Brett Dalton is such a good actor
Full spoilers for Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. S1-4, but I'm not doing a spoiler tag because this show's been out for over a decade.
Brett Dalton is so amazing in AoS. For most of S1, he's this cool, 'I work alone', agent who softens up to the team — who become like family to him — and the viewers, and after 1x17 when it's revealed that he's Hydra, it just changes completely, and it's so amazing to see on a rewatch, however, you do still see some of those previous aspects in the last couple episodes of S1, and it's insane.
In the next season, he's so different, he seems remorseful — and might've been — but he's changed and you can see it in his eyes. It's genuinely amazing — and then later parts of S2 and early S3, he's just like pure evil — and it's nothing like before, and somehow it's the same person.
And then comes Hive. Aside from the face, Hive is nothing like Ward — Dalton plays him in a such a way that when I see it, I barely see Ward, and when they attack Hive to make him have flashbacks of his hosts' lives — Grant Ward comes back for a second and it's like he's hanging over Hive's head, just wow.
Then there's the Framework, with a Ward trained by Victoria Hand instead of Garrett, and he's akin to S1 Ward but so different at the same time. Brett Dalton is so good, kind wish we saw more of him, but one of the great things is that they killed him off when they had too, and didn't keep him around for too long.
Brett Dalton is so amazing in AoS. For most of S1, he's this cool, 'I work alone', agent who softens up to the team — who become like family to him — and the viewers, and after 1x17 when it's revealed that he's Hydra, it just changes completely, and it's so amazing to see on a rewatch, however, you do still see some of those previous aspects in the last couple episodes of S1, and it's insane.
In the next season, he's so different, he seems remorseful — and might've been — but he's changed and you can see it in his eyes. It's genuinely amazing — and then later parts of S2 and early S3, he's just like pure evil — and it's nothing like before, and somehow it's the same person.
And then comes Hive. Aside from the face, Hive is nothing like Ward — Dalton plays him in a such a way that when I see it, I barely see Ward, and when they attack Hive to make him have flashbacks of his hosts' lives — Grant Ward comes back for a second and it's like he's hanging over Hive's head, just wow.
Then there's the Framework, with a Ward trained by Victoria Hand instead of Garrett, and he's akin to S1 Ward but so different at the same time. Brett Dalton is so good, kind wish we saw more of him, but one of the great things is that they killed him off when they had too, and didn't keep him around for too long.
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At the very least an anti hero
Thats his tragedy, he didn't need to end up the way he did.
And it is farrrr better than majority of D+ MCU shows. Marvel definitely understood how to do tv WAY better back then compared to now.
I ain’t saying Dalton is some all time actor, but not mediocre like you imply either.
Edit: Damn, is this *that* controversial of an opinion?
However, he is a bit old for it. He's 42, while Corenswet is 32, and Alcock's 25, and whoever they cast as Wonder Woman will probably be in her early-mid 30s.
But yeah, I think Dalton would make an awesome Batman.
It’s the only time I really got invested into a character so props to him and the directors.
(This isn’t a political thing, I promise)
i just wished he had an redemption arc instead of killing him....