Subj: It's one of the dualistic paradoxes of the character ...Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 at 07:17:05 pm EST (Viewed 434 times)
| Reply Subj: I think they should have strapped him to a dolly like Hannibal Lector for this scene.
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 at 10:41:19 am EST (Viewed 378 times) |
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Of course, he might have wanted to borrow the ensemble for fun with April later...
A fun tie-in that does a nice job of exploring CSFB's subversive ways. I'm not sure that he's the greatest of a liars, since he got caught, but maybe it's just that the detectives are that good. Nice of you to treat those characters with respect in that regard. Good work all around!
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... That he gets a genuine kick out of tricking other people, but at the same time, he really has remained a remarkably honest person, not only because honesty simply fits his ethics, but also because not holding anything back is a bit of a "fuck you" to a world that would tend to censor any number of his favorite avenues of self-expression. Then again, pulling the wool over the eyes of others is, in its own way, a bit of a "fuck you" as well, so you've got the same basic impulse driving two usually mutually exclusive courses of action. In that sense, Dream is like the superhero version of the Riddler, because he wants it both ways; he wants the gratification of both a) stumping his opponents, but then also b) explaining to them exactly how and why he's so much more clever than them. Nonetheless, I think Dream has done a remarkably good job of creating a synthesis of his equal loves of lying and truth-telling.
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