I'm still super curious to see where the show goes, now that SHIELD is dust. I said in the Cap thread that I think Fury will try to rebuild, so, who better to start with than your "right eye," and his most trusted allies?
The show for me has been fun from the start but its finally getting to that awesome level I had hoped for. I love that they're really working this in with the movies and with things that happened in Cap two this could get real fun real fast.
My guess is that we will learn that the reason Fury brought Coulson back to life, assigned him this detail with the plane/crew, was because Fury was already...
Winter Soldier Spoilers.
...suspicious of HYDRA's infiltration of SHIELD. He knew that the ONLY people within SHIELD he could trust 100% was Coulson and May, and letting them build a team from the ground up was a way of making a contingency plan for when **** goes south. May is reporting on Coulson's (and the team) status directly to Fury via the encrypted hardline. The show will continue to be called "Agents of SHIELD", because they are truly all that is left of SHIELD. Fury will work remotely with Coulson's team and use the team to root out HYDRA operatives where he can, until he feels the time is right to come back "on the grid".
I could be completely wrong on that speculation, but if not, I think AoS is really going to be a fun ride the rest of this season and next, if renewed.
My guess is that we will learn that the reason Fury brought Coulson back to life, assigned him this detail with the plane/crew, was because Fury was already...
Winter Soldier Spoilers.
...suspicious of HYDRA's infiltration of SHIELD. He knew that the ONLY people within SHIELD he could trust 100% was Coulson and May, and letting them build a team from the ground up was a way of making a contingency plan for when **** goes south. May is reporting on Coulson's (and the team) status directly to Fury via the encrypted hardline. The show will continue to be called "Agents of SHIELD", because they are truly all that is left of SHIELD. Fury will work remotely with Coulson's team and use the team to root out HYDRA operatives where he can, until he feels the time is right to come back "on the grid".
I could be completely wrong on that speculation, but if not, I think AoS is really going to be a fun ride the rest of this season and next, if renewed.
My guess is that we will learn that the reason Fury brought Coulson back to life, assigned him this detail with the plane/crew, was because Fury was already...
Winter Soldier Spoilers.
...suspicious of HYDRA's infiltration of SHIELD. He knew that the ONLY people within SHIELD he could trust 100% was Coulson and May, and letting them build a team from the ground up was a way of making a contingency plan for when **** goes south. May is reporting on Coulson's (and the team) status directly to Fury via the encrypted hardline. The show will continue to be called "Agents of SHIELD", because they are truly all that is left of SHIELD. Fury will work remotely with Coulson's team and use the team to root out HYDRA operatives where he can, until he feels the time is right to come back "on the grid".
I could be completely wrong on that speculation, but if not, I think AoS is really going to be a fun ride the rest of this season and next, if renewed.
So, does anyone have a screencap of The Leader appearing on one of the screens in the latest episode? I'd heard about it, but I didn't see it, myself, and I was wondering if anyone else did.
Just to add to what other people have already said, it would be a great tie-in to the MCU if AoS went down this route:
Zola is indeed the Clairvoyant and survives the missile strike. The AoS team is then tasked with hunting down the remaining Hydra agents which could feature Zola closer to his robotic form and maybe hint at Zemo or even make Zemo the main villain. The hunt continues into the following season and bridges the gap between TWS and AoU, when the Avengers take down Strucker.
Just to add to what other people have already said, it would be a great tie-in to the MCU if AoS went down this route:
Zola is indeed the Clairvoyant and survives the missile strike. The AoS team is then tasked with hunting down the remaining Hydra agents which could feature Zola closer to his robotic form and maybe hint at Zemo or even make Zemo the main villain. The hunt continues into the following season and bridges the gap between TWS and AoU, when the Avengers take down Strucker.
I hate wrapping everything in spoiler tags. but since i don't want my post deleted -
I suspect Zola evolves into Ultron in this continuity. I don't think AoS will touch this plot thread in any meaningful way, a reference in dialogue at most.
It was pretty cool they name-dropped Stephen Strange.
