Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents of SHIELD TV series for ABC - General Discussion - LEVEL 11 - Part 4

[Moridin]

Firefly... FOX ... episodes out of order.

 

[Just_Human]

So Gregg was asked on Twitter if Lady Sif could be back and he replied

I bet your Asgard

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

I always wondered whether if Sif or any one will come back as a cameo...especially Fury and Hill...

 

[Dr. Evil]

What reason would Sif need to return?

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

Thats a good question...maybe when Shield gets the Oblistik ... whatever its called? I dunno.

 

[ralphuniverse]

G'day,

Best reason possible. The audience want to see her back.

Remember this is the MCU not a comic. The popularity of the actors and characters they play are very important. Clark Cregg's Coulson was a minor character in Iron Man . Now he has his own TV show and is the director of SHIELD. Peggy Carter was a secondary character in the comics, thanks to Hayley Atwell she too is getting her own show and is now one of the original founders of SHIELD. People seem to like Jaimie Alexander's Lady Sif so expect to see more of her.

ta

Ralph

What reason would Sif need to return?

 

[hoy-small-fry]

Sif coming back and talking to Bobbi would make my head explode...

Seriously though, she could be back for any number of reasons. Maybe Loki wants some recon on Midgard, maybe another prisoner escapes, or maybe the diviner sends out a beacon he wants investigated

 

[Intouch]

what happened to the fridge prisoners?

 

[Dr. Evil]

I like Sif, but to me it has to make sense in the story for her to return.

 

[kosh33]

Very long interview with Jeff Bell on Newsarama

http://www.newsarama.com/22854-agen...-inhuman-theories-ward-s-future-and-more.html

According to him, the next few episodes will leave people freaking out with excitement

Spoiler

Newsarama: Jeff, I want to ask you about the slow burn of the central mystery of the show so far, and the way it has evolved. It started out being about “How is Coulson alive?” Then it turned into “What is the formula? What is this blue alien?” and then “Why wasn’t Skye affected? What is the writing?” How much of these changes and these evolutions to that mystery were planned out originally?
Jeff Bell: Everything that’s happened, plus a few to come! The thing about – one of the challenges of doing network, where you do 22 episodes, you can’t really devote (unless you’re 24 which is concentrated), it’s very difficult to sustain people’s interest or attention on a single arc. You can do it in 10, you can do it in 13, but when you have 22, it begins to feel like the same slice of pizza every week. If we spent 22 episodes dedicating to finding out the truth about Coulson… you could’ve done that a few years ago. I keep saying, it took 7 years to learn about Mulder’s sister on X-Files, but if they did that now, I don’t think you could sustain that mystery through even the first season – viewing habits have changed so much. So you need to find ways to have your stories evolve. Bring up a mystery, ask logical questions, and as you set it down and answer it, pick up a new question.


We were very aware of that going into the first season. We knew we had this big thing coming up, Hydra, which we called “the H word” last year, because we weren’t allowed to say that word. We had to have other presenting problems, but we also knew we had to solve at least the first piece of the Coulson mystery before that happened, so it gave us a timeline on that. As we resolved that, we brought up Hydra and were able to then segue from Coulson in TAHITI to Hydra and Ward’s betrayal, which took us to the end of the season. That was by design, and the timing and structure of it was predicated on Cap 2. There was a movie coming out that was going to blow up our organization, we knew that was coming.
So with this season, we knew that we were going to be on for 10 episodes, then be off the air for a bunch of time, then come back and do 12 in a row. So it made sense to us to treat these, not as two seasons, but to spend the first half dealing with one arc. As we answer some of those questions, blow it up and present a new mystery at the end of that, which we’re still heading towards. When we come back in episode 11 in March, hopefully everything that happens in 9 and 10 will have people freaking out and excited to come back!


But the tent poles have been there. I’ve said this before: we work toward tent poles. We know that by this episode we needthat to happen. How you get there is where the fun is. Those elements can change. Ruth Negga who plays Raina – we had no idea we were going to love her so much. So we kept giving her more and more – things like that can evolve. The overall shape of it is what we sat down and were discussing at the beginning of the season.


