Agents of Shield - Season 4

[The Nth Doctor]

Hopefully they have a plan to end the show in Season 5 if they can't get consistent support from ABC. It would suck if the show was cancelled without any kind of closure.

Honestly, I've been in the mindset ever since the last minute reprieve that the season 5 will be the final season anyways. Either way, I hope you're right and the show runners have something in place for the show to have proper closure if this indeed the final season.

That would be nice. I'd personally like to see Coulson in a movie again. Unlike what Joss Whedon seemed to think, even casual fans could easily accept Coulson showing up in a movie. A single line could do it. Hell, its as easy as

Tony: I thought you were dead.

Coulson: I got better.

At this point its not like the Avengers would break up because his inspirational death didn't stick, and we've seen such crazy stuff in the MCU that people probably wouldn't even bat an eye out of someone being alive, and if they cared at all its just an easy google away. If its just a cameo it wouldn't matter if some people didn't know he hadn't stayed dead.

I doubt this will happen, but it would be nice. An AOS cameo in Infinity War would be mind blowing.

I, too, hope this will happen but I'm not holding my breath.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

That would be nice. I'd personally like to see Coulson in a movie again. Unlike what Joss Whedon seemed to think, even casual fans could easily accept Coulson showing up in a movie. A single line could do it. Hell, its as easy as

Tony: I thought you were dead.

Coulson: I got better.

I thought of lampshading it the other way. Coulson steps out of the shadows and says "I'm not dead." Tony says "Of course you're not dead. Everyone knows that. I saw you on TV one time."

 

[Teelie]

That confirms a theory a lot of people have: Disney is what is keeping AoS alive, not ABC who is forced to do their masters bidding. I like Shield but I know it isn't a ratings winner and never will be. I just want them to give the series a proper send off, not leaving it in some open ended cliffhanger like so many series do.

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'nos]

Agents of Shield is the only "comic book" or "super hero" genre show I watch on TV. It had a slow start, but I feel like its one of the more under appreciated shows out there now. Great characters, great story, just plain great. I love it. Hearing this news, I am holding onto a tiny sliver of unsubstantiated hope that this means Disney has plans to tie season 5 of Shield into next year's MCU movies, possibly bringing Couslon back to the films. Why would Disney bother to go out of their way to hold onto Shield if there was no bigger plan for it?...was my first reaction, although that's probably all wishful thinking.

Here's hoping!

 

[Christopher]

Hearing this news, I am holding onto a tiny sliver of unsubstantiated hope that this means Disney has plans to tie season 5 of Shield into next year's MCU movies, possibly bringing Couslon back to the films. Why would Disney bother to go out of their way to hold onto Shield if there was no bigger plan for it?...was my first reaction, although that's probably all wishful thinking.

Because it makes them money. Remember, it's not Marvel Studios, the production company that the creative people work for, that made this call -- it's Disney, the megacorporation that owns Marvel Studios and ABC and a bunch of other production companies and studios, including the one it's named after. That corporation is run by businesspeople and their decisions are financial. AoS is valuable to them because it's an ongoing promotion for the Marvel movies. The plan is the same as it's always been, to use the show to sell more tickets for the movies. Disney's refusal to let the show be cancelled doesn't herald a change in that plan, it just means they want to continue having the show do what it's been doing for the past four years.

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'nos]

Well there goes that tiny balloon of movie Coulson hope, lol.

 

[Ethros]

I thought of lampshading it the other way. Coulson steps out of the shadows and says "I'm not dead." Tony says "Of course you're not dead. Everyone knows that. I saw you on TV one time."

Yeah I was thinking about that a while ago, wasn't Coulson all over the news in the last season as the new head of Shield or whatever? (I do watch AoS but sometimes it's just kinda on in the background sorta thing)
So the orginal Avengers would all know he was still alive, I think what Whedon meant was that they just probably weren't gonna cover it in a movie.

 

[Gaith]

Remember, it's not Marvel Studios, the production company that the creative people work for, that made this call -- it's Disney, the megacorporation that owns Marvel Studios and ABC and a bunch of other production companies and studios, including the one it's named after.

You mean Marvel Television, which produces AoS. Marvel Television is not a subsidiary of Marvel Studios, which has itself been a Disney company independent of Marvel Entertainment since 2015.

 

[Christopher]

You mean Marvel Television, which produces AoS. Marvel Television is not a subsidiary of Marvel Studios, which has itself been a Disney company independent of Marvel Entertainment since 2015.

I wasn't talking exclusively about AoS, I was addressing BHoQ's question about whether this meant that the people behind the MCU movies -- i.e. Marvel Studios -- had any plans to integrate with AoS. And of course Marvel Television was implicitly covered in my phrase "a bunch of other production companies and studios."

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Yeah I was thinking about that a while ago, wasn't Coulson all over the news in the last season as the new head of Shield or whatever? (I do watch AoS but sometimes it's just kinda on in the background sorta thing)

You're probably thinking of the VR world he was in. In the real world, he has been involved in key events and seemingly was on TV as well, but in the background, not the front.

 

[Star Wolf]

I think that the Framework archive with the last appearances of Trip and Ward was intended as the farewell tour and everybody was suprised by the fifth season. No doubt negotiations got underway in an attempt to get the rights to the SWORD name. Time will tell if the two could come to another agreement, assuming that Disney was willing to trade for a show on its last year

 

[Gaith]

I can see it now - in the series finale's final moments, Coulson as the first (only?) MCU character to break the fourth wall.

INT. DARK AIR FORCE CONFERENCE ROOM - NIGHT​

Talbot: Dammit, Phil, we've had our disagreements, but you and your team have done outstanding things for the country and world over the past few years. It's a shame so few people know about it all.

Coulson: (shrugs/smiles) I wouldn't worry. We'll find a home on one of those streaming services somewhere.
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[Enterprise is Great]

Natalia Cordova-Buckley Promoted to Series Regular in Season 5

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

Wow, she picked up that promotion faster than she picked up English last year. <rimshot>

She earned it in any case. Yo-Yo was great fun to watch develop last year.

Mark

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'nos]

It hadn't even occurred to me that she wasn't a series regular yet. I'm down with this, I love Yo-Yo!

 

[JD]

Yeah, this is great news. She's quickly become one of my favorite characters.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Fantastic news. I love Yo-Yo and I'm glad we're going tot see plenty more of her.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Her web series last season was really good and showed that her character can carry a story as well as any of the others.

 

[JD]

I still need to watch that sometime.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I, too, thought she was a regular. So this is good news that I didn't know I needed to hear.