And I still like the original Ward, too
So they are telling me that Victoria Hand, the woman who sent agents to missions and lied to them about extractions, the woman who was ready to kill five or her own people to get to Coulson, the woman who wanted to kill a bounded prisoner, is a good model for a damaged teenager? She is better than Garret, I admit that, at least she didn’t left a 15 kid alone in the woods (I hope) and she isn’t a murderer. But the indifference Hand showed towards her own people’s lives for me looked like borderline psychopathic. Sorry, unless Coulson’s team and aos’ writers I have memory.
But (probably against the writer’s intentions) this Hand-as-Ward’s-mentor story shows that Ward’s nature is really good. Contrary to the natural born evil the writers wanted us to believe he was, his inner soul had to be very good. Because:
- With a raging psycho as mentor, Ward was still able to maintain his humanity enough to: love the guy who left him alone in the woods for five years; love his teammates and fall in love with Skye and (maybe) Kara; minimize casualties whenever he could; don’t harm civilians; try to make amends to the people he hurt; and try to give Kara (who has been abandoned to torture, brainwashing and death by wonderful, compassionate Shield) the help none gave him. He didn’t retaliate against anything the oh so righteous Shield people did to him, including trying to kill him three times. He only went crazy with grief and revenge when they killed Kara (the only person in his 32 years of life that treated him like a human) using his own hands.
- With a woman who was cold and hard as nails but decent enough as mentor, he became a freaking hero. The one he could have become out of the fw in the “main” world if Coulson et al had brains and basic humanity enough to fill a nut.
Of course, Team Coulson, the writers and the haters won’t admit it, never. But giving that I don’t give a sh*t for what they think and always liked Ward and thought that his demonization was BS,, I’m satisfied.
Do someone know if the network had forced the writers to do this story? Because it is unlike them and everything they have done until now. I wonder.
As always, just an opinion. Have a wonderful day!
