Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD wrapped up its fifth season in a neat little package and was renewed for another season. We have a wish list of what we want!
Last week’s season 5 finale of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD really put a final feeling in your hearts. The writers talked about how they wrote the finale as a series finale in case the what-appeared-to-be-inevitable happened.
And then Agents of SHIELD was renewed for a sixth, slightly shorter season, to air in summer 2019.
That feeling of finality from the episode feels a little odd now that we’re getting more adventures with our SHIELD compatriots. Still, we’ll take all the action and adventure we can get. We’ve spent five years with these people.
We’ll take another year, even if we have to wait over a year for its premiere.
So while we wait patiently, here are five things we’re hoping Agents of SHIELD does in its sixth season.
Find Frozen Fitz
Fitz’s death in the finale hurt. It was so surprising, so unexpected, that both my husband and I started crying (as he was our favorite).
It didn’t even register that there’s another Fitz floating around frozen in a time capsule in space. He’s a Fitz from a different time loop, with less baggage. The finale made it clear that Simmons would start searching for him to bring him home. There’s no apocalyptic future for him to arrive to, so why not come back to the present?
Start the search in the first episode and have it as a sub-plot for a few more. Obviously it’s going to be hard to find something tiny in the infinite abyss of space. It needs to take more than one episode to find their missing member.
And it will be a fun experience to watch Fitz get up to speed on everything he’s missed. And the fact that he’s not stuck in a time loop!
More Outer Space Adventures
As Daisy says to Coulson before he leaves, “Thanks for the spaceship.” So let me put it very succinctly:
SHIELD HAS A SPACESHIP! THEY NEED TO USE IT!
Agents of SHIELD’s best episodes have come on different planets. There is no reason they can’t start exploring space, new threats that may come to Earth. And there’s no reason other than budget that they can’t bump into the Guardians of the Galaxy (I mean…there’s one very big reason, but you know what I mean).
I digress. There’s no reason SHIELD couldn’t go hard-core sci-fi for its sixth season and blow us all out of the water. Imagine all of Mack’s one-liners in response to new alien species!
Show that Thanos Snap
Look, it was heartbreaking to watch half of our heroes dissolve on the big screen in front of our eyes. And it would hurt to watch it happen to our SHIELD friends, too.
But it’s also a little disappointing that SHIELD ended on such a happy note, because that Thanos snap is going to happen about six minutes after they leave Coulson in Tahiti.
I have the strangest feeling that SHIELD will just skip over the whole thing, since it’s airing after both Captain Marvel and Avengers 4. But airing after the fact means they’ll know what happens. They can show the chaotic destruction in one episode and show the resolution in the next.
Plus you can’t really name-drop Thanos and then not show anything regarding it.
If you bring back Coulson, do it in a good way
Don’t just have the other characters show up in Tahiti six months after season 5’s ending and find Coulson still alive, because that will feel like a cop-out and horribly cheap. Coulson is a beloved character who chooses his own ending. The show shouldn’t cheapen it by having him somehow miraculously alive months or even years after his expiration date. Or have them show up with a cure to bring him back.
No, if Clark Gregg returns as Phil Coulson, it should only be a one-episode thing. And do something like time travel. Have the SHIELD team exploring space and travel through a wormhole that sends them back to the early 2010s to get an Agent Coulson in his prime. He’s the key to finding their way back to the present. Or something.
Just… don’t bring him back because you feel like he needs to be back.
Bring back Bobbi and Hunter!
Okay, I know I have brought this up every single day since Marvel’s Most Wanted was canceled. But I don’t care. Bobbi and Hunter were a fun part of the show. Hunter’s one-episode return to help rescue Fitz in season 5 was a breath of fresh air.
It was so nice to see a familiar face.
And if SHIELD is trying to be a legitimate agency again, they’ll need all the help they can get. It doesn’t matter what rules Bobbi and Hunter broke way back in season 3. SHIELD has had so many iterations since then that it feels stupid to keep them away for something that doesn’t even matter anymore.
Plus, Bobbi and Hunter are probably in the market for a new yet familiar opportunity. Why not try to re-recruit them? Especially now that Mack is Director?
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The possibilities are endless for Agents of SHIELD’s sixth season. With more than a year until its premiere, we have all the time in the world to dream up the possibilities.