Is This Confirmation Clark Won't Be Back?!

I think you need to relax. The show re-premier if still over a year away.

I can think of five or six different interpretations of the statement. He may have either slipped or deliberately leaked his status for the sixth season (you can decide if this is one or two interpretations), but one or more of the following may be true instead:

• He may be trolling the audience.
• He and Henry Simmons (I cannot refer to just "Simmons" or everyone will be very confused) may regularly hang out (I have no idea if this is the case), but one of them is about to go away to make a movie, hence the "going to miss you."
• He may be referring to the long wait until filming starts again for the sixth season.
• He may be writing in character and talking about how Coulson misses Mack while Coulson is in Tahiti. The next season may take place a year after the fifth season, so Mack and Coulson may be separated for a while with Coulson hoping that Mack does not break S.H.I.E.L.D. in the meantime.

To me, the future tense is curious. If Gregg is leaving the show, why does he not already miss Henry Simmons? If it were Henry Simmons who wrote, "I'm really going to miss you," it could mean that he will miss Gregg when the rest of the cast is filming, but Gregg is missing. If Gregg were leaving the show, he will be living his life and will not be on the set without Henry Simmons.

Until there is an official announcement to the contrary, I still believe that it is very unlikely that the show would return without Coulson. I can see him skipping the first couple of episodes only to have a surprise cameo followed by a full-time return.

Why don't I believe any of you?