ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Every week, I feel like I can’t get more impressed by a piece of art, and yet every week, I’m always blown away. What specifically stood out to you the first time you saw this?
JEFF BELL: I’m partial to clean graphics, and I love Skye and Ward together…I like putting her in a position of power. I mean, it’s a girl powered poster, you know? Who doesn’t love that?
I’m so glad it’s focusing on the Skye/Ward relationship, because that’s something that we’ve seen building up for so much of the season.
I love that the silhouette of Skye and Ward is kind of really one person, because they’re both wearing black. I love her Hydra hair, and then I love even that he’s in her shadow. And so from this, you don’t know whether she’s wounded him, whether she’s protecting him, whether he’s dying, or whether she broke his heart. I love that it’s all ambiguous in that way, and with Deathlok looming over but not looking directly at them. I love the graphicness of the red, and also the little flares — the little fireflies, the little specs of rain hitting the lens, whatever she [Stephanie] justified that as really gives the poster a depth and texture that makes it even richer. And then looming behind Deathlok is our poor, poor S.H.I.E.L.D.
After seeing this past week’s episode, I think this art is even more compelling. We know they’re Skye and Ward are off on a mission together, and we know that she knows his secret, but we don’t know exactly how their feelings for each other will affect them.
Right, exactly. Is she playing him? Does she also have feelings? Her feelings twisted, but can her feelings save him? Can his feelings pull her to the dark side? Is he really on the dark side? These are all really great questions that come out of this, and I think the poster does a nice job of embodying that.
JEFF BELL: I’m partial to clean graphics, and I love Skye and Ward together…I like putting her in a position of power. I mean, it’s a girl powered poster, you know? Who doesn’t love that?
I’m so glad it’s focusing on the Skye/Ward relationship, because that’s something that we’ve seen building up for so much of the season.
I love that the silhouette of Skye and Ward is kind of really one person, because they’re both wearing black. I love her Hydra hair, and then I love even that he’s in her shadow. And so from this, you don’t know whether she’s wounded him, whether she’s protecting him, whether he’s dying, or whether she broke his heart. I love that it’s all ambiguous in that way, and with Deathlok looming over but not looking directly at them. I love the graphicness of the red, and also the little flares — the little fireflies, the little specs of rain hitting the lens, whatever she [Stephanie] justified that as really gives the poster a depth and texture that makes it even richer. And then looming behind Deathlok is our poor, poor S.H.I.E.L.D.
After seeing this past week’s episode, I think this art is even more compelling. We know they’re Skye and Ward are off on a mission together, and we know that she knows his secret, but we don’t know exactly how their feelings for each other will affect them.
Right, exactly. Is she playing him? Does she also have feelings? Her feelings twisted, but can her feelings save him? Can his feelings pull her to the dark side? Is he really on the dark side? These are all really great questions that come out of this, and I think the poster does a nice job of embodying that.
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Great poster!
ReplyDeleteI had a really dark thought last night that I hope I'm wrong about. Ward mentioned that his parents were worse than his brother, and I initially assumed that he mentioned they were physically abusive alcoholics and/or drug addicts.
ReplyDeleteBut what if there was sexual abuse going on too? That's definitely worse than what we thought, and it could explain why Ward didn't have much of a reaction after the Lorelei incident - it was nothing new. I mentioned this theory to someone else last night and she said that she's worried that's what happened to his sister.
God, this keeps getting worse and worse. And I can't wait for Tuesday's episode!
amazing poster....but this is absolutely frightening
ReplyDeleteThey really better not go the whole Skye saves Ward with love bullshit because he is a killer! Also I wouldn't call Mike a villain really - he is being forced to do bad things rather than doing them of his complete free will. Much more like Bucky Barnes than someone like Garrett or Ward.
ReplyDeleteAgreed! Ward is a full-blown killer. Bucky is under mind control. Even Deathlock is not under his own free will. Ward however; it will be tough. But Skye may end up killing him.
ReplyDeleteSorry, but it is one ugly poster. (Especially after the last 2, which were beautiful.)
ReplyDeleteSkye or May killing him is ultimately what I want. And at this point I'm leaning towards Skye it would be a character defining moment for her. I mean I love Bad!Ward and I hope he stays around at least part of S2 but in the end he is a killer and has crossed the line.
