Agents of SHIELD. Season 1 Discussion Thread

Nice idea, but it would probably be seen as imitating Person of Interest, so I doubt they'd go that route.

 

Could the Clairvoyant be the Mad Thinker?

 

Well we've had one episode dealing with anti-gravity and another dealing with multiple dimensions. I think AoS is slowly building up the crazy to reflect the fact the people's awareness of the wider universe is increasing. If the Supreme Intelligence is the big bad it won't feel like it came from nowhere.

The Kree are definitely showing up in the Guardians movie but that doesn't mean AoS can't drop hints until the big reveal.

 

I'm not sure what the policy is at Marvel TV but I think they are discouraged from using IP from other studios. That means no mutants, no Spidey stuff and no Fantastic Four. Plus the Mad Thinker uses robots and isn't subtle.

 

Both would be ripping off Isaac Asimov

 

But both as side effects of phenomena and events that were introduced in the movies. That's the point. Obviously I'm not saying that this isn't an SF series. I'm saying that for budgetary and demographic reasons, this is not the part of the MCU where they would introduce something cosmic like the Kree Supreme Intelligence. If they brought the Kree in, they would do it in a movie, and maybe AoS would do an episode dealing with some small-scale aftereffect of what happened in that movie.

The whole reason for branching the MCU out into multiple media "platforms" (sorry, can't think of a less jargony word at the moment) is for variety's sake. They're trying to broaden the franchise's appeal to multiple audiences. They've already hooked the comics audience and the blockbuster sci-fi movie audience; now they're trying to appeal to a different segment of the audience, the segment that watches spy/crime procedurals. The whole point of the show is to have a different focus than the movies, to be more of an "entry-level" series. It ties into the bigger, crazier stuff from the movies, but focuses on the ground-level effects that stuff has on ordinary people, because that's a better fit to TV budgets and TV storytelling styles.

 

Agents of SHIELD: 1x13 - "Seeds"

 

It was weird seeing that machine that was fixing Coulson's brain. If Asgardian technology can do that to humans, then what's stopping SHIELD from sharing the technology with the outside world and resurrecting people who have died unexpectedly?

 

In Ward's case, that must have been one talented child that SHIELD wanted to resurrect.

 

^ Valid points. I assumed it was Asgardian technology (and medicine) that brought Coulson back to life. It was still deemed unethical, at least from one of the doctors' point of view.

 

Maybe it was experimental. Something SHIELD got their hands on and didn't know what to expect of. They used Coulson because he signed the SHIELD equivalent of an organ donors card.

 

I wonder if classic SHIELD agents like Clay Quartermain will make an appearance.

 

Gabe Jones from the Howlers was in SHIELD.

 

Well, there's the Falcon, of course, but he's in The Winter Soldier. There's also G.W. Bridge. Not to mention Chinese-American agent Jimmy Woo. Wikipedia lists several agents with Japanese, Indian, Native American, or otherwise clearly non-European names, as well as a couple of Wakandan agents or advisors.

 

G. W. Bridge