‘Agents of SHIELD’ season 2 spoilers: Don’t expect huge changes after ‘Age of Ultron’

In some ways, the big “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” twist on “Agents of SHIELD” last season was both awesome and maddening. It was crazy to see just how much the show was able to tie into the movie, and how the events there led to such a seismic shift.

So can you expect the same thing to happen this year with “The Avengers: Age of Ultron”? We’ve speculated that it is probable, mostly because this is such a big movie, and also at the same time because of the precedent. There is clearly going to be enough happening in this show to change the world for Coulson and company.

However, it turns out that there are both logistic and creative reasons why the show is not planning to completely flip the script this time around, and stick mostly to its own story. Speaking on the subject to The Hollywood Reporter, executive producer Jeffrey Bell explained what is the plan:

“Winter Soldier happened between episodes 16 and 17 last season, which allowed six more episodes, which was kind of its own separate arc. Last year was such a nuclear option on our show where SHIELD was blown up, revealed to be run by Hydra, and how that affected us. Even though this is a big world and we’re all connected in a cool way, Avengers: Age of Ultron is happening so late in the season, between episodes 19 and 20, there are only three episodes left after that and it really doesn’t lend itself to a separate thing. We looked at this season as the first 10 episodes as one thing and then Agent Carter came on and these last 12 episodes are another separate run.”

Bell admitted that there will be references to the events of “Age of Ultron,” but not necessarily in a way that alters the entire fabric of what is going on here.

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