Agents of SHIELD season 5

Or maybe the show will get renewed because Once Upon a Time was canceled.

Eh, who knows? Certainly not us.

 

Once was still going?? That got too stupid even for me in season 4.

 

Bingo! That's when I bailed too.

As for AoS, I think it still has some life left in it. I think it's going to come down to the show's cost to produce vs income from advertising. Probably just breaking even at this point. This year, the story has been on the same sets for over 2/3 of the production. Talk about bottle shows!

 

Exactly. It's not like the Olympics just snuck up on anybody. You'd think the people whose job is to schedule would've been doing it long enough to look far enough out and plan for these type things.
We get it, the Olympics will steal viewers but that should've been accounted for already before your press release at seasons start.

 

They weren't expecting the show to do well, so they didn't care about sacrificing a couple of episodes when the scheduling was being done. From what I've read, Friday night live views plus dvr/digital 18-49 demo numbers, are equaling it's Tuesday night performance. So now, they wish to protect it from getting hit by the Games. Last minute change, that's all.

 

I think it has been a great show..but extremely violent...which is a shame...my almost 13 year had a great time asking Chloe Bennet a question at C2E2 2 years ago...I need to type this story...

 

Why would Once being canceled effect AoS?

 

...it was a joke (based on redistribution of finances).

 

Ah, OK. I just thought maybe there was some kind of connection between the two I wasn't aware of.

 

Different shows' fates affect each other all the time. After all, they're competing for shares of the network's finite supply of budget and time slots. Star Trek was bumped to a bad time slot in season 3 because the producer of Laugh-In refused to give up its slot. FOX cancelled Alien Nation because they wanted to expand their lineup to more nights and could produce four half-hour sitcoms for the same budget they spent on AN. And often, whether a show gets renewed or a pilot gets picked up depends on whether the network has anything else to replace it with. Increasingly these days, with so many different outlets for shows, the number of new shows available to a given outlet has diminished, which has made networks and other outlets slower to cancel the shows they have, since they have fewer options for replacing them.

So, yeah, I can see how the decision to end one Disney-made show on ABC could increase the survival odds of a different Disney-made show on ABC, because now both the studio and the network can redirect the resources from one into the other -- or may have more incentive to keep the other now that they've lost the one.

 

I think Coulson and his team are going to face multiple villains for the remaining half of this season.

The next several episodes will likely focus on the team contending with General Hale, who IMO is working for Ivanov and thus is a continuation of Season 4 with The Superior wanting to eliminate shield and the inhumans. Those cheesy masks the bad guys are wearing in the Ep11 trailer aren't standard military issue and look like attire the watchdogs would utilize. I think LMD Daisy shooting Talbot in the S4 finale was more than just making shield public enemy number one, but also to get Talbot out of the way to install Hale in his place. Hale’s either an LMD or is actually the real Hale who is in collusion with The Superior and the watchdogs and hates inhumans too.

I think the Kree and Kasius’s father won’t become a major part of the plot again until around the time of Infinity Wars late in the season. My guess is the Kree see an opportunity to invade and conquer Earth after Thanos causes a lot of collateral damage during Infinity Wars and possibly takes a toll on the Avengers too since it’s rumored not all the Avengers will make it out of Infinity Wars alive and it’s up to Coulson’s team to make sure the Kree’s plans for conquest aren’t successful.

Somewhere along the way the team will need to acquire gravitonium to provide artificial gravity to an upgraded, space-capable Zephyr, possibly to fend off a Kree invasion of Earth or even could have to do with the team’s attempt to save Coulson from dying since other timeline Yo Yo explicitly said that trying to save Coulson caused the chain of evens that lead to Earth's destruction. My guess is the team either finds Ian Quinn or, which I think could be likely, finds out the government confiscated the gravitonium from Quinn after the Cybertek debacle at the end of Season 1 and it’s being stored at Blue Raven Ridge, which shield has to break into yet again. I think Franklin Hall’s accidentally released from the gravitonium since no one’s aware that Hall’s still alive, becomes Graviton and leads to a standoff with Daisy that in the previous timeline has led to the destruction of Earth.

 

The Absorbing Man to return.

https://mcuexchange.com/absorbing-man-shield-season-5/

 

I'm more excited by the news that Patrick Warburton will be guest starring, even if it's yet another general. Plus, Agent Piper is returning!

 

There was an Avengers story where Creel absorbed the properties of the Cosmic Cube, known in the MCU as the Tesseract. Which brings up the question, could Creel absorb the properties of an MCU infinity infinity stone?

 

And how badly did that go for everyone?

 

^IIRC, Norman Osborn,'s Dark Avengers showed up and Sentry played ghost in the machine and defeated Creel. Or maybe Hank Pym tricked him into relinquishing the form.

 

I'm kind of surprised Warburton guest starring hasn't been big news. For me, that's a lot bigger deal that Absorbing Man returning.

 

TV Guide has an article (minor spoilers in it) about what the upcoming 100th episode will cover. not to mention a photo that is a spoiler about one character's fate: http://ew.com/tv/2018/02/16/agents-of-shield-100-episode/