Helen Krummenacker wrote:
: No. It's a deliberate act. The malfunction didn't "scramble his brain : impulses," it removed his restraints.
That's your interpetation.
Based on evidence from the series.
The text doesn't give us to believe that
we're seeing the true Gan. I'd grudgingly allow that it leaves the possibility open,
Good. I've established something at least.
but on the other hand we have:
AVON: It's not my field, but if I am right, then the limiter is feeding scrambled impulses into his brain.
Which seems sensible given that:
- If he is the cold blooded psychopath capable of planning the
abandonment of friends to be killed while leaving himself looking merely the fool, and all the limiter did was remove his restraints, why the temper-tantrums in plain sight of everyone?
A temper-tantrum is one thing. Strangling a woman is another. Gan believes that women despise him (the clue is given in his words in Time Squad). Therefore in return he wants to kill them. He enjoys killing them. But he can't do it because the limiter prevents him from committing a violent act without the approval of the social group he has joined. So if he can't do it himself, perhaps he can get others to do it for him. That's why he lets the Guardians terrorise Jenna in Time Squad. She goes to the capsule and calls Gan's name, but he doesn't answer. The next minute we see Gan's left hand extending up. He's awake. Gan is trying to cheat the limiter. He is standing by and allowing the Guardian to do the job for him. That way he can vacariously get his jollies. Instead, the limiter cuts in when Jenna is attacked and causes Gan pain. So that little idea didn't work. Plan B, leave the women in dangerous situations where there is a high chance that they will be attacked and killed.
Why not pick the others off one by one, first though asleep in their
cabins, then whoever is on duty
on the flight deck.
1/ He doesn't want to get rid of the men, just the women. His attack on Avon was for a different reason: all the insults he's had to suffer from him. 2/ He can't attack someone unless he has the groups approval, or a verbal command from a group member, and even then the context has to be right.
Why attack without weapons and inefficiently? He's only going to, well, get himself drugged and bound going about things
that way.
His madness, or hatred for women, is so great that once the restrainer is off, he can't help himself.
- The limiter is right in whatever portion of his brain controls the
urge to kill. It deteriorates, it isn't as if it's suddenly not there; there's a metal irritant among his dendrites at the very least.
In Breakdown the limiter malfunctions and cuts out. But before it malfunctions it gives him pain. Then Jenna comes onto the deck. Oh, dear. Gan always attacks women when they are on their own. That's why whenever he is alone, or alone in the presence of a woman, Gan gets a headache. It is conditioning him to find such an enviroment uncomfortable. When Gan is strangling Cally the limiter cuts in again. The device is faulty. It is repaired in Brakedown, but the headaches don't stop after this episode. He has them again in Orac. There will usually be a secondary reason BTW, but although the reasons for that headache changes, the context will always be the same. Gan is alone. Gan is alone with a woman.
Jenny
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