'Agents of SHIELD' is the first television series that has linked itself to the Marvel cinematic universe. While this can add to fan's enjoyment of the franchise, it can also cause some complications.

The producers that work on the movies aren't always the ones that work on the television show. This can cause some inconsistencies and 'Avengers' director Joss Whedon addressed this annoyance in an interview with IGN.

He starts by addressing character Phil Coulson's death in the series:

"Yeah he's dead. The entire television series is just a fever dream. It's a Jacob's Ladder moment he's having at the point of death, but we don't give that away until after season seven. And there's a snow globe. Now I've given it away. Bollocks!

"It's a weird little yes and no. As far as I'm concerned in the films, yes he's dead. In terms of the narrative of these guys [The Avengers] his loss was very important. When I created the television show, it was sort of on the understanding that this can work and we can do it with integrity, but these Avengers movies are for people to see the Avengers movies and nothing else. And it would neither make sense nor be useful to say 'Oh and by the way remember me? I died!'"

There is no doubt that the movies bring in significantly more viewers than the television show does, so bringing reference to them in the movies may leave some in the dark.

"I think actually the movie people were a little bit cross about the TV show. They were sort of like 'Well you can have this but not this. And this but not that.' It's complicated enough as it is without me adding another layer of complication. We also created a TV show called S.H.I.E.L.D. right before they made a movie where they destroyed S.H.I.E.L.D.. So everybody's having a GREAT time!"

As the studio continually produces more TV series that connect to the MCU, there only leaves more room for complication. Hopefully for the sake of the fans they can make it all more consistent.