[rodgerd]

He can't get his own work made any more, no. He's back to where he was in the 80s, working on other people's ideas.

[dragonwriter]

Agents of SHIELD may be part of a broader franchise, but its still Whedon's creation. And Whedon's position in TV now is hardly much like "where he was in the 80s" -- where his TV work was story editing on Roseanne and writing a handful of episodes of that same series.