and Earth as a whole from a Chronicom takeover.
BeforeS.H.I.E.L.D.ends, though, lets embrace the spirit of the final season and take a trip down memory lane.
Thats why the night-night gun was created so we didnt kill anyone, really.
There were no powered people, and so the Inhumans was our way into that.
Whedon:Craig Titleybroke that episode.
That might be one of the fastest breaks we’ve ever done.
Early on [in the season] we decided, You know what?
Let’s not see her.
Let’s just not even deal with what’s happened there and then do an episode about it.
We decided that early.
And we had the idea of that she fell in love there.
One of the things that we feel about FitzSimmons for us, we call it a forever love FitzSimmons.
What a great obstacle.
She had no choice.
Elizabeth Henstridge (Jemma Simmons):It was awesome.
You’re always grateful for the challenge and it’s so wonderful to be put in a new situation.
I did miss everybody cause we get so used to being together.
It was definitely different to kind of be a focus of the episode and not supporting.
I was really nervous about it.
I was more nervous about FitzSimmons fans [reacting to] me getting off with an astronaut.
That was my main thing.
And 12 hours before starting to shoot I was told it was Yo-Yo Rodriguez, a superhero.
I just couldnt believe it.
It was a dream come true.
Shes just such a superb human being.
That girl, Yo-Yo, shes taught me so much.
The way theyve written her has been wonderful to portray.
All of it was tied together by the Darkhold, a book that brought magic onto the show.
The three pods felt like three intense sprints where a lot of story got paid off.
Whedon:As magic was introduced into the MCU, it allowed us to do Ghost Rider.
The season sort of opened up the door in terms of what we were going to do with story.
We loosened the rules a bit cause we had magic.
And when Ghost Rider becomes available, you put him in the TV show.
Whedon:All the choices in the Framework were a personal what if?
What if Coulson hadn’t joined S.H.I.E.L.D.?
What if the Cavalry had gone as a positive for May?
What if Hydra had won?
What if Fitz had had his dad?
That was fun for us.
And that was a really cool thing to get.
We were there for six hours of just hysterically crying.
That was the most emotionally challenging scene that I had done.
So there was a lot going on there.
Season 5 sent the team to space and the future
In season 5, the S.H.I.E.L.D.
base that’s now controlled by the Kree.
Whedon:When we were done with that season we said, Well never do that again.
And then here we are in season seven, which was harder.
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