As the writers on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. report back for duty to start work on the second season of the divisive ABC show, Clark Gregg has been speaking to IGN about what’s in store for Agent Phil Coulson when the show returns for its second run of episodes…
“What’s been clear to me is that the Agent Coulson who’s running this team post-Captain America: The Winter Soldier, post-Hydra, post-being killed and brought back to life with something in him he doesn’t understand… He’s a very different Coulson than the guy who everyone knew. A lot of people who knew him in the old days say, “He’s different.” I think you would have to be different having gone through that stuff. So I think he’s reinventing himself and re-understanding himself as a person anyway, which is probably really necessary to taking in the new environment and figuring out what SHIELD ought to be in a way that it doesn’t get rotten again.”
Gregg also went on to comment about ABC’s plan to split the season, with Agent Carter airing for eight episodes as Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. takes a midseason break: “I think it’s a great idea. I think in the present age of TV, nobody wants to go down two weeks here, three weeks there. I don’t like it. I don’t think our fans liked it. It didn’t let us keep the momentum going with the story. It’s been amazing to watch how much the show clicked into gear, first of all, after the events of Winter Soldier, but when we got to run 10 episodes without a break. You can download the season of so many shows on Netflix in one day — who wants to take a two-week pause? I don’t!”
Are you looking forward to the return of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and if you gave up on the show, are you willing to give it a second chance?
Originally published July 3, 2014. Updated April 12, 2018.
