Login Madness pt 187/19b
Trying to figure out what happened...
(It’s so good to have them all back home though. Even if Vlad’s soul is still missing and even if it’s a crappy home ;)
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"hunter and wrecker have all the right to be mad at crosshair" "crosshair didn't deserve that look of disgust after everything he's been through"
okay. I need to talk about this. Somehow every week there is always some hunter vs crosshair discourse that every single TIME traces back to s1. it's always one is wrong one is right or vice versa, hunter is badly written because of his omega-centered tunnel vision, crosshair is irredeemable etc etc. But the end of ep4 truly had me realising that not only are we looking at this all wrong, but this 3 year long discussion is literally unecessary when you look beyond each character's reasoning. Let me explain,
I truly believe that ever since the ending of s1 the writers have been building up to this moment, where both hunter and crosshair have no choice but to own up to their feelings and face each other. This wouldn't have been possible, say, at the end of s2, because they both were in contexts bigger than them but now, now they have no other alternative. they HAVE to talk it out, despite the both of them having the same avoidant personality (that manifests differently).
What's compelling is that both are wrong and right at the same time. The writers wrote the end of s1, and their respective change (or lack thereof) in s2 with such meticulous detail, so that the feeling of betrayal on both sides stays looming until this very moment, where neither of them can shut it out anymore. Hunter feels that Crosshair abandoned them for the empire, is still very avoidant on the topic when adressed through the show, and probably projects his own feeling of failure onto it. Then he recieves a message from the same brother who'd hunted them down telling them to hide, and when HE decides to go and rescue him, it costs him Tech.
On the other hand, Crosshair feels betrayed and abandoned by hunter because he never really tried to get him back before the events of kamino lost. Sure, Hunter didn't have the resources to at the time, but the feeling nonetheless stays with Crosshair as he decides to internalize completely his identity as a soldier and shut out the part where he's a brother. In s3, when omega talks about contacting hunter or wrecker, he is always seen reluctant about it. Not only does he suffer the consequences of his actions (like hunter does as well), but he doesn't believe he deserves to be accepted back in the squad.
The ongoing discussion is therefore futile - because it was never about hunter vs crosshair. It's about two men who both carry guilt, failure and betrayal on their backs meeting at a crossroad. Two men who are both mirrors of each other. It doesn't matter who is right or who is wrong because they're both supposed to feel that way. They're both supposed to be angry and hostile, because this was the point all along! this is the culmination of kamino lost, and I think once we start looking beyond our personal opinions of each character and see that every bad choice each of them have done is out of a writing standpoint done with purpose to get them here, at the end of ep4,.
Back when plan 99 came out, a lot of people were angry at hunter's choice to only look for omega, and not crosshair, in a sense abandoning him or forgetting about him. But that's not the case. If hunter had chosen to look for crosshair as well, this reunion right here wouldn't have been possible. The mutual feeling of betrayal wouldn't have been as incessant, and honestly it wouldn't have made as much sense. It is clear by now that hunter still isn't sure whether crosshair's warning was a trap considering the consequences, so his choice to not look for him comes out of a place of distrust, which essentially traces back to his hurt when crosshair chose the empire over them.
In short, this reunion is happening the only true way it could ever happen, at exactly the right time. Hunter and crosshair's character are both a point where this is necessary. they weren't before. So again, it's not about who's better, worse, right or wrong. It's simply the culmination of a conflicting plotline between two characters, and in retrospective, I think it's been done pretty well
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