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Offline Darth Zakryn

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Missed Opportunity?
« on: March 03, 2011, 02:37:30 PM »
In #35. The Proposal Ax is going cookie monster on Tennant's food. Now, the whole point of that mission was to get Tennant to freak out, and as soon as Ax does that, Tennant gets up and snarls "I am going to kick your -" before Marco intervenes and calms him down WTF! They were trying to get him to freak out, and right when they have a chance to do so, Marco stops him so they can do it LATER! What the hell? Does anyone have any theories regarding this?

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Re: Missed Opportunity?
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2011, 04:04:03 PM »
I haven't read the book in quite the long time, so I can't answer that.


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Re: Missed Opportunity?
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2011, 05:14:28 PM »
The only thing I can think of is that they didn't want him to freak out over just something that anyone would have freaked out over.  For example a situation where it could be plainly seen that he was well within his rights to be angry.  You know?  Someone starts snarfing your food right in front of you, and just about any normal human being would be at least a little pissed off.  So that wouldn't really prove anything.  No, they needed to secretly piss him off but then publicly reveal the freak-out.

Granted, that is a pretty weak justification, given that the bugs-in-the-salad plan would have been an extremely justified freak-out, too.  I dunno, though, maybe they were hoping that he would just completely snap and punch somebody?

To be perfectly honest, that whole book always struck me as being a little silly.

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Re: Missed Opportunity?
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2011, 09:31:19 AM »
Kind of like an X-files "Funny" episode.

I think Marco's books have always been that balance of comedy and tragedy.

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Re: Missed Opportunity?
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2011, 05:58:36 AM »
I don't think it was a missed opportunity but then again that is just me.

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Re: Missed Opportunity?
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2011, 06:09:35 PM »

But knowing Tennant's character, he still wasn't supposed to do that as he represented peace and love and understanding NO MATTER WHAT, so it WAS still a missed opportunity. Unless, of course, nobody was paying attention...