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Me, I've never sensed much remorse on Don's part, and always found it a tad implausible that he merely receives probation as a punishment. I mean, it was Zoltar who turned on him, not the other way around. Granted, it could be a form of probation that entails very close monitoring of his activities and all communications such that it amounts to prison-with-mobility.
I've always figured that the flowers and card were entirely Jason's idea. There's no guarantee, even that the card is in Don's handwriting -it could be entirely Jason's composition. Florists often take orders over the phone and write the messages on the cards themselves. Someone, like Don, who "is on some kind of secret mission. Some day it will be finished and he’ll come back," would plausibly do this and his mother wouldn't necessarily expect to see Don's handwriting on the card.
As for why Jason would do this, I think it's largely compassion. He knows she's worried about Don and he wants to make her feel better. I find it quite telling that he doesn't reveal the truth to Mrs. Wade, that her son is a defector, but rather lets her continue to believe a "white lie" that Don is on a secret mission. I can't imagine that bit of dishonesty is being made on Don's behalf!
Maybe, lacking a mother of his own, Jason's projected a bit onto Mrs. Wade here, imagining how he would try to reassure his own mother -if he had one- that he was safe and sound even though he's in a very dangerous line of work. Having a "secret identity" and participating in missions that, presumably, are classified, he's probably encountered situations with civilians -possibly girls ;-) - where he can't tell them the truth about what he's doing but wants to tell them at least something so they don't worry when he disappears suddenly, possibly for days at a time.
Or with his own recent anxiety over his double vision, numb hands etc, maybe an opportunity to be able to tell someone "Don't worry, everything's going to be okay," is suddenly especially appealing, although the person who really needs such reassurance is himself.
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19-04-2011 17:09
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lborgia88
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| quote: | Originally posted by Becky Rock
I can't see Jason being nice on Don's behalf, but I can see him being nice for Mrs. Wade. |
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Yeah, especially as Don tried to shoot him! And would have succeeded if not for Mark showing up and the fact that even the Spectrans didn't trust the rat with live ammo.
| quote: | Originally posted by amethyst
It's odd that they incorporated some of Ken and Ryu's backgrounds, but none of Joe's.
Why is it that neither Jun nor Princess got a background (of course Princess couldn't get much of one since Jun didn't)? Even Jinpei got a glimpse of where he might have come from. |
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It does seem like it was something of a conscious choice on the part of the BOTP creators not to supply much background info on any of them, doesn't it? If they'd really wanted to, I think there would have been ways to work some details into the dialogue here and there, in episodes, or even have Zark tell the viewers things.
As you say, though, even in Gatch, only Ken and Joe got a lot of attention to their backgrounds, and Jun got almost none. We've seen how they ended up using some of the "Ken/Red Impulse" story arc for Mark, but I agree that it is a bit odd that they used none of Joe's. Granted, they never got Gatch episodes 78 or 81, which would have been ideal for that purpose (though with some serious editing for violence needed!)
But they did get episode 31, where Joe's driving at the track and he remembers seeing a Devil Star and his parents getting shot. I think they could have used that as a way to work in some background information about Jason, especially if they wanted to make it that he was an orphan because his parents had been killed by a Galaxy Girl. But they cut all that out. I guess it was one thing to present characters as orphans, but a little too grim to show that one of them saw his parents get murdered right in front of him. Unless they could have made it such that his parents were kidnapped, not killed?
On the other hand, leaving their backgrounds vague and mysterious might have been seen as a way for kids to imagine whatever they wanted and fill in the blanks themselves? Heh, just like we do now with fics...
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20-04-2011 02:03
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lborgia88
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I can see the appeal there, the idea of them all being raised together from a very young age, especially as that means they wouldn't have any traumatic memories of losing their parents and they'd have very close ties, having always known each other.
That would be a nice contrast to Gatch too, where Ken might have been with Dr. Nambu at age four (though his mother didn't die until he was eleven) but Joe certainly didn't show up until he was about age 9. Jinpei and Jun must have come later still, and I've generally assumed Ryu was last...
The only catch -wouldn't Mark and Princess would feel like a "brother" and "sister" to each other, if they'd been raised together from very young ages? Can you grow up in the same household with someone that you know isn't your biological sibling and then develop romantic feelings for them? I wouldn't know, personally, but then, I think it could be possible. Probably depends a lot on how the 'parental figure(s)' raise and treat the children in question and how they explain the situation to them from young ages onward.
Granted, this isn't something we'd likely have been contemplating as kids watching BOTP! 
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20-04-2011 18:24
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The 'Westermarck Effect' would be in play. It's why unrelated animals of different sexes, raised together, often will not mate. They see each other as siblings.
This is why, in my AU, Princess was the first adopted, with Mark entering the family only after Cronus leaves him with Anderson. He knew Princess as the Chief's daughter, and sees Anderson as his guardian. (I've toyed with the idea that he spent some time in Dr. Harland's household, given some lines in that episode, and to explain how he knows Debbie.)
Given that we know very little about Don Wade (such as the reason for his hatred of G-Force), we have to presume that Jason's actions are on behalf of Mamma Wade. Maybe, like Joe, he's feeling the lack of a mother figure. Or he's trying to spare her the shock of learning her son's a traitor.
BTW, given her apparent age (she looks on the far side of 55), Don must have been born late in her life. Learning of his treachery would be even more cruel because of that.
(Let's remember that BotP tended to treat defection as a mere peccadillo rather than the serious matter that it is. Both Dr. Carig and Don Wade are welcomed back to the fold rather than imprisoned, and I think that Dr. Strecker would have been treated the same way if the scriptwriters had been able to get him out of his exploding mecha.)
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