zachariah wrote:Jay-Em wrote:Unless Mark N's comment yesterday was the solution: all of this is some elaborate plan by Brandy to "see" if someone she eyes as a deep-MIB-operative, is smart enough to distrust anything that looks too easy, and is prepared to do éverything to prevent interference with a mission.(and all of that, preferably, without casualties. Could be important to Brandi, given her remorse over the glazing of a part of the earth, and her general refusal to kill)
It's pretty sure Brandi did not take a hand in this game. The Library is the player instead. I kind of doubt the Library is working for Brandi. The bigger question is why is the library taking a hand in this game?
I'm of the opposite opinion... i think that The Library is NOT the one that sent them for the simple fact that they arrived in helicopter's... if The Library HAD sent them, it would have poited them into place just like it poits Phix and Nudge around (remember how it did the retrieval of Nudge from the volcano Monica sent her to?) Also, for the vamps to arrive at the airbase that the helo's were stationed out of (which is also well away from the portal site itself at least), all the way from Minneapolis, get them flight ready, AND the physical travel time to the actual site... no, they HAD to leave WELL BEFORE Atsali met Katherine at the threshold of the Library Annex... seeing as how Kath walked into the Annex, met Atsali, got swooshed thru the halls (ran from the Minotaur
) landed in the mineshaft, and walked for a few yards before getting shot out the mineshaft on the cart and then surviving the flooring collapse, and then, JUST when they get really ready to do serious work, the choppers show up?... and all that took probably LESS than 30 MINUTES??!! NOPE, those choppers left the base WELL BEFORE Kat even THOUGHT she was going to GO to the Library, let alone have both the Vamps on-board and launched only AFTER the mineshaft blew up and they were scrambled to find out exactly what the totally unexpected explosion was all about...Nope, not buyin' it... and that "short time-frame" Lily was talking about, hmm... maybe that's the short amount of time that they have available to them before the REAL investigation team shows up and starts asking the hard-to-answer questions of them, like "who the hell are you, and why did you set off that explosion?, etc, etc, etc..." and she was trying to bluff her way into letting them "help" in order to facilitate them "disappearing" the two of them?
i have had a tiny thought in the back of my mind that has been there nibbling away at my sanity for a while and i think it's time to let it go (the thought, not my sanity. Heck, that's been a losing battle for a long time now
) Anyway: Do you remember when Brandi was all shell-shocked and babbling to Monica about how Shelly didn't need to spend all that time in the Time Forest and also about her work as a nanny? then she said something that set that thought in motion... when she was describing the aftermath of her "collection" for the Chimera... about how she made a deal with the Demon Realm... what if part of that "deal" besides that dimensional travel shield, was to split herself into TWO SEPARATE ENTITIES? the Brandi we know and love is the "good" side of her that "forgot" all the pain and anguish, and the "Director Oduya" is the "evil" side of her is the side that kept those memories and feeling. and that in turn made that copy the cold, calculating and manipulative person needed to run an organization like the Mib... my reasoning is that every time we've seen the Director, i noticed that her eyes are NOTHING like what the Brandi we're used to seeing looks like... they LOOK cold and calculating, not the warm and accepting ones that Brandi has (except for when she was pissed at Bud for the Vimana Cell thing)... and because the Demons are QUANTUM beings they can EXACTLY duplicate Brandi down to the last detail and allow her to be effectively in two places at once, the Director stays in the shadows, running MIB and (as far as we know) keeping the lid on the supernaturals and tracking down any survivors of the Priesthood that killed her, Bud, and Jin... this ALSO ties in with Brandi's statement about if she learns too much, or gets too much information she starts to go all cold and calculating, and that "isn't HER"... Darned Right it isn't: it's The Director instead!!... possibly it's some mental bleed-over from The Director to herself when their individual thought processes are thinking the same things at the same time for too long of a period???
