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It is stunt casting when you bring in characters from the movies or the comics during a ratings slide and to stauch the bleeding. Of couse the show's producers are going to claim it was the plan all along. It's on "Likely Renewed" becaused it has been recently reported the AoS plots will have some tie-in with the upcoming Captain America movie. ABC hyped the Thor 2 tie-in for episode 8. It got the ratings spike, but it went down the next week. That episode barely mentioned what happened in the movie; it was a hook to get eyeballs on the show. I have my doubts about the Sif episode with new details coming out now:  (SPOILERS) Lorelei uses her magic to take out the male agents (make them fall in love with them); May fangirls Sif; Sif takes Earth idioms literally for comic relief and the showdown between Lorelei and Sif becomes an Asgardian catfight over Thor (really?!)  A disservice to Sif's character to get ratings. And so far no indication that the state of affairs on Asgard will be addressed. That would be a more interesting plot thread since Loki as Odin took over the throne and the question of Sif's allegiance ought to be raised.