It makes sense to me that the whole team could not make it out of the fight against HR alive so somebody had to die. But I was very, very glad that Carter had asked John et al. for help in the first place. I feared that she would die fruitlessly going it alone. She went above and beyond that. The fact that it was almost all over and they had pretty much won makes it heartbreaking and frustrating. I do love that she went down fighting - Simmons shot Reese, Carter drew her weapon and started shooting back but took a bullet in the chest. Reese is going to hate that this woman that he cared about died - but he is going to doubly hate that she died trying to protect him. And to think, he had more issues than a box of National Geographics in a library basement before.

Now it's a show with white males and psychopathic white females. Carter was far and away the best realized character.

I am so over the whole "we're going to die so I'm going to tell you my true feelings" thing. The show had established a bond, but it didn't seem like that kind of bond. It just seemed like a cheap setup to have a "John goes over the edge" episodes. Also, while I've become fond of Jim Caviezel as this character, it's not like he can actually do emotions.

I thought Fusco's son lived with his wife. His son was barely mentioned and suddenly becomes a major plot point?

I am not happy.

I thought Fusco's son lived with his wife. His son was barely mentioned and suddenly becomes a major plot point?

I don't believe they ever specified that the ex-wife has full custody of the son such that there were never overnights with dad.

Now it's a show with white males and psychopathic white females.

Sarah Shahi is not white.

Sarah Shahi is not white.

Psychopathic Caucasian females, then.

The show hasn't established Shaw's ethnicity.

I don't care that they killed her. I care that they did it badly.

I don't care that they killed her. I care that they did it badly.

I'll miss her as a character, but doing it badly was the worst part.

Did the show establish anyone else's races? I don't know what she's playing, but although her role is race blind so far (as are all of them, pretty much) I'd be startled if someone hired Aahoo Jahansouz Shahi to play white. It's not like she looks white, or anything.

With Carter gone, the show has such a deficit of people I like that I'm not even tempted to watch this episode. I like the fixer that comes by sometimes, in low doses. I don't like the rest of them (Shaw I did at the start, but she's become a parody of herself and every woman who's been cast as a tough, and well, no more.)

They gave Shaw a Persian first name ("Sameen") during her flashback episode, so I think they're incorporating Shahi's Iranian heritage into her character.

Anyway. I'm still bitter about Carter. With her gone, the only thing I'm invested in now is the sentient Machine plotline and the role Root plays in that. Agree that they've been hit and miss with Shaw -- I still like her, but most of my affection for her involves my being nostalgic about Dani Reese.

It's like Dani went crazy. Or the wind changed and her face got stuck that way.

Below the neck she's pretty good! For a tiny slip of a thing, she holds her guns about as well as John does (oh, the lack of aiming sometimes....) and everyone benefits from the lack of recoil (recoil only seems to appear on TV so that the newb can be knocked back on his ass and everyone can laugh at him).

But her badass face is just getting worse and worse.

The show will probably move into weekend-when-bored watching status.

Watching NCIS I was wondering if it was a backdoor pilot for a solo crimefighting show about a quirky blonde who Eats So Much and thinks so many steps ahead, she's warned them of the crime before you've even decided to commit it.

How had I totally forgotten that NCIS was a chick short???? So very obvious when you're not caught up being smartassed. Der. Since I never liked Ziva, could this be worse?

And...floppy blond guy and mark on the eyeball girl on NCIS--they're heading off to his apartment to have sex? S.H.I.E.L.D. knows how to end an episode well.