‘Agents of SHIELD’ season 4 spoilers: The hope to move on

When you look back at the history of everything that the characters on Marvel’s “Agents of SHIELD” have gone through, there is one thing that stands out above all else: Tragedy. These are heroes who have lost loved ones, seen their hopes destroyed at times, and had their lives turned upside down. Just look at where Daisy is now versus season 1, or some of what Jemma went through while on Maveth. No one in the regular cast can have a rosy outlook on life anymore.

Yet, you’re not going to see too many of the main characters spend a lot of time on the upcoming fourth season being transfixed on everything that has happened to date. Why is that? As executive producer Maurissa Tancharoen tells Entertainment Weekly, a big part of it may just be that it is too painful to focus primarily on the past:

“The one thing that you’ll really see across the board with all of our characters is that they’re just in ‘Let’s move mode – let’s just move on from what went down.’ Whether or not that’s just a coping mechanism or denial of all of the trauma that they’ve experienced, I think them being so functional will start to unravel.”

Ultimately, repression is a dangerous thing, and if some of these people are doing just that with their feelings, that could be the thing that slows them down more so than any particular villain. While that may sound incredibly cheesy if you say it out loud, these people are still human no matter whatever they have gone through. (Yes, we even mean Inhumans, as well.)

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