Well, at the end, Hatake and Alan were having that conversation about saving Sarah.

This isn't about thematic arcs. This is about not wasting time showing a plot-irrelevant tumor story. The show is already slow as it is. Every time they turn to Sarah, it grinds to a halt.

Well, it's not ambiguous that she didn't die in this episode. However, despite the likelihood of her surviving to the end of the season, I still hold out hope that she'll be written out soon. Her character is a waste of story time; like, she contributes nothing to the main narrative.

…Yes, I know. Hence why I was all, "Ugghh." I wanted the show to display Sarah's corpse before the end of the episode and confirm her death, from which she can't come back. Instead, they cut to credits and pretty much guaranteed the opposite of what I wanted.

Ugh, I was hoping there'd be a confirmation of Sarah's death. Unfortunately, that quick cut to credits tells me she'll likely survive. UGHHH! Helix, I asked for only one thing out of your incoherent plot, and you still deny me Sarah's death.

There was a way out of that narrative corner: they could have blamed it on an over-worked police force, societal apathy regarding the victims and the alleged perpetrator, and the pressing need to wrap up the case and get a conviction. These things happen in real life, and many innocent people get incarcerated over…

Hah, yeah, Star Trek's deal is that, even with all the tech at their disposal, humanity is still at the mercy of incompetence. I actually accepted that about the show, LOL! It was just the right imperfection that made that utopian future bearable.

I agree that Rudy's comedic beats are becoming repetitive. It was fine as an introductory trait, but the character has stagnated since he went undercover as a drug cook. I thought for sure that Dorian moving in with him would open up other avenues to explore, but nothing's happened.

I don't mind when the show has to sanitize its depiction of crime. There are ways to imply violence and gore without actually filming the acts or their outcomes. The only real problem with this show's depiction of crime is that it doesn't match up with the opening voice-over about a city experiencing out-of-control…

So, instead of upgrading their security tech, they just decided to line the entire compound with explosives and go straight to self-destruct as a defensive option. When intercom fails, blow up bunker. Worst system ever.

Yes, it's possible they have more than one alien. They may have also salvaged the alien's lower half and shipped it elsewhere. Perhaps their cavalier willingness to self-destruct the entire bunker over a passphrase breach is due to their having more of the alien around.

Right?! Even just knocking out the guards would have been disastrous if there was no way to wake them again before the timer ran out. That's the worst fail-safe system ever.

Sadly, this is true. But on the plus side, I do go online to whine about it. Maybe those bigwigs are reading my screed (oooh, if only… *clutches my hanky to my chest*), and then they'll know it's time to effect some changes!

I don't even get how Fitz knew to push out on the file. Like, what would that gesture do otherwise? Do all other files expand when you push at them? I seriously didn't get how he made that leap, but I shrugged it off 'cause I don't care enough.

It's so the heroes can put on their serious faces and time their escape accordingly. That way they can be sure to leap out of the building just as a dramatic fireball blooms behind them, and air rushes in to make their hair billow in the wind. In slow motion. With melodramatic music.

Someone, somewhere, has the lower half of that alien. It's maybe in another bunker, with similarly moronic operating and defensive procedures. When SHIELD invades that one, they'll know to just send in one of Fitz's flying drones with a bomb attached to it and take out the two guards ahead of time.

That can't be the Rocky Mountains. The bunker was overlooking the ocean. It was on a sea-side cliff. The Rocky Mountains are landlocked far from the coast. Maybe the Pacific Mountain System? However, I don't think any of the US Pacific Mountains actually butt up against the ocean the way they showed in this episode (I…

It's because this was the last episode of the season. There's an expectation that the audience can now look back at the entire season and go, "Yep, that story unfolded well, and this finale is a nice end cap!" Unfortunately, in my case, I couldn't completely get to that conclusion.

I was of the impression they weren't SHIELD. Actually, I don't even know where that bunker was supposed to be located (was it in the USA?). I think I'm supposed to care about this information…

Well, that would have been the sensible option, but that was clearly off the table, as far as this show was concerned. Seriously, the sequence of events from the time Coulson failed to provide the passphrase, up to the total destruction of the bunker, was a baffling series of procedural failure. Not surprising it had…