As the Marvel Cinematic Universe has evolved on the big screen, the small screen has also grown through the ABC series Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which has dealt with a lot during its first two seasons, from exploring S.H.I.E.L.D.’s battle agaisnt Hydra to introducing the Inhumans. Now, in its upcoming third season, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will be bringing in the Secret Warriors from the comics into the MCU for the first time. While Marvel Studios has Kevin Feige leading the film division, the TV division has Jeph Loeb as its president, and he is the man behind all of Marvel’s television shows, including S.H.I.E.L.D.‘s fellow ABC series Agent Carter and the newer Netflix superhero dramas, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and The Defenders.
TVOvermind was fortunate enough to participate in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Press Room at San Diego Comic-Con with other news outlets at roundtables where stars and producers from the show discussed what is coming up in Season 3. Loeb was one of the people we got to talk to, and you can watch his entire roundtable interview below. Here are some of the highlights:
When asked about the MCU take of the Secret Warriors on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: “I think a better way of looking at it is what we are going to be focusing on this season is really this word ‘inhuman.’ The idea about it is that when you take a look at Agent Coulson, who has lost his arm and who came back to life with alien DNA inside of him, right there you are dealing with this idea of “How human am I?” That question of what he is going to do with his life, and then you look at someone like Ward, and you saw what Ward was doing at the end of last season. When he is now out on this new mission, one could argue that he acts in an ‘inhuman’ way.
Then there is the Marvel version of what an Inhuman is and what that means is that at the end of last season what we saw was that the Terrigen is actually out there. It’s a very simple concept for people to be able to understand is that if you have the genes inside of you, and you get in contact with the Terrigen, you get triggered. Once you get triggered, you are now enhanced, and if you are enhanced, how are you going to deal with that? How would you deal with the fact that you woke up one morning, and your whole house is on fire and you set that fire? Is it terrifying? Is it empowering? You bring S.H.I.E.L.D. into that that in order to maybe contain. Maybe you have to be put down or maybe recruited.
As we have seen in the past when S.H.I.E.L.D. gets involved in those situations, it doesn’t always go the right way. So when those things happen, what we want to be able to do is to tell stories that feel very Marvel, and that is that when you look around us now in today’s society, the subject of tolerance is so important to us. The differences are between us, whether it’s race, religion, choice of sexuality, all those things we either become more tolerable to or more intolerant of. That’s a great place for us to start, because you use that as your metaphor for people who wake up, and they are different. Now S.H.I.E.L.D. gets to get into that, so we can have the great action that we love, while at the same time be able to tell stories that have a really nice meaty-ness to it.”
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. kicks off its 3rd season on Tuesday, September 29, 9/8c on ABC. Stay tuned for more roundtable videos of the cast and producers in the next few days right here at TVOvermind.
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