Haven’t watched the episode yet, hope to catch it tonight. In the meantime, feel free to post your thoughts.
Generally good episode with lame payoff. Lash was created just to save Daisy? He couldn’t just keep doing his anti-Hive power until Hive was actually dead, then put her in the quinjet?
I still hate Sparky.
The tie-in to the Civil War movie felt awfully forced too. Not worth spoiling the end of the movie to those who haven’t watched it yet, just to mention that the Sokovia Accords apply to Inhumans.
And yes, Mac’s now got the cross of doom. Since the gift and the explosion scene are so blatant, I’m now assuming that’s a misdirect, and someone else is going to die. Hopefully Sparky.
But he was able to put aside his glowering resentment, shift his focus into simmering resentment to accomplish the mission, and finish successfully with smug resentment toward everyone else. What’s next for the exciting spectrum of resentment for his character? I’m on the edge of my seat!
hopes Sparky bites it on the space episode
I’m getting seriously annoyed with the constant promos with the tag line “Who is going to die???” In other words, “we’re going to kill off an arbitrary character, maybe even one you like, for not other reason than in the hope you’ll keep on watching.”
With that said, pretty sure it won’t be Mack. My money’s on Sparky or the Colombian Flash. May’s probably safe, as there is a rich seam of angst to be mined next season over the loss of her husband. Fitz or Simmons seems highly doubtful.
Anyway, yeah, the explanation of Lash’s ‘purpose’ made no sense whatever of his previous behavior, but I still enjoyed it, and the look on Ward/Hive’s face, when the Quinjet opened up to reveal him on board.
I am getting my life to all the people on the internet pressed about Daisy right now. Drinking up all this salty goodness!
Also, I feel like I may be the only person watching this show who doesn’t hate Lincoln.
Er, what?
You may very well be. 
It’s clear to me that everyone on the show hates him too.
I thought this was supposed to be the two parter (was in the credits for failed experiments), but apparently not.
Declan
Hrm… Let me run that through my Middle-Aged WASP translation app for you (WARNING: Perfect translation not guaranteed. May be some grammatical/syntactical errors) 
:
“I find all of the wailing and gnashing of teeth that I read on the internet over how Daisy-centric the plots tend to be on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to be incredibly amusing. I would like to be able to filter all these people’s metaphorical ‘angry tears’ into a cup, and drink them.”
To be fair, I would not describe myself as a Lincoln ‘fan’, I just don’t hate him. I find him as unobjectionable as everyone else on the show. All the “Lincoln is boring/Lincoln is annoying/Lincoln is this, that, and a third” criticisms of him don’t resonate with me.
Or, as some people call it, English.
Thanks for taking the time.
Oh, snap!
I don’t hate him. I just find the relationship between him and Daisy to make no sense, so everything that hinges on that aspect is a blatant, ongoing plot hole. As Coulson’s whipping boy, everything makes sense. He’s a sad sack who doesn’t obey, ergo Coulson rags on him. Makes sense. And I’m cool with that. Granted, the times that he doesn’t obey are basically just excuses for the writers to reveal something that they wouldn’t be able to reveal unless someone did something stupid, but I sort of expect that sort of thing from the show, and I’d rather have one character acting like a dumbass for expository purposes - since that’s just the personality of his character - than having all of the characters acting like dumbasses as needed by the plot, despite it going against everything we know about their personality.
Was anyone else surprised at how quickly Mack healed? I thought Daisy had turned him into a Flat Stanley, and he even mentioned having cracked ribs, multiple stress fractures, broken fingers… and yet there he is in the Quinjet bay bear-hugging Sparky like nothing’s wrong.
They seem to be taking this “every inhuman has a purpose” thing too far. So his purpose was to save Daisy? Seriously? The designers of the Inhumans saw the future and knew this would happen?
Having him as a safety valve to kill Hive makes sense because they designed Hive, they can design an anti Hive but saying its purpose was to do a rescue in the future is dumb.
I think they meant for Lash to kill Hive, but Coulson used him to save Daisy. It makes sense if you think about it that way because previously Lash was an uncontrollable monster. He only saved Daisy because somehow Coulson convinced/made him do it. Otherwise, why not keep him around as a team member?
It’s like they go out of their way to make you hate Daisy. There was a million different ways that fight could have gone and every single one would have been better than stopping in the middle of the fight to carry her off to safety. I get that Lash couldn’t kill Hive so easily and that Daisy had to be saved, but they did it in the most idiotic way possible.
The next two episodes are the two-parter to end the season.
Lash wasn’t someone that could be reasoned with. I don’t think anyone convinced him of anything, although May did say that she got him on the plane. I just assumed they put the containment unit on the plane and opened it remotely but there’s no evidence of that.
Good episode, lots of good lines in the episode, many from Talbot/Coulson. I liked that they started thinking outside the box, and they kept the audience in the dark. The whole Lash storyline ended weakly, but at least it ended. One of the few storylines that had an actual ending. Showing him earlier in the episode felt like a Chekhov’s Gun, and sure enough it was.
I may need to watch it again for the lines. “Who names these anyway?”
Yyyyeeeaaaahhhhh. . . I think they broke a few hammers driving that silly predestination point through the viewers, the floorboards, and then the Earth’s crust and mantle.
Also, for fuck’s sake, I would have bet a few organs I couldn’t bear to part with that he was gonna die EXACTLY THAT WAY as soon as he stopped in enemy territory and tenderly carried dear Daisy to the Quinjet, exposing his back to all kinds of opportunities for attack. I remember when Wheden shows subverted expectations. Those were good times.
EDIT: I DID like how they showed Lash’s “heart attack” to be the way he removes Hive’s infections. Shows us why he’s been driven to do that, even if he himself didn’t know it before.
Interesting that they chose to introduce the MCU version of the Alpha Primitives into the story.
My prediction (based on nothing) for one of the post-crisis scenes in next week’s finale:
Daisy staring pensively at a pregnancy test. Bonus if Sparky is dead.