Board Thread:Television/@comment-1713281-20131004113215/@comment-3317214-20140515045918

I don't know how you get "fill[ing] in the plot holes of what happened in-between each movie" out of Agents of SHIELD. It's done none of that. Like, not even remotely close. It was its own, standalone series up until Episode 17 when it inexplicably became a spin-off of The Winter Soldier.

Well, whether or not it's filled holes in the past, it will soon. The show's going to focus on Coulson reforming SHIELD now. Which means any time SHIELD shows up in a future film (which could be Age of Ultron, with SHIELD-related characters such as Fury and Hill making appearances, but not necessarily, given their lack of a position in the new SHIELD), it's because of the events of Agents of SHIELD.

And you know it's not just a spin-off of The Winter Soldier. Sure, we're dealing with the aftermath, with the fall of SHIELD, but that's always been what this show is about: The aftermath of The Avengers, dealing with Extremis, literally cleaning up after Thor, and now this. The threats dealt with before and after Turn, Turn, Turn are the same: the Clairvoyant, the Centipede Project, Cybertek, the Deathlok Program. The only thing that changes is that now we know these things have been related to Hydra all along.