Yes, from Trip's discovery of the many Koenigs, to Ward's taking of Skye during the battle over the Kree city, we've seen the interior of the Bus this season.
Agents of SHIELD - Season 2 Discussion Threads. (Spoilers Likely)
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Hasn't there been a hiatus or two since the season began?
That's when sets are ripped apart and replaced, when the actors are away.
That's when sets are ripped apart and replaced, when the actors are away.
Production on the series is not (always) halted due to the network giving a it a split season. And the Bus' sets wouldn't be struck due to the addition of the base's sets, as most of the base sets appeared in the second half of the last season. The space allocated for them, appears not to infringe on the space needed for episode specific sets creation/building. 
True. Since production schedules these days generally run 8-10 days per episode, midseason hiatuses are necessary to let the production catch up.
And the Bus' sets wouldn't be struck due to the addition of the base's sets, as most of the base sets appeared in the second half of the last season. The space allocated for them, appears not to infringe on the space needed for episode specific sets creation/building.
Also, it's possible that some of the sets are wild and can be taken down or put back up as needed. The vibranium cell on the Bus looks like the kind of set that can be easily assembled inside a larger set.
This was what threw me. It seemed so contradictory to the present day conversation between Gonzales and Coulson after they took out Coulson's team.
Gonzales was originally a gung-ho follower of Nick Fury's orders. He had to be "outvoted" by Bobbi and the rest, convinced that they were going to take SHIELD a new direction.
Flash to the scene where Gonzales was talking to a handcuffed Coulson. Gonzales is treating Coulson like he's gone off the reservation, like Coulson used to be a loyal SHIELD agent and used to follow Fury's orders and direction but now couldn't be trusted. Meanwhile, Gonzales is acting like he is being loyal to SHIELD's original purpose and like he's remaining faithful to Fury's orders.
So, either he's lying to himself, lying to Coulson or he's contradicting himself. If Gonzales was that loyal to Fury and had to be convinced by others to go a different direction, then why is he such a true believer now, acting like this is how he always was - a man that feels Fury was wrong to keep such secrets and that Fury had gone off the deep end?
It would seem that Gonzales would show more sympathy for Coulson, since Gonzales was once Coulson.
Or I am missing something.
Nick Fury (Unless he's much older than he looks) was not the First Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Different managerial philosophies create a different S.H.I.E.L.D..
Were the 50 years worth of Directors before Fury less underhandedly secretive?
Different managerial philosophies create a different S.H.I.E.L.D..
Were the 50 years worth of Directors before Fury less underhandedly secretive?
Pierce mentions Fury's past work as Deputy Chief of the S.H.I.E.L.D. station in Bogota. We know he later asked Pierce to sit on the World Security Council.
Plus we know that Phillips, Carter and Stark started SHIELD.
Gonzales doesn't trust Coulson because Fury infused him with alien stuff to save his life. He thinks that Coulson might have an alien agenda as a result. He also thinks that Fury must not be thinking straight to even experiment like that. After the battle in New York, it is obvious that some aliens are hugely dangerous, so it isn't that Gonzales is being that unreasonable. Both sides have pretty good reasons to feel the way they do, which makes it more interesting to see how this is going to shake out. Will they be able to work together one day or will one faction have to disappear?
Fury ordered the death of the 6000 strong crew of the Iliad.
1. It was an unnecessary order because the Iliad's crew was winning the fight to reclaim the ship.
2. It was an immoral order because the lives of all the S.H.I.E.L.D. Officer's aboard the Iliad were sacred.
3. It was only a necessary order, the murder of 6 thousand crew, because Fury had a scarily immoral/illegal dangerous payload on board that shouldn't have been there if it meant that the crew was ignorant that they were pivoting between suicide and murder to protect it.
1. It was an unnecessary order because the Iliad's crew was winning the fight to reclaim the ship.
2. It was an immoral order because the lives of all the S.H.I.E.L.D. Officer's aboard the Iliad were sacred.
3. It was only a necessary order, the murder of 6 thousand crew, because Fury had a scarily immoral/illegal dangerous payload on board that shouldn't have been there if it meant that the crew was ignorant that they were pivoting between suicide and murder to protect it.
I wonder how Fury could have ordered the destruction of the Iliad on the day SHIELD fell, given that Fury was believed dead at least three days before the Hydra reveal? Gonzalez indicated that he still believed Fury was dead, implying that Bobbi couldn't have received her orders live.
Perhaps she was given the order to sink the Iliad as a contingency order from Fury, an "In the Event of..." type order?
Perhaps she was given the order to sink the Iliad as a contingency order from Fury, an "In the Event of..." type order?
Possibly, but it seemed too specific to be just a character flourish. I have a feeling something important happened during that little hiatus.
Also possible. Though one would hope anything along the lines of "recruited by Hydra" is out of the question. Aside from making no sense, they've already pulled that trick doing it again would be very lazy and trite at this point. Doubly so for Simmons.
Everyone who saw him at the Triskelion aside from Romanoff and Wilson is dead. Unless Bobbi was part of Fury's inner cell with Maria Hill, I doubt she knows. Indeed, nothing she's said or done makes me think such is the case.
No but whatever it was it'd have to be bloody nasty to be worth scuttling a ship full of people to keep it out of enemy hands. Fury may be ruthless, but not *that* ruthless, lest we forget this is the man who shot down one of his own planes trying to stop the WSC nuking New York. There's a limit to how much collateral damage he can live with.
The Abomination or the Destroyer are still my best guesses. There's nothing else we've seen so far that can compare *and* potentially be in SHIELD's possession. Of course it could be some other MacGuffin from the comics we just haven't seen in the MCU yet.
Either way, it's a fair bet they still have it aboard and it'll come into play at some point. Maybe even the season finale stinger scene.
The Destroyer was reverse engineered into the gun that Coulson shot Loki with in the Avengers. It's unlikely that the cargo is either the Destroyer or The Abomination, a TV show's CGI budget couldn't handle them. It's something that could sunk or destroyed with the ship.
<<No but whatever it was it'd have to be bloody nasty to be worth scuttling a ship full of people to keep it out of enemy hands. Fury may be ruthless, but not *that* ruthless, lest we forget this is the man who shot down one of his own planes trying to stop the WSC nuking New York. There's a limit to how much collateral damage he can live with.>>
I think the big difference is saving millions of innocent lives versus saving thousands of soldiers. Also, they were working off pre-made orders from Fury weren't they? He didn't know the situation in real time or that they were taking the ship back.
<<The Abomination or the Destroyer are still my best guesses. There's nothing else we've seen so far that can compare *and* potentially be in SHIELD's possession. Of course it could be some other MacGuffin from the comics we just haven't seen in the MCU yet.>>
That would be awesome! I hadn't thought of that.
The obvious answer would be the Hydra-based weaponry he was developing in the Avengers movie.
I think the big difference is saving millions of innocent lives versus saving thousands of soldiers. Also, they were working off pre-made orders from Fury weren't they? He didn't know the situation in real time or that they were taking the ship back.
<<The Abomination or the Destroyer are still my best guesses. There's nothing else we've seen so far that can compare *and* potentially be in SHIELD's possession. Of course it could be some other MacGuffin from the comics we just haven't seen in the MCU yet.>>
That would be awesome! I hadn't thought of that.
The obvious answer would be the Hydra-based weaponry he was developing in the Avengers movie.
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