Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

I imagine there are some very confused people living around that sign going "Oh, THAT'S what that was!" now.

Here's a promo/teaser for Season 2 which aired on TV last night!

Skye's looking good.

edited 31st Aug '14 7:24:58 PM by higherbrainpattern

Where the hell is Stark, Coulson?

Hrh-hrm.

Ward's grown his redemption arc beard.

Ward's lookin gooood. I'm not usually a beard guy, but that handsome son of a bitch pulls it off.

edited 31st Aug '14 9:26:43 PM by kalel94

So now instead of Warehouse 13, it's The Shadow?

And I still want to put Ward into a very deep hole.

—R.J.

Everyone in that looks so awesome. Skye! Trip! May kicking a guy in the head!

Much bigger fan of the latter. On the other hand this feels more like The A-Team done right.

At Dragoncon they had a panel about Agents season 1, and discussed assorted things, including season 2 spoilers and some trivia regarding S1. The rest was varying degrees of "meh" to me.

Now, I have no idea how trustworthy the presenter in question (some fan, forget his name and the panel guide doesn't help, but very explicitly not connected to MCU production in any way), but here's some of the stuff he mentioned, going by notes I took during the panel (didn't get it all, I suck at virtual keyboarding with a stylus ).

Trivia (no spoilers):

• Nick Brendon (Xander from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) auditioned for the role of Mike Peterson.
• "FZZT" was originally to be called "The Sandwich Incident". No one at the panel got the reference either.

And on to the stuff that was supposedly S2 spoiler material. I think some of this has been mentioned previously in this thread or the MCU threads, so if apologies in advance if I don't catch the duplication.

• Hawkeye's ex- Mockingbird is going to show up as an associate of Coulson and SHIELD, played by Adrianne Paliki.(wiki)
• Lance Hunter of STRIKE is going to show up, played by Nick Blood. (wiki)
• Glenn Talbot will return.
• Absorbing Man is the season premier villain, played by Brian Patrick Wade. (wiki)
• Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie is going to show up as a SHIELD mechanic working with Team Coulson. (wiki)
• The Kracken is to be the season Big Bad, played by Reed Diamond. (wiki)
• Deathlok is likely to return later in the season.
• Lucy Lawless is supposed to show up early-ish in the season, but I didn't catch her role.

Now, some of this seems to have made it to the MCU wiki, and will be marked accordingly, but as that wiki is a fan work using it as a source is definitely a "take your reputation into your own hands" move.

And in case it wasn't obvious, I am not claiming that the above is 100% accurate. This is just what was said by a person of unknown accuracy.

edited 1st Sep '14 11:32:24 PM by Nohbody

Most of that has been mentioned in the past. The stuff about Mockingbird showing up isn't a spoiler.

So... by Kraken do they mean this or this? I'm guessing the latter, which means our big bads for the season are once again apparently going to be some sort of HYDRA cell.

edited 2nd Sep '14 7:38:28 PM by KnownUnknown

Both links go to the same place.

Assume the second should be this... though he IS a legendary HYDRA agent. Could be intentional misdirection.

[[EDIT]] Re-reading, I may have accused Known Unknown of being a legendary HYDRA agent...

edited 3rd Sep '14 6:17:04 AM by Anteres

Anteres knows too much. He must be taken out of the picture.

Hail Hydra.

Spoilers for Episode 2.01 "Shadows."

Peggy Carter will appear in the Season premiere.

edited 8th Sep '14 11:22:07 AM by Halberdier17

So, this starts up again on the 23rd as I understand.

I wonder when Ward will die? He's got nowhere to go really, and the Fandom has either turned on him, or hates him even more than previously.

I'm guessing they're going to go recurring antagonist with him, so probably not for a while. If they were going to just off him, they would have done so last season.

edited 8th Sep '14 1:32:56 PM by kalel94

Oh my god that hair looks so fucking beautiful.

I presume that this will be a flashback? Could be something of a preview for Agent Carter.

He has a beard now, right? That'll probably earn him some points.

edited 8th Sep '14 4:41:34 PM by KarkatTheDalek

There are a remarkable number of people who love Ward still.

I saw that beard.

It's pretty nice.

I think, that if Ward HAD to have a redemption arc I would prefer it to happen with completely different characters. But obviously the show wouldn't work like that considering the format.

Honestly, I want Ward to remain a bad guy for hire type for a few seasons that occasionally clashes or aids the team depending on his employer.

I'm #teamward.

Keep Ward aliv

Repsot this if u care. :'(

No no no, it's "#stand with ward" and you have to mention how important it is that he was abused and never had a support network and is going to be redeemed... without gaining a support network? Maybe? Maybe not? Oh, whatever.

I was actually talking about Cloe's hair, but that beard is something every man has to aspire to have.