Nrama: So obviously the reveal of the map being a city was one of those tent poles, right?
Bell: Yes. We’ve got, “oh what is this thing?” “Oh, it looks like a map.” “Oh, it’s a map of a city.” “Oh, let’s find the city,” and that’s how we left 8. So I don’t need to say much to go, “What do you think episode 9 is about?” [laughs] So yes, there is a progression, and there’s “What’s in the city? Should we be here? What’s happening?” I think there are sort of natural questions that people have right now that set themselves up for us to look at.
And hopefully we can subvert a lot of those expectations and make something else happen – because that’s what we do! Otherwise it wouldn’t be a good story.


Nrama: Absolutely. With this storyline, at it’s core it’s been building since literally season 1, episode 1. What do you see being the pressures of the payoff of a story that has built upon itself that way over the course of a season and a half?
Bell: I would say the way we view it, it’s not a single payoff, it’s been a whole bunch of payoffs as we ask and answer new questions. So learning things about Tahiti, then seemingly putting it down last season and coming back to it in episode 7 this year to learn more about it was fun. Seeing a blue guy in an episode last year, then getting back into the GH formula this year, it’s been putting things down and picking them back up. So I think we feel pretty confident that what we’re building to is cool! We think it’s cool, we hope people think it’s cool! Beyond that, it’s not a final, final – we’re not revealing every secret of the island here, it’s not the payoff of just one central question, it’s “we have a cool reveal coming up,” and after that, we’re only halfway through Season 2. So we have many more cool reveals that we hope will lead to many more cool questions.


Nrama: What do you guys do to make sure that you’re making these reveals big for both longtime Marvel Comics fans and accessible enough for people who are only in this world through the MCU?
Bell: Well, in general we try to break a cool story that anyone can show up and understand. We then try and populate that with details that are meaningful to Marvel fans.
The fact that Bill Paxton showed up last year and was John Garrett, he’s this really fun, big presence, and eventually he was revealed to be a bad guy and everything else. For Marvel fans, they know, “Oh, John Garrett, that’s super cool – does he have his cyborg body? What are they going to do with that?” And we show a piece of that. We do our version of that. So I think it’s really exciting for Marvel fans to get those pieces, but you don’t need to know that for the story to be enjoyable. That’s the key to doing it, and I think the movies do that really well.
Guardians of the Galaxywas a property where there are 12 people that know that comic, and they did an amazing job of making these alien worlds feel warm and familiar. It’s also the most genius use of pop songs I’ve ever seen in my entire life.




We try to tell you stories – S.H.I.E.L.D. is a family, and Coulson is a surrogate father for Skye – this year her biological father shows up, so you have a daughter torn between two fathers. That’s something that thematically plays to everyone, no matter what, regardless of who she is, or what her name is, or who her father is, or what he is, that’s something that anybody at home can enjoy and understand. And if those people do in fact tie into the Marvel Universe in an extra cool way, then for those fans, hopefully it’s sprinkles on top of your ice cream.


Nrama: No takebacks! You also said that the aliens have been around for hundreds or thousands of years, and that they came to test humanity… and we have a hidden city… this all makes people think of places like Attilan, for example, then Kevin Feige comes out during the big Phase 3 announcement and says “you might see Inhumans sooner than you think)… Obviously, if nothing else, you guys are laying down a foundation that will make people think this way
Bell: I… I understand why people might think that way. And our job is to… This is something that I have felt on every show that I’ve done. I did this little show called Harper’s Island which was fun, it was a murder mystery where there were 25 people, the mystery of who’s the killer, and we’re going to reveal that in 13 episodes. The way I and my partners approached that was, it can’t be a complete surprise, because then you suck and you cheated. It can’t be that obvious that everybody understand, because then you suck.
So you try to lay breadcrumbs that a third of the people go, “Oh my god, it’s that!” and a third of the people go, “I can’t believe it was that!” and the other third go, “I’m sorry, what was the conversation?” You try to present it that way. So that doesn’t mean we’re always literally going where we’re laying breadcrumbs, but wherever we’re going, we trust that we’ve set it up properly, so when it happens, the right people will go, ‘That was cool” or “that make sense” or “I didn’t think that was coming,” but it’s all earned.
So yes, we’ve been seeing a lot of stuff, and it’s fun to read all the theories, and fun to see them develop over the last year and a half.

