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walkingshadow) wrote2005-01-30 03:14 am
walkingshadow) wrote2005-01-30 03:14 am
usually we don't do it with our eyes closed
The advantage to never sleeping is that it means I'm likely to be around for the posting of CHAPTER 34 OF THE ARCHER. Because compulsive refreshing is its own reward.
Eric is working for the Archer? My Venn diagrams just went to shit. And how long has Eric known that Viggo is the Archer? See Chapter 27 for the following exchange:
Duct tape? Wtf mates? Never let Eric near your wound.
And okay, in the last few chapters we've gathered that Sean's mission was to kill Orlando (and I'd wondered if his job had just been to kill "the mole," and Sean had just discovered that Orlando was the mole, so . . . I don't know), but that's been his mission for the last five years? Like, they told him to go take down Orlando and it's been five years and it's not done yet and nobody's, you know, called him on the carpet or anything?
And Sean indirectly identified himself as a Hunter, but the scary fucker who's coming after the Six is called the Hunter (the agent assigned to kill Viggo during the Organization's Great Purging Fiasco). I don't know what that means. Whatever it is, both Orlando and Sean recognized (or at least believed) that any further information Bernard gave would implicate Sean, and in such a way that the Six would turn on him as a traitor.
ETA: Okay, someone over at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
archerfanclub just posted a theory that 1) Sean is the Hunter, 2) The Organization knows that Viggo is the Archer, 3) Everybody on the team except Sean are working for Viggo or is Viggo himself, and 4) Sean's mission is to eliminate everybody on the team. I've got several problems with this, mostly logistical ones revolving around the facts that 1) Sean wouldn't need a Watcher to paint his targets, 2) he wouldn't be a target himself, and 3) he wouldn't be arriving the next day when he was already there and had been there. However! Someone in comments concluded that there was more than one "Hunter," and that these were the agents who went about cannibalizing other, problematic agents. I've been toying with the idea that the Great Purging Fiasco wasn't exactly the disaster it seemed; Viggo tells us he was assigned to the Hunter as a mark, and we also know that Sean and Orlando were assigned a mark so skilled he eluded two Class One agents (Orlando in Chapter 7: "let me tell you, that man was hard to tail. Neither one of us ever even got so much as a look at his face"). So it's possible that Viggo was that highly-skilled mark, and the only screw-up on the part of the Organization was that they put two agents on him (with Orlando as the mistake, since Sean was the Hunter). To quote the source (and hello to all my teachers who only ever demanded we back up our wild theories with examples from the text! your lessons shine through the porn and conspiracy theories):
I'm thinking now that perhaps only the first part (agents being assigned the same targets) was the mistake, and agents being targeted themselves was something that had been going on for a while. This would give added depth to Sean's refusal to believe the Organization was trying to take him down ("twenty-five fucking years!"). Or possibly that would void my theory. When did the Archer first emerge on the scene? And when was Sean assigned to kill Orlando (if that was indeed the assignment; I'm still having trouble assimilating how that could work)—that is, how long after they were tapped to work with each other? Forget Venn diagrams, I need a freaking timeline.
Isn't it time for Viggo to share with the class?
I put up twenty-two icons for THE ARCHER, available for sharing, in my last post.
Eric is working for the Archer? My Venn diagrams just went to shit. And how long has Eric known that Viggo is the Archer? See Chapter 27 for the following exchange:
"There are three sides now, Yoda. The Organization. The Archer. And the Six. And Karl was right, you always have the answers. So I'll follow your lead in this. Do you go with the Six, or do you stay with your previous loyalties."
Viggo's mind raced to come up with a decent answer. That Eric was looking to him for leadership was both surprising and flattering. Viggo would have thought Eric's devotion would have gone with Sean no matter what.
"I think it’s pretty clear that our previous loyalties are now trying to kill us," Viggo said with a little smile. Eric cocked his head at Viggo and looked at him thoughtfully. After a full minute of silent observation Viggo felt the need to squirm, but he resisted.
