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[UPDATE] The Scarlett Kite-23 Feb 07-The heart of the matter

[bit1313]

TINAG
I like this, MC has given us a character for each side of the "agree vs disagree" on what happened arguement.
TIAG
I agree with Scarlett. Violet lied. Kurt lied. Lettie got hurt BECAUSE of the lie, not SAVED because of Violet and Kurt. Shame on them.

(I always preferred redheads)

[Magma42]

Come from the other side though, if Violet had told Scarlett about the whole story, she would have likely spilt the beans during torture, jeopardizing Violet, Kurt, and any attempt to shut down the 3P would have gone through the tubes. given what they did to her when they realized she didnt know anything, imagine what they would have done to extort that information out of Violet.

[rose]

I think Scarlett's point is a good one. If Violet had simply come clean to Mind Candy, they could have picked up the Cube at any time.

I think Violet's best argument is that she couldn't tell anyone about the Cube because she was afraid of the 3P getting control of it. Although, she did seem fairly lax about not picking up on Caine earlier. I know a number of us felt that he was involved with Anna's murder and the 3P at the time it happened. I am not sure why Violet didn't see that.

All in all, this is a tough question because if Violet had told us about the Cube, the whole point of the game and reward based on finding the Cube would have become pointless. Still, I think she needed to come forward a lot sooner than she did, certainly after Anna's death and probably after Cymbalisity. I think that once innocent people started dying, she had an obligation to tell what she knew if only to stop the killing.

Violet took too much responsibility on herself for deciding what to do. She doesn't have very good judgement so she would have been better off asking for help.

I'm still wondering how Sente feels about all this. The Kiteway household must be one of the most dysfunctional families in all of PPC. Violet doesn't tell her father what is going on?

I suppose, when it come down to it, I think that someone else should have been CT. Possibly they could have been aligned with Kurt still, and he could have excused lying to us on the same basis he does now. (I'm not sure if people are as mad at Kurt as they are at Violet.) I think having Violet be CT, after all this time, just doesn't work that well. But, too late for that now.

[bit1313]

[Scott]

hey wow .. this is an interesting turn of events. End of the story, and Scarlett becomes the deep and sullen interesting one. Two years ago, the common belief was that Violet was the interesting one with character depth and dark pockets of emotion. And now we have a complete role reversal, with Violet being the institutional golden child and Scarlett turning away fFrom her fFamily's activities.

Very interesting.

[rose]

Do you think that Scarlett has changed the most of any of the PPC characters? I think so, it isn't clear to me how much any of the other characters have changed over the past two years.