Grant Ward - Blog Posts
Well.. I just watched MAOS and..COME ON!!!
-Skye looking Ward's photo in her computer was ..perfect!
This says that she still cares about him and she really tries to forget him but.. well, she can't!She likes him..she still likes him and she can't help it!She believes there's still good in him.. and what if he was telling the truth about his feelings?Just..what if?
And then, there's Ward..
He clearly cares about Skye AND when Garrett asked him what have Raina texted him about he says:"She hadquestions about your decision to pack up the lab and move it to the States."
This says screams:"I really care about Skye. I don't want you to hurt her. Stay away."
Oh, and I couldn't possibly forget the scene with his dog, Buddy and Fitz telling Ward:"I know you care about us, Ward". I was crossing my fingers while saying:
BUT INSTEAD HE MADE THIS HAPPEN...
P.S.:This is for Garrett
OMG THIS IS EPIC!!!!!
Grant:
Skye?
(Knocking: Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock) Do you wanna join Hydra? Come on lets go and spie I never see you anymore Come out the door It’s like you’ve gone away I use to be your SO And now i’m not I wish i can be it again! Do you wanna join Hydra? It doesn’t have...
agents of shield was ahead of its time because they understood the trauma of liking a cute white guy only for him to end up being a fucking nazi
I could probably yap about wards' character development and as much as I love his character he would not have been as memorable or great if they gave him a redemption arc in season 2 and I'm so glad they didn't.
It would be a different story if they prolonged the Hydra arc over, say, the first 3 seasons and had him be a reoccurring character similar to Zuko from Atla then a redemption arc would have made sense.
BUT IM SO GLAD THEY DIDNT BECAUSE HIS CHARACTER IS SO INTERESTING
He's probably one of my favourite antagonist characters. Purely because that boy was for himself and himself ALONE.
I am convinced that if Shield had the upper hand over Hydra after the events at the end of season 1 HE WOULD HAVE 100% surrendered and been like "you guys have shown me the light and meaning in teamwork and family 🥹"
His motive was I had to do what I had to do to ensure my survival and no one can convince me to do otherwise.
I also don't believe he truly loved Skye. I think he saw that they had commonality. ALSO, she saw him as a "good guy" and "saviour" she was one of the last to find out he was a traitor so I bet he thought he could manipulate her into believing him and continuing to worship him as a good guy. BUT Skye is smarter than he credited her for, and also, she's more loyal than he gave her credit for. He's the type to be loyal to a person. She's the type to be loyal to a family. Because that's all she ever wanted. And that was his mistake in believing that she would remain loyal to him alone.
Also him repeatedly trying to redeem himself in season 2 was just because he realised that him being with family was better than him being alone and except he realised that way too late.
Ward was
We were both fucked up EXCEPT I healed and you got worse.
There are three kinds of love:
A passionate love - Lincoln
A lasting, committed love - Sousa
A FUCKING NAZI - Ward
A novel by Daisy Johnson
Agents of shield confession:
I HEAVILY shipped ward and sky for season 1
In my defense I was like 12 and didn't understand toxic relationships
ALSO may and ward are an odd combo ik it was only sex but still from the beginning I was like Coulson is her man that's her husband.
Rewatching season 1 of agents of shield with my mom, and it's got me thinking about the daisy and ward parallels. (Also, given me an edit idea more on that later I BEG an editor sees this)
They both didn't have the best childhoods. They both were lost for some time. They both represent who they would have turned out to be had they been taken in by different people. And it's just so
Anyways the edit idea:
Audio: The winner takes it all meryl streeps version, specifically the movie version NOT the studio version. Any point of the song works, but maybe the last part would be best, where she belts the winner takes it all and then there's the ABBA backing vocals.
Visual:
so the winner takes it all - daisy becoming an agent, idfk some cool shots of her
And the loser has to fall - ward dying
I think it'll tug at the heartstrings and be super sad and just yeah SOMEONE MAKE THIS HAPPEN I BEG
No gets how funny their interactions are because he's so nauseatingly apologetic yet fake at the same time and she's so rightfully done with his bullshit she's just like kys or ill do it for you to his face
I wish more people in the Agents of SHIELD fandom were appreciative of the canon Daisy and Ward dynamic in the same way I am. Like. I think a lot (or even most, really) of folks are in the "Get a job stay away from her" camp. Meanwhile I fully think the writers should've locked those two in a room together until it got real awful. I wanted to see her beat him to death. It would've been awesome.
⬆️ my ideal Daisy and Ward interaction.
I know everyone in the fandom is very Anti ward but uh.
I love him. He's so fucking funny it's like he didn't like them but somehow COULD NOT stay away from the team. He spent months being like "skye please forgive me I can tell you where your father is 🥹" and the entire she's like no and shoots him or tells him to jump. AND THIS MAN DOES NOT STOP. WHEN WE THOUGHT HE DIED? NOPE HIVE. but like not the same unfortunately. If we could have had him pop in and out of the show throughout either helping (to work towards his own gain) or being an opponent i would have been happy. (Like for example finding out he brokered the deal to exchange the Inhumans for the whole future space arc)
I think what really sold Grant Ward being a double agent was that the actor was genuinely acting for the first few episodes. Apparently they only told Brett Dalton about the plot twist the day before filming it so his interactions with the team feel authentic.
