Also, the woman with razors glued to her fingernails was the world's most unimpressive super-villain. I also don't understand why SHIELD wouldn't just cut the blades off rather than putting her hands in that weird contraption.

That made no damn sense at all.

That effect was cool as hell. It felt like something out of Skulduggery Pleasant.

I didn't expect his mouth to get all stretchy!

I didn't expect his mouth to get all stretchy!

There's no reason for that, except to look scary. His vocal cords were what were changed. And I thought the kids were dead.

As he was opening his mouth to attack again, my thought was "This would be an excellent time for a bullet to the forehead."

The synchronized headphones was amusing.

And I thought the kids were dead.

Didn't Coulson say that his weird vocal thing caused catatonia in anyone (anything) who heard it? The birds probably died, because once they went catatonic, a fall like that would kill them. But I thought the kids were just catatonic.

I guess I don't see the high peril in catatonia that presumably will wear off.

And yeah, the woman with the blades on her finger tips was kind of stupid.

And yeah, the woman with the blades on her finger tips was kind of stupid.

As I said upthread, Drea de Matteo deserved a much better role.

Wasn't the explanation something like she grafted those onto her fingers in her lab because of an abusive boyfriend? So, she's not an Inhuman, or genetically altered or anything. She's basically someone who decided that Lee Press-on Razors would be better for self-defense than a gun or pepper spray.

My thought when I saw her was that I went to high school with girls who could do more damage with their salon fake nails.

I wasn't sure if her boyfriend did it to her or she did it to herself. I suppose they could have left them on if she refused to give permission for their removal. I guess she's classified as Aggravated Crazy.

They said she did it to herself.

I guess I'm having trouble with the idea that Coulson et al. should all be so loyal to an organization that turned out to be rotten to its core.

When you're loyal to an institution, you are officially loyal to its mission, but really what it comes down to is the people. And here, with SHIELD, both the mission AND the people were tainted.

Coulson (and the show, I guess) is trying to say, "We're loyal to the mission, and that's what we're recreating," but it's too grey. You can't start clean if you're building with concrete that is half sewage.

They should burn it to the ground and admit they're a vigilante group. Except Coulson couldn't accept that (although I bet May could). He has to have the perception of legitimate authority to prop him up, even if it's paper-thin and smeared with blood.

Basically, I'm not sure why I'm still watching this. Every once in a while there's a good plot twist, but other than May there aren't any characters I really love, and the subtext of the show is ... kind of fascist. Argh.