Harmony ,'Conviction (1)'
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
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of. Their annual reviews had to be hilarious, in that ritual suicide involving intestines way.
This is the thing I don't get. I assumed Crais's offing his second-in-command was routine personnel management: the Darth Vader school of HR. God knows Scorpius is continuing in that fine tradition. So why did Crais have to hide it?
Wasn't Crais at some point ordered to stop pursuit of Crichton, but was attached to his vendetta and refused? That's why he killed his second, IIRC.
That's true. So it wasn't so much the killing his second as the killing his second to cover up disobeying orders. It wasn't the act, it was the motivation.
Although, generally speaking, when you off second-in-commands, you're not doing your power structure any favors. Then again, I've always been secretly convinced that the other underlying plot arc of the series should have been the wild implosion of the entire PK society, with concomitant wackiness destined to ensue.
One does get the sense that the writers sort of made up the society as they went along.
t cue gasps of No, really! from long-time Farscape fans
Although, generally speaking, when you off second-in-commands, you're not doing your power structure any favors.
It certainly didn't do Hitler any good. (I am NOT invoking Godwin's Law. Just pointing out that killing your senior staff tends to give you senior staff who are afraid of saying no.)
Just pointing out that killing your senior staff tends to give you senior staff who are afraid of saying no.
But if you're always right -- where's the problem?
Certainly works for the Goa'uld.
Dana, I'll caution you to not try and bust my carefully-crafted-world bubble on this show, okay?
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I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
Look, any society that decorates in red and black and puts its soldiers into black leather ... is okay by me.
Can't complain about the leather. Also, The PKs got their decorating ideas from a school of Soviet art (constructivist? Something-ist). So they come by their disciplinarian aesthetic honestly. Sadly, we never got to actually read any PK propaganda, because I find propaganda (especially in translation) about the funniest thing evar.
killing your senior staff tends to give you senior staff who are afraid of saying no
Anyway, even if you kill off some of your senior staff in a tragic, unintentional bathtub accident, you're likely to have drowned some good staffing talent. When I am arrested/entering a diplomatic conference/testifying before Congress, I want my wingman to be a wicked smart lawyer, not my second cousin.