That's right folks!!!!
But no confirmation on how he'll appear though.
I'd like something like Heroes, balancing the more realistic forces of SHIELD with the Marvel Heroes. Like a villain/hero of the week kind of deal, one episode would focus on Coulson/SHIELD Guy interacting with Thor and dealing with an Asgardian threat, and the next episode another, and have the "phenomenoal" heroes appear in cameos. And then just work it like Heroes Season 1 and let connect the storylines. Coulson doesn't have to be the main character, like Dexter, Monk, Sherlock, 24 or any other show with an "agent".
But don't do something like Smallville and try to inject Thanos/Firelord/Abomination/Hulk/Sentinels/or any other heavy-hitter into the plot. Keep it below city-level, at least for Season 1.
If there's going to be a Hulk episode, and I can't believe I'm saying this... but I want it to focus on Bruce Banner and not Hulk, or maybe at the end have a hint of Hulk. But the show's about SHIELD, so they have to find a way to contain the Hulk - that's Bruce Banner. No need blowing money on an awful televised CGI version of Hulk.
But... if they're going for more of a "hardcore secret agent" show then who am I to tell'm otherwise?
I found what may be a picture of a model
of a design for the Vision.
The pilot, maybe the first couple episodes (or even first season), will take place before Coulson's death. That's my guess anyway. But I don't think they'll do that forever, and they'll want to keep up with the current events of the MCU, and so Clark Gregg will leave the show.
The last hurrah? Nah, I'd do it again.![]()
Coulson is the biggest name character in the show and a major selling point. They aren't going to use him for a short bit than kill him off.
Word of God says Fury lied and he's alive.
"War without fire is like sausages without mustard." - Jean Juvénal des UrsinsI saw a high school friend at work a couple weeks ago wearing a shirt that said "Fury Lies, Coulson Lives." It's high up there on my "awesome shirts" list.
Fresh-eyed movie blogHe actually was shown dying. We watch Coulson take his last breaths. How much more "shown dying" do you need than that?
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.People usually don't pass out with their eyes open. We also hear him stop breathing; his breaths are very heavy up until the point he stops talking, and then abruptly end.
So, he stops talking, his eyes are still open, and his breathing ceases. How much explicit does the death scene need to be?
edited 3rd Dec '12 4:49:39 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.![]()
![]()
Nobody is saying he wasn't mortally wounded. What we are pointing out is that, the very moment Coulson passed out is also when the trauma team arrived. . . who we heard Fury tell off *only over the radio*. Coulson clearly hadn't been insta-killed via heart of spine damage, so its entirely possible that *even if he were flatlining at that moment*, he could have been saved ( especially since SHIELD clearly has better tech than real world, its hardly a stretch to think this includes better trauma medicine ).
Could have, maybe. The door is open that, if they want to bring him back, there's just enough leverage to do it.
But that doesn't change the fact that he had a clear and established death scene, was explicitly shown dying, and yet it's being taken as fact that Coulson's alive and going to return in post-Avengers stories. He's turning into Elvis.
Until shown otherwise, Coulson is dead. The attitude of "Coulson is alive until we get an explicit death scene" ignores the fact that we got an explicit death scene.
edited 5th Dec '12 9:37:55 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.
More like "Coulson is not definitively dead when the movie he died in, itself called into question the factuality of his death." Its not like Avengers was subtle about "Fury lies, and he specifically and definitely lied about Coulson's death at least in part."

Well, if he has done some stuff for firefly, that's a good start...
You lost!