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.

I wonder when the explosion of fix-it fanfic will hit the net.

I had a good time, but my Coulson love is madly strong. I am hoping for clone angst, and I'm hoping he knows more than Cobie knows he knows.

I liked Skye more than the Brits. They remind me of the Binars from TNG, except less cute. I think they're more closely defined than the agent, and, well, I like the agent. I want him to have a hopeless crush on Ming's character.

SON OF COUL.

"I don't think he's really a god."

"You haven't been near his arms."

And I liked the speech about giants.

but the bit after Coulson shot him up with the truth serum made me think that I could come to like him

That just made me like Coulson.

OK, did anyone else get the idea that Coulson knew Skye or vice versa? She seemed awful at peace with being with SHIELD.

Hmmm.

I'm not entirely sold, but it was interesting enough that I'll keep watching.

I don't really have an opinion on the Geek Twins yet, but I do hope they back off the motormouth a little. Grant wasn't as annoying to me as some of you found him, but really he was just sort of there. Melinda May seems to have possibilities, and I actually liked Skye better than I thought I would when she was being promo'd as Sassy!Girl.

Also, notice that Joss is still doing his thing, where whatever supernaturalhuman situation the team runs into is a metaphor for a real-world situation someone is dealing with.