Clark Gregg Previews Changed Coulson in Agents of SHIELD Season 2

The Season 1 finale of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ended with a clear message that Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg), now the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., is a changed man. His resurrection is clearly having some significant side effects that should play out in Season 2.

Gregg spoke to IGN and previewed his character's arc in Season 2. The site asked if S.H.I.E.L.D. would operate more off the grid next season rather than as an officially sanctioned body:

"That's a really interesting point just because what's been clear to me is that the Agent Coulson who's running this team post-Captain America: The Winter Soldier, post-Hydra, post-being killed and brought back to life with something in him he doesn't understand... He's a very different Coulson than the guy who everyone knew. A lot of people who knew him in the old days say, 'He's different.' I think you would have to be different having gone through that stuff. So I think he's reinventing himself and re-understanding himself as a person anyway, which is probably really necessary to taking in the new environment and figuring out what SHIELD ought to be in a way that it doesn't get rotten again."

Gregg also addressed his character's alien scribbles at the end of Season 1 and how Coulson's return to life could unfold in Season 2:

"Well, Coulson got to watch himself pre-memory wipe describing why he thought the whole Tahiti Project was a bad idea. He was talking about all the things that were happening to the people they were using on it and why he suggested they can the whole thing - and looked pretty shaken while he was saying it. So I've got to suspect that some of the stuff he saw and some of those patients have some version of the stuff that's going to happen to him. So we go from having no SHIELD at all, with a director on the run, to a tiny Guerrilla SHIELD with Agent Coulson at its head, and maybe not in his own right head. That sounds fun. That sounds like an interesting Season 2."

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