Board Thread:Television/@comment-1713281-20131004113215/@comment-3317214-20140515015603

Which really isn't all that much, since we have no idea what any of that means. What is this alien corpse? Where did it come from? Why does SHIELD think they can bring people back from the dead with it? Did his revival via Kreesus Juice have any nasty side-affects on Coulson? Or on Skye? It almost turned Garrett into an Akira reference, so why wouldn't it?

Moreso than the Centipede conflict or any of the crap with Skye, the mystery behind Coulson's revival was the centerpiece of Season 1. To end the season without answering that is to end the season without telling the full story.

Exactly. What we've found out has just opened another set of questions, but we still know a heck of a lot more than we used to. And by setting up all of these other questions, of course they haven't told the full story yet. I'm okay with these threads continuing into the next season.

Not at all. Hydra was mentioned so sparingly prior to Episode 17 (two episodes. two.) that its existence barely even qualifies as a plot point. No one can really be expected to remember the WWII-era evil organization that hasn't been mentioned since Episode 2. What is Centipede? Hydra. What is Hydra? Watch the two Captain America movies. And if you have seen TWS, the reveal that Centipede is Hydra comes at no surprise.

You know what sucks? Required reading. Agents of SHIELD made the Cap movies required reading.

You don't need to have seen the Captain America films to understand what Hydra is though. They pretty much explain it on the show. Having seen the Captain America films gives you a much greater depth of understanding of what Hydra is, but it's not that necessary. All we really need to know is that they're an evil organisation that has been hiding within SHIELD, but we've been told more stuff on top of that.