AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 1 Looks to Explore Coulson's Resurrection and Mysteries Surrounding it

Marvel fans everywhere are getting excited as the premiere of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD gets closer on ABC. What's not to love about getting a weekly fix of Marvel?

It's already known that Agent Coulson's demise at the hands of Loki in The Avengers will be explained, along with his resurrection. Now, more details are available about Agents of SHIELD's first season.

According to Entertainment Weekly (via Screen Rant), it sounds like season one will explore more than how Agent Phil Coulson is back from the dead. In fact, it's being reported that Coulson himself doesn't even really know what happened to him. This all seems like an ongoing, weekly story line that will conclude with the reveal of how everything went down, probably in the season finale. (It's safe to say Nick Fury probably has a lot to do with it.)

EW also reports that the pilot will only hint at reasons to Coulson's rise from the ashes of death. The following are five points revealed in EW's Comic-Con Preview issue article on Agents of SHIELD and there are some SPOILERS too. If you don't want to know anything about the new Marvel television series, stop reading now.


  1. The pilot hints at how mild-mannered kick-ass bureaucrat Agent Coulson (Clarke Gregg) was resurrected to lead the team after being killed off in The Avengers (his S.H.I.E.L.D. colleagues say he must “never know the truth” about his death). Yet you’ll have to keep watching to learn the full story. “We can’t wait to pull the curtain back on that,” says co-creator Jed Whedon. “[But] we’re going to take our time.”
  2. The S.H.I.E.L.D. story will work in tandem with the Marvel films, both past and upcoming. In fact, the first episode will pick up a storyline that’s familiar from one of the Marvel hits — and it’s not The Avengers. “We plan on trying to weave in between the films and try to make them more rewarding on both ends,” says Jed Whedon, who points out the trick is to make the audience not ask a certain fanboy-bar-fight-style question: “In any of these [episodes], you can always ask: ‘Why don’t they just call Iron Man?’” Yeah, that would be annoying! So our next question is: Why don’t they just call Iron Man? “They are aware of each other,” Whedon says of the S.H.I.E.L.D. team and the metal-suited Malibu playboy, “but they do have to have their own lives.”
  3. Here’s a question from the Internets that will be addressed in the pilot: Does J. August Richards play Rage? Expect that and other revelations at the Comic-Con panel, just not a ton of them. “We’ll finally be able to answer some questions,” says co-creator Maurissa Tancharoen. “Though I’m sure we’ll have to stay on the vague end of the spectrum.”
  4. Which leads us to wonder: The panel is from 1:45 to 3 p.m. on Friday. Hard to imagine the Q&A going on that long — how many ways can Whedon say, “I can’t tell you that. Stop asking!” So expect some video to fill the time. Perhaps even … the pilot itself? Announced guests currently include Joss Whedon, Marvel’s head of TV Jeph Loeb and “more guests” (presumably writers and a few cast members). And speaking of the pilot…
  5. S.H.I.E.L.D. won’t look like a $200 million dollar Marvel movie, but it won’t look like the infamous boat scene in Ringer, either. “When fans see this pilot, they’ll be pretty astonished by what we pulled off and the challenge is to do it every week,” Loeb says. “The magic of television is that it’s about characters, and fortunately that’s also what Marvel is also about. We’re not built around a cape and a cowl.” Oh if this blog were a comic book, you’d see a“SMACK!” on the page right now.
Hopefully Marvel reveals an actual premiere date for Agents of SHIELD during its 2013 San Diego Comic-Con panel because this show is bound to be a huge success... in theory.




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