Joss is a producer, which means he has input, but he's a TAD busy writing filming the new avengers movie and probably helping plan the next set of movies. Joss has written an episode here and there, and directed a couple of scenes. His brother and sister-in-law are the primary showrunner/writers.

 

Women fall prey to baser instincts just as much as men... women just have more common sense than MOST men =P
Speaking as a baby brother of seven older sisters... yeah. I've been trained well LOL =(

 

I worked in public services for ten years. No, they really don't.

 

Women having more common sense IS the trope.

People are dumb/smart in general, gender doesn't affect it. Except the while emotional thing of periods of course.

 

I've always seen it in the context of the ancient myths about/rituals concerning women: Maenads and Bacchic ritual (i.e. Euripides' The Bacchae), the Thesmophoria, Amazons etc.

In other words, the power of creation and chaos/destruction inherent in each woman is set loose, and what we see are the results of such an uninhibited ancient force. The lesson then, (at least according to ancient Greek ideas of this trope) is that such powers must be contained and directed for the good of society, or all of society will be lost.

Like Cheddar said, I don't agree with it, but that's how I've interpreted it.

 

This episode was pretty awesome. Stark is in the private sector again now. And Hill is working for him, and calling him by his first name - some hints of their comic relationship maybe.

The best line of the episode goes to Ward when talking to Hill - "We all lost respect for Fury when he choose you as his second, if he wanted eye candy around, he mightve atleast chosen Romanoff."

 

I really enjoyed the reveal at the this episode. Was a long build up, and I really didn't see it coming.

This show has really come into it's own now, I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

I'm actually really looking forward to the finale. Too much shit has gone down for it not to be pretty epic.

 

I really hope this show gets another season now. :/ Shouldn't we know by now if it is though?

And my favourite part of the revelation was Coulsons reaction. Was perfect.

 

ABC renews its series late. Don't think any of the winter-spring shows have been renewed yet.

 

This may have been settled already but if it has the conclusion escapes me. Have we discovered who Sky was in communication with when she became a Shield intern of sorts and still waved the Red Tide flag?

 

Ex-boyfriend, we saw him the episode when the team discover she was still part of the Rising Tide.

 

Thanks. I think I missed two episodes in the middle of the season. Ward referencing his past during the episode with the Viking rage stick was also a bit confusing. I'll just find some rewatch time before the finale.

 

Very good episode this week, though not quite enough explanation on why Ward felt loyalty to Garrett. As a sidenote, if Grant's brother isn't Terrance Ward I will be disappoint.

 

Coulsans reaction to old gadgets and telling sky to get ready for large file transfer. Epic

 

I might rage if Ward is easily redeemed/forgiven.

That would suck.

 

I'm not exactly a Marvel expert and I wouldn't be surprised if she turns out to be some C-list hero who'd never get their own movie, but so far Skye's backstory seems completely original.

My first thought was that she's a mutant, but that's incredibly unlikely with Fox owning the movie rights to the X-Men. Even if Marvel could technically get away with using mutants in Agents (don't Marvel/Disney still own all the TV rights?), they wouldn't want to introduce something to the MCU that they could never tie back into the movies.

My second thought was that she's an alien, but if that was the case then Fitz-Simmons should have easily been able to spot it when they were running all those tests on her DNA to figure out what GH-325 was.

My third thought was that she's an Inhuman, and that's the one I'm going with. They're basically mutants without any of the X-Gene bullshit, a subrace of humans created by alien experimentation. The aliens in question, the Kree, are about to appear in Guardians of the Galaxy and were mentioned on Agents by Sif (when Coulson asked about blue aliens). The T.A.H.I.T.I. alien was probably Kree too, but I don't know if that was ever stated outright. Marvel have been talking about making an Inhumans movie for a while now, and Skye's big reveal would make for a pretty good tie in.

That's assuming we even get a second season of Agents. What have the ratings been like?