Nrama: Well, it’s been fun developing them!
Bell: Cool! And what I hope you realize – if you go back and watch from the very beginning, and you think about Grant Ward turning Hydra in episode 16, there was stuff from the beginning where we laid in pipe for that. We put in things he says and does, “Oh, he just took May off the radar by sleeping with her,” and “he’s Skye’s C.O.” – we try not to cheat, is what I’m saying, and we also try and surprise.
There are lots of theories about who people are and what’s going to happen with all of that stuff – that’s all very fun. Some things don’t necessarily line up because some characters belong to certain parts of the Marvel Universe and some people don’t… Anyway, I’m just saying, I’m glad people are enjoying that, because we’re working very hard to do it.

Nrama: How much of that particular pay off will we see in these last two episodes before the break?
Bell: All I will say is… we want the first half to end in a way that people will go, “Holy ****, Ihave to come back and see the second half.”

 

[Mike Murdock]

what happened to the fridge prisoners?

They were freed by John Garrett.

 

[coluanprime]

They were freed by John Garrett.

I think s/he means after that.
I've been wondering about that too, they only followed up on one inmate. What about the rest? Filler Fodder?

 

[Mike Murdock]

I think s/he means after that.

They opened up an arts and crafts store.

 

[fixxxer]

Very long interview with Jeff Bell on Newsarama

http://www.newsarama.com/22854-agen...-inhuman-theories-ward-s-future-and-more.html

According to him, the next few episodes will leave people freaking out with excitement

Spoiler

Newsarama: Jeff, I want to ask you about the slow burn of the central mystery of the show so far, and the way it has evolved. It started out being about “How is Coulson alive?” Then it turned into “What is the formula? What is this blue alien?” and then “Why wasn’t Skye affected? What is the writing?” How much of these changes and these evolutions to that mystery were planned out originally?
Jeff Bell: Everything that’s happened, plus a few to come! The thing about – one of the challenges of doing network, where you do 22 episodes, you can’t really devote (unless you’re 24 which is concentrated), it’s very difficult to sustain people’s interest or attention on a single arc. You can do it in 10, you can do it in 13, but when you have 22, it begins to feel like the same slice of pizza every week. If we spent 22 episodes dedicating to finding out the truth about Coulson… you could’ve done that a few years ago. I keep saying, it took 7 years to learn about Mulder’s sister on X-Files, but if they did that now, I don’t think you could sustain that mystery through even the first season – viewing habits have changed so much. So you need to find ways to have your stories evolve. Bring up a mystery, ask logical questions, and as you set it down and answer it, pick up a new question.


We were very aware of that going into the first season. We knew we had this big thing coming up, Hydra, which we called “the H word” last year, because we weren’t allowed to say that word. We had to have other presenting problems, but we also knew we had to solve at least the first piece of the Coulson mystery before that happened, so it gave us a timeline on that. As we resolved that, we brought up Hydra and were able to then segue from Coulson in TAHITI to Hydra and Ward’s betrayal, which took us to the end of the season. That was by design, and the timing and structure of it was predicated on Cap 2. There was a movie coming out that was going to blow up our organization, we knew that was coming.
So with this season, we knew that we were going to be on for 10 episodes, then be off the air for a bunch of time, then come back and do 12 in a row. So it made sense to us to treat these, not as two seasons, but to spend the first half dealing with one arc. As we answer some of those questions, blow it up and present a new mystery at the end of that, which we’re still heading towards. When we come back in episode 11 in March, hopefully everything that happens in 9 and 10 will have people freaking out and excited to come back!


