XD It showed up in your box twice because I went back and edited it. I think that makes comment notifications re-send or sthg.
I wonder, though, why Obediah chose then to do it. Was Tony getting too out of control? Too caught up in the addictions? Or was he finally wanting more of the pie than Obie was willing to dole out? Did he think there was no way to top the Jericho?
Yeah, that's an interesting line of inquiry. To me, logically, there are a couple of broad categories for explanations -- either something specifically happened to me O want to axe T at that point, or it was in the plans all along to axe T once Stark Industries got to a certain point. Or, O has been trying to axe Tony for a while, but assassination is tricky business. (Muscle issues, I'm guessing? It ain't easy finding somebody discreet who'll do the dirty deed. Apparently, there's an in-joke somewhere in the plane bit referring to an effort that Comics-O made against Tony.)
All of them work for me as a writer, but the "something happened" requires invention of that something, and it needs to be damn convincing. The "Company is strong enough to survive w/out Tony" has the benefit of fitting with corporate thinking, but you do have to do proper fore-grounding buildup for why O is such a bloodless bastard. One of the weak points of the movie was, for me, how they never really explained O's motivations.
And as for the "wanted to, but couldn't execute" has two subcategories -- one is because of incompetence, and the other is because of lack of technical expertise.
Hm. It's an open field, and there's definitely, definitely room for more than one fic there.
Re: second time through = golden. i'm thinking about going time #3.
I wonder, though, why Obediah chose then to do it. Was Tony getting too out of control? Too caught up in the addictions? Or was he finally wanting more of the pie than Obie was willing to dole out? Did he think there was no way to top the Jericho?
Yeah, that's an interesting line of inquiry. To me, logically, there are a couple of broad categories for explanations -- either something specifically happened to me O want to axe T at that point, or it was in the plans all along to axe T once Stark Industries got to a certain point. Or, O has been trying to axe Tony for a while, but assassination is tricky business. (Muscle issues, I'm guessing? It ain't easy finding somebody discreet who'll do the dirty deed. Apparently, there's an in-joke somewhere in the plane bit referring to an effort that Comics-O made against Tony.)
All of them work for me as a writer, but the "something happened" requires invention of that something, and it needs to be damn convincing. The "Company is strong enough to survive w/out Tony" has the benefit of fitting with corporate thinking, but you do have to do proper fore-grounding buildup for why O is such a bloodless bastard. One of the weak points of the movie was, for me, how they never really explained O's motivations.
And as for the "wanted to, but couldn't execute" has two subcategories -- one is because of incompetence, and the other is because of lack of technical expertise.
Hm. It's an open field, and there's definitely, definitely room for more than one fic there.