What tommyrot said.
Who?
He probably had something to do with the guy throwing the game
Not necessarily. Weevil makes money, regardless of who wins or loses.
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Mar 30, 2005 7:50:59 am PST #1528 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
shrift - Mar 30, 2005 7:55:02 am PST #1529 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Good god, shrift, that sounds like a nightmare.
What's worse is that I had to take 10 minutes before the form to "talk about what I do."
And why is it that every single time I take five minutes to scarf down lunch at my desk, someone snippily calls me with a request that I probably can't charge for and will take five hours of searching to figure out?
I was a little pissier on the phone just now than I should have been.
Brilliant. If the weather wasn't so spectacularly beautiful today, I'd call for a do-over.
sumi - Mar 30, 2005 7:55:24 am PST #1530 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Sorry, wrong Tom!
I meant that obviously, Weevil knew who was throwing the game, but not necessarily how it was going to be thrown this time around.
Also, Project Trainwreck: do you think that they're going to fire him? And Navi Rawat !!!
Betsy HP - Mar 30, 2005 7:56:23 am PST #1531 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
JZ, if you're around, the Quaker romance I cited is Laura Kinsale's Flowers From The Storm.
Kathy A - Mar 30, 2005 7:57:20 am PST #1532 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Aurelia, if you're around, insent to your aol account re: TAR!
§ ita § - Mar 30, 2005 7:58:17 am PST #1533 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No, Weevil doesn't make money if the game doesn't go as planned. He'll lose big, and that's what started Veronica's suspicion. I just thought he came off as more innocent than he actually was. Of course, it might just have been a charade to keep Veronica happy -- he's a bright enough guy. It'd take him about ten minutes to work out why and who. The stuff about the mascot-napping was public news, as was, I thought, the ultimatum.
Tom Scola - Mar 30, 2005 8:05:21 am PST #1534 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
No, Weevil doesn't make money if the game doesn't go as planned.
Yes, he will. Presumably, everybody who bet on Neptune (at advantageous odds) was enough to balance out the big bet against Neptune that the cheater made. All Weevil has to do is pay out the bets (minus his commission). He's just a broker.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 30, 2005 8:05:34 am PST #1535 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Plus the penguin is wearing sunglasses.
So we need to call you tommyrot tomorrow then, eh?
§ ita § - Mar 30, 2005 8:10:13 am PST #1536 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Didn't Veronica suspect Weevil in the first place because the odds/line/betting structure didn't make sense unless the game turned out one specific way? If that's not true, why did she go to him?
I may be vague on some of the details, because it's been a couple weeks since I saw it, but I thought it was a key point of her investigation.
Tom Scola - Mar 30, 2005 8:14:33 am PST #1537 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
There were a lot of people with potential motives in the episode. The odds didn't make sense unless the game was fixed, but Weevil didn't fix the game, and he didn't throw off the odds.
Besides, if Weevil WERE the one who was fixing the game, he would have come up with a better plan than stealing a mascott and/or relying on a benchwarmer to throw the game.