AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Adrian Pasdar Talks About Becoming SPOILER; AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Tie-In

AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Adrian Pasdar Talks About Becoming SPOILER; AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Tie-In

Adrian Pasdar from Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. discusses Talbot's transformation into Graviton while also touching on the show's tie-ins with Avengers: Infinity War. Warning, SPOILERS ahead...

By HeavyMetal4Life - May 06, 2018 08:05 AM EST
Filed Under: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Source: SYFY Wire
The last two episodes of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. finally introduced fans to a classic Marvel supervillain: Graviton. First teased back in season 1, Graviton was seemingly forgotten until the future space arc at the beginning of the fifth season of S.H.I.E.L.D. The agents discovered gravitonium all around them in the future and deduced that it was likely the cause of the planet cracking apart.

It later became clear that whoever went through the Whitehall's Destroyer of Worlds project and bonded with the gravitonium would become Graviton. However, no one could have expected that Glen Talbot (Adrian Pasdar), a staple on the show since season 1, would be this person. Pasdar was recently interviewed by Syfy Wire about his transformation into the gravitonium-based villain, revealing that he knew since the beginning of the show's fifth season about the path his character would take.

The hat tip was at the end of last year. I had a meeting with [executive producer] Jed Whedon and some of the writers and producers and was given the information that this was going to unfold just the way it did.

As fans may have noticed in this week's episode "The One Who Will Save Us All," Talbot received a major upgrade in the costume department, donning a look and suit that directly paid homage to the supervillain's comic book appearance. When asked about Talbot's new suit and clean-shaven goatee, Pasdar shared that they drew inspiration from the character's original appearance in the comics.
 
Well, every superhero has to have a super look, right? If you go back to the original Avengers comics from 1977, you'll see what he looked like, so we tried to get a little closer to that look.

The past two episodes of S.H.I.E.L.D. tied in with Avengers: Infinity War, first referencing the attack in New York by Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian in "Option Two" and then directly naming Thanos and the threat he poses to Earth in this week's episode "The One Who Will Save Us All," which seemingly occurred at the same time as the beginning of the attack on Wakanda. Talking to Syfy Wire, Pasdar said the following about tying in with Infinity War:

Yeah, we do tie in... Sometimes that stuff is done in post-production. We'll have a TV on in the background but it'll be green screen. In post, they'll put in whatever's happening in the Avengers world. With Infinity War out there, they're tying this episode in heavily. The season finale coming up is called "The End," and Thanos talks about it being the end. Or it could just be [referring to] the end of the series, or just the season. They always tie in with the Avengers, but we don't really know how it will manifest.

It is now clear that Thanos is indirectly responsible for the events of this season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., laying the foundation for  Graviton, the Earth cracking apart, and the Agents traveling to the future. Talbot believes he, with his gravitonium-based powers, can become Earth's greatest hero and save the planet from Thanos; but, as the future showed us, he likely becomes the one responsible for causing Earth's destruction, perhaps a result of losing his son to Thanos' Infinity Gauntlet snap...

Are you excited that Graviton has finally been introduced into the MCU? Are you looking forward to seeing the supervillain's story play out through Talbot in the remaining two episodes of this season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.? Be sure to share your thoughts on Pasdar's remarks in the usual spot below!
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HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 5/5/2018, 6:30 PM
Time to update the list of great Marvel TV villains, as I have a feeling that Graviton is going to be a worthy addition come the end of season 5 of SHIELD. In order of appearance:
















AHRNihal
AHRNihal - 5/6/2018, 8:12 AM
@HeavyMetal4Life - I missed it.
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 5/6/2018, 8:17 AM
@AHRNihal - all good! Aida was incredible, Mallory Jensen did such a fantastic job.

Jazzy4
Jazzy4 - 5/6/2018, 8:33 AM
@HeavyMetal4Life -

Quake's parents in season two and to a lesser extent,Raina were very good villains too.
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 5/6/2018, 8:37 AM
@Jazzy4 - they were good, though not great. I will say, if I had to add an honorary villain to the list above, it would be Jon Garrett. Bill Paxton killed it in the role.


