I loved that! So nice to see someone finally just freaking shoot the bad guy ASAP instead of dicking around or bantering with him first. No warning, and she didn’t miss. Yeah!
Who was the guy without eyes? I’ve mostly stuck to the X-Men side of the comics.
Blind Man.
(Seriously though, I have no idea.)
Dea.
Seriously, the interview linked above says they’ll tell us in the next episode. Which isn’t until March.
What should have happened is that when Coulson went to stand over White Hall’s body, he looks down, and fires half a magazine into his head. Basically, it would
- Establish that White Hall is really dead
- Show the Coulson is genre savvy and not going to let a bad guy potentially survive
A little research turned up this dude:
Might be him. He’s an Inhuman.
Well, crap. Fortunately, I don’t believe I have to be that immersed in the MCU…I hope. 
Here’s an ep summary from avclub: http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/marvels-agents-shield-what-they-become-212829
I’m willing to bet that Whitehall isn’t gone for good. Ward surviving at the same time means he will survive as well. I totally agree with muldoonthief about the Mozambique Drill. Gonna have to blame May for that oversight. Really didn’t care whether Mack or Trip bit it, really. They were both interchangeable. Sad to lose the connection to the Howling Commandos, but he served his purpose in linking the show to Agent Carter. I liked the misdirection of Fitz going off on his own and coming back intact (or has he?) Ward and 33 hooking up makes good story sense in the long run. Keeps another wild card in play.
Inhumans! Yea!
If it helps at all, Marvel’s actual editors and writers don’t seem terribly thrilled with the use of 616, and all the various other numbered universes, either. The whole thing with calling the mainline Marvel Universe “616” seems to have arisen from a joke by Alan Moore when he was writing Captain Britain.
So from the scene where the superimposed the Kree city map over the Puerto Rico map, it did appear most of the city is under PR, implying that they were about to cause some major problems when they blew it up. And what was with Tripp pulling the detonators from the C4, and just leaving them? Detonators explode all on their own if you don’t deactivate them. Especially the last one, which started buzzing in his hand right after he pulled it. He should have had a stump at that point.
Not that I’d want to trust 70 year old detonators anyway.
I’ve seen speculation it’s this guy:
Who was apparently created to be in the new Inhuman series, which was supposedly created to raise the profile of the Inhumans so as to make use of them in the Marvel Cinematic U. He’s blind because when he was sighted, everything he read came true, so the Inhumans took out his eyes – which doesn’t seem to match this guy’s appearance. But he apparently works collecting new Inhumans for exploitation by a sinister (Inhuman-owned) corporation. And that seems right in line as a basis for a half-season storyline here.
He was an incredibly boring villain and I’m glad he’s gone. I realyl hope he doesn’t come back.
Hunter essentially made Tripp redundant which is disappointing since Hunter is annoying and is only tolerable because of Bobbi.
I like Mac as the guy who is uncomfortable and kind of hostile toward their whole world of super science, super powers and aliens. I think they’ll be able to do some interesting stuff with him coming down from his “possession” I think it will flip the dynamic between him and Fitz.
Nice episode summary on io9: I Can't Stop Watching This Lovely Moment From The Last Agents of SHIELD
Covers many of the pluses and minuses about this episode and the show’s overall arc…including this about Whitehall:
I like Hunter. He has an appropriate attitude.
I’ll have to go back and look, but was the explosive really C-4? Because if it was, they weren’t going to do anything more than make a big noise. No tamping, no pre-cutting, no prep at all. That amount of C-4 would barely singe the paint in the hallway.
I’ve seen that speculation, but his appearance, as you say, doesn’t fit. The other guy has no eyes, not eyes that have been gouged out.
Was that supposed to be the end of Hydra? Maybe they’ll come back in green and yellow suit, for the benefits. Like Bob.
I’m still not sure if Marvel is using Inhumans to replace mutants, or if they’re simply building up the Inhumans and ignoring mutants.
It was funny last night after watching the ep I went digging around various comic wikis and all them were already updated with the Cal & Daisy info. Those guys are fast!
Hydra is far from gone. They just took out part of one cell, and not completely. After all Age of Ultron supposedly begins with an assault on Baron von Strucker’s stronghold.
Has everyone forgotten Garrett’s final scene from last season?
I never got the impression that Whitehall was the head of HYDRA. After all, someone decided he should be broken out of prison and given a lab.