I was not impressed with the Can't Stop The Signal chick. Or Ward. Too pretty with not enough charisma/gravitas. But I'll give them time. It's weird walking into a show with expectations, rather than stumbling on something that was already recognized as awesome, where I just took everything as a given of recommended awesome. Rather than: you have history of awesome casting and scripts, now live up to it again. I might also need not be on cold meds and possibly high as a kite and/or drowsy, whichever you want to call it.

I was not impressed with the Can't Stop The Signal chick.

She annoyed the hell out of me. But then I think of other shows I watched with characters I didn't like initially but then ended up loving (LOST, I am looking at you and Ben Linus), so I'll give it some time.

I have no idea if JAR's character will reappear; I'm guessing no, because I was going with the assumption that the centipede/extremis/superpowers thing was removed. But did they actually make that clear? Maybe it was just stabilized. I just love him and want to see more of him.

The Grr Argh guy was silent, but he was back on my TV!

My thought exactly!

Good times.

Is Coulson a robot? Clone?

My money's on clone.

I didn't like secret agent guy. I think that he will end up being very annoying.

I think than an Irish person wouldn't be afraid to get an "F", they might be afraid to fail though.

I mostly didn't like Secret Agent Guy, but the bit after Coulson shot him up with the truth serum made me think that I could come to like him.

As with most pilot episodes, things felt a little clunky to me, but only in the 'these people are finding their rhythm with each other' sort of way. I do think Fitz and Simmons were hilarious, even if (or possibly because) I could only understand about 50% of what they were saying.

My money's on clone.

So is mine, and I look forward to the eventual discovery of said fact by various and sundry. Although I adore "Coulson Lives!" fic, when it comes to the actual franchise, I prefer the idea that the sacrifice was real.

I bet clone.

Skye (hacker chick) was annoying and Ward (secret agent) was annoying.

I thought it was very light as a pilot episode, everything rushed as to character. But of course we had some background sketched in with Smulders and Glass, and damn but it was nice to see JAR.

I really hope this coheres.

I do think Fitz and Simmons were hilarious, even if (or possibly because) I could only understand about 50% of what they were saying.

I liked Fitz and Simmons, but I think I understood maybe 30% of what they were saying.

when it comes to the actual franchise, I prefer the idea that the sacrifice was real.

Me too.

I hope that we see JAR again. And I want to know where Coulson was and all that.

Secret Agent Dude was annoying, but I liked that he got truth serum so to gain Skye's trust.

I didn't like Skye at first, but she started growing on me, I don't know where she got her skills or why she was doing what she was doing but in the end...oddly she ended up reminding me of the main character in Pitch Perfect and I can't put my finger on why.

All around it seemed like the pilot needed to be 2 hours or 1 1/2 hours.

I didn't like secret agent guy. I think that he will end up being very annoying.

Not so much "end up" for me as "already became." I like Fitz/Simmons and of course love anyone Ming Na plays, but neither Agent 00Lone Wolf nor the model-esque super hacker were winning me over.

I wanted to like it, but I'm not sure yet.

And I want Coulson to be really alive, dammit. It wasn't a sacrifice, it was a "make lemonade out of lemons." But Fury is a Lying Liar Who Lies, so the real Coulson is still recuperating in Tahiti, and even Hill and Not!Book are in the dark. So there.

Ditto on disliking Skye, and Ward getting shot up with truth serum redeemed him a little. I'm actually a bit ambivalent about the Brit Geeks, they're a little too Wacky Geek.

It must be fun to have so much back story to play with. They've got all the movies as source material they're assuming everyone knows.