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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nonlethal Force" data-source="post: 3305229" data-attributes="member: 35788">I am going to insert OotS general rule #1:Rich will seldom take the reader in the direction the reader anticipates.After 406 episodes ... I would assume people would expect this.  I would assume people would immediately not jump to their foregone conclusions.  Yet people still do.Rich wants everyone out there to suddenly spring up and feel sympathy for the old man and hate Miko.  Why?  So that when he reveals what's truly going on people are blown away.Personally, I think Miko is walking a fine emotional line for a paladin.  Thank God she's got levels of monk so that she isn't a complete paladin.  Walking this much of an emotional line is bad for a monk/paladin.  For a full paladin it would be unthinkable!  However, I still think Miko is within her paladinhood.I think this because I think the old man is evil.  Think about it.  Everyone here is all "Oh, poor old man.  Oh, bad bad Miko."  Rich is playing everyone at this moment and is doing it beautifully!  But never once did anything in the script point to the old man not being evil.Now, that doesn't make what Miko did right.  I'm not arguing that Miko is some kind of saint.  But I think all the Miko haters here are going to be shocked when the final truth is spun out.  Miko's not innocent by a long shot.  But neither is Miko the Blackguard that many here make her out to be.I only hope that Roy and OotS takes their original advice.  Stay out of it.  The plot here is so deep that if Roy is so much as "figuratively" standing on the shoreline when the wave of plot comes rolling in, the OotS will be caught in the Tsunami that will destroy him/them.  Stay out of it, Roy.{On a side note, I do hope Belkar gets involved.  It's about time he dies.}</blockquote>

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