My biggest concern surrounding this episode are two moments that are just terrible, for distinct reasons: Rhodes using footage of "Fury" killing Maria Hill two episodes in a row and the "man is bad" trope that has been recurrent in Marvel recently.
It is not hard to consider the first issue as bad writing, in the last episode we were already told by Rhodes that he had footage of "Fury" killing Maria Hill and in today's episode we see Rhodes using that same leverage again? Fury knows about that, so why did he act like Rhodes got nothing on him, so only we are shown the evidence again, for (at least) the third time? Or do they think the audience is ignorant?
As for the second issue, we have Sonya capturing two Skrulls, following one of them threatens to kill the scientist Skrull, then Sonya implies that the "male" Skrull is going to kill the "female" Skrull because that's what males do. This whole "man is bad" thing has been recurrent in Marvel's productions in these recent years, sometimes it seems like they go out of their way to write a scene like this. However, this very same series in the last episode is a huge criticism to this thing: how does Sonya know that Skrull is even a male? We know for a fact from the last episode that Rhodes, despite being a human male, is actually a female Skrull, so did Sonya just assume that Skrulls gender for how they look? Wow...
It is not hard to consider the first issue as bad writing, in the last episode we were already told by Rhodes that he had footage of "Fury" killing Maria Hill and in today's episode we see Rhodes using that same leverage again? Fury knows about that, so why did he act like Rhodes got nothing on him, so only we are shown the evidence again, for (at least) the third time? Or do they think the audience is ignorant?
As for the second issue, we have Sonya capturing two Skrulls, following one of them threatens to kill the scientist Skrull, then Sonya implies that the "male" Skrull is going to kill the "female" Skrull because that's what males do. This whole "man is bad" thing has been recurrent in Marvel's productions in these recent years, sometimes it seems like they go out of their way to write a scene like this. However, this very same series in the last episode is a huge criticism to this thing: how does Sonya know that Skrull is even a male? We know for a fact from the last episode that Rhodes, despite being a human male, is actually a female Skrull, so did Sonya just assume that Skrulls gender for how they look? Wow...