‘Agents of SHIELD’ spoilers: Exec on ‘Thor: The Dark World,’ possible ‘Captain America’ crossover

So far during its first season, it is hard to really sit here and say that Marvel’s “Agents of SHIELD” has gone off to a perfect start. This was a show that originally debuted to huge ratings, but has since taken a beating with critics and saw its numbers cut in half.

So what is one of the biggest tests coming up for the future of the show, Tuesday night is going to bring to us an episode inspired by “Thor: The Dark World,” and the events that follow it up immediately. While it won’t spoil everything in the movie necessarily, it will at least serve as a nice companion piece to further enrich both that universe and also the one on the show.

Want to read more? Then just take a look below at what executive producer Jeffrey Bell had to say about the episode in a new interview with IGN:

“The simplest way to put it, and I think the most accurate way to put it, is that we air after Thor, and so we now know from the Thor movie that there was this spaceship that came to London and there was a battle and some stuff got torn up, and then everything sort of disappeared. So one of the things SHIELD does, as they did in the first Thor – you know, a hammer appeared in the desert and so SHIELD showed up to go, “What is this hammer doing in the middle of the desert?” So our team shows up in the wake of what happened in Greenwich, and we’re cleaning up. We’re looking for other Asgardian or alien — we don’t use the words “dark elves” or anything like that — but we’re looking for other alien material, because as we’ve learned from other episodes, if a Chitauri or somebody leaves something laying around, it can lead to trouble. So we begin looking for Asgardian stuff, and then it leads to a larger conversation about Asgardians, and in the episode we explore more of the history of Asgardians on Earth. We find an item that may or may not be Asgardian. As we try and get hold of that, it ties into the history of Asgardians here on Earth.”

Bell has also suggested that the door is open to there also being a follow-up of sorts at some point to the upcoming “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” which is the next major film in the franchise (even if it is going to premiere in the summer, which makes a direct follow-up all the more difficult).

Do you think that there should be some more “Agents of SHIELD” movie crossovers in the future, or does this run the risk of relying too heavily on the Marvel film universe? Share your thoughts below! Meanwhile, click here if you want to check out some more news on the show’s ratings.

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