ReplyDeleteEverything in the poster I liked BUT the drawing of Ward. I don't know; but it could have been done better. Didn't care about how the artist depicted Ward. I like that Skye was on his shoulders, but something about it throws me off.
ReplyDeleteSkye's hydra hair is creepy. I saw it on a different website prior to reading this interview and it's the first thing I thought of. Creeps, the creeps!
ReplyDeleteIt is weird. I don't think she looks like Skye, neither does he look like Ward.
ReplyDeleteI like Skye's hair (Hydra motif) and the background
I like this one a lot. It really nails the comic imagery.
ReplyDeleteThe problems for me are the faces.... Skye and Ward... they look nothing like the actors. I like the rest of it, but their faces are just awful. Ruined the poster for me.
ReplyDeleteI don't think they'd go there on network tv.
ReplyDeleteThat's too dark and not fitting with the tone of the show.
ReplyDeleteCan't really straighten out my thoughts, but somehow I wonderd if Wards parents are HYDRA royalty or that HYDRA is better than is parents thus they could be a big bad at some point. Maybe his parent encouraged his brother to become that awful Person etc.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that theory is way too morbid for this type of show.
ReplyDeleteBut Lorelei did rape Ward, even though there seems to be no mention of it on the show itself.
ReplyDeleteLorelei raped Ward, though. That was dark and not fitting with the tone of the show.
ReplyDeleteHere is a even darker thought.....
ReplyDeleteGarrett is Ward's brother
I've heard that theory, but I don't buy it.
ReplyDeleteYes, she did, but it seems on TV rape gender dependent, so I don't expect to be addressed at all.
ReplyDeleteThat's definitelly darker but not probable.
ReplyDeleteExactly.
ReplyDeleteIt would make more sense if his family was Shield top brass and the hatred for his family + the way he perceives Shield agentes because of his parents + Garrett's manipulation drove him to Hydra.
ReplyDeleteITA. I don't know why I was under the impression this was a given and only recently did I realize it's never been said, I just assumed so. I hope we get something more on his background before the finale, but with what little time we have left, I doubt it.
ReplyDeleteI think the poster means that Skye will stay strong in 1x20. Even though she knows the truth about Ward and (at some point in the episode she'll be cuffed to a stair railing with Ward and Deathlok as a hostage), she'll outsmart Ward in the end. I definitely think that Skye will shoot Ward on the shoulder (check the promotional picture, there's one where Ward is using his hand to cover a gunshot wound).
ReplyDeleteLast episode, Skye mentioned about the encryption of the flash drive is based on location or something (not sure of the correct words during that scene), I'm wondering if her and Coulson had this planned a while back. The location would be somewhere that the two of them would know in case if someone from HYDRA took one of them hostage (the computer voice attached to Thomas Nash said that Skye and Coulson are targets??) Even the flash drive might have a GPS attached as well. In 1x20 Coulson and the others will find Skye's message in the bathroom, he'll know that she's missing and remember the 'secret location'. Another promotional picture shows Coulson and Skye running out of the plane, so we know that Coulson finds Skye somehow and they get away.
Yeah, my rant is over hehehehe :)
that was my first thought, but then SHIELD would know a little more about Wards past and see the possible threat.
ReplyDeleteThere is no indication that Shield did not know Ward's past. The characters didn't know specifically, but it must be in his psych-evals.
ReplyDeleteEven if Shield knew that his parents were Shield top brass, why would it be a threat?
Is that Strphanie Hans? She's normally an awesome artist, but the composition of that poster is terrible :/
ReplyDeleteExactly the psych-evals would indicate (imo) a possible threat from Ward to SHIELD if his abusive parents were top notch agents, that's why I cant imagen them beeing SHIELD, but it would not make sense the other way around (HYDRA) either. See I can't get my head around my own theory. Nevertheless, they got me curious about his past.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it seems that just because men are less picky than women when it comes to sex, they CAN'T be raped, at least not by women. That's such a ridiculous notion, but it certainly won't be addressed on this type of show.
ReplyDeleteI think they could be both HYDRA bigwigs and potential big bads. Two parents and three siblings means a lot of danger coming for the team if Ward does get killed, which would make for some interesting new characters next season.
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