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May. 10th, 2006 08:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alixtiiThe whole Curly plot seemed pasted on. We haven't really cared about who cared about who killed Curly since Veronica stopped being implicated. Assigning the crime to Cassidy just makes me why we ever bothered to care in the first place.
The more I think about it, the less I can believe Cassidy's arc. Why did he go out with Mac in the first place? Why did he break it off? Why did they get back together? The plotline with which I was most invested now makes no sense.
When I thought Cassidy was gay, his relationship with Mac made sense: she was camouflage, allowing him to more easily pass as straight. And yes, I have problems with using another person that way, but I know those situations are difficult and the offense is forgiveable. But now we know what we know, I'm just left scratching my head. Was he trying to pass as not-molested? How would going out with Mac help? And even if he was using her as some sort of cover, why did he reinitiate the relationship?
Maybe Beaver is gay and evil?
Or did he have genuine feelings for her at some point? Was he actually attempting to work through his own troubled sexuality? They had real geek chemistry if you ask me--that's why I was so invested in the ship in the first place, after all. Was his relationship with Mac and his being evil completely independent of each other, and didn't come together until Veronica contacted Mac's cell phone? Did he only steal her clothes to keep her from interfering?
Although I think there's an AU fic to be written where Mac developes Stockholm syndrome and falls in love with evil!Beaver and helps him take over the world. (Not to mention the AU fic where Cassidy isn't evil and Mac helps him take over the world, which is what I had originally planned on writing. But then I'd need to figure out who planned the bus crash, and what Cassidy's issues really were. An AU where evil!Casidy lives lets me simply take the show's illogic and use it.)
If Veronica had managed to contact her dad and recant, would Beaver have let her go free? (I'm assuming not.) Did he think Keith would believe a forced retraction from Veronica? It seems much easier to kill him and not risk it so why the show of having Veronica call her father (especially when she could potentially call for help)? And if Cassidy did kill Veronica and let Keith live, he had to know Keith would investigate his daughter's death. The possibility of framing Aaron for Veronica's murder aside, I just don't see how Beaver could have gotten off that roof any way other than the way he did.
And the question that still has me going "WTF?": how did Cassidy get the bomb onto the plane? For that matter, how did he get the C4 into Woody's bunker?
So yeah. The episode gets an A+ for intensity and emotional power--I could feel the physiological effects of the adrenaline--but only a C+ for character developement and logic.
The more I think about it, the less I can believe Cassidy's arc. Why did he go out with Mac in the first place? Why did he break it off? Why did they get back together? The plotline with which I was most invested now makes no sense.
When I thought Cassidy was gay, his relationship with Mac made sense: she was camouflage, allowing him to more easily pass as straight. And yes, I have problems with using another person that way, but I know those situations are difficult and the offense is forgiveable. But now we know what we know, I'm just left scratching my head. Was he trying to pass as not-molested? How would going out with Mac help? And even if he was using her as some sort of cover, why did he reinitiate the relationship?
Maybe Beaver is gay and evil?
Or did he have genuine feelings for her at some point? Was he actually attempting to work through his own troubled sexuality? They had real geek chemistry if you ask me--that's why I was so invested in the ship in the first place, after all. Was his relationship with Mac and his being evil completely independent of each other, and didn't come together until Veronica contacted Mac's cell phone? Did he only steal her clothes to keep her from interfering?
Although I think there's an AU fic to be written where Mac developes Stockholm syndrome and falls in love with evil!Beaver and helps him take over the world. (Not to mention the AU fic where Cassidy isn't evil and Mac helps him take over the world, which is what I had originally planned on writing. But then I'd need to figure out who planned the bus crash, and what Cassidy's issues really were. An AU where evil!Casidy lives lets me simply take the show's illogic and use it.)
If Veronica had managed to contact her dad and recant, would Beaver have let her go free? (I'm assuming not.) Did he think Keith would believe a forced retraction from Veronica? It seems much easier to kill him and not risk it so why the show of having Veronica call her father (especially when she could potentially call for help)? And if Cassidy did kill Veronica and let Keith live, he had to know Keith would investigate his daughter's death. The possibility of framing Aaron for Veronica's murder aside, I just don't see how Beaver could have gotten off that roof any way other than the way he did.
And the question that still has me going "WTF?": how did Cassidy get the bomb onto the plane? For that matter, how did he get the C4 into Woody's bunker?
So yeah. The episode gets an A+ for intensity and emotional power--I could feel the physiological effects of the adrenaline--but only a C+ for character developement and logic.