tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464382918796251124.post6177118510379159318..comments2021-05-16T13:41:12.015-04:00Comments on The Chaos Beast: The Devil You Know - Commentary 18Scott Delahunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735796666483741699noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464382918796251124.post-37807008491143071622017-12-09T12:06:12.881-05:002017-12-09T12:06:12.881-05:00So Jack should be dead. There's two ways this ...So Jack should be dead. There's two ways this could make sense (to me):<br />-Jack is the sword-guy from the opener. He didn't mean for the place to blow up, and needs help to work his way back in to deal with everyone else in this scheme, through the chain Ione provides. In this case "The Devil You Know" is a commentary on perhaps knowing the Devil, Jack himself.<br />-Jack is of the same species as the sword-guy. His story about trying to get to sword-guy's next target is then true, so that he can prevent someone of his kind from meddling in the affairs of humans. (I'd say they're vampires, except vampires who hang around in the sun and eat escargot is weird. Aliens?) In this case "The Devil You Know" is a play on the one you know, versus the one you don't, who is perhaps more dangerous.<br /><br />Either way it does harken back to an earlier remark about the only way someone would know about warehouse guy is if they were there, or literally were the guy. Something I hadn't thought back to lately, so good job on that.<br /><br />About Gemma keeping Ione from "being able to spend much time thinking about how Karen could have been caught", giving Ione time to sit and drink coffee seems to torpedo that theory. Though it does raise the additional point of, yeah, Ione SHOULD have questioned the mechanics of that too... I REALLY don't understand Gemma's plan.<br /><br />Final remark, I didn't get the end of Chapter 18 as being a reveal that Jack and Ben have met before. I just saw it as Ben being overly protective, figuring he would have reacted the same way if Ione and Gemma (or Ione and Anyone) had opened the door, figuring Ione was being manipulated into being there.<br /><br />Cool Sims pics, btw. The poses really work.GregThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17689711881670288362noreply@blogger.com