Hush, child. Question not the logic of Jon Favreau.
But no, seriously. That isn't exactly a viable business model, is it? Maybe he wanted to kill Pepper so that she wouldn't be able to tell the government? (Because he arguably doesn't know that she's sleeping with SHIELD now.) But then again, it's not just Obediah who incites the ???????? dafnap pointed out that it makes no sense whatsoever for Tony's rresponse to being locked up with missle parts is to build a walking suit of plate armor with a side-arm firethrower action.
Somewhere else in this thread (possibly even with you, but with besyd, I suspect), I tried to break down the WHY KILL HIM NOW???? thing down into its logical possibilites. It seems that one of the three must obtain:
1. Obediah didn't want to kill him before, but something made him want to kill Tony now.
2. Obediah has wanted to kill Tony before, but wasn't able to, and he is now able to (either economically, because SI would've gone belly up, or because he didn't have the muscle to do it)
3. Obediah has been trying to kill Tony for a while, but assassinating dudes is hard.
I'll buy fic out of any one of those categories, but they each have their difficulties. For 1, you'd need a damn convincing event and a decent amount of Obediah personal history invention. For 2, you'd need to invent a fairly complicated factual history and (less than in 1, I suspect) personal history. 3 is probably the easiest to do, since the premise is that Obediah has always been ebils, but you need an explanation for why he is so hardcore and, even harder, WHY HE SUCKS SO HARD AT IT.
I mean, really, would it be that hard to lace Tony's whiskey with some weapons-grade animal tranquilizers? Nobody would suspect a goddamn thing.
The babyfic is already out there, I think. dafnap and gabby_silang were remarking on it kind of, like, I don't know. Fascinated horror.
Personally, I think Tony would make such a shitty, shitty father. Yeah, he'd love the tykes to death, but he would have NO SENSE OF BOUNDARIES or APPROPRIATENESS. Whiskey in the formula bottle! Strippers at the third birthday party!
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Re: second time through = golden. i'm thinking about going time #3.
Date: 2008-05-29 07:24 pm (UTC)But no, seriously. That isn't exactly a viable business model, is it? Maybe he wanted to kill Pepper so that she wouldn't be able to tell the government? (Because he arguably doesn't know that she's sleeping with SHIELD now.) But then again, it's not just Obediah who incites the ????????
Somewhere else in this thread (possibly even with you, but with besyd, I suspect), I tried to break down the WHY KILL HIM NOW???? thing down into its logical possibilites. It seems that one of the three must obtain:
1. Obediah didn't want to kill him before, but something made him want to kill Tony now.
2. Obediah has wanted to kill Tony before, but wasn't able to, and he is now able to (either economically, because SI would've gone belly up, or because he didn't have the muscle to do it)
3. Obediah has been trying to kill Tony for a while, but assassinating dudes is hard.
I'll buy fic out of any one of those categories, but they each have their difficulties. For 1, you'd need a damn convincing event and a decent amount of Obediah personal history invention. For 2, you'd need to invent a fairly complicated factual history and (less than in 1, I suspect) personal history. 3 is probably the easiest to do, since the premise is that Obediah has always been ebils, but you need an explanation for why he is so hardcore and, even harder, WHY HE SUCKS SO HARD AT IT.
I mean, really, would it be that hard to lace Tony's whiskey with some weapons-grade animal tranquilizers? Nobody would suspect a goddamn thing.
The babyfic is already out there, I think.
Personally, I think Tony would make such a shitty, shitty father. Yeah, he'd love the tykes to death, but he would have NO SENSE OF BOUNDARIES or APPROPRIATENESS. Whiskey in the formula bottle! Strippers at the third birthday party!