To quote Kora: ‘You have to realize it by now, ” Agents of SHIELD viewers. Looking at all the time travel (and making “waves” vs. “ripples”) in this past season, was the timeline in which Coulson & Co. even the smallest continuity shared with the large-screen MCU “is long gone.” But that split, say at least two OG cast members, is a good thing.
At a press event in support of the two-hour finale of the series this Wednesday, August 12 at 9 / 8c on ABC, Natalia Cordova-Buckley – who participated in the cast midway through Season 3, as Agent Elena “Yo- Yo “Rodriguez – said how she” would love for the movies and our world to connect “more than they did when original cast member Ming-Na Wen jumped with a counterpoint.
‘Oh no, I was for it [first] season and no, uh-uh, no. Because it really, completely binds the writers ‘hands,’ recalls Agent Melinda May’s portrait. ‘They had to write and try and coordinate with the release of the film [Captain America: The Winter Soldier]… and it just bothered us. It hindered the writers, it hindered everyone from having the freedom to be our own entity. ”
Released in theaters on April 4, 2014, Winter soldier revealed that SHIELD was exaggerated with HYDRA sleepers agents, leading to the organization’s compromise. Four days later, the Agents of SHIELD episode “Turn, Turn, Turn” picked up that storyline right away – marking one of the first big tie-ins of the ABC series with the MCU, not long after Jaimie Alexander reprinted her role as the Thor films’ Lady Sif.
That movie-to-TV crossover is often mentioned as the moment that Agents of SHIELD handball really in high gear, after 16 episodes of ‘Water Surprise’, as Clark Gregg put it.
Agent Coulson’s MCU debut, in ‘Iron Man’ in 2008
“There has been a lot of stagnant water for a season, waiting to reveal what we did and how it went over,” Gregg observed at the Aug. 6 press event. ‘I think the way it’s gone overboard Winter Soldier, and the use of the great Bill Paxton [as HYDRA mole John Garrett], really paid, and the end of Season 1 ends really well. ”
A “It’s all connected” hand-off like Winter soldier/ “Turn, Turn, Turn” “serves to publish the features and certainly help in publishing the show,” Gregg admits, “but I liked when the focus [became], ‘What’s the best way to tell stories with these characters, using what pieces of the Marvel Universe are not already being talked about? ‘That really frees our writers to take chances – and take chances they did, every season. ”
Wen shared a similar POV, which was as fun as it could have been when the TV series bound in the blockbuster Marvel movies – which, all told, was not at all, and most noticeable was that the TV series the Thanos completely ignored “snap” that drove the story of the last two Avengers movies – Agents of SHIELD was the best at doing his own thing.
‘I think it was a glorious idea to have all this‘ connected ’, but in the end it was so great because it allowed our writers to just use their imagination and do things that they did with different characters may have different storylines, ”said Melinda May’s portrait. “But that first season was a bit bumpy, absolutely. It really had its problems…. There were all sorts of strange things we could not do or say. “But once the idea of continuity from film to TV was carefully put in the bag,” We found our own identity. “
