jstaylor wrote:
I don't agree that Blake wants to kill Travis almost as badly as Travis wants to kill him. I recognize your qualifier, "almost", but the tone of Blake's response toward Travis feels different to me. Blake's withering scorn ("You don't matter enough to kill") to Travis's rabid foaming fury. They hate each other but, temperamentally, appear to be complete opposites.
Which is funny, portraying Blake as liquid nitrogen cold, when, compared to Avon, Blake is usually characterized as warm.
Actually, that doesn't strike me as cold-person behaviour at all. It's the kind of cruelty that only a people-aware (warm, F-type) person indulges in when not under attack himself - knowing that this dismissal of Travis will hurt him far more than gunning him down. Cruelty isn't dispassionate (unless one happens to be a sociopath, which Blake is IMO not); it's very interpersonal. A cold, rational person would pull the trigger.
JMHO, Mistral