I saw it as a "even though you've got a personal stake in a matter, duty comes first" thing--Sif not letting the jealousy apply, Coulson not letting his own questions overrule the job. Never saw that SG1 episode, so that issue doesn't apply for me.

They did say "people died for this," but I'm not too worried that they're not angsting about the guards. The guards were given the opportunity to put down the guns. Yeah, a less violent method would have been to use the sleepy time gun, but they were not in a kinder, gentler place. I don't hold my comic book shows to a higher moral level--except the very first Batman movie, where he blew up that factory full of people, because Batman doesn't kill.

Also, and I can't believe I forgot this: The whole thing with Lorelei's powers was just so heteronormative and gender-essentialist. That plot, those powers, come out of a universe in which gay and lesbian people do not exist. And in which men are fundamentally slaves to their hormones.

There's no reason for Lorelei's powers not to work on women, except for plot contrivance.

Very annoying. I wanted better.

I think it would have been really funny if she tried her powers on a gay man and it didn't work - for example.

That would have at least brought some genuine amusement.

I thought it was ridiculous that they didn't have extra-special no-touching orders, especially holding the night-night guns.

That was...not good. I don't mind predictable overplayed plots if they're well executed, but this was really not.

I don't buy Coulson being so wigged out by the alien body. New drugs come from all kinds of weird places, and this has been established as a universe where two alien species have visited Earth already...I'm with Skye, this is not something to get that worked up about. Magical regeneration blood is not a new idea in sci-fi/fantasy.

I do not think you get to keep using "Men died for this!" as a reason why a thing is important if (a) you are the one who killed them, and (b) especially not if you bring up the night-night gun as a plot point five minutes later.

It's ridiculous that SHIELD would send Coulson's team to deal with Lorelei, knowing that May was the only female fighter on that plane. So stupid.

Yeah, I am Jessica.

Me three. Someone up the chain is phoning it in. I mean isn't there somebody in charge of spotting obvious bloody stupid script holes if the writer misses them?

I did like the May-Sif scene and the Sif fight sequences. That's about it though. Everything else was a special kind of weak-ass heteronormative, sexist, rape-culutre-y, BAD STORYTELLING bullshit.

I was glad to see Sif, because I love her. I liked her scenes with Melinda May.

...and that's about it. Wait, no, I did like Coulson trying to be all super-casual, asking "WHAT ALIENS ARE BLUE JESUS CHRIST I AM LOSING MY MIND!!!" And Kree was stuck in the middle there, so I'm thinking the half-alien inna tube was Kree.

I don't buy Coulson being so wigged out by the alien body. New drugs come from all kinds of weird places, and this has been established as a universe where two alien species have visited Earth already...I'm with Skye, this is not something to get that worked up about. Magical regeneration blood is not a new idea in sci-fi/fantasy.

Right? I get Coulson wanting to get to the bottom of his off-the-books mysterious resurrection procedure, because who wouldn't want to know that? But I would expect that to come across as dogged determination, not being completely freaked out. Yes, okay, he has alien goo in him. I'm down with the freaked-out reaction in the last episode when he found the half-alien inna tube. Because...that was an unexpected revelation. But the ongoing freakout? Totally out of character, and that's just weird.

I'm assuming, based on previews for Captain America 2, that a huge theme is "SHIELD Is Not Just Sketchy, But Actively Dangerous/Bad." Which makes me think, based on the way the show is going, that S2 is going to be the team going rogue. (Has it been picked up for a second season?)

It's ridiculous that SHIELD would send Coulson's team to deal with Lorelei, knowing that May was the only female fighter on that plane. So stupid.

Seriously. What the hell, SHIELD. Or, you know, earplugs for the men. Something.