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.

I enjoyed it. Glad I'm not the only one that found Fitz/Simmons amusing while not understanding half of what they're saying.

I also loved the callback to the original "Nick Fury, Agent of Shield Story" at the end. (Strange Tales #135, yes, I had to look up which comic it was actually in, but I remember reading the story as a kid in a Marvel superhero origins collection my dad had.)

Yeah, the line about Thor's arms was great. I also liked "For interpersonal skills, she drew in a little poop with a knife sticking out of it" or whatever the line actually was.

I also liked "For interpersonal skills, she drew in a little poop with a knife sticking out of it" or whatever the line actually was.

That was pretty hilarious.