![]() ![]() Like, no one on the show turned to ash after Thanos’s snap. By the last few seasons of “Agents of SHIELD,” the show stopped trying to figure out ways to tie into the movies. You alluded to the divide between Marvel Television and Marvel Studios. It will be very exciting when you see some of the people who directed some of these episodes. So I was really happy to see some of the people who had wanted that shot and really worked hard to get it and had shadowed on a lot of episodes were given shots. But there were people who were angling for that. There were a lot of people who really put in their time and were really ready to direct an episode. You directed two episodes in the past - did you direct an episode this season? There are some episodes that are tremendously fun, and others that are really scary and dark, and always with this mystery of these Chronicoms trying to undo parts of history. Everybody really pulled out all the stops and really made the most out of each of these time periods. We might explore the comic book tropes of those times, some of the cinematic tropes of those times, you know what I mean? You can’t go to the ’50s without feeling a little noir here and there. I wouldn’t be surprised if we didn’t also end up in the ’80s, and that might not even be all of the time periods. I think since we revealed there is the crossover with the wonderful “Agent Carter” show with the wonderful and classy Enver Gjokaj as Agent Sousa, I think we can say that, man, we get into some cool ’50s stuff. ![]() You wear a fedora quite well, but should we expect to stay in that era the run of the season? So it doesn’t surprise me that at some point, like, “Well, it’s what everyone thought all along, and now he finally is one.” The first episode jumps back to 1931. They ended up using all kinds of things: inhumans, time travel, Ghost Rider, all these things that nobody is using, and many times to great effect. ![]() So the showrunners, Jed and Mo and Jeff Bell, had to really scour parts of the Marvel universe that weren’t tied up with the incredibly elaborate plans of the cinematic. It was never going to be like, this week Tony Stark is here! Then there was the division between Marvel TV and Marvel Cinematic on a corporate level. You know, no one ever knew the show would go a 130-some episodes. So actually doing it in the final season feels like a fun wink. I went full nerd on you, didn’t I?! Since Coulson died in “The Avengers,” the assumption that almost everyone seemed to make when ABC announced “Agents of SHIELD” was that he was going to be a Life Model Decoy. I think someday when there is extremely advanced AI, it’ll be harder to really tell the difference between organic intelligence and that form of artificial intelligence. There’s other, much more advanced stuff going on. And he’s also not really the kind of typical LMD. He’s wrestling with some of the stuff that classic AI characters have dealt with in the past: What am I? What am I now, in his case. And even though I love Data, I didn’t want Phil Coulson to be Data, you know, the cyber being following them around doing fast math. He was really adamant that he didn’t want that. I internalize everything Coulson cares about whether I want to or not. What did you think of the decision to bring Coulson back as an LMD? ![]()
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