"Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." began as a spinoff TV series of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but recent events suggest the show may return the favor and help facilitate the introduction of the upcoming Marvel movie "Inhumans."
"S.H.I.E.L.D." ended its midseason finale with Skye (Chloe Bennet) exposed to the Terrigen Mist, which completed her Inhuman transformation, but also left Agent Tripp (B.J. Britt) dead. The change in Skye will have Director Coulson's (Clark Gregg) team asking a lot of questions.
"All along S.H.I.E.L.D. has kind of been about protecting people from what they don't know about, which often means people who are on the index -- people who have powers because they've been kind of mutated or given powers by technology or Hydra or various alien artifacts. Inhumans represents a different chapter," Gregg told ComicBookMovie.com. "At least in the comics, the Inhumans, they're a race of people who've been transformed... and that generates a lot of fear."
One thing that probably hasn't changed about Skye is her absolute disgust with former love interest, Grant Ward (Brett Dalton). She put three bullets in him before making the life-changing journey into the ancient city buried beneath the streets of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
"Skye shooting me three times in the chest kind of is her answer to, 'Is this going to work out?'" Dalton told Zap2It. "That seems to be a pretty definitive answer from her end. I think Ward needs to collect himself and see what the next step is."
Dalton expects his true intentions with Skye and what he really wants in his life to be revealed by the end of this season.
"I would certainly hope. We've followed this guy for 10 episodes now. The writers are really good at introducing something that makes you retrospectively look at the rest of the actions and all of the sudden you have an ah-ha moment," he said. "I hope that there's going to be some kind of twist where everything makes sense and comes into focus."
Last season, Marvel gave the show's writers a mandate to build toward the studio's movie "Captain America: The Winter Solider." The film's fallout resulted in major changes for "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," like the discovery of Ward working for the enemy Hydra, but the writing staff will have greater control over the "Inhumans" storyline before its movie premieres in 2018.
"I think the Inhumans is a big, cool part of the Marvel universe, a great story. And we'll set up something. We'll get to explore it. I'm glad they're entrusting us with it, and I think that they'll take what they're going to do with it, and it will connect. And yet, we'll have the freedom to kind of make our show be our show," Gregg told ComicBookMovie.com.
