I Could Have You Shot For This
Apr01
Well, even in spite of the holiday, I made it! Colonel Haulley seems to be on the verge of losing it, here, I’m afraid, but all of this stuff has just finally come to a head. Tom and Sarah are in for a bit of a tough time, I predict.
Anyway, I’ll just leave it at that. No long, drawn-out commentary this week, just business. For all those celebrating Passover and Easter, I wish you all the best, and I’ll see you next week!
The fact that he DIDN’T shoot them for this means either Rucker is letting his personal feelings get in the way of his command, or he has a plan which requires them. I know which one I’m betting on. It’s both.
No reason to shoot them. Lock them up, hell yes but for right now they are the only two people who may have ‘seen’ Mike as of late and that info is worth allot at the moment.
Probably so. Usually that sort of shit gets you an instant case of lead poisoning if you know what I mean.
Yes, they have been misbehaving, and I was glad to get to this scene at last, where Haulley is doing what nobody ever does in science fiction – calling them out on their irresponsible crap. Haulley kind of IS The only sane person on the planet, here, since he’s the only one who isn’t taking the whole weirdness at face value.
–M
Perhaps his plan involves not causing Mike to go even more berserk than before?
Haulley’s quite good at the evil-overlord-style posing.
he practices a lot I bet
And with that mask on, he probably even sounds a little like Darth Vader
Darth Haulley?
–M
“Mike Never told you what happened to your father”
“He told me enough, he told me you killed him”
“No Rucker… *I* Am your father”
I am, of course all for Tom and Sarah surviving this, but then again, Haulley does have a point – Sarah’s little escapade did start an Atomic War and Tom derelicted his duties, got drunk, threatened fellow officers with a firearm and them went AWOL just to get her back, and I think just going “oops, my bad” doesn’t really cut the mustard in this case.
By the looks of it, I’d say he is about to offer them a “you started it, you fix it” style deal, by, for example, having them investigate all the mysterious destinations that the base’s corridors now open into.
See, that’s something that gets a bit neglected in science fiction, especially military science fiction – to have a believable drama with supernatural, inexplicable or extraterrestrial situations, the characters have to step out of line or you can’t have a believable interpersonal conflict. But on the other hand, the military only functions well when people don’t step out of line. So how do you reconcile that in a properly dramatic way? Most writers sidestep it by just having Captain Kirk or whoever forgive them and then they all forget it by next week. But it doesn’t really work that we’ll when there’s a war on, and especially when you need competent officers setting the proper standard of behavior for a military unit. So, hopefully, this will all turn out properly here. We’ll see, I guess.
–M
“You’ve violated military discipline, you will have to be court martialed!”
“But I’m the main character, and I did it to kill the monster-of-the-week.”
“Oh, sorry, I didn’t realize that. Here, I’ll just give you a slap on the wrist, shall I?
But then again Haulley’s options are limited – does he really want to go through with a proper court martial in the current situation and thus tie time and resources and at the same time lose still potentially useful team members? In his shoes, I’d try to make some sort of deal first. The discipline issue can all be settled afterwards, if there is an “afterwards”.
And what do you know, it seems that’s exactly what he’s trying to do here.
The fact that nobody’s talking about punishing Mike shows one important fact: it’s good to be the cybertank.
They are trying to blast open the bay mike is likely in….though how the russian robots factor in that is well baffling?
Oh oh… You’ll see!
*Note to self: figure out what the Russian robots are doing…*
😀
–M
Oh I cant wait, this entire plot line has been a non-stop nail biter…utterly engrossing!
I wonder how they’d go about punishing him at this point. I’m sure Col. Haulley has it in mind to figure that out, though.
–M
I believe Haulley and his team consider the whole idea of trying to punish Mike as ludicrous as trying to punish a puppy for peeing on the carpet – the puppy will not grasp the concept and doing so will not help clean the carpet in the least.
I’m imagining the conversation will go on something like this “Bad Mike, you started an atomic war!” “But Conrad, Sarah was hurt and needed my help” “But you actions killed millions!” “Conrad, how do you know millions are dead? Sarah was right there!” etc.
Not to mention the whole “Mike as omnipotent lord of time and space” thing they have going on around their base now – trying to discipline or punish something that can apparently sprout bubble universes / portals / whatever those things are at will strikes me as kind of a bad idea, even if they can get to Mike.
Haulley: damn it mike what did you do!!!!
Mike: sarah need to travel though the space time continuum to servive, so of course I opened several portals as one trip might not of been enough to ensure she would be ok… the one behind the 6th door leads to the location where this all started aproxamatly 4 hr before im not sure how long I can maintain it but if you pull together a specail team to go though. You might be able to stop any of this from ever happening…. I hope this will be helpful…
Haulley: son of a bitc………
If one machine malfunctioning and crossing a line was enough to confuse the half-dozen people that could order the surface glassed over, that atomic war was all but a foregone conclusion. And technically it was who or whatever forces changed Mike into something autonomous that started the atomic war. So Darth Haulley gets some of that blame too. Everyone does a little, it’s what makes life so messy.
I know he should be coming down on them, but really, I am cracking up at him freaking out. He’s doing 85 on the highway to the town of panic attack.