Marvel: This series was canceled after one episode…that no one saw!

Do you remember the series Agents of SHIELD, the first series related to the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Started in September 2013 and ending in 2020 after 136 episodes, it experienced the effects of Marvel’s adventures on the small screen, well before the series produced for Disney+. But it must be said that there was no Disney+ in 2013!

To provide context, Agents of SHIELD features Phil Coulson, a character seen in the Phase I films, as Nick Fury’s lieutenant of sorts, played by Samuel L. Jackson performs.
Spoiler:
Killed by Loki (in the back) in The Avengers, he was so popular with fans that he was saved to become a series hero. His mysterious return to life is the whole point of the show’s first season.

The Agents of SHIELD team is formed and two new agents appear in Season 2: Bobby Morse (Adrian Palick) and Lance Hunter (Nick Blood). Upon arrival, Bob actually works for a faction of SHIELD that rivals Coulson’s, which he infiltrates. The two factions clash, resulting in a merger of the teams. Bobbie and her ex-husband Lance Hunter then join the cast of the series.

Thanks to the support of the fans, they stayed there until the middle of season 3 and delighted the public so much that they imagined a spin-off: Marvel’s Most Wanted.

The series should allow the duo to experience solo adventures, and that’s why in Season 3, Episode 13, the heroes, rejected after a mission gone wrong, said goodbye to Agents of SHIELD.

It’s 2016 and Bobby Morse and Lance Hunter are fan favorite characters. So the actors leave their solo adventures to film the pilot.

The series will explore the relationship between the ex-lovers and their pariah status inherited from Agents of SHIELD. They travel with Dominic Fortune (actor Delroy Lindo), an unscrupulous adventurer who agrees to protect them from many enemies on the condition that they help him in return.

The pilot was co-written by Jeffrey Bell and Paul Zbyszewski (producers on Agents of SHIELD) and directed by Billy Gearhart, also a regular on the parent series. But ABC isn’t happy with the end result, Its president is judging that the TV movie is not “strong enough”. No reason was given, but the series was canceled and the 1:30 TV movie was blocked by the channel. It has not yet passed.

Fans who didn’t particularly like the idea of ​​spin-offs and preferred to keep them In Agents of SHIELD (Like the rest of the showrunners) greeted the news with a mix of disappointment and relief, assuming the characters would return to the series.

In reality it will never be Despite the online petition. Adrian Palick is off to direct the comedy The Orville, and Nick Blood will be in the credits for two feature films.

He makes a notable but very brief return in Agents of SHIELD Season 5 Episode 5 to help Fitz. The actor recently appeared in the TV series Euphoria and Andor.

After the failure of that pilot, Marvel launched another series, Inhumans, which was also a dismal failure.