Board Thread:Television/@comment-1713281-20131004113215/@comment-1895174-20140421015002

ProfessorKilroy wrote: So, my understanding is that Hydra wasn't exactly SHIELD. It was hiding inside SHIELD. And the organisation needed to be scuttled because SHIELD had been infiltrated too heavily. They didn't know who to trust, the organisation was corrupt, it had to go down. Which is just another way of saying the same thing. When you have regular IT guys working on Hydra projects that are also SHIELD projects the distinction between the two organizations becomes nil. And when Fury's boss is Hydra as well it's hard to tell if Hydra was hiding within SHIELD or if SHIELD had become a front for Hydra. But the stuff that's going on between Coulson's team and Garrett, seems a little different. I'm not sure that his Clairvoyant persona, and the Centipede project had a lot to do with Hydra. I think he could be running his own show, but used Hydra's uprising as a part of his plan. I see it as the opposite. Now that Hydra's made their presence known and that Garrett's been outed as the Clairvoyant, Centipede has been thrown to the wayside in favor of Hydra. Also, didn't all of SHIELD's secrets get leaked, so although I think Agent Coulson's revival was probably a badly kept secret before SHIELD fell, wouldn't information about Coulson being alive and running a team be available to the public now? Which does make it seem even weirder that Cap doesn't know Coulson is alive. You think that would be something that stands out to him.