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geebsOwel, between class, dinner with the roomie and ND at the Califonia Pizza Kitchen over at Atlantic Station, Its Always Sunny in Philidelphia, and the 2 hour season finale of Burn Notice, didn't get a chance to play any Orochi Warriors yesterday. I mean, class lets out at 5, which is when traffic is at its worst, so I've been having dinner in town with the usual suspects, but that entails killing an hour or so around here til people get off work.
A little Burn Notice commentary: Wait, I guess I only just now noticed this, but do Michael and the gang rarely kill people? I mean, a lot of their jobs it wouldn't be appropriate. But sometimes I think it would be wise. Like last night, Michael only wounded the guy. And when Fiona was sniping, she was just getting them to keep their heads down. She could have easily just killed them all. And the sticky bomb was only detonated after Michael and Sam were clear, but before the guys were on the gangplank.
I'm just wondering if its their choice not to kill people, or its just the show trying to keep the violence down. Like when they were dealing with the gun runners, they kept them alive because going to war with them would be bad, but they also did a little psych warfare on them and got them to leave town so they wouldn't come after him. But they didn't do any such thing with these heroin smugglers. And these guys are well connected, aren't they worried those guys will start trying to hunt them down? On the other hand, are they worried like with the gun-runners, starting a war with these guys might cause trouble with the people the special forces guys are smuggling for as well, so they're not trying to cause too much trouble? Then again, when they made Nate's truck into a bomb, its not like it was on a precise timer, so the bad guys could've easily been killed by it.
But for the most part it seems like they're trying to keep the body count to a minimum- Michael was only going to capture Xena- but obviously she'd be more useful alive then dead. And he could prolly even used that as leverage to the government being all, "I have this big fugitive, I'll bring her in if you fix this burn notice!" But she ended up killing herself. And like I said, a lot of times he prefers to do psychological warfare and making the bad guys too scared to try and hunt him down after the job is done (or too busy fleeing from their "business associates" whom Mikey and company turned against them, or he brought too much heat on them from the cops so they have to lay low).
Even in that ep with an old war buddy of Sam's who slept with Michael's mom- people got killed, but that's because they got two groups of bad guys to kill each other as opposed to doing the killing themselves. I guess the ep in Little Havana with the crazy Cuban mafia lady, he actively caused her death by convincing that one underling that she had told Michael to kill him so the guy went after her. But even then he looked like he felt really guilty about it. So mebbe has compunctions against killing?
A little Burn Notice commentary: Wait, I guess I only just now noticed this, but do Michael and the gang rarely kill people? I mean, a lot of their jobs it wouldn't be appropriate. But sometimes I think it would be wise. Like last night, Michael only wounded the guy. And when Fiona was sniping, she was just getting them to keep their heads down. She could have easily just killed them all. And the sticky bomb was only detonated after Michael and Sam were clear, but before the guys were on the gangplank.
I'm just wondering if its their choice not to kill people, or its just the show trying to keep the violence down. Like when they were dealing with the gun runners, they kept them alive because going to war with them would be bad, but they also did a little psych warfare on them and got them to leave town so they wouldn't come after him. But they didn't do any such thing with these heroin smugglers. And these guys are well connected, aren't they worried those guys will start trying to hunt them down? On the other hand, are they worried like with the gun-runners, starting a war with these guys might cause trouble with the people the special forces guys are smuggling for as well, so they're not trying to cause too much trouble? Then again, when they made Nate's truck into a bomb, its not like it was on a precise timer, so the bad guys could've easily been killed by it.
But for the most part it seems like they're trying to keep the body count to a minimum- Michael was only going to capture Xena- but obviously she'd be more useful alive then dead. And he could prolly even used that as leverage to the government being all, "I have this big fugitive, I'll bring her in if you fix this burn notice!" But she ended up killing herself. And like I said, a lot of times he prefers to do psychological warfare and making the bad guys too scared to try and hunt him down after the job is done (or too busy fleeing from their "business associates" whom Mikey and company turned against them, or he brought too much heat on them from the cops so they have to lay low).
Even in that ep with an old war buddy of Sam's who slept with Michael's mom- people got killed, but that's because they got two groups of bad guys to kill each other as opposed to doing the killing themselves. I guess the ep in Little Havana with the crazy Cuban mafia lady, he actively caused her death by convincing that one underling that she had told Michael to kill him so the guy went after her. But even then he looked like he felt really guilty about it. So mebbe has compunctions against killing?
