I just realized: May's essential conflict seems to be tied to the fact she had to kill a kid at the same time she was wanting to start a family with Dr. Hotty, so I'm starting to see some annoying parallels here.

Starting? I've been annoyed at Joss for putting babies and kids everywhere ever since Angel took his baby home with him. You're a vampire and a Champion of Whatever Powers-That-Be Blahblah, you can't raise a kid! Darla's pregnancy was one of the best storylines ever on either Buffy or Angel, but they should've introduced, early on, someone trustworthy Angel could give the baby to, to raise, because Angel went south in a nosedive as soon as the baby came home with him. And now AoU is full of babies. Joss needs to go home and play with his kids and breathe for a while, until he can write something without putting his family issues and his baby fetish into it.

I hadn't thought that far back. I was just seeing movie issues and TV issues being a little too on point with each other.

Sorry. That rant's been brewing for a while. You should have seen the post I deleted.

Now that you've pointed it out, it is a bit obvious. See Zoe telling Wash she wanted to see the baby they'd produce.

I almost feel bad for Raina: she was right! But she'd poisoned the well so thoroughly that it was wasted effort to try to do anything about it.

Right? She just never comes across as sincere, and she's got no other argument to make if people don't believe her about the visions.

ETA I was gonna be really impressed if the recent news about the spinoff was an elaborate takeout and Ward just killed Bobbi right then.

I did not expect that from Jiaying. So that was a HS moment.

I didn't trust her from the start, but I didn't expect her to straight-up kill a dude.

Also, she killed him and committed to a war with SHIELD after giving Cal over to them as a prisoner. Stone cold.

And I'm pretty sure Cal has his own role to play. I presume he took his serum with him, is that what that was?

Yeah, I think Cal is just where they want him to be.

Definitely. I can't see Cal going easily, if it wasn't part of the plan.

I need to rewatch; there's lots of subtle, little things I missed that I'm discovering as you guys dissect the episode. My roommate usually gets up for the day just before AoS starts and she wants to talk to me until she leaves for work. I like catching up with her, but I'm like...but it's Agents! I wanna watch! I would have bought the season through Amazon, anyhow, but I'm even more grateful, now, that I did.