favorite lines from this week's episode: Nick:"Don’t talk to me about authority. Do you know how much this plane costs? It’s got a bar, a really nice one. Talking to me about authority, you know I have the authority to downgrade your ass to a Winnebago"

Nick:Well, I want it fixed, just like you found it. So don’t have Fitz and Simmons going and making modifications… like a damn fish tank."

Coulson: “Yeah, we’re going to have to kill the fish tank.”

She the Calvary
May:"Don't every call me that"

I'm still not sure how to feel about this one. I want to love it, but it's playing hard to get.

There was a lot of "gee whiz" chit chat in episode 2 to pass the time to the twist, and the chemistry was not working for me. Ming Na is a bright spot.

Yeah, I agree.  Reminds me of what I thought when Castle first started.  It's not high art, but then not everything needs to be.  It's a perfectly amiable, pleasant way to spend an hour which I'm perfectly happy to stick with for the moment.

Review for episode 3 alot better than last week's episode because we get introduce to Dr. Franklin Hall just remember that name it my come up in the future. I rally like Skye in this episode  i am having trouble warming up to Ward i really like Agent may and It was a Great episode and at the end of the episode show we will see Dr. Hall or Graviton in the future.

Yup, same here. The show is falling into its groove.

Also, it got a full-season order today.

Well, slightly surprised that this thread seems to have died.  Woulda thought there would have been a bit more enthusiasm.  I've been avoiding any discussion for the last 10 months because I dropped out after episode 4 (mostly just on at a bad time and couldn't catch up), but I finally went back and watched the whole series. 

It definitely picks up, and on balance I liked it a fair amount, but even so Marvel-itis frustratingly rears its ugly head.  (There's a spoiler tag in the thread title, but since there aren't really any above, I'll be suitably oblique.)

There's a cataclysmic event which basically drives the plot of Captain America 2 and which has a huge impact on Agents of SHIELD.  The show builds up to it really well and it hits with a great deal of impact.  I was watching the episodes where it all comes to a head thinking "Man, if these two episodes were the finale of Season 1, I would just be living in front of my television until Season 2 started."  (Though there seems to have been a music clearance problem, as the second one is called "Turn Turn Turn" but the music that it features prominently at the beginning is "Don't Fear The Reaper".  I like it better with "Turn Turn Turn", but I'll forgive them if they use the Byrds' version of "Chimes of Freedom" sometime near the beginning of Season 2.) 

Unfortunately though, because Captain America 2 came out in March/April instead of May, that means all this happens about 3/4 of the way through the season, so they've got this five episode coda that they've got to sort of spin out.  They make a decent fist of it, to be fair, but then the actual season finale ends up being kind of anti-climactic.  The main immediate fallout more or less appears to have been tied up.  The 'cliffhanger' stuff about Skye just feels like small beer in comparison with what's gone before.  And the Coulson-related 'cliffhanger', which is the very last scene of the season, just reminded me of M Night Shyamalan, and not in a good way. 

I like Coulson's character a lot though, sort of like if Kermit The Frog was the leader of SEAL Team Six.  And in general the characters do change/develop a surprising amount during the season, and it all manages to stay just the right side of soap-opera-esque.  So I'm looking forward to Season 2, but I'm less psyched than I feel like I could have been, which is a little disappointing.

I'd be very surprised if they didn't know the plot of Captain America 2 before going in. Marvel Studios controls both of them, and the show is called "Agents of SHIELD." No way they would've left them scrambling. They want to keep tight control over their universe. Also, didn't this show go straight-to-series? I'm pretty sure they went in with a 22-episode order.