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??