But the tent poles have been there. I’ve said this before: we work toward tent poles. We know that by this episode we needthat to happen. How you get there is where the fun is. Those elements can change. Ruth Negga who plays Raina – we had no idea we were going to love her so much. So we kept giving her more and more – things like that can evolve. The overall shape of it is what we sat down and were discussing at the beginning of the season.


Nrama: So obviously the reveal of the map being a city was one of those tent poles, right?
Bell: Yes. We’ve got, “oh what is this thing?” “Oh, it looks like a map.” “Oh, it’s a map of a city.” “Oh, let’s find the city,” and that’s how we left 8. So I don’t need to say much to go, “What do you think episode 9 is about?” [laughs] So yes, there is a progression, and there’s “What’s in the city? Should we be here? What’s happening?” I think there are sort of natural questions that people have right now that set themselves up for us to look at.
And hopefully we can subvert a lot of those expectations and make something else happen – because that’s what we do! Otherwise it wouldn’t be a good story.


Nrama: Absolutely. With this storyline, at it’s core it’s been building since literally season 1, episode 1. What do you see being the pressures of the payoff of a story that has built upon itself that way over the course of a season and a half?
Bell: I would say the way we view it, it’s not a single payoff, it’s been a whole bunch of payoffs as we ask and answer new questions. So learning things about Tahiti, then seemingly putting it down last season and coming back to it in episode 7 this year to learn more about it was fun. Seeing a blue guy in an episode last year, then getting back into the GH formula this year, it’s been putting things down and picking them back up. So I think we feel pretty confident that what we’re building to is cool! We think it’s cool, we hope people think it’s cool! Beyond that, it’s not a final, final – we’re not revealing every secret of the island here, it’s not the payoff of just one central question, it’s “we have a cool reveal coming up,” and after that, we’re only halfway through Season 2. So we have many more cool reveals that we hope will lead to many more cool questions.


Nrama: What do you guys do to make sure that you’re making these reveals big for both longtime Marvel Comics fans and accessible enough for people who are only in this world through the MCU?
Bell: Well, in general we try to break a cool story that anyone can show up and understand. We then try and populate that with details that are meaningful to Marvel fans.
The fact that Bill Paxton showed up last year and was John Garrett, he’s this really fun, big presence, and eventually he was revealed to be a bad guy and everything else. For Marvel fans, they know, “Oh, John Garrett, that’s super cool – does he have his cyborg body? What are they going to do with that?” And we show a piece of that. We do our version of that. So I think it’s really exciting for Marvel fans to get those pieces, but you don’t need to know that for the story to be enjoyable. That’s the key to doing it, and I think the movies do that really well.
Guardians of the Galaxywas a property where there are 12 people that know that comic, and they did an amazing job of making these alien worlds feel warm and familiar. It’s also the most genius use of pop songs I’ve ever seen in my entire life.




We try to tell you stories – S.H.I.E.L.D. is a family, and Coulson is a surrogate father for Skye – this year her biological father shows up, so you have a daughter torn between two fathers. That’s something that thematically plays to everyone, no matter what, regardless of who she is, or what her name is, or who her father is, or what he is, that’s something that anybody at home can enjoy and understand. And if those people do in fact tie into the Marvel Universe in an extra cool way, then for those fans, hopefully it’s sprinkles on top of your ice cream.


