Board Thread:Television/@comment-1713281-20131004113215/@comment-1895174-20131122024910

Structurally, it is literally a bait-and-switch. The first five minutes of the episode is an extended trailer for Thor: The Dark World, and the rest of the episode has nothing to do with it.

Bait an audience with Thor 2 stuff, then switch it out for an unrelated story.

It also doesn't help that it highlights one of the biggest, if not the biggest, problem with the show. It wants to be something important, something that is as much a part of the MCU as the movies are, but it can't help but be some insignificant background adventures. Here was their best chance to be more than that, and they threw it away.