Renegade wrote:Lurker wrote:The notion that how something is said is more important than what's said isn't always true.
But suggesting that, especially in an emotionally driven conversation among normal humans, everything is to be taken literally, isn't realistic either.
That's fair enough. I felt like the point needed to be made, though.
Renegade wrote:Bitterness doesn't explain her aggressive look and pushing, though ...
Why wouldn't it? If something bad is going to happen to her, she might blame Bree for it a little.
Renegade wrote:... and, as mentioned, I did interpret the words as a threat.
But the words themselves
aren't a threat, and that's the point I was making. "If they decide they don't need you anymore, they will kill you" would be a case where the words themselves were a threat.
Renegade wrote:Lurker wrote:If they were going to do that, they had the perfect opportunity. They had them outnumbered and in the middle of nowhere, with only a very shaky, seemingly insane Jonas - with a pistol he probably can't aim straight - as their opponent.
Hmm, let's see:
- They were seen on arrival
- Their opponent was armed with a firearm
- One of their agents was between the opponents
- There was a car in the way
- One of their opponents was mentally instable, armed, and a trained boxer, while
- Another opponent was just recently trained by an opposing agent, and
- The third opponent might just go postal after the Order cost him another girl
...I don't quite see the "perfect opportunity" part there. Especially not since, iirc, the only mentioned Orderites on LGPedia were Lucy and one Watcher, with a definite statement that the second car's back row was empty. So chances are it's just Lucy, Alex and a Watcher against Daniel, Jonas and Bree. No outnumbering there.
What's Bree and Daniel going to do? Seriously. I don't care how much Tachyon taught Bree or how pissed Daniel is, they're not going to do a thing to someone with a gun, especially when they would need to close the distance to even touch them.
And I doubt the Creators wanted us to think the Order only sent two people to handle this. There were
two cars. The last time we saw just Lucy and one other person sent somewhere ("The Unthinkable Happened"), they used
one vehicle. Added to that, the last time Lucy was heading somewhere that she knew to expect Bree, Daniel and Jonas all to be together, she went with
three other people instead of one - and they had Daniel drugged and in their custody on that occasion!
I doubt it was just Lucy and one other guy. It would make no sense. There must have been at least four of them altogether, not counting Alex (who may not have sided with them). Even if Alex sided with BD&J in a fight, though, it's going to be at least four Orderites with guns (or two in your argument) against four people who have one gun between them. That does leave them outnumbered in all the ways that would have mattered if it came to blows.
By the way, at the end, they drive right past Jonas. They could have easily capped him. For whatever reason, that wasn't their objective.
By the way again ... to suggest that
maybe they were looking for an easy victory and had to scrap the fight because one gun showed up doesn't really make sense anyway. If they did go there looking for an easy victory, why not send eight Orderites? 10? 12? Why wait for them to get back to the car at all? I don't think they wanted a fight.
Renegade wrote:And that's all not taking into account that killing people on camera is never a smart idea, no matter who controls the footage afterwards.
It's easy to destroy a camera. In any case, they weren't bothered with killing someone on camera on December 31.
Renegade wrote:Even that version would make her a selfish bitch for not caring about the fact that the Order will know where BD&J are afterwards.
They've doubtless known all along. The kids have been living in Alex's house.
Anyway, maybe it
would be selfish of her not to tell them what was going to happen, but if they had known, they would have tried to prepare for a fight. For all we know at the moment, rather than having them risk a fight in which they would get killed, or flee (which might also lead to them getting killed), Alex just went out to have a little fun while she knew they were coming.
Without something that looks like a heinous betrayal having occurred - especially when the Order would have easily had the whole thing sewn up if they were looking to bring harm - I'm not going to assume she was doing anything to harm them. It just doesn't make sense with what actually happened and what
could have happened.
Renegade wrote:If she is evil, she might just have made it up to cover up the failure ...
Again, if they were there to bring harm, why not send enough people to make sure they never had the slightest chance? Why not swarm and surround them while they're down on the beach? I'd still say they probably sent three people with Lucy and had no intention of fighting.
By the way, are the Orderites telepathic? Was Alex able to communiate to Lucy and the others "I'm going to make something really random up! Forget the old plan about killing them!"?
Renegade wrote:Ever heard the expression "he knew too much"? Just because Bree doesn't have to do the ceremony doesn't mean she's off the hook. It plays into what I read into her words: They don't need Bree anymore - they have no more reason to keep her alive. What would you do, in the Order's place? Just let the kids go home and sell the movie rights to their adventures, after they published their critically acclaimed book "The Order in the Modern Empire - A Tale of Three Fugitives"?
If you've been watching any of my other posts today, you've seen I've been the one to point that out more than anyone else. Yet the fact that they didn't do it when there was no way they could have failed says that it wasn't what they wanted.
Hell, they wouldn't have even had to ambush them on the beach if Alex was in on a plan to assassinate them. They've been living in
her house. She could have just planted a bomb and blown the place up. Or opened the door in the middle of the night for the Order to come in and waste them.
There were
so many ways they could have killed them by now if that's what they were trying to do, and to pass up an opportunity when they were off alone on a deserted beach where just a couple of Orderites (not even four, as were probably sent) could have killed every one of them ... it just doesn't make sense. At all. I can't see how it's even up for argument.
While I would kill them were I in the Order's place, that's clearly not what they wanted. Why that is? Who knows. But if they'd wanted to do it, they've had multiple perfect opportunities.
Renegade wrote:And that's all pretending they stopped their mind games. If Bree is still "untouchable" due to her birthmark or whatever, then being there and being seen might just have been exactly what they wanted - nothing more. (And, to answer your "why would they do that?" in advance - to continue their intimidation in order to make sure BD&J don't get the idea to go to the media to publish what they know. ...
Renegade ... they've been posting this stuff on
the world wide web since June. There wouldn't be a person who didn't already know about it. The media would have been all over this thing for months already. Nikki Bower would be one of hundreds of reporters trying to track them down.
(By the way, just because I vehemently disagree with your argument here doesn't mean I would need to ask you why they would see a point in making their presence known. The point would be obvious.)