Nrama: No takebacks! You also said that the aliens have been around for hundreds or thousands of years, and that they came to test humanity… and we have a hidden city… this all makes people think of places like Attilan, for example, then Kevin Feige comes out during the big Phase 3 announcement and says “you might see Inhumans sooner than you think)… Obviously, if nothing else, you guys are laying down a foundation that will make people think this way
Bell: I… I understand why people might think that way. And our job is to… This is something that I have felt on every show that I’ve done. I did this little show called Harper’s Island which was fun, it was a murder mystery where there were 25 people, the mystery of who’s the killer, and we’re going to reveal that in 13 episodes. The way I and my partners approached that was, it can’t be a complete surprise, because then you suck and you cheated. It can’t be that obvious that everybody understand, because then you suck.
So you try to lay breadcrumbs that a third of the people go, “Oh my god, it’s that!” and a third of the people go, “I can’t believe it was that!” and the other third go, “I’m sorry, what was the conversation?” You try to present it that way. So that doesn’t mean we’re always literally going where we’re laying breadcrumbs, but wherever we’re going, we trust that we’ve set it up properly, so when it happens, the right people will go, ‘That was cool” or “that make sense” or “I didn’t think that was coming,” but it’s all earned.
So yes, we’ve been seeing a lot of stuff, and it’s fun to read all the theories, and fun to see them develop over the last year and a half.

Nrama: Well, it’s been fun developing them!
Bell: Cool! And what I hope you realize – if you go back and watch from the very beginning, and you think about Grant Ward turning Hydra in episode 16, there was stuff from the beginning where we laid in pipe for that. We put in things he says and does, “Oh, he just took May off the radar by sleeping with her,” and “he’s Skye’s C.O.” – we try not to cheat, is what I’m saying, and we also try and surprise.
There are lots of theories about who people are and what’s going to happen with all of that stuff – that’s all very fun. Some things don’t necessarily line up because some characters belong to certain parts of the Marvel Universe and some people don’t… Anyway, I’m just saying, I’m glad people are enjoying that, because we’re working very hard to do it.

Nrama: How much of that particular pay off will we see in these last two episodes before the break?
Bell: All I will say is… we want the first half to end in a way that people will go, “Holy ****, Ihave to come back and see the second half.”

Bell never came out and said it explicitly, but reading between the lines of his answer to the Attilan questions, I think he Inhumans connection is all but confirmed. Or did no one else get that sense?

 

[Mike Murdock]

I think it's probably correct, but the interview had a bit of a tug of war between "you'll be surprised" and "we don't want you to feel cheated." The latter is the Inhumans, but it's still possible it's not entirely what we think.

 

[Shakel92]

I'm truly excited about tonight's episode. Last year's mid-season cliffhanger wasn't all that exciting. Coulson was kidnapped, but I had ZERO doubt he'd come back. I'm hoping for something truly groundbreaking with these next two episodes.

 

[grzimmer14]

Anyone see this? It's the Inhuman 50th Anniversary Cover and look at the floor on the sides....it looks extremely similar to the writing we have been seeing on AOS.....

Take a look..

 

[BatsDC]

What if Vin Diesel cameos as Black Bolt?

Won't happen but would be totally awesome, and would make sense as to why he's already making so many Inhumans hints

 

[marcvader]

Calling it now, he's playing Lockjaw. Book it!

 

[ComicChick]

the 2014 Hype Awards are up!
http://forums.superherohype.com/forumdisplay.php?f=515

lots of categories! Come nominate your favorite posters!

 

[Vartha]

...HMMM He avoids stuff like Fiege lol

Very long interview with Jeff Bell on Newsarama

http://www.newsarama.com/22854-agen...-inhuman-theories-ward-s-future-and-more.html

According to him, the next few episodes will leave people freaking out with excitement

Spoiler

Newsarama: Jeff, I want to ask you about the slow burn of the central mystery of the show so far, and the way it has evolved. It started out being about “How is Coulson alive?” Then it turned into “What is the formula? What is this blue alien?” and then “Why wasn’t Skye affected? What is the writing?” How much of these changes and these evolutions to that mystery were planned out originally?
Jeff Bell: Everything that’s happened, plus a few to come! The thing about – one of the challenges of doing network, where you do 22 episodes, you can’t really devote (unless you’re 24 which is concentrated), it’s very difficult to sustain people’s interest or attention on a single arc. You can do it in 10, you can do it in 13, but when you have 22, it begins to feel like the same slice of pizza every week. If we spent 22 episodes dedicating to finding out the truth about Coulson… you could’ve done that a few years ago. I keep saying, it took 7 years to learn about Mulder’s sister on X-Files, but if they did that now, I don’t think you could sustain that mystery through even the first season – viewing habits have changed so much. So you need to find ways to have your stories evolve. Bring up a mystery, ask logical questions, and as you set it down and answer it, pick up a new question.


