For what it's worth, your squee about Grant Ward is making me rethink watching AOS. He's exactly the sort of character that I find interesting.
(MCU Loki, not so much. But then, I really had to work for any sort of coherent character arc for Loki. I didn't see one at all until Thor: the Dark World, and then I wished that Avengers had come some time after the Dark World timeline wise.)
Ward sounds like he comes with a character arc already built in. And I appreciate that, especially regarding morally ambiguous characters.
I'm not really interested in superheroes (mostly because the current cult around them seems Deeply and Unreasonably Outraged if you voice unease at the more alarming elements to them) but morally ambiguous government agents (and the questionable agencies who employ them) are up my alley, especially if the writing (if not the fandom) acknowledges that SHIELD might not be 'good' so much as 'not HYDRA'.
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(MCU Loki, not so much. But then, I really had to work for any sort of coherent character arc for Loki. I didn't see one at all until Thor: the Dark World, and then I wished that Avengers had come some time after the Dark World timeline wise.)
Ward sounds like he comes with a character arc already built in. And I appreciate that, especially regarding morally ambiguous characters.
I'm not really interested in superheroes (mostly because the current cult around them seems Deeply and Unreasonably Outraged if you voice unease at the more alarming elements to them) but morally ambiguous government agents (and the questionable agencies who employ them) are up my alley, especially if the writing (if not the fandom) acknowledges that SHIELD might not be 'good' so much as 'not HYDRA'.