Having one episode a month is gonna kill this show at this point. I barely remembered it was on after the month-long hiatus and now we get another month? Sheesh. I think they squandered too much momentum on the lackluster fall season.
Pretty sure at this point that Skye is the Clairvoyant and all of this is the result of some time travel plus an effort to awaken her powers either differently from what her original timeline had or in the same way to prevent a paradox.
It is a show Joss Whedon is associated with. Of course it has irregular programming.
I thought this episode had the pacing wrong. The flashbacks/time changes were too obvious and constant. Not to mention that in the preview after last show they spoiled the ending (knew who it was by knowing Coulson was the one saying "no no", so the person he was standing over was obvious halfway in). Never felt any tension or real question as to what was going on, which is often the point of doing episodes and movies featuring such flashbacks showing what happened at different times.
That said, I wouldn't mind another episode tomorrow and having to wait a month sucks. However, this show is sort of odd in that I'm not really looking forwards to what the team can do, but rather what can happen in the universe around them. Just having Coulson mention Asgard made me hopeful for future episodes, but not because of the TV-show characters, but because of the potential greatness actual superheroes can give an episode.
This would be great as an HBO production, where they would have the budget to give justice to the name of the show. Sure, it is about "SHIELD" and not the super heroes, but everyone cares about the superheroes, not SHIELD itself as an organization or the administrators behind it, which is pretty much what the team is. This episode showed how simple gruntmen completely shattered their team. Gruntmen with fancy tech, sure, but still... They need to tone down the things this team go after considerably compared to what you expect from a Marvel based universe. Unless Skye wakes up with abilities (guessing her abilities will be activated now) and can act as their buffer against actual super villains/people with power. Right now, this show is about the team that in a full movie production would be nothing but lore in the form of someone saying to an actual super hero "initial strike team entered location, got wiped out, we need you to go investigate".
Guessing they will have one large overarching thing per season, each season tying into a Marvel superhero movie that year.
