"Agents of Shit", really?

I don't disagree with you re: JJ's depth of writing, but you sound like the kind of person who goes to a party and tries to slip Tori Amos's "Me and a Gun" onto the Spotify playlist.

Robyn is such a thoroughly unlikeable character on the show. I'm still baffled by her function in the story.

Agents of Shield definitely outdoes every single show on the DC roster currently. It's consistently good storytelling and thoughtful characterization—the first half of both JJ and DD might have been more compelling, but they both drop off as the seasons progress.

Tragically, WMA only gets more and more relevant with each passing year :(

The big twist for me was realizing that the narrator was supposed to be the biographical Gaiman on a literal level. I don't read his blog religiously, but enough to know that his father had just passed, and that that precipitated the writing of that novel. Idk, it gave me feels.

Cat's revenge motives might be a neat counterpoint to what Arya was saying in this episode, about being angry rather than merely sorrowful.

Almost everybody seemed lacking in their usual charisma in this one. Fassbender is usually a force of nature, but the forest scene with his family made me cringe, and towards the big climatic ending where McAvoy was egging on Sansa Stark my eyes were way at the back of my head.

I see what you mean in an American context, but living as I do in Singapore, where the State is suffocatingly omnipresent, I also appreciate the arguments of libertarianism to a certain extent.

Realistically, wouldn't having Cisco's vibing powers around make visiting Earth-2 easier than visiting Starling City?

I always wondered why Rogers wouldn't have gotten a posthumous (two-rank) promotion when he went in the ice—isn't it standard military practice?

Shield's wardrobing and cinematography is not great, but writing-wise, it's been mopping the floor with both Arrow and Flash this season.

It really got much better. I'd argue that the past two seasons of Agents of Shield have been better than any of the Thor or the last 2 Iron Man films. With the Big Bad for season 3, the writers took one of the weakest aspects of Season 1 and turned him into one of the best villains in the MCU.

And if it's Simmons, with her ice-cold hands…?

Turns out Hive's immune system is really shitty at dealing with the common cold and other earthly viruses.

The writing on this episode was delicious. Turns out Lauren LeFranc also wrote some of my favourite episodes of Chuck.

May and Lash dying in the same episode would be oddly fitting.

Still too soon, and not okay.

When I think about the range he's displayed from the first season until now, I almost feel ashamed for making fun of Grant Ward back then. Almost.

Hey, that's not how this works—you're supposed to passionately defend liberalism and democracy, and then I'm supposed to retort that human rights are a tool of colonialism, and then you're supposed to pull out the stick of chewing gum that's banned here, sending me into a salivating fit~