We were very aware of that going into the first season. We knew we had this big thing coming up, Hydra, which we called “the H word” last year, because we weren’t allowed to say that word. We had to have other presenting problems, but we also knew we had to solve at least the first piece of the Coulson mystery before that happened, so it gave us a timeline on that. As we resolved that, we brought up Hydra and were able to then segue from Coulson in TAHITI to Hydra and Ward’s betrayal, which took us to the end of the season. That was by design, and the timing and structure of it was predicated on Cap 2. There was a movie coming out that was going to blow up our organization, we knew that was coming.
So with this season, we knew that we were going to be on for 10 episodes, then be off the air for a bunch of time, then come back and do 12 in a row. So it made sense to us to treat these, not as two seasons, but to spend the first half dealing with one arc. As we answer some of those questions, blow it up and present a new mystery at the end of that, which we’re still heading towards. When we come back in episode 11 in March, hopefully everything that happens in 9 and 10 will have people freaking out and excited to come back!


But the tent poles have been there. I’ve said this before: we work toward tent poles. We know that by this episode we needthat to happen. How you get there is where the fun is. Those elements can change. Ruth Negga who plays Raina – we had no idea we were going to love her so much. So we kept giving her more and more – things like that can evolve. The overall shape of it is what we sat down and were discussing at the beginning of the season.


Nrama: So obviously the reveal of the map being a city was one of those tent poles, right?
Bell: Yes. We’ve got, “oh what is this thing?” “Oh, it looks like a map.” “Oh, it’s a map of a city.” “Oh, let’s find the city,” and that’s how we left 8. So I don’t need to say much to go, “What do you think episode 9 is about?” [laughs] So yes, there is a progression, and there’s “What’s in the city? Should we be here? What’s happening?” I think there are sort of natural questions that people have right now that set themselves up for us to look at.
And hopefully we can subvert a lot of those expectations and make something else happen – because that’s what we do! Otherwise it wouldn’t be a good story.


Nrama: Absolutely. With this storyline, at it’s core it’s been building since literally season 1, episode 1. What do you see being the pressures of the payoff of a story that has built upon itself that way over the course of a season and a half?
Bell: I would say the way we view it, it’s not a single payoff, it’s been a whole bunch of payoffs as we ask and answer new questions. So learning things about Tahiti, then seemingly putting it down last season and coming back to it in episode 7 this year to learn more about it was fun. Seeing a blue guy in an episode last year, then getting back into the GH formula this year, it’s been putting things down and picking them back up. So I think we feel pretty confident that what we’re building to is cool! We think it’s cool, we hope people think it’s cool! Beyond that, it’s not a final, final – we’re not revealing every secret of the island here, it’s not the payoff of just one central question, it’s “we have a cool reveal coming up,” and after that, we’re only halfway through Season 2. So we have many more cool reveals that we hope will lead to many more cool questions.


Nrama: What do you guys do to make sure that you’re making these reveals big for both longtime Marvel Comics fans and accessible enough for people who are only in this world through the MCU?
Bell: Well, in general we try to break a cool story that anyone can show up and understand. We then try and populate that with details that are meaningful to Marvel fans.
The fact that Bill Paxton showed up last year and was John Garrett, he’s this really fun, big presence, and eventually he was revealed to be a bad guy and everything else. For Marvel fans, they know, “Oh, John Garrett, that’s super cool – does he have his cyborg body? What are they going to do with that?” And we show a piece of that. We do our version of that. So I think it’s really exciting for Marvel fans to get those pieces, but you don’t need to know that for the story to be enjoyable. That’s the key to doing it, and I think the movies do that really well.
Guardians of the Galaxywas a property where there are 12 people that know that comic, and they did an amazing job of making these alien worlds feel warm and familiar. It’s also the most genius use of pop songs I’ve ever seen in my entire life.




