Clark Gregg on Season 2

IGN has an interview with Clark Gregg in which he talks about season 2 of Agents of SHIELD.

IGN: Coulson's now rebuilding SHIELD. I was thinking about the fact that Fury has given him all this access to hidden bases and whatnot, but Fury's technically dead. Do you think that this new SHIELD will be a very much off-the-grid type of SHIELD, maybe not an officially sanctioned SHIELD?

Gregg: 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.

IGN: Now of course you mentioned the changes, and at the very end of the finale we saw that there's something going on still with him. Any idea what that might be and how worried we should be?

Gregg: 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.