Chapter 31 Family Ties Part 2

i personally found that^ up there to be a very apt assessment of the situation.

and another thought occurred to me

i was reading though the posts just a bit ago and a thing witch_doctor said really struck me, and got mind my going in a new direction. what if we are getting the "spin" effect of the story being told from the journals? by this i mean, what if scratch really isn't that over the top evil( no wicked witch laugh during the torture scene) what if datu's accent actually isnt shitty ( ever notice how it gets better when HE's the one narrating?) what if burt does'nt always sound like dirty harry in apacolypse now?...i dunno, its a rather whacked out idea...but hey, thats what im here for right??

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Originally Posted by yarri

Memories fade in time and the weapon is ... was a trigger to relive those memories.

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I'm not disagreeing with you on that, or anything much really, just that, to my ears, the reaction to losing it was over the top and spoiled an otherwise excellent section, which also wasn't helped by Scratch's performance, only for that short minute or so though.

I'm happy to agree to disagree, we are all allowed our own opinions :D

I do think Scratch is psychotic. It is very likely the result of her upbringing but the fact remains; bitch cray-cray!

Is there a bit of a spin being portrayed because the journals are being written from the perspective of the tower folk? I dunno, let's ask a non-Tower resident, like Hannah, or Charlie (bloke she framed for not watching the Tanker and then bled for the zeds to feed on). Dude, Scratch is very cruel and seems to take pleasure in hurting others. And though Osiris can argue otherwise as he is very welcome to do so (opinions rule!) I feel that Scratch has been responsible for a lot of the negative shit going on. Rather than abide by a Live and Let Live rule, she has proven to be the sort that adopts an I Live and You Give rule.

Sure, sure, at the moment she is being kind to Lizzy, but I think that serves Scratch more than it does Lizzy. She's doing it to fill that void in her life. She can have anything she wants and is ruthless in seeking it out. I don't know if the abortion she had at sixteen left her unable to have children again, but at current she is keeping Lizzy alive because she is pregnant. Scratch won't hurt the baby. Not sure if because hurting a baby is an evil she dare not commit or if it is because she wants to be a parent. I don't think she'd kill Lizzy after the baby is born...at least, not right away. But I do think that eventually she'd want to be that baby's parent. It's just not in the cards though.

Another thing Scratch wants but can't have is vengeance. I do believe she really did love her brother. I have no idea if she'll ever get a chance to shoot Pegs.

It's going to be crazy when Bricks has a rage-fit and chokes Lizzy to death. Then Scratch will fucking murder Bricks and the audience will temporarily love her again. ;P

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Originally Posted by Adventureless_Hero

I do think Scratch is psychotic. It is very likely the result of her upbringing but the fact remains; bitch cray-cray!

Is there a bit of a spin being portrayed because the journals are being written from the perspective of the tower folk? I dunno, let's ask a non-Tower resident, like Hannah, or Charlie (bloke she framed for not watching the Tanker and then bled for the zeds to feed on). Dude, Scratch is very cruel and seems to take pleasure in hurting others. And though Osiris can argue otherwise as he is very welcome to do so (opinions rule!) I feel that Scratch has been responsible for a lot of the negative shit going on. Rather than abide by a Live and Let Live rule, she has proven to be the sort that adopts an I Live and You Give rule.

Sure, sure, at the moment she is being kind to Lizzy, but I think that serves Scratch more than it does Lizzy. She's doing it to fill that void in her life. She can have anything she wants and is ruthless in seeking it out. I don't know if the abortion she had at sixteen left her unable to have children again, but at current she is keeping Lizzy alive because she is pregnant. Scratch won't hurt the baby. Not sure if because hurting a baby is an evil she dare not commit or if it is because she wants to be a parent. I don't think she'd kill Lizzy after the baby is born...at least, not right away. But I do think that eventually she'd want to be that baby's parent. It's just not in the cards though.

Another thing Scratch wants but can't have is vengeance. I do believe she really did love her brother. I have no idea if she'll ever get a chance to shoot Pegs.

It's going to be crazy when Bricks has a rage-fit and chokes Lizzy to death. Then Scratch will fucking murder Bricks and the audience will temporarily love her again. ;P

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I think the baby is Angels and that is why Scratch is keeping the baby and Lizzy alive..... they're apart of the family now.

If they had told CJ about Shauns death truthfully, I think they would have gotten the same result.

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Originally Posted by den1981

If they had told CJ about Shauns death truthfully, I think they would have gotten the same result.

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I agree! Why all the secrecy and lying?

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Originally Posted by Cabbage Patch

I agree! Why all the secrecy and lying?

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But they didn't tell her the full truth... they said that he was killed by the Mallers, not the other guys.

There is certainly some merit in the suggestion that we are only getting one side of the story, and history is written by the victors. Sometimes the actions of the enemy are exaggerated to justify the actions taken against them, sometimes they are just made up entirely.

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Originally Posted by Cabbage Patch

I agree! Why all the secrecy and lying?

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Originally Posted by VEE

I'm not disagreeing with you on that, or anything much really, just that, to my ears, the reaction to losing it was over the top and spoiled an otherwise excellent section, which also wasn't helped by Scratch's performance, only for that short minute or so though.

I'm happy to agree to disagree, we are all allowed our own opinions :D

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Happy to do that as well