You have a fine sense of how things work on this show. :)
I find it rather unlikely that someone who spent most of his life torturing people, Mr "I decide who lives and who dies" should suddenly learn about compassion and the pleasure of helping others.
I don't think it's necessarily too much of a stretch that he finds the idea of teaming up with his brother and doing something a bit more positive with his life kind of attractive. I don't believe he would have found it terribly easy to follow through on that, though. (I still say that I really, really wish we'd gotten a few episodes of Jarod & Kyle as the psycho, road-tripping Odd Couple. It would have been hilarious.)
Maybe it was in case something happened--which if course it did--but it seems to be an odd thing to do.
Yeah, as you saw on my post, this kind of bugged me, too. I think it's one of their less successful plot devices, really.
but it does raise the question of why they didn't just kill the guy early on instead of paying him
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Dude, I've seen the entire series now, and I still don't know to what extent they were making it up as they went. Or, for that matter, whether we ever really got answers or not. ;)
Yeah, I thought that might be the case. Lucky it's a damned good ride, even if it goes nowhere.
Actually, he was told that back in "Dragon House"
He was? I didn't remember that, and Jarod doesn't seem to either.
Oh, Sydney.
Yeah, I know. I was very upset about the first couple of S3 eps, but I'm so glad the damage wasn't lasting.
I note you say nothing about my speculations about "Jarod's father". :-) I even had a horrible thought. Maybe all of those guys are Raines, and Charles was just the adoptive father. It's OK; I don't expect or want you to say anything spoilery. It's just a pity I can't speculate with you or anyone else--but Greg, of course.
Lucky it's a damned good ride, even if it goes nowhere.
It really is. I find that I'm reasonably comfortable with the idea that it was ultimately more about the journey than the destination, anyway, and I even came to rather like the idea that it's never possible to get to the bottom of all the Centre's secrets or to resolve all its contradictions, no matter how much you learn.
He was? I didn't remember that, and Jarod doesn't seem to either.
He was! He may have assumed they were fake names, though, the same way I did. The person who told him kind of seemed to imply that they were.
I was very upset about the first couple of S3 eps, but I'm so glad the damage wasn't lasting.
Angst fan that I am, upset was not exactly my reaction. ;) But I'm glad, too.
I note you say nothing about my speculations about "Jarod's father". :-)
Ha! I was going to say something teasingly cryptic, actually, but decided it might be better to bite my tongue. I am... very amused by your speculations, and that's all I'm going to say. ;)
Because you know which ones are right and which ones are so terribly wrong, I suppose! :-) I have to say, they're ramping the angst and tension up so much lately, I went for something light the last couple of nights.
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You have a fine sense of how things work on this show. :)
I find it rather unlikely that someone who spent most of his life torturing people, Mr "I decide who lives and who dies" should suddenly learn about compassion and the pleasure of helping others.
I don't think it's necessarily too much of a stretch that he finds the idea of teaming up with his brother and doing something a bit more positive with his life kind of attractive. I don't believe he would have found it terribly easy to follow through on that, though. (I still say that I really, really wish we'd gotten a few episodes of Jarod & Kyle as the psycho, road-tripping Odd Couple. It would have been hilarious.)
Maybe it was in case something happened--which if course it did--but it seems to be an odd thing to do.
Yeah, as you saw on my post, this kind of bugged me, too. I think it's one of their less successful plot devices, really.
but it does raise the question of why they didn't just kill the guy early on instead of paying him ( ... )
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Yeah, I thought that might be the case. Lucky it's a damned good ride, even if it goes nowhere.
Actually, he was told that back in "Dragon House"
He was? I didn't remember that, and Jarod doesn't seem to either.
Oh, Sydney.
Yeah, I know. I was very upset about the first couple of S3 eps, but I'm so glad the damage wasn't lasting.
I note you say nothing about my speculations about "Jarod's father". :-) I even had a horrible thought. Maybe all of those guys are Raines, and Charles was just the adoptive father. It's OK; I don't expect or want you to say anything spoilery. It's just a pity I can't speculate with you or anyone else--but Greg, of course.
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It really is. I find that I'm reasonably comfortable with the idea that it was ultimately more about the journey than the destination, anyway, and I even came to rather like the idea that it's never possible to get to the bottom of all the Centre's secrets or to resolve all its contradictions, no matter how much you learn.
He was? I didn't remember that, and Jarod doesn't seem to either.
He was! He may have assumed they were fake names, though, the same way I did. The person who told him kind of seemed to imply that they were.
I was very upset about the first couple of S3 eps, but I'm so glad the damage wasn't lasting.
Angst fan that I am, upset was not exactly my reaction. ;) But I'm glad, too.
I note you say nothing about my speculations about "Jarod's father". :-)
Ha! I was going to say something teasingly cryptic, actually, but decided it might be better to bite my tongue. I am... very amused by your speculations, and that's all I'm going to say. ;)
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