Talbot vs Coulson was totally giving me A-Team vibes.

Nope. But that's pretty much what everyone thinks, isn't it?

I think Simmons is hunting down Raina to get the GH-325 research to use it on Fitz. I doubt they'll drop her disagreement with Coulson about using it from last season. So she'll come back and use it on Fitz and maybe even to save Coulson. (They already had Coulson being teased about Garrett going crazy this week.)

She touched the obelisk the very much alive in 2014 Nazi touched. She's alive. And I doubt they'd kill off another queer female character because she's Hand's ex and they showed Ward shooting Hand several times in the promos. Plus, Lucy Lawless.

Or him being the evil version of Skye, sort of like a supervillain to her superhero.

I hope he never gets one. I think he's playing them anyway. Coulson has already been in there with him and he's getting what he wants, which is access to Skye. The show points this out. It even has May comment, they know what he's doing, they just need the intel more.

Yeah, love him. And Dum Dum.

He named himself. Problem solved.

I love Skye now. As for Ward, so much better as evil. Ward is hardly one of the male leads, he's a secondary character.

I think it's a new character. She likes knives. I'm hoping for Victoria Hand's ex-girlfriend who wants revenge on Ward.

He's a little too handsome for Creel. I kind of liked that Creel looked so rough. Agree they need to introduce Titania, though. That made his character far more interesting.

You have Avengers and everyone versus the Masters of Evil, at the very end, Thanos gets the Gauntlet and they have to team up. Thanos is only good for that one big scene.

Agreed. I think the Mind gem was in Loki's Chitauri Scepter. The Chitauri Scepter is seen in the Avengers AOU teaser after CATWS. Von Strucker has it.

I think it will be Masters of Evil getting the Infinity stones for Thanos.

That's my guess. He's going to drop a hint about what kind of alien either her or Coulson are.

This makes me think they're introducing the Masters of Evil at some point. Blackout was also one.

Well, yes. But Doom and Xanatos share a singular obsession and an overarching master planning skill that Tony Stark (at least, before he became a blight upon the 616) doesn't have.

If Xanatos is Victor Von Doom, MacBeth is Ra's Al Ghul. Anyway, I loved any time MacBeth showed up, but the animation quality in this episode was terrible indeed.

Yeah, Skye was manipulating the sleeper Neo-Nazi, what a joke. She designed exploits and helped them resolve cases the entire show.

Yes, the scheduling had a definite negative impact. I hope they are learning the lessons from the first season. Now they don't have to build up all new characters, either.