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Toat is like all her kind, she’ll keep her promises as long as they suit her. Given any other circumstances, she’d drop Mitsabi like a hot potato – Nothing personal, of course.
Bitch
And I think Mitsabi is going to have to face some very difficult personal choices before long.
I don’t think they will be very difficult. Her ‘friends’ have forgotten her, friends that may have liked and tolerated Mitsabi, but never respected her. She is doing the job she always wanted to do, and is working with someone who, so far, has honored promises she didn’t have to keep at all…
I’m rooting for Franchesca, Cora, and Mary, but I’m going to jump on the Mitsabi bandwagon and say I’m rooting for her and Toat only slightly less…
And who knows, if Mitsabi and Toat are looking for the Outcast, it may lead them to Sasha even faster. Which is what EVERYONE wants.
Well, let’s see, they did respect Mitsabi v1.0. Mitsabi v2.0 – the Toat upgrade – was kinda hard to respect, and difficult to understand. This is v3.0. They are two versions from even knowing her, and I bet she’s v4.0 before they even meet her…
To be honest, you can’t fault the crew of the Outcast for not respecting Bubblegum…she didn’t even respect herself. Even she considered herself the “weak link” of the group. Quetz was/is a cold bitch, Hammer was struggling with massive pressure and insecurity, Loser was disenchanted, Kid was naive, and Whiskey…well, yeah. But at least the other girls put themselves out there, they were present on a level Bubblegum just never took the chance on.
As for Toat, it’s been fairly obvious from the start that she’ll do precisely what she deems necessary…morality or fairness is not an issue, only success or failure. But that doesn’t necessarily place her at odds with the Icebreakers. She seemed to be more interested in the Outcast and her captain than in the girls. Likely, she’ll give them all the free rein they need (more rope to hang themselves with?), probably even run some interference or lend some anonymous aid, then follow them right to the prize.
She’d be a good Section 31 operative. Moral compass of a shark, morals of a cobra, no loyalty to anything but ‘The Job’ and an ability to justify just about anything for ‘The Cause.’
It seems to me that Toat doesn’t want Carelli, and the Icebreakers don’t want the Outcast. So why should there be a problem? Toat sees the IBs as her best lead on the Outcast, and I’m sure the IBs could do with the OSI’s resources. Why not work together, in a sort of out-of-sight way?
Besides, I don’t think the OSI will have much problem convincing Quetz to work for them. Keeping her friends out of trouble while avoiding charges of hacking a military sex-bot, seems like a win-win situation to me.
And I don’t get why so many people think Toat is evil. She hasn’t displayed any tendencies of the sort so far, has she? Why couldn’t she be just a normal person working for the OSI?
Evil is perspective. Toat was introduced as opposing the existing order from within. An infiltrator undermining the ruling order, and an avatar for all the secrets and misdeeds of the terran government. Wasn’t she ‘fishing for innocents’ at one point? Character role destruction par excellence.
All in all a rather bad introduction for someone who’s supposed to be recognized as not evil.
Personally, I think she has proven a couple positive attributes, but too little to compensate for the vast negative legacy of her introduction.
December 26th, 2010 at 5:59 am
Behold the shadow world of espionge also bubblegums back but as a friend or a foe.
December 26th, 2010 at 9:42 am
And as a new personality yet again
December 26th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
Oh cool. I forgot all about Bubblegum
December 26th, 2010 at 3:51 pm
Wow, and yet another surprise! I had almost completely forgotten about Bubblegum. I can’t wait to see what she does here now.
Also, nice to see the evil cyborg lady keep her promise to Bubblegum. I didn’t like her, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t have her pluses either.
December 26th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
Toat is like all her kind, she’ll keep her promises as long as they suit her. Given any other circumstances, she’d drop Mitsabi like a hot potato – Nothing personal, of course.
Bitch
And I think Mitsabi is going to have to face some very difficult personal choices before long.
December 26th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
I don’t think they will be very difficult. Her ‘friends’ have forgotten her, friends that may have liked and tolerated Mitsabi, but never respected her. She is doing the job she always wanted to do, and is working with someone who, so far, has honored promises she didn’t have to keep at all…
I’m rooting for Franchesca, Cora, and Mary, but I’m going to jump on the Mitsabi bandwagon and say I’m rooting for her and Toat only slightly less…
And who knows, if Mitsabi and Toat are looking for the Outcast, it may lead them to Sasha even faster. Which is what EVERYONE wants.
December 26th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
Well, let’s see, they did respect Mitsabi v1.0. Mitsabi v2.0 – the Toat upgrade – was kinda hard to respect, and difficult to understand. This is v3.0. They are two versions from even knowing her, and I bet she’s v4.0 before they even meet her…
December 28th, 2010 at 2:28 am
To be honest, you can’t fault the crew of the Outcast for not respecting Bubblegum…she didn’t even respect herself. Even she considered herself the “weak link” of the group. Quetz was/is a cold bitch, Hammer was struggling with massive pressure and insecurity, Loser was disenchanted, Kid was naive, and Whiskey…well, yeah. But at least the other girls put themselves out there, they were present on a level Bubblegum just never took the chance on.
As for Toat, it’s been fairly obvious from the start that she’ll do precisely what she deems necessary…morality or fairness is not an issue, only success or failure. But that doesn’t necessarily place her at odds with the Icebreakers. She seemed to be more interested in the Outcast and her captain than in the girls. Likely, she’ll give them all the free rein they need (more rope to hang themselves with?), probably even run some interference or lend some anonymous aid, then follow them right to the prize.
December 28th, 2010 at 3:06 am
I think Toat bases her morality off of serving the Terran Navy and the protection thereof.
December 28th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
She’d be a good Section 31 operative. Moral compass of a shark, morals of a cobra, no loyalty to anything but ‘The Job’ and an ability to justify just about anything for ‘The Cause.’
December 31st, 2010 at 1:12 pm
Which can be very dangeres in the long term.
January 4th, 2011 at 10:23 am
It seems to me that Toat doesn’t want Carelli, and the Icebreakers don’t want the Outcast. So why should there be a problem? Toat sees the IBs as her best lead on the Outcast, and I’m sure the IBs could do with the OSI’s resources. Why not work together, in a sort of out-of-sight way?
Besides, I don’t think the OSI will have much problem convincing Quetz to work for them. Keeping her friends out of trouble while avoiding charges of hacking a military sex-bot, seems like a win-win situation to me.
And I don’t get why so many people think Toat is evil. She hasn’t displayed any tendencies of the sort so far, has she? Why couldn’t she be just a normal person working for the OSI?
January 5th, 2011 at 10:44 pm
Evil is perspective. Toat was introduced as opposing the existing order from within. An infiltrator undermining the ruling order, and an avatar for all the secrets and misdeeds of the terran government. Wasn’t she ‘fishing for innocents’ at one point? Character role destruction par excellence.
All in all a rather bad introduction for someone who’s supposed to be recognized as not evil.
Personally, I think she has proven a couple positive attributes, but too little to compensate for the vast negative legacy of her introduction.