Considering that when Roy Batty broke Deckard's fingers, I was more empathising with Roy than with Deckard, I never had a problem there, either.*g*
That's pretty much Blade Runner for me. Roy's interogating technicians? Poor Roy! Roy's putting out his master's eyes? Poor Roy!
(I mean, apart from anything else, I doubt that anyone had ever introduced him to the concept murder is wrong. In fact, just the oposite - four years old, and built to kill. And then die before he could become an inconvenience ...)
Scorpius doesn't quite forget that Crais exists in ItLD
I was thinking, specifically, of the distraction itself, where the lure of a ride through a real live wormhole overcomes his natural suspicion. He left guards, but ... well, they're PK guards. We know how effective they usually are *g*. I think he'd ceased to see Crais as a serious threat.
(Not to mention that Crais got away with misleading the hybrid with the inbuilt lie-detector, no doubt by very carefully telling the literal truth. I swear, if he hadn't been otherwise occupied during Thanks for Sharing they could have sent Crais to deal with the truth-sensing lobster test and he'd have walked away alive ...)
It would be interesting to speculate why. Any ideas?
Enough to make an essay out of :-). What it boils down to is that Scorpius hold Crais in contempt. He sees him as a man who is less intelligent than himself, who allows his emotions to drive him, who has no loyalty to his species or the oganisation that raised and trained him, who led his followers carelessly and with no respect for their potential use. And, above all, as a man is ideologically uncommitted: he can be bought.
All of those things are, in fact, an accurate description of Crais. Scorpius sees the evidence -but then he draws an erroneous conclusion.
He thinks that, because he is more intelligent than Crais, he can easily outwit him. He thinks that, because Crais can be appealed to emotionally, he won't notice that his ex-girlfriend has been sent to spy on him. He thinks that, because Crais has a price, he can buy him off with the promise of a restored comission.
He underestimated both Crais's intelligence (which is considerable) and his desire for revenge, but more than that I think Scorpius failed to understand Crais's capacity for love, in this case his love for Talyn. I'm reasonably sure that if Crais thought Scorpius could give him Talyn (whole and sane) and freedom to take his ship wherever he wanted, then he would have turned on John and, yes, even Aeryn.
But by then Crais has come to the conclusion that, even if Talyn could be repaired, he shouldn't be. Indeed, he should never have built the thing he loves most in the world ... that's his tragedy. The terrible weapon he keeps out of Peace Keeper hands by dying isn't wormholes - it's Talyn.
Scorpius has no grasp at all on any of that. To Scorpius, everything is about a) defeating Scarrans or b) wormholes or c) John.
As for why Crais has insight into Scorpius, well, he did rise through the ranks in spite of being a mere recruit - he understands the priorities of people in power.
(He also can't afford to let his intense hatred of Scorpius prevent him from understanding the hybrid. I mean, Crais habours at least a mild dislike for almost every sentient being in the universe, but it doesn't stop him reading them quite well most of the time.)
Re: Speaking from experience ...
That's pretty much Blade Runner for me. Roy's interogating technicians? Poor Roy! Roy's putting out his master's eyes? Poor Roy!
(I mean, apart from anything else, I doubt that anyone had ever introduced him to the concept murder is wrong. In fact, just the oposite - four years old, and built to kill. And then die before he could become an inconvenience ...)
Scorpius doesn't quite forget that Crais exists in ItLD
I was thinking, specifically, of the distraction itself, where the lure of a ride through a real live wormhole overcomes his natural suspicion. He left guards, but ... well, they're PK guards. We know how effective they usually are *g*. I think he'd ceased to see Crais as a serious threat.
(Not to mention that Crais got away with misleading the hybrid with the inbuilt lie-detector, no doubt by very carefully telling the literal truth. I swear, if he hadn't been otherwise occupied during Thanks for Sharing they could have sent Crais to deal with the truth-sensing lobster test and he'd have walked away alive ...)
It would be interesting to speculate why. Any ideas?
Enough to make an essay out of :-). What it boils down to is that Scorpius hold Crais in contempt. He sees him as a man who is less intelligent than himself, who allows his emotions to drive him, who has no loyalty to his species or the oganisation that raised and trained him, who led his followers carelessly and with no respect for their potential use. And, above all, as a man is ideologically uncommitted: he can be bought.
All of those things are, in fact, an accurate description of Crais. Scorpius sees the evidence -but then he draws an erroneous conclusion.
He thinks that, because he is more intelligent than Crais, he can easily outwit him. He thinks that, because Crais can be appealed to emotionally, he won't notice that his ex-girlfriend has been sent to spy on him. He thinks that, because Crais has a price, he can buy him off with the promise of a restored comission.
He underestimated both Crais's intelligence (which is considerable) and his desire for revenge, but more than that I think Scorpius failed to understand Crais's capacity for love, in this case his love for Talyn. I'm reasonably sure that if Crais thought Scorpius could give him Talyn (whole and sane) and freedom to take his ship wherever he wanted, then he would have turned on John and, yes, even Aeryn.
But by then Crais has come to the conclusion that, even if Talyn could be repaired, he shouldn't be. Indeed, he should never have built the thing he loves most in the world ... that's his tragedy. The terrible weapon he keeps out of Peace Keeper hands by dying isn't wormholes - it's Talyn.
Scorpius has no grasp at all on any of that. To Scorpius, everything is about a) defeating Scarrans or b) wormholes or c) John.
As for why Crais has insight into Scorpius, well, he did rise through the ranks in spite of being a mere recruit - he understands the priorities of people in power.
(He also can't afford to let his intense hatred of Scorpius prevent him from understanding the hybrid. I mean, Crais habours at least a mild dislike for almost every sentient being in the universe, but it doesn't stop him reading them quite well most of the time.)