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I'd given up on the show ages ago for reasons precisely related to the Hand stuff (OK, Hand turned out to be plotting to abandon Ward and Fitz, but putting malware on the network of your own organisation and stun-gunning someone you're working with just because your feelings were hurt is not morally acceptable behaviour for me), but the things I've read agree that Coulson's new SHIELD is going to be a rogue vigilante org.

As I said at the time, only in the weird political conventions of superhero comics, and their tormented efforts to suggest that individualistic vigilante power fantasy is somehow compatible with left-of-centre politics, could it be argued that a rogue vigilante organisation guided only by their own moral instincts is LESS scary than a technically government-controlled one.