User blog comment:Demileto/Is Lincoln Campbell really an alias for Thomas Ward?/@comment-2041242-20151117225351/@comment-26412466-20151201130642

I would. When the series began, they wrote Coulson's ressurection, Skye's origins, May's Bahrain incident and Ward's family drama as big character mysteries; the first three of these were resolved in the past two seasons and were amazing character development for them, so why would Ward and his family drama get the short end of the stick? For the sake of pleasing Ward haters?

Ward's one of the original six and the one who has got the least character development since the pilot, so it'd be about time he got an arc centered around him. I try to think beyond the fandom's general belief of the direction the story will take because the writers often script the show to shock us with a completely unexpected one when we least expect it, the then prevalent theory that Robert Gonzales' bigotry would start a war between SHIELD and Inhumans being a prime example of that, so I'm definitely not buying Tyler Ritter's Thomas being THE Thomas Ward. Simply put, Thomas is too major a character in the mythology of the Ward family to end up being a throwaway one, someone they cast for a single episode and then get quickly dispatched without even earning a cast announcement on the press in stark contrast to his brother Christian, for whom they announced Tim Dekay's casting last year. Finally, they've hinted that Lincoln has a big, dark secret since the season began and this has to come forth somehow in the next two episodes, if he's not Thomas Ward then what is it? Why else would they've hinted him to be so psychologically broken and having a secret dark side?