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Current Talk '12 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0159
« on: March 05, 2012, 06:05:18 PM »But how interesting that Laura has a powerful option other than fire! Why didn't she use that on Sam?
Well, she's still human, in some strange way, and humans in scripts and in real life often do things that we react to with "What were they thinking?" Even smart characters do irrational, stupid things because of over-confidence, impulsiveness, or because it's just their nature. I suppose she was acting on impulse, just "being herself", and if you were very prone to anger and could combust at will, using that power would be irresistable. It may also just feel very good in some way we can't imagine...
With Liz, after the controversy with Sam, I suppose her intelligence woke up, and she realized these ploddingly ordinary little humans might actually be starting to catch on to what she was, and she changed tactics. There are many people who possess intelligence and better judgment, I think, but who would really rather not have to use it. They can though, when necessary. In her case, smiting by fire's just so much more satisfying..