I just wish we had more information. Especially why Elijah and Rebekah would be ok with their siblings being held prisoner so long. I get Kol, but Fin the good guy? There's a story there I hope they go into

Color me disappointed that another of the four resurrected witches died in a very anti-climactic fashion, mostly because I thought she had the most presence on screen1

Yup. At least Kol has somewhat been already explored enough with him being a two dimensional psycho, but conflict with Finn would be interesting, since he's the only one with a conscience.

Oh Celeste. TVD really loves using the ghosts of unbelievably crazy exes

I know it could just be the agent's personality, but was anyone else kind of uncomfortable with the dialogue for their professional, black agent read out the phrase "that's tight"?

Apparently, SHIELD has a three-strike policy on treason

I wouldn't say nonsensical. There are good theories that the Clairvoyant is just a SHIELD mole. Introducing the mole as a character Coulson and the team respects would make sense for drama and stuff in the eventual heel turn

I realize the more I think about it that I don't know what SHIELD is. Is it like bigger than the UN? just a few select Western powers club? What's their oversight? There was that shadowy council in Avengers?

Yeah very weird, very ugly. Seriously these are supposed to be veteran agents who've all assumingly lost people in the field. Is this standard procedure? Is 'eye for an eye' in the SHIELD charter?

It's really kind of scary how normalized everyone is to the complete lack of rights their prisoners have.

The very same! But I think in this universe they call it

1) this is way more than disobeying orders. Two employees are dead, and a top secret facility and all the intellectual property inside has been annihilated. I really hope the team gets raked through the coals for this, but apparently not based on next week's previews.

An online degree from Stormtrooper University does not prepare one for the real world

Yeah they killed two people to possibly save one person. Where's Spock when you need him.

1) Still essentially treason right?

This 'kids next door' crap in the title episodes is getting annoying

Me and a friend were looking back at our college years and how often we'd complain about how little time we had to do any significant combination of homework or extracurriculars, along with managing campus jobs.

I can' even imagine people who have kids being able to carve out that kind of time with any real consistency.

I gave up at the end of last season. It burned away my goodwill, I just had a strong dislike for all the characters, minus Neville.

Hell it still might be an effective use of recycling, given whatever this "biomass" could be