Iron Man re-watch #63454
Started off last night watching Farscape and ended up watching Iron Man instead. Surprise. I'm trying to get over my block on the current chapter of Sentinel, so I counted it as research.
I never noticed before that when Obadiah comes to Tony's office when Pepper is hacking the ghost drive, he leaves the door open. Possibly I am the last person to notice this. It feels deliberate to me, if I'm in thinking-like-Obadiah mode, which I don't do often. I decided the backstory is, he was alerted that someone had hacked into the ghost drive from the premises. He traces it maybe to the floor of offices he and Tony share. Figures it's Tony, is surprised to see Pepper there when he opens the door, and yeah, he knows, but he takes pleasure in toying with her a bit, and there's that tiny bit of doubt that prevents him from acting outright, the tiny idea that maybe she doesn't know it's him, and maybe he can still spin it, get away with it, because maybe she doesn't know what she's looking at. Knowing Tony, he probably sent her to download the thing and didn't tell her what it was.
Mostly, though, he enjoys toying with her.
Leaving the door open makes that scene somehow more horrifying to me than if he'd closed the door. Like he's both trying to look harmless (he leaves the door open, goes for the scotch, doesn't approach her outright) but at the same time enjoying that he's left an escape for his prey, you know? The door was open, she could have left at any time.
It's a real power play, and to sum up, Obadiah Stane is one creepy motherfucker.
There's also the pesky time gap there, between a)Gulmira b)Obie getting the armor from Raza and c)Pepper downloading the specs for Iron Monger. But that's a gap for another day.
sidenote: what if Obie was working for the Mandarin (whatever/whoever that may be, hopefully not a guy a long mustache and power rings)? I mean, clearly Raza does. But Raza also reports to Obie. I really like the idea of Obie working for the Mandarin, and maybe SHIELD didn't take him down because they were after bigger fish.
I never noticed before that when Obadiah comes to Tony's office when Pepper is hacking the ghost drive, he leaves the door open. Possibly I am the last person to notice this. It feels deliberate to me, if I'm in thinking-like-Obadiah mode, which I don't do often. I decided the backstory is, he was alerted that someone had hacked into the ghost drive from the premises. He traces it maybe to the floor of offices he and Tony share. Figures it's Tony, is surprised to see Pepper there when he opens the door, and yeah, he knows, but he takes pleasure in toying with her a bit, and there's that tiny bit of doubt that prevents him from acting outright, the tiny idea that maybe she doesn't know it's him, and maybe he can still spin it, get away with it, because maybe she doesn't know what she's looking at. Knowing Tony, he probably sent her to download the thing and didn't tell her what it was.
Mostly, though, he enjoys toying with her.
Leaving the door open makes that scene somehow more horrifying to me than if he'd closed the door. Like he's both trying to look harmless (he leaves the door open, goes for the scotch, doesn't approach her outright) but at the same time enjoying that he's left an escape for his prey, you know? The door was open, she could have left at any time.
It's a real power play, and to sum up, Obadiah Stane is one creepy motherfucker.
There's also the pesky time gap there, between a)Gulmira b)Obie getting the armor from Raza and c)Pepper downloading the specs for Iron Monger. But that's a gap for another day.
sidenote: what if Obie was working for the Mandarin (whatever/whoever that may be, hopefully not a guy a long mustache and power rings)? I mean, clearly Raza does. But Raza also reports to Obie. I really like the idea of Obie working for the Mandarin, and maybe SHIELD didn't take him down because they were after bigger fish.