No one has said anything about Fitz and Simmons -- is that because everyone is assuming their giant metal sarcophagus is airtight and has enough oxygen to last until they're somehow rescued and is not, in, fact, a quickly sinking death trap filling with water?

Well....yeah. I mean why else show the cabinet being dropped into the ocean vs crashing to little bits on top of a mountain or something?

"Get ready for a large file transfer."

I loled.

I mean why else show the cabinet being dropped into the ocean vs crashing to little bits on top of a mountain or something?

Well, it seemed like it had the potential for horrible watery death.

AVC reminded me that Fitz has the quarter walkie-talkie/beacon in his pocket. But yeah, I expect they'll be fine.

I knew that dog was dead the moment I saw him. So much of that Ward backstory was so on the nose that I think it could have been dealt with in one flashback.

I hate to be a cliche crazy dog lady but I knew it too, as soon as I saw that beautiful Chocolate.

I hoped I was wrong, but when I was not, I broke up with the show. Honestly. It was cheap, unnecessary emo-wringing and, frankly, working with abused dogs, like I have, I don't need to see the audience being schooled in how to prove you are tough by killing a loyal creature.

The 'yeah but they're evil' argument gives me no peace.

Feh.

Dear Show, Stop Trying To Make Ward Happen.

Totally, and completely that.

Again, I say FEH.

It was cheap, unnecessary emo-wringing

It really was lazy writing, but it always works. (It's lazy writing *because* it always works.)

And yeah, whenever a dog is introduced in any storyline like this (I am looking at you, Matt Fraction's Hawkeye), I have to brace myself, because the dog ALWAYS dies (no Hawkeye spoilers here).

Unrelated to Buddy, I have to say -- for as many times as the show has brought up Magical Skye's Mystical Magic Sooper Secret Magical Mystical Origins, if there isn't SOME kind of payoff in the finale, I will be pissed. Otherwise, why keep bringing it up? Just get your goddamn superpowers, okay? Or GTFO. (I'm still not particularly a fan of Skye, although she has improved over the season.)

I may have to plead illness to get out of work in time to see the finale next week.

I may have to plead illness to get out of work in time to see the finale next week.

We have a standing dinner with friends the second Tuesday of every month that we've been doing for at least 5 years, possibly longer. And that's next week. I told Tim surely we could move it this month, right? (We don't watch enough TV to justify a DVR.)

Otherwise, why keep bringing it up?

Season 2 needs a plot!

Ugh. Has it even been picked up for a second season?

This episode did make Ward more interesting to me, at least. I still want him to die, though.