Yeah, I'm guessing we'll need to see what they reveal of Natasha's backstory for the MCU in Winter Soldier, because right now I don't know. I HAD liked the thought of her not having any sort of help, even if it was just faster healing/slow aging, I liked her and Clint being the humans on the team.

As for May/Ward, you're not the only one, I've seen several people very happy with it, me personally I was just disappointed.

I DID like how it was handled (and this is far from the first cannon ship that's gone against a ship I prefer so not angry about it, just bummed).

But yes, I liked they were discreet, probably more to keep it from affecting the team than protocols and they were both completely on top of their reactions/actions during said ep, that pleased me a lot.

I had sort of hoped May and Coulson would sort of heal each other, though I agree that there is little emotional involvement with May/Ward, which is something else that shows how two adults can be adults and it not getting soap opera like.

I could have mis-seen the documents but I could have sworn there were pictures of a dead woman.

I don't know if Steve would be considered level 7. I think that's what we're going to get answers for too in Winter Soldier since Steve wasn't apart of SHIELD until recently.

I would like to know if Fitz Simmons know that others believed Coulson was dead, their clearance makes me believe they just knew they were being assigned to him, but again, that's jut a guess.

For Thor I was under the impression that if he does know now, it's post Thor 2 since he'd not been back on Earth at all. Unless he had Hemdal(sp!) take a look one of the nights he checked on Jane.