Someone the audience really cares about.

It's a good thing Coulson told the guards that he was going to kill them for doing their jobs. That makes it all better.

The main team has done any number of morally dubious things. They've often have no hesitation in doing these things, and there are no known consequences.

I don't know any. I'd be interested to know if there is. It might just have to do with his weight, and basically making fun of how slow he theoretically would be.

I like that she figured out the penny thing, but hate that it was a penny thing. I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to use something as obvious as a penny, because then someone can do what Skye did. You use something like a hair or whatever, that nobody would ever notice but the person who put it there.

I loved that scene, and I haven't even seen Joy Luck Club.

He better not be. In the show, he's a careless, overweight desk jockey. They even play up how he can "live on the edge" by taking risks

I was having weird problems with Discus - they didn't accept my password, and even though they said they sent me (several) emails to change it, I never got any of them. Then I went to the Discus website to let them know, and was able to sign in (with the password that they told me was wrong on AV Club), and it counted…

Actually, now that I think about it, the "box" question may not have been designed to establish a baseline of what they are like when they aren't lying - it may have been a subtle way to get an idea of when they ARE lying. Not because they're actually lying, but because they have to stop and think about an answer.…

Reads brainwaves - you mean, like an fMRI machine? Or is real technology too high tech for SHIELD?

Didn't the lie-detector have arm restraints? Not to mention Koenig had a gun trained on him.

Koenig was played as a bit paranoid, and Ward should have set off warning bells in even the most trusting person. If someone starts making the machine suspicious, and some of the questions are evasive (Yes, we're all affiliated with Hydra because they infiltrated us), you don't assume they're guilty, but you start…

Yeah, I was trying to say basically the same thing, but my sarcasm may not have been apparent

I thought this was but wasn't really a SHIELD facility. So maybe it's okay to kill them. And by okay, I mean at least even if they're just good guys doing their job, they're not good guys in your own organization…

I don't watch a whole lot of TV, and in fact went several years basically without watching any. My roommate watches enough TV that it could probably literally be a full time job if someone paid him. He's a very intelligent person, who tends to be very… forceful… about his opinions (and persuasive). So when he really…