Shock wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2017 4:03 pmInteresting. I never picked up on that. I could tell that he cared about the people on the team, even those he didn't like. But when he was lecturing someone, it was always "MY team" and "MY orders."
I know I've already commented on this but I found a conversation between Zane and Donnie that kind of made me chuckle.
Zane basically admitting he had little to no control over the team, and that a lot of his choices were generally made to A) Mitigate issues and B) Allow people to do what they were going to do without his permission anyways.
Charlie wants to take an injured woman to the hospital, splitting up the team. Zane manages to delay, using the woman's fragile state as the reason why they couldn't move her. Once they knew that moving her wouldn't kill her Zane was left with two options: Let Charlie go, or watch Charlie go anyways.
So mitigate, send Curve with her as his cool head and flight powers made him good backup for her.
As for the MY team comments... well, they were the only people in the world he was invested it. He was possessive.
Davies wrote: ↑Tue Apr 11, 2017 4:12 amTrivia point: the word Charlie was only able to remember as that was one I made up combining "vril" and a German word for "particles". Imagine if I'd just had Andrea say "Vril particles?!"
I wouldn't still be giggling every time I hear Chinchilla to this day.
Shock wrote: ↑Tue Apr 11, 2017 3:13 pmEvery woman we met was a potential fling and her first instinct was always to flirt.
Always fun to watch, especally since Charlie was in "flirting mode" just long enough to see if there was a response then moved from "Tap that" to "Befriend that" ;~)
and in particular the long-awaited (by me, anyway) confrontation between Savant and Zane.
Savant was basically an arch nemesis for Zane. He was really designed to ferret out information, something Zane was trying to avoid, and generally got the better out of any of their confrontations.
Zane was somewhat confident he could have won a physical confrontation, but also confident that there wouldn't be any such thing as a fair fight between them, and thus such.
Not going to lie, was waiting for Savant to either reveal all of Zane's plans and lead to disaster... or for him to finally try to kill Zane.
Savant was convinced -- and the "Kit-Kat bar" scene could be seen as evidence that he was right -- that Zane was unconsciously using telepathy all the time to plunder the minds of those around him, growing "fat" and thus more powerful on their psychic energies. Especially those of Savant
Well, it's nice to see that Zane isn't the only one with a massive ego ;~)
Though to be fair, Zane blatantly admitted that his psychic power was always on, so there is that.
And it amuses me that if this was true, Zane's increasing success would only lead him to working with smarter people and becoming more and more powerful.
Fun sidenotes: I completely forgot that Zane bought Charlie a copy of the Lightning Thief on their trip to see the Atoms.
Lucky parallels in the story where a kid learns of their special heritage.
Davies wrote: ↑Tue Apr 11, 2017 11:00 pmHe also suspected Savant and Wainwright were working in conjunction with Dr. Ellis, of whose true nature he was somewhat aware.
It's nice to know that Savant wasn't as on the ball as he seemed to be.