad guy. Those that are, usually get turned to good because "wuv conquers all". Remember Spike?

Occam's Razor. What's an easier story, that the writers of _this_ episode are acknowledging audience feedback ("Haha yeah we know she's a Mary Sue, we know how to use Google for chrissakes."), or that they're clever enough to have concocted an elaborate backstory where spy nuns used then-obscure Star Trek fanfic…

My thoughts at the start of that fateful limo ride: "Hmm, so the entire family's gonna be joining Ollie's Scoobie gang? That's an interesting—" *CRASH*

Also, at least we know the showrunners are paying attention to the fan hatedom. I mean, Skye's given name being "Mary Sue"?

Blood on Agent Beefy Mctraitorson kinda ties it all up.

So… several weeks without Cap 2's movie push, and we're back to the same "coulda been better" episodes. I literally squealed when Blackout actually had Darkforce blasts instead of just remote light-switching-off powers, so it was disappointing how they ended that plot point with "lure villain to trap, use magic space…

That was the problem: for the longest time, the show was only tangentially related to any of the films. What it should've been since the beginning is what we're getting now: the TV show's plotlines clearly affected by the plotlines of the films, and vice versa.

There's always AIM.

Some of the filler stuff are either a) paying off, or b) about to pay off in spades. Just think, the show took its generic super strong guy and made him Deathlok. Now they got the gravitonium back, and we might get the supervillain Graviton very, very soon.

Trip smells of HYDRA too. But you know what would be fun? If neither Trip nor Ward know that the other one's evil.

Agent Pretendy McNiceynice

Watchu talkin' 'bout? This episode was pretty ok. All those early episodes are finally paying off, and we got the awesome buddy-evil duo of Garrett and Ward, Agents of HYDRA.

We could try to blame Captain America: The First Avenger for stalling Agents of SHIELD's plot from moving forward. Of course, it's not like its early procedural days were any good. Team Whedon's strength has always been serialization; Jed and Mo showed even during Dollhouse that they're especially worse at creating…

They should rename this show Bill and Grant, Agents of HYDRA.

B+. Abed felt off. I did like when he was running away from the camera, though. That shot was brilliant. As is with the general "Dooming Greendale by saving it" plotline.

Or, or… Maybe his real first name is Robert.

If that were the case, then the episode immediately after Thor: The Dark World should've been balls-out amazing. It wasn't.