I don't think I'll ever be able to wrap my brain around how clever the Ward plot twist is
Bc what the writers do, in regards to a "wolf in the herd", is draw all suspicion off him by having him screw up the past episode. By killing the fake Clairvoyant, "for Skye", the other characters treat him accordingly: he's locked up. He's in a cell when the others learn about HYDRA, and given what he just did, no one (characters & audience) is questioning whether he's really S.H.I.E.L.D.
And so we point fingers at everyone else. Coulson is an obvious no, and unless Skye feels like switching again, she's a no. May feels far too obvious, and Fitz seems as far removed from HYDRA as possible
In fact, the one we all start to suspect is Trip. He only showed up a few episodes ago, and he suddenly gets along with everyone. Not only did he train under Garrett, but he's the one who's with Simmons at the Hub. And everyone is being secretive, everyone's anxious, and Trip certainly doesn't plan on being taken out. Since it's told largely from Simmons' pov during her parts, we're the ones seeing her fear, her cautiousness. Her whole "I can't trust anyone" thing. Trip seems suspicious
And he seems suspicious enough that we don't see the true wolf, the one who's been with the team the whole time
Shameless self-promotion. Cue the AOS theme song.
Do I have enough fics to make a master list yet? Anyway, there’s a few updates for my big AOS fix it. Have fun.
More thoughts on the rest of season one:
Raina keeps talking about what she and Skye will become even way back here.
A guy stabs May and she later uses the same knife on him, just like with Izel later.
The contrast of Quinn hugging Skye to shoot her again more effectively with Coulson cradling her body hurts.
Garrett doesn't realize that all the kerfuffle is because Hydra has revealed themselves until Skye decrypts the signal.
When Coulson locks May up in the cage, you can see Ward trying to figure out if she's Hydra too. He's so confused for a minute, and it's hilarious to me.
Speaking of Ward, Raina tells him how she would manipulate him if that's what she wanted to do and then immediately follows up and does it, but he totally falls for it.
I forgot how intense (and ridiculous) Fitz's one-sided grudge against Tripp is. The Moby Dick bit is great.
Daniels tells Audrey something like, "I'm a monster, but you can save me," which is interestingly similar to how Ward is treating Skye in these episodes.
Speaking of which, the cello continuing to play over Skye discovering Koenig's body is amazing.
Skye says May left because she didn't care at all, but it's the opposite—she cares too much.
While they're talking by the pool, Jemma says Fitz will never have to find out what it would be like if she were Hydra, but thanks to the Framework, she will have to see him that way. Poor babies.
Garrett sarcastically tells Deathlock/Mike that he loves him right before a cut to Fitzsimmons in the pod.
Coulson says Skye was compassionate, not weak, when she chose not to let Ward die, whereas Garrett calls any sign of compassion in Ward weakness. It really hammers home how much of a difference it makes who finds you.
I've recently started rewatching Agents of Shield with my sister who hasn't seen it before, so here are some rewatch-inspired thoughts about the first half of season one:
The Bus Kids are all such babies! Especially Skye.
May gets knocked out in each of the first two episodes. It's definitely taking her a moment to readjust to fieldwork.
So many Shield water bottles.
Even though I know what Ward actually is, he still makes me like the version of himself we see here.
May and Coulson's one-sided conversations are amazing.
I honestly can't remember. Did Ward's younger brother die in the well? The flashes we see aren't super clear.
Interesting that Coulson tells Skye that there was a little girl in Bahrain, but he doesn't mention that she died.
I'd never realized that we get a glimpse of the carvings during Coulson's flashbacks of being revived.
Speaking of which, I thought looking at the carvings was what triggered his instinct to carve, but the drawings on the whiteboard in Eye Spy don't seem to set him off.
I love the way that when Coulson is kidnapped, he doesn't say the "Previously on" or "We'll return in a moment" bits. I remembered that from later seasons, but it's a nice touch to start it now.
I've recently started rewatching Agents of Shield with my sister who hasn't seen it before, so here are some rewatch-inspired thoughts about the first half of season one:
The Bus Kids are all such babies! Especially Skye.
May gets knocked out in each of the first two episodes. It's definitely taking her a moment to readjust to fieldwork.
So many Shield water bottles.
Even though I know what Ward actually is, he still makes me like the version of himself we see here.
May and Coulson's one-sided conversations are amazing.
I honestly can't remember. Did Ward's younger brother die in the well? The flashes we see aren't super clear.
Interesting that Coulson tells Skye that there was a little girl in Bahrain, but he doesn't mention that she died.
I'd never realized that we get a glimpse of the carvings during Coulson's flashbacks of being revived.
Speaking of which, I thought looking at the carvings was what triggered his instinct to carve, but the drawings on the whiteboard in Eye Spy don't seem to set him off.
I love the way that when Coulson is kidnapped, he doesn't say the "Previously on" or "We'll return in a moment" bits. I remembered that from later seasons, but it's a nice touch to start it now.