__True, Orange- 2 or 3 would have been the best move. And I did like Leslie far more than Donna. I would have kept Leslie, of the two. However, the possible shizophrenia of Donna's charactor COULD drive stories in interesting directions, especially as she seemed motivated to recapture her sanity.
NOW, goggle at this: MORE rah-rah blather by a Carnage cheer-leader.
__In Kasady's first app, they laid out a LOT of charactor, if you ask me...and there has been some expansion.
__The way he bossed Red was interesting- one of the best things about symbiotes is this- they put the interpersonal in the center of the charactor portrayal, right out of the gate. It seemed like Kasady LOVED talking big to Red- you could hear the need, the dependance- you could see it growing. It looked like raw co-dependance taking shape.
__He's so undermotivated and conscious of it- but untroubled by it- I loved the fact that he seized on this scheme to promote Chaos by killing JJ- but decided to make a sandwich first and announced that decision with equal self-importance. It's the banality- the fact that he reflects our own self-absorption and flippancy. The I'll-give-a-damn-later factor.
__He was never really comedy, however- because it was all too true to life. He was the first villain to do for villains (for me), what Spidey did for heroes- give me a sense that, yeh, that's probably a pretty common-denominator way to behave/feel, pretty down-to-earth, not too elevated or specialized. He's the everyman villain.
__I don't really see him as a Chaos archetype. He's the appetite, he's the core of the human experience, something we can mis-employ to hurt others, or draw upon to protect our own interests when our autonomy is endangered. He accomplishes both in his best apps- where you see that he's not the only aggressor in the ongoing battle between himself and society.
__Here’s something I said once before, referring to the fates of his “wicked” victims, the amoral protagonists to whom Kasady plays amoral antagonist:
__Deserve, yes- they earn it, just as Kasady does. They all worship power/control and fear being subject to others; Kasady's just got the most goods to back his game. And I admire the goods, so that's why I like him. He lives in such a constant struggle and perseveres. Life for him is War. Even when he kills randomly; its because he considers society his enemy, and all civvy-types are complicit in society.
__That's where he won't win; but against other monsters he can, and does. And it's pleasant, because it demonstrates, live like that, die like that. It's justice. I don't want the same for Kasady because he is the ultimate expression of the biggest fish scenario; there HAS to be one, and that's the reason not to live like a fish, preying on others: Kasady's gonna get you...
Not because Spiderman will put you in jail.
Because Kasady will carve the blood out of you.