I'll start with what I didn't like. The standoff between Coulson and Fury against Garrett and Deathlok devolved into Buffy territory - and I immediately have to qualify that, since "Buffy territory" could be interpreted as a very good thing. But here I mean basically Coulson and Fury snark at Garrett with all the tenacity of petty highschoolers before Deathlok finally shoots Garrett. That just deflated Garrett entirely.
Or, rather, it finished deflating him, because we suddenly found out that Garrett wasn't "pure" HYDRA, that he was only in it to save himself. Okay, fair enough, this was hinted at previously, but it was still kind of grating to throw that in the last episode, all "Oh, by the way, I've got my own agenda now that's completely separate from what HYDRA's up to- oh grrkrrkrk now I'm dead."
Finally: two regulars (Fitz and Ward) are basically left hanging. Are they going to be in the main cast next year? Is Fitz brain-damaged? Is Ward going to get to do more than rot in prison? It's kind of aggravating that this sort of thing gets left wide open. (I mean, come on, when Adama got shot at the end of Season 1 of BSG, how many people thought that was really it for him? But he was the closest thing that show had to a main character...)
Now, on to what I did like. Ward. Ward, Ward, Ward. That moment where he tells Garrett he needs orders and Garrett's all "time for you to ask what you want." (He does have one line where he's fighting Melinda May that made me roll my eyes - oh, look, another Whedoney villain who's also prone to random misogyny. Quelle surprise.) Seriously, though, don't kill this guy off; find something interesting to do with him.
The rest of it was good, nothing in particular I feel I need to single out for praise or criticism.
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