Marvel's Agents of SHIELD are back - at least for US fans, who got to see mid-season premiere 'Aftershocks' last night on ABC.

UK fans will have to wait a little while longer for new episodes to come to Channel 4 - but to whet your appetite, Digital Spy has a new (spoiler-lite!) interview with Jeph Loeb, Marvel's Head of TV, about what to expect from the second half of season two - and how Agents of SHIELD will tie into those new Netflix series...

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The midseason finale for Marvel's Agents of SHIELD was pretty mind blowing…

"Thank you. It was intended to be!"

At what stage did you know that Skye was going to become an Inhuman? Was this something you planned from the inception of the show?

"You know what? Everything is planned and if you go back and look at the pilot, Skye says things that are very cryptic. She mentions things about how this isn't the first time she's erased her past. Very early on, there were also a lot of conversations about who her parents are and what happened along the way.

"I feel like this question goes back to my days on Lost where people would say, 'Do you really know where this is going?' - and it was always the same answer then and it's the same answer now; it's very hard to tell a story that is this intricate and this emotionally-driven unless you know where you're going."

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What does it add to the show to bring the Inhumans into Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD?

"For the Marvel fan, there's an enormous connectivity into the Marvel Universe. Also, it is a shift in the show, which began with the idea that not all heroes are super. Now, apparently, there's someone on the team that doesn't fit into that box and how are they going to react to that?

"What is the aftermath of what happened because it did not come without a price? How is that price going to work and what is it that SHIELD does when they find out that people have been enhanced?

"There are procedures that you go through in order to do that, and so all of this is taken into consideration. In many ways, what's to come is the journey that Skye has been on and now we'll see what happens next.

"What I'm hoping is the fans reacted to this storyline in the same way that they reacted when Ward turned. Everyone was like, 'Woah! I didn't see that coming' - our hope is that our winter finale also blew people's minds and now there is a real desire to find out what happens next.

"That will always be what we drive for in this show. We want to be that show where people are asking, 'What happens next?'."



How excited are you for fans to see the second half of season two?

"All I can say is, 'You ain't seen nothing yet!' I have to give credit to the incredible writing staff at SHIELD because there's some spectacular stuff coming up. Having Edward James Olmos and Blair Underwood join our cast and knowing that Lady Sif - Jaimie Alexander - is coming back sets you up for excitement. What can I tell you about it? Well, the best is yet to come."

Agent Carter hasn't aired in the UK yet. What's impressed you the most about the Hayley Atwell Marvel television series?

"More than anything, Agent Carter gives you the opportunity to see Hayley Atwell in all her glory. She's strong and funny and witty and charming and kick-ass. She is more fun than anyone can imagine. And it's an extraordinary cast. I think people will be delighted with what's going on in that show when they see it."

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What about the Netflix shows? Will they be able to cross over with any of the other Marvel television shows, such as Marvel's Agents of Shield or Agent Carter?

"Look, it all exists in the same universe. As it is now, in the same way that our films started out as self-contained and then by the time we got to The Avengers, it became more practical for Captain America to do a little crossover into Thor 2 and for Bruce Banner to appear at the end of Iron Man 3.

"We have to earn that. The audience needs to understand who all of these characters are and what the world is before you then start co-mingling in terms of where it's going."

How quickly will Netflix run out these new shows? Do you have any input into the scheduling?

"We just try to tell the best stories that we can and we leave programming to the networks, which is what they do best. All I can say is that it's been a great experience with everybody and that I can't wait for people to see these new shows.

"Come April 10 and people see the first Marvel Netflix show - Daredevil - they are going to be incredibly impressed by what happens. I think and hope they will enjoy it quite a bit."

Marvel's Agents of SHIELD continues on Tuesdays at 9/8c on ABC. The series will return to Channel 4 in the near future.

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