Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD: Let’s talk about that season 6 ending

Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD ended its sixth season last week with a pretty stellar cliffhanger. Now we wait for summer 2020. Let’s talk about that.

Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD knows how to end its seasons with solid cliffhangers.

Season 1 had Coulson becoming the new director of SHIELD and writing walls full of that alien text. Season 2 had Inhumans, Daisy’s Secret Warriors team, and Ward becoming the new head of HYDRA. Season 3 gave us the Quake moniker. Season 4 had the world quaked apart. And season 5 wrapped everything up in a neat little package.

Warning: Spoilers from the Season 6 finale of Agents of SHIELD ahead.

But Season 6 decided to really throw caution to the wind. In the last few minutes of the episode, we see our team arrive to revive a mostly-dead May and show Mack, Elena, and Daisy where they’ve landed, which is a New York City that’s still being built.

But that’s not all–Simmons introduces them to the SHIELD expert they’ll be working with to save the world from the Chronicoms: a Life Model Decoy version of Phil Coulson.

Honestly, it’s a great way to bring back Clark Gregg as the fan favorite character and not have it feel like a cop-out. Back when we didn’t know about Project TAHITI, everyone just assumed he was an LMD.

Well now he is!

Pushing LMD Coulson aside, there’s still plenty to unpack from the rest of the reveals.

Firstly, we have time travel. Daisy makes the comment about wanting a drink, but that’s not possible now, meaning the US is in the weeds with Prohibition. The team is somewhere between 1920 and 1933, so still pre-World War II and pre-SHIELD’s founding.

But that doesn’t mean SHIELD isn’t still working in some form.

Likewise, Simmons makes the comment at least twice that they “had time” to prepare, even though it seems that only five minutes have passed. That means that she, Fitz, Enoch, and anyone else outside of Daisy/Elena/Mack/May have been time traveling.

Simmons also seemed very wooden, although that could also just be when she needs to take complete control of things. Plus she had a new hairdo! Time definitely passed.

Honestly, who knows where season 7 will lead us. Was Coulson truly an LMD the entire run of the series and in every MCU film? Simmons did say he’s the most advanced LMD around.

Does traveling back in time to the fledgling days of SHIELD mean they’ll change enough of it so the information the Chronicoms have will be useless in their current future? Will we be trapped in yet another time loop?

There are so many possibilities. And with almost a full year to wait for new episodes, we have all the time in the world to theorize about what SHIELD’s final season will hold.

Agents of SHIELD will premiere its seventh and final season in Summer 2020.