MrDandy
MrDandy - 5/6/2018, 10:58 AM
@HeavyMetal4Life - I don't know if I'd put Graviton up with the heavy hitters yet. I'm liking him but he's not as compelling as those others. Also you forgot Cottonmouth
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 5/6/2018, 11:02 AM
@MrDandy - yeah, that's why I said " I have a feeling that Graviton is going to be a worthy addition come the end of season 5 of SHIELD." And Cottonmouth doesn't belong on that list above. A good villain, but not one of the great ones.
MrDandy
MrDandy - 5/6/2018, 12:24 PM
@HeavyMetal4Life - I'd put him in the top 10 of the entire MCU. The first half of Luke Cage was great right up until his death. Coincidence? I think not!
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 5/6/2018, 12:34 PM
@MrDandy - I personally found him uninspiring. No matter how suave he was, he never posed as much of a threat. And at the end of the day, he was killed by his own sister. Someone should show that they are villainous, rather than saying they are (if that makes sense).
jj2112
jj2112 - 5/6/2018, 11:26 PM
@HeavyMetal4Life - Yeah because Paxton made any role he played 100% better. But Garrett wasn't that good of a villain IMO.
Luminus
Luminus - 5/7/2018, 12:54 AM
@HeavyMetal4Life -

HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 5/7/2018, 6:08 AM
@Luminus - ?
Luminus
Luminus - 5/7/2018, 8:04 PM
@HeavyMetal4Life - I don't recognize that villain.
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 5/7/2018, 8:09 PM
@Luminus - Ohh. That's Billy Russo from season 1 of the Punisher. Aka Jigsaw...
Luminus
Luminus - 5/7/2018, 8:10 PM
@HeavyMetal4Life - Oh. I guess he left no impression on me. lol. The ex-vet with PTSD was more memorable.
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 5/5/2018, 9:25 PM
The Thanos references, in the first minute and 20 seconds...

NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 5/6/2018, 8:16 AM
Adrian Pasdar went from playing a hero-ish character in Heroes to now playing villains, how things come around.

He was a good choice to play Graviton after the original actor didn’t return for the role and has made it his own in short time with things like the “kneel” lines.

I still think the real “villain” is the time loop this time, he has just showed up and there isn’t much left to give him the same amount of screentime to show a journey like how Hive and AIDA did.
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 5/6/2018, 8:25 AM
@NinnesMBC - the threat from the beginning has been who cracked the Earth.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 5/6/2018, 9:30 AM
@HeavyMetal4Life - Yes and it has ranged through Daisy, to Ruby to Graviton who now wants to use Daisy as aid for that. But they also have been plagued with what they now from the future and how to stop it.
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 5/6/2018, 9:53 AM
@NinnesMBC - right, but the threat is still whoever destroyed the Earth. Ruby was a diversion, we knew it was never Daisy. Graviton is the endgame. And its clear that only Yoyo wants to pay attention to what the future revealed to them.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 5/6/2018, 10:33 AM
@HeavyMetal4Life - Given how unstable Talbot’s mind is due to 3 consciousness in the gravitonium it’d be easy to say as well that the source itself is what is going to be wholly responsible. And for a moment in the past episodes it could’ve been Fitz who allowed it given he wasn’t going to let any harm to happen to Jemma when Ruby was threatening them.

True about Yo-Yo.
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 5/6/2018, 10:36 AM
@NinnesMBC - fair enough, I could agree that gravitonium (with the various consciousnesses) is really the enemy, and the bodies are just the conduits for the material itself.

Aren't there 4 minds in Talbot's body now? Quinn, Hall, Talbot, and that alien he absorbed.
tugboy
tugboy - 5/7/2018, 8:26 AM
@HeavyMetal4Life - I kind of think that Daisy will still be the one who cracks the Earth. Talbot will make her extract the Gravitonium from the Earth (since we have seen that she can use her powers to control it) by threatening Coulson's life. She has already made it clear that she is an emotional wreck and cannot see Coulson die. I think this is more what future YoYo was referring to when she said that they needed to "let Coulson die". She's not referring to the teams' attempts with the centipede formula to keep Coulson alive. She's referring to Talbot threatening Coulson's life to force Daisy to extract the Gravitonium from Earth. At least that is my theory.
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 5/7/2018, 8:30 AM
@tugboy - Hmm, interesting theory! I predict that Yoyo sacrifices herself, showing that the time loop can be broken.
tugboy
tugboy - 5/7/2018, 9:09 AM
@HeavyMetal4Life - I'm thinking (more like hoping) that the destruction that Thanos brings is what actually breaks the time loop. (i.e., people start disappearing to ash just as the cataclysmic event is going to take place). But that might not be as satisfying.
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 5/7/2018, 9:12 AM
@tugboy - hmm that's interesting. My theory is that Talbot's son disappear with the snap...
tugboy
tugboy - 5/7/2018, 9:28 AM
@HeavyMetal4Life - I like that idea. What do you think would be the repurcussion? Is your theory that this would push Talbot over the edge? Or would it make him stop going on the path he's headed?
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 5/7/2018, 9:35 AM
@tugboy - yup, my theory is it would push him over the edge
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