The A.V. Club

Just kill Laurel already. It's not gonna work, Guggenheim. It's not gonna work!
Kill it with fire. Or a bus, have a train pop out of nowhere Inception-style, have her slip on a banana peel and break her neck. I don't care. Just kill her. Everything else about the show WORKS.

Speaking of, uh , "excited" and "stimulated"… Am I the only one who finds Huntress whispering "Once you let the darknesss inside, it never comes out" actually arousing? Not the line itself, it's HOW she says it that gets me.

Your balls are made of pussy. Sorry, couldn't resist.

Do you really believe this is almost the best we can and should hope for SHIELD to ever be? No matter how you look at it that score is too high. It might have been the best episode of SHIELD so far, but I hope the cast and crew can do a much better job, and the show will one day actually deserve a legitimate medal,…

SHIELD gets an A- despite the fact that we all hate the main characters and WANT ALL OF THEM TO DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH?! After 16 episodes?! Bullshit score.

No, Slade still has to bone Oliver's mom. It's the season finale cliffhanger.

That can be said about nearly all episodes this season. They are all either good or great to me. This was definitely one of the greats.

Marvel is putting way more effort in their one-shots than into AoS.
I used to want to see a show based on Agent Carter's adventures, but not anymore. It's probably going to be as bland and boring as AoS is.

They are going to keep blaming the viewers for as long as it takes.
They will DENY EVERYTHING in every interview about the show, until it gets canceled, and after.

There would be much less forced drama with Richards' character if he would just say he's being ordered to do this against his will, which should be obvious to Coulson by now. Then again, Coulson can't even see that Ward is not PLAYING dumb, he IS as dumb as a pile of rocks.

How I want Agents of SHIELD to be connected to Cap 2 - Winter Soldier:

Your tough guy act is not fooling anybody, Coulson. Everyone knows your balls are made of pussy.

I think they use that word quite often on Whedonesque.com, but I may be wrong. It's a thing, unfortunately.

The pilot supposedly cost 14 million $, normally an episode costs 3 million dollars, so that's understandable.

The Dark Archer ( John frakking Barrowman) beat the crap out of Arrow in episode NINE. I'm still waiting for SHIELD's first great episode. This wasn't it.

"Don't play dumb with me, agent Ward!"

What a waste of Brad Dourif's talent. Goodnight Sweet Prince. The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest did the whole paralyzed villain thing much, much better. I guess I should thank Paul Zbyszewski for reminding me of that show.

Make Paul Zbyszewski the showrunner, Marvel/Disney/ABC/whogivesafuck!

Epic as fuck. Quicksilver still looks like shit though. I love JLaw. I can't wait to see her doing interviews like that great one on Letterman. I hope the CGI is better than in First Class. Some effects shots were truly terrible.