After the recent episode of S.H.I.E.L.D. it seems like they were biding their time until they could write the show that they really wanted to write. Apart from two episodes previous to this it now feels that they were written out of a sense of obligation rather than actually wanting to write that episode. It's like they were just setting things up for the show they actually wanted to do. Just how I feel about this before I didn't really feel like that. I thought it was a pretty decent series but then that episode happened and showed what they seemed to want to do from the start. It seems to me like the only episodes that weren't just obligatory set-up were the pilot and the bridge. The rest were either set-up or random action pieces.