He thinks we're Jojoba witnesses

[geebs]

Wait, isn't this new DLC for Tomb Raider: Underwold basically just "Here's Lara's doppleganger, who happens to play like a mix of Prince of Persia and Devil May Cry games". Anyhoo, I saw Resident Evil 5 has the Mercenaries mini-game. Obviously, you can play as Chris or Sheva. But there's ten characters you can pick overall. However, looking at this, they're all variations of Chris, Sheva, or Wesker, with different outfits and weapon sets, including a scantily clad "tribal" version of Sheva using a bow and arrow. Bah, no Hunk? His neckbreaker was awesome. I think they got it right in RE4, 5 unique characters (Leon, Ada, Wesker, Hunk, and Krauser) who not only had different weapon loadout, but unique melees and special tricks as well. So will the only difference between the versions of the characters in RE5 be the outfits and what weapons they're using?

TV Commentary:

Wow, pretty action packed ep of Burn Notice. So we find out Victor's back story. As Sam said in a previous ep, he was very much like Michael. Until Carla burned him AND killed his family. So there's a reason he's the bloodthirsty sociopath he is now. So I guess the whole trying to blow Michael up part was indeed him seeing a chance to really frak with Carla by dealing a huge blow to her in one felled swoop. But we find out Michael was burned so the organization could recruit him because he was so good they had to have him?!

Heh, mebbe its because I'm paranoid, but the entire ep I kept expecting someome to snipe Victor, and eventually they did. That being said, I'm not sure their plan in the end would've worked. Because Carla didn't come alone, and it was one of her guys who sniped Victor, Michael just finished him off. Which was a pretty sad part, interesting how they first introduced Victor as this psychopath, and they kinda "redeem" him there in the end. But, as he said, it was neccesary for Mike to do that. Echoing Chuck this week, everyone talks. Victor is already dead, but if they capture him, that death will be long and drawn out, and he might be tortured into giving up Michael.

But I digress, so with Carla's man shooting Victor, is Michael's story that Victor was rogue, and Michael went after him, and then Victor told him Carla's working off book also, so Michael lured Carla there so "his people" could take her out, and during that time, her people managed to shoot Victor, and Michael just finished the job? I don't know if that actually flies. Like, wouldn't the men she took with her know Michael and Victor were working together and that's not the way it went down.

Oh, and Carla's boss is Frasier's dad?! If I were him, I would be skeptical, because Michael going after Victor on Carla's orders I can believe, but finding out Carla's been doing stuff behind the organization's back, why would he care to stop that? Or is his story, his orders were to take out Victor, which he did, but then he found out about the Carla stuff and decided to do them a favor in the hopes they'd give him his life back?

Interesting though, with Martin Crane all, "We've been protecting you, if you leave us, you're gonna be in big trouble!" Actually, I believe that, so next season should be very interesting. I mean, I've always wondered that, because while some people he's tricked into going away, or gotten them killed by their allies, or gotten them arrested, some of them are still around Miami, and you'd think they'd accidentally run into him at the clubs and be all, "Its that guy!" and he'd have some splainin to do.

I mean, the two most dangerous people I can think of right now are Tim Matheson's character, and the guy who kidnapped his ex-fiancee's son to get her to steal the chip. They both know Michael's actual identity, and Tim Matheson was a total psycho, and the chip guy proved to be much more competent than the usual people Michael faces. But off the top of my head, other dangerous enemies- multiple Miami criminal organizations- the Cubans, the Colombians, the Russian mob, the bosses of the car theft crew. He wasn't going after them personally, but he did trick them into thinking his real targets were traitors, which still messes up their operations. I would think if they found out they'd been had, they'd go after Michael.

Then there's that Haitian guy, who would prolly be pissed that Michael got his son sent back to stand trial at Haiti, he had a lot of armed men at his disposal. The PMC he got arrested at the beginning of second season, I wouldn't think it would be too hard for them to get out of jail, and they're a bunch of ex-special forces guys, and you don't want guys like them pissed off and after you. There's also those Middle Eastern gunrunners whom Michael tricked the youngest son and stole all their product and forced them to flee Miami, Michael made it sound like they would be pretty dangerous if they found out who he really was.

So all in all, he's racked up a lot of dangerous enemies just on the show, that's not counting the numerous enemies he prolly has from his spy days, who might be looking for some payback now that he doesn't have the protection of the US Government or the Organization. I know he doesn't want to be under Martin's thumb, but is that really wise? If it was only himself he had to worry about, fine. But he still has family, and there's also Fi and Sam. Plus the numerous clients who would also be in trouble if some of these baddies found out what Michael did.

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I'm pretty sure that blond chick is just another Sheva skin. But after watching this cutscene from RE5 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEgDVOpS6zI) (warning, contains spoilers!), the chick on the left is definitely Jill. (And I'm now 95% sure the chick in the cloak and weird mask from the clips circulating online is Jill)