"Previous loyalties . . . yeah,” Eric mumbled as the madness returned in full force. Viggo watched him worriedly, wondering what he had been on about. There was really no telling what was going on in Eric's head, especially now that the curtain of madness had apparently been dropped again. "You just remember that Yoda," Eric said softly as he stood up to retrieve his roll. "I’ll follow your lead."
Duct tape? Wtf mates? Never let Eric near your wound.
And okay, in the last few chapters we've gathered that Sean's mission was to kill Orlando (and I'd wondered if his job had just been to kill "the mole," and Sean had just discovered that Orlando was the mole, so . . . I don't know), but that's been his mission for the last five years? Like, they told him to go take down Orlando and it's been five years and it's not done yet and nobody's, you know, called him on the carpet or anything?
And Sean indirectly identified himself as a Hunter, but the scary fucker who's coming after the Six is called the Hunter (the agent assigned to kill Viggo during the Organization's Great Purging Fiasco). I don't know what that means. Whatever it is, both Orlando and Sean recognized (or at least believed) that any further information Bernard gave would implicate Sean, and in such a way that the Six would turn on him as a traitor.
ETA: Okay, someone over at
archerfanclub just posted a theory that 1) Sean is the Hunter, 2) The Organization knows that Viggo is the Archer, 3) Everybody on the team except Sean are working for Viggo or is Viggo himself, and 4) Sean's mission is to eliminate everybody on the team. I've got several problems with this, mostly logistical ones revolving around the facts that 1) Sean wouldn't need a Watcher to paint his targets, 2) he wouldn't be a target himself, and 3) he wouldn't be arriving the next day when he was already there and had been there. However! Someone in comments concluded that there was more than one "Hunter," and that these were the agents who went about cannibalizing other, problematic agents. I've been toying with the idea that the Great Purging Fiasco wasn't exactly the disaster it seemed; Viggo tells us he was assigned to the Hunter as a mark, and we also know that Sean and Orlando were assigned a mark so skilled he eluded two Class One agents (Orlando in Chapter 7: "let me tell you, that man was hard to tail. Neither one of us ever even got so much as a look at his face"). So it's possible that Viggo was that highly-skilled mark, and the only screw-up on the part of the Organization was that they put two agents on him (with Orlando as the mistake, since Sean was the Hunter). To quote the source (and hello to all my teachers who only ever demanded we back up our wild theories with examples from the text! your lessons shine through the porn and conspiracy theories):The purging mess that Orlando referred to had indeed been chaotic, with agents assigned the same targets and some agents being targeted themselves by mistake. It had eventually been discovered as a computer virus, but not before nine agents had lost their lives to 'friendly fire.' Viggo had almost been one of them.
-Chapter 1
I'm thinking now that perhaps only the first part (agents being assigned the same targets) was the mistake, and agents being targeted themselves was something that had been going on for a while. This would give added depth to Sean's refusal to believe the Organization was trying to take him down ("twenty-five fucking years!"). Or possibly that would void my theory. When did the Archer first emerge on the scene? And when was Sean assigned to kill Orlando (if that was indeed the assignment; I'm still having trouble assimilating how that could work)—that is, how long after they were tapped to work with each other? Forget Venn diagrams, I need a freaking timeline.
Isn't it time for Viggo to share with the class?
I put up twenty-two icons for THE ARCHER, available for sharing, in my last post.
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What I want to know now is how many of the others are working for viggo that he doesn't know about? 'cause he doesn't seem to know who's on his team which strikes me as being really fucking stupid.
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Dude, so incredibly confused.
I think the idea of everyone on the original team actually working for the Archer, unbeknownst to each other, is hilarious, but yeah, it doesn't make for very good strategy. Networking is one thing, but what's the deal with the code names, and wouldn't you really, really want to know who's on your side when it seems like there are a whole bunch of sides to be on and you all go around killing the people who are not on your side? Share with the class! And then you can all realign and actually start doing things instead of chasing your own tails.