Clark Gregg and other members of the cast of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. hint that the show is about to kick into high gear and find its place in the greater Marvel Universe.
In new interviews from the Television Critics Association, several members of the cast of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. promise higher stakes and more intense story lines as the freshman show powers through the second half of the season.
Speaking to Access Hollywood, Clark Gregg (Agent Coulson) was confident that em>Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was about to firmly find it’s place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
“The first ten-twelve episodes of our show were very much about establishing the S.H.I.E.L.D. world,” Gregg said. Now that the day-to-day lives of Team Coulson have been established, “the bigger conspiracy that we’ve set up – Centipede, this Clairvoyant – and the ways that that connects to the bigger Marvel Universe” can be explored in greater depth.
“The back half of the season is gonna blow some minds,” Gregg promised with a grin.
Gregg also spoke about specific plot lines on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., such as Stan Lee’s upcoming cameo – “Perhaps my favorite cameo he’s ever done,” he said – and Jaimie Alexander’s upcoming appearance. “[Lady Sif is] very much an obedient warrior,” Gregg said. “So if she comes to Earth, you’ve gotta suppose there’s a good reason, and something amiss… that needs to be rectified.”
Also at the TCAs, actresses Chloe Bennet (Skye) and Elizabeth Henstridge (Agent Simmons) teased that fans may not know all they think they know about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..
“Everyone’s like, ‘You found out all these answers,'” Bennet said about her character’s recently-revealed history. “I was like, ‘Actually I found that now there’s more unknown… there’s way more unknown than we even thought.”
And just like Skye’s mystery contains dangling threads, the question of Agent Coulson’s survival does as well. “We found out what Tahiti was – or lack thereof – but we didn’t know why. Why is it a huge secret?” Bennet said. “Basically starting [episode 13], it’s bam-bam-bam-bam-bam from here on, so it will be a lot of answers and a lot of drama.”
Elizabeth Henstridge agrees. “The thing about the next few episodes that we’re about to film and that are about to be shown,” she told Zap2It, is that “it starts getting very serious and the tone goes a lot darker. There’s less kind of comedic things for us to do. The stakes just go through the roof… things start to get very scary.”
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will return on Tuesday, Feb. 4 at 8:00 p.m. with episode 13, titled “T.R.A.C.K.S.”
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