Aaaaand, continued, because my thoughts were too long to fit....
Anyway, the last battle becomes VERY brief, when this moment feels like it’s supposed to be EPIC, and you also have the whole Colin can’t lay a hand on Galano. That is SUCH a minding, such a restriction, and I don’t know why he doesn’t seem more afraid about that in particular. Yes, as the mastermind he is, he has actually manipulated his friends and enemies into giving him enough power and support to destroy the man he came here to destroy (I love the image of the prison mentality: either tricking people into protecing you or proving you can beat them all, because it really exemplifies the entire finale) but I want to FEEL that more, the desperation of a man that has set up the pieces, manipulated everything as far as he can, and then knows that has to just let it fly.
Even if he’s fairly confident that things will work, he should have NERVES. Like someone who has studied for a test, is good in a subject, and then is told that the test is a day ahead. There were bound to be details, plans that he could have added to make it all work better (or if he could actually touch, attack Galano) but now, because Joseph has put this restriction on him he just CAN’T…)
This is already so epic, but I want it to be so much more epic.
The Colin-Joseph relationship is intriguing and confusing now, because, at least in the context of the Galano-Colin battle, Joseph is another weapon, another impressive force that has been “manipulated” to furthur Colin’s need for revenge/laying of Grace’s ghost (?). But in their relationship OUTSIDE of prison…I don’t think that it’s exactly that. It changes? Colin makes the choice to have it change?
Another intriguing thought: did Colin push Laney, put him in situations, protect him because he knew that he could be a focus for the soldiers, he would bring Guye into play? Did he visit Natell so that he could have influene on Laney, whom he knew had these abilities? Was he figuring in the battle between the Darkman and Guye the entire time, knowing that as he came closer to the day when he was going to kill Galano there was more activity between those two forces and figuring that maybe he should have a connection to them?
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Date: 2011-01-16 11:06 pm (UTC)Anyway, the last battle becomes VERY brief, when this moment feels like it’s supposed to be EPIC, and you also have the whole Colin can’t lay a hand on Galano. That is SUCH a minding, such a restriction, and I don’t know why he doesn’t seem more afraid about that in particular. Yes, as the mastermind he is, he has actually manipulated his friends and enemies into giving him enough power and support to destroy the man he came here to destroy (I love the image of the prison mentality: either tricking people into protecing you or proving you can beat them all, because it really exemplifies the entire finale) but I want to FEEL that more, the desperation of a man that has set up the pieces, manipulated everything as far as he can, and then knows that has to just let it fly.
Even if he’s fairly confident that things will work, he should have NERVES. Like someone who has studied for a test, is good in a subject, and then is told that the test is a day ahead. There were bound to be details, plans that he could have added to make it all work better (or if he could actually touch, attack Galano) but now, because Joseph has put this restriction on him he just CAN’T…)
This is already so epic, but I want it to be so much more epic.
The Colin-Joseph relationship is intriguing and confusing now, because, at least in the context of the Galano-Colin battle, Joseph is another weapon, another impressive force that has been “manipulated” to furthur Colin’s need for revenge/laying of Grace’s ghost (?). But in their relationship OUTSIDE of prison…I don’t think that it’s exactly that. It changes? Colin makes the choice to have it change?
Another intriguing thought: did Colin push Laney, put him in situations, protect him because he knew that he could be a focus for the soldiers, he would bring Guye into play? Did he visit Natell so that he could have influene on Laney, whom he knew had these abilities? Was he figuring in the battle between the Darkman and Guye the entire time, knowing that as he came closer to the day when he was going to kill Galano there was more activity between those two forces and figuring that maybe he should have a connection to them?