We try to tell you stories – S.H.I.E.L.D. is a family, and Coulson is a surrogate father for Skye – this year her biological father shows up, so you have a daughter torn between two fathers. That’s something that thematically plays to everyone, no matter what, regardless of who she is, or what her name is, or who her father is, or what he is, that’s something that anybody at home can enjoy and understand. And if those people do in fact tie into the Marvel Universe in an extra cool way, then for those fans, hopefully it’s sprinkles on top of your ice cream.


Nrama: No takebacks! You also said that the aliens have been around for hundreds or thousands of years, and that they came to test humanity… and we have a hidden city… this all makes people think of places like Attilan, for example, then Kevin Feige comes out during the big Phase 3 announcement and says “you might see Inhumans sooner than you think)… Obviously, if nothing else, you guys are laying down a foundation that will make people think this way
Bell: I… I understand why people might think that way. And our job is to… This is something that I have felt on every show that I’ve done. I did this little show called Harper’s Island which was fun, it was a murder mystery where there were 25 people, the mystery of who’s the killer, and we’re going to reveal that in 13 episodes. The way I and my partners approached that was, it can’t be a complete surprise, because then you suck and you cheated. It can’t be that obvious that everybody understand, because then you suck.
So you try to lay breadcrumbs that a third of the people go, “Oh my god, it’s that!” and a third of the people go, “I can’t believe it was that!” and the other third go, “I’m sorry, what was the conversation?” You try to present it that way. So that doesn’t mean we’re always literally going where we’re laying breadcrumbs, but wherever we’re going, we trust that we’ve set it up properly, so when it happens, the right people will go, ‘That was cool” or “that make sense” or “I didn’t think that was coming,” but it’s all earned.
So yes, we’ve been seeing a lot of stuff, and it’s fun to read all the theories, and fun to see them develop over the last year and a half.

Nrama: Well, it’s been fun developing them!
Bell: Cool! And what I hope you realize – if you go back and watch from the very beginning, and you think about Grant Ward turning Hydra in episode 16, there was stuff from the beginning where we laid in pipe for that. We put in things he says and does, “Oh, he just took May off the radar by sleeping with her,” and “he’s Skye’s C.O.” – we try not to cheat, is what I’m saying, and we also try and surprise.
There are lots of theories about who people are and what’s going to happen with all of that stuff – that’s all very fun. Some things don’t necessarily line up because some characters belong to certain parts of the Marvel Universe and some people don’t… Anyway, I’m just saying, I’m glad people are enjoying that, because we’re working very hard to do it.

Nrama: How much of that particular pay off will we see in these last two episodes before the break?
Bell: All I will say is… we want the first half to end in a way that people will go, “Holy ****, Ihave to come back and see the second half.”

 

[The Shrike]

Anyone see this? It's the Inhuman 50th Anniversary Cover and look at the floor on the sides....it looks extremely similar to the writing we have been seeing on AOS.....

Take a look..

When they make the movie those tuning forks on their heads need to go.

 

[darthcoolness3]

well, the next Marvel movie that Loki and Lady Sif will be in is Age of Ultron, so we might have to wait till May 2015 for Asgardians to come back on Agents of Shield.

 

[Mike Murdock]

Marvel movie. But not every episode of Agents of SHIELD has been filmed, obviously.

 

[seahammer]

well, the next Marvel movie that Loki and Lady Sif will be in is Age of Ultron, so we might have to wait till May 2015 for Asgardians to come back on Agents of Shield.

Lady Sif will be in AoU? Hmm. I had just heard [BLACKOUT]Loki and and Heimdall[/BLACKOUT].