So Bucky wasn't in SHIELD because there was no SHIELD, but the organization he was in, as a Howling Commando, later became SHIELD and SHIELD adopted him as one of their own, long after he was dead.

I'm not clear on why Skye would know the name, unless she's a major Cap fangirl, though.

I was figuring the SSR connection too, like this is part of the Winter Soldier run up.

I thought it might have been more effective (storytelling wise) to just see his name, rather than have Skye read it out loud with no context.

I thought SSR was more Howard Stark and Peggy Carter, with Howling Commandos being a separate thing. But ehhh, I don't know anything beyond the first Captain America movie when it comes to comics canon.

Yeah, it made no sense for Bucky's name to be something Skye would single out. Clumsy.

Also, I remain confused as to precisely what the hell happened to Coulson. Yeah, yeah, numerous painful surgeries and mindfuck, etc, but he was DEAD FOR DAYS. SHIELD can bring people from the dead, since when? The so-called reveal did not address that at all. I am starting to get real irritated by the whole thing and that makes me lose charity with Coulson, whom I used to love. Bah.

Well, Coulson's not too pleased, either. Blame Fury. Though "dead for days" is meaningless. Brain dead? Maintained on life support? He was dead because they zipped up a body bag? Hysterical doctors don't impress me.

Ooh, Tor.com guesses they're building up to the Thunderbolts, with Blizzard, Graviton, and Mike Peterson as Deathlok.

Hysterical doctors don't impress me.

?? I have no idea what you mean with that.

"Maintained on life support" = not dead. I am taking "dead for days" as it's usually meant, meaning no brain or cardiovascular activities, full stop. Sure, Coulson's frustrated. But the intention of the writers, I think is for us to remain *intrigued* by Coulson's resurrection. Instead, I find the whole thing frustrating and coy on an out-of-story, meta level. Others may feel differently.

I was just thinking this morning that both of Quinn's appearances have resulted in super-villains receiving their powers. No idea if that's intentional or coincidental (since the two accidents didn't seem remotely staged.)

Maybe Quinn will end up being Evil Nick Fury.

I love the idea of Quinn as Evil Nick Fury.

I really know nothing about SHIELD or the Marvel Universe other than what I've seen in the various film properties to date (Iron Man/Avengers/Hulk/Captain America and Thor) so a lot of stuff goes straight over my head. All the Bucky talk? Yeah, I'm just like, Bucky who? But I think it's cool that they are throwing that stuff in for the more serious fan.

I give up on the Coulson thing. I still enjoy the character but I'm bored now with trying to figure out what happened to him. Kind of like the "Who's the new supreme?" storyline on American Horror Story. I know it will likely be important to the story but I don't care anymore. I'm glad May made him get out of the house and quit moping about it.

I am interested in the Skye story more, now. I want to know why she was an 0-8-4. What can she do? I thought this show was explicitly not supposed to have mutant powered people on it because of all the property rights issues surrounding X-Men. I mean, yes, we got the blizzard dude this episode plus the Graviton dude from earlier who seem like they acquired mutant powers but they were as the result of experiments gone wrong rather than just being born that way and both hustled off screen at the end of the episode. Mike's still around, but he's not a mutant. I'm assuming that if you took off the Centipede thing without killing him (which I'm given to understand you can't do, but if you could) he would go back to being regular Mike with no super strength. I mean, maybe Skye's not a mutant either, but the agent dude was talking like she had powers. Who knows? Anyway, I'm intrigued and I haven't felt that way about anything on this show in a while.