Well, that'd be
one way to keep costs down for a season six - snap away half the cast! As much as I love all our regulars, I could see a season without May, Mack, or Fitz, with Piper promoted to full regular. I guess it makes the most sense to snap away Coulson himself, as he must have the biggest salary, but I'm not sure the show could survive without him, ratings-wise. Then again, if they billed it as a final season up front, they could sidestep that issue. Argh, I don't know how to play it! Either way, though, we'd still have at least
one Koenig left, right? Bring back L.T.!
Assuming time
does get reversed in
Infinity War Part II, a whole season six could theoretically get
Dallas-ed out of the timeline. Which would be crazy, but could also allow the writers to do basically whatever. Vampires! Sorcerers! Beliebers! Radical Wakandans taking over everything! It's possible, though, that the invetable raft of resurrections won't be accompanied by a permanent time reversal, and the snapped will be restored to the universe several months to a year after their mass disappearance, in which case that wouldn't quite apply.
... Of course, the
likeliest answer to all this is the producers have known from the start that the cliffhanger will force the cancellation of the show, that that was part of the equation when the show got its Disney-mandated fifth season (and thus 100-episode mark), and have been stringing us with talk of uncertainty all along, isn't it?!
