“Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” Season 4 stopped on a big cliffhanger, and fans will have to wait weeks to see it resolved. The ABC drama is on hiatus throughout the rest of the month. Luckily, this will be a short break in comparison to the last couple years.

The midseason premiere of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” will air Tuesday, Jan. 10 at 10 p.m. EST on ABC. That’s just a five-week break, which is unusually short for the superhero show. For the past two years, “Marvel’s Agent Carter” made the hiatus much longer. Unfortunately, Peggy Carter’s (Hayley Atwell) spy show was canceled. However, the silver lining is that “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” fans don’t have to wait until March to see new episodes.

That’s great news considering how the fall finale ended. Aida (Mallory Jansen) has gone rogue. The Life Model Decoy (LMD) has kidnapped May (Ming-Na Wen) and replaced her with a LMD. The android version of May has yet to be noticed by the team. In fact, Coulson is growing even closer to her. As previously reported, it looks like the two are finally heading towards a romantic relationship.

With the second half of the season subtitled “LMD,” it’s safe to say that robots will be the main focus during the second half of Season 4. However, this isn’t going to be like “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” Executive producer Jed Whedon promises the differences between Aida and Ultron (James Spader) will become clearer when the show returns.

“Aida started as something that was supposed to mimic human behavior,” Whedon explained to Entertainment Weekly. “Ultron came out almost a fully fleshed-out creature with his own agenda, where she’s been discovering hers along the way. What we will learn is that Aida is different than Ultron in many ways; that’s all I can really say. She started with the base of trying to be human.”

Fans will have to wait until 2017 to learn more, but in the meantime, they can still watch new adventures with one particular Inhuman. Elena “Yo-Yo” Rodriguez (Natalia Cordova-Buckley) will star in an online spinoff called “Slingshot.” The six-episode digital series will be the directorial debut of Marvel’s Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada. He has served as an executive producer on all the Marvel Television series, including “S.H.I.E.L.D.” “Slingshot” is now available on ABC.com and the ABC app.

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