I was the same way. "He lost his will to live? That's it? Has no one on this writing staff ever gone through a horrible medical episode?"

Having him worry about what else they've done to his brain is far more believable. If the operations were particularly horrific, that could be pretty traumatic. Isn't this the kind of situation medically enduced comas was meant for?

I'm kind of at the point where the Coulson issues are going to be shuffled off into "It was awful and traumatic and is going to mess him up for a while but that's behind us" and enjoy the hunt for Centipede et al, Skye modelling Melinda--brilliant by the way--and Fitz going badass while Simmons dithers.

Mike's fate was kind of inevitable considering the situation but should provide lovely angst.

But apparently Coulson is Original Human Coulson! Yay!

I was the same way. "He lost his will to live? That's it? Has no one on this writing staff ever gone through a horrible medical episode?"

I mean, being conscious and in horrific pain during Horrible (Yet Undescribed By The Really Motivated Writing Staff) Medical Procedures is, indeed, fucking awful. But...we waited all this time for that? To find out SHIELD did some creepy forbidden painful nonconsensual medical mojo? Again I say, SO not surprised.

We could find out that Fury made Deals That Should Not Be Made in order to get Coulson back. It's nice to see Fury was so inspired--and a nice view of Agent Hand, who was baffled on why Fury and Hill were so anxious for updates on what was going on.

How many tricky powers are there in the Marvel universe that could do the job for a price? Not-Book came in late in the game. I'm still thrilled that it's apparently not Memorex Phil, which is what I was expecting, that the brain machine was downloading the last upload of Phil Coulson--complete with "Let me die" into the "brain" of a Life Model Decoy.

that the brain machine was downloading the last upload of Phil Coulson--complete with "Let me die" into the "brain" of a Life Model Decoy.

Me, too. Or a clone, or something. Or he had to punch his way out of his own grave.

he had to punch his way out of his own grave.

Wrong show.

Or they could go with "He didn't come back right" or "He brought something back with him."

ION, I quite liked Skye tonight.

I haven't been watching the show, so I don't really know everything that has been going on.

I liked Skye mimicking Melinda, and then Melinda's comment about the nice jacket. Plus the "don't touch Lola" comment as she went out the door.

I may be a little confused because I can't remember if Dr. Book was implying that Coulson was awake/aware during ALL 7 procedures or just during the last one. I couldn't tell if the lost the will to live part was from bringing him back or from subjecting him to multiple painful procedures (presumably against his consent) or just to being brought back to life.

So, I guess I’m done with S.H.I.E.L.D. now. Maybe I’ll watch the Winter Soldier crossover, but other than than, I just so don’t care.

Also, an airplane making a K-turn? That will shave, like, 30 seconds off of the total flight time?

The problem is they'd primed us to expect something HUGE for Coulson being Brought Back Wrong, so to find out that...it really is Coulson, they brought him back apparently with medicine, but then gave him fake memories of Tahiti? Wha?

And come on, they couldn't have sent him to REAL Tahiti afterwards to recuperate? Fuck you, SHIELD.

No, it would add many minutes, decelerating then accelerating again.

A standard-rate turn, which is pretty gentle, completes a 180-degree heading change in 60 seconds. An aggressive bank can reduce that by a lot. With vectored thrust, even more. Fun experiment -- how many g's can the passengers take? And that's in coordinated flight, not yawing around slinging your people and cargo about.

Maybe it was a shout-out to Firefly? It was just as silly there.