Freak Accidents

[DavidG]

I broke this out into a separate thread in case it proves too upsetting a topic, this way it's easier to avoid the discussion than if it's integrated into the Small, Dark Movie thread.

Thinking about the Solstice sent me back to 2.01 Lucky Day, to check on what Daphne said about her religious beliefs, but, as is the way of these things, I ended up reading most of the episode. It's painful, Daphne stepping to the front, Daphs and Hafs pulling the case together, Daphne taking out the Gamma with a piece of paper, a lie, and sheer belief.

And there's the rub, Morgan Creirwy, the gamma, mistress of the freaky accidental death, and Daphs is the one who takes her out, with Creirwy's own beliefs rebounding into one final freaky accidental death, "Whatever you do comes back to you threefold," to quote one of the minor characters. "I used my craft--profiling or witchcraft or both--to kill. I take responsibility, Hafs. It's cool." to quote Daphs.

Sol rounds off the episode by telling Daphne that for her killing is "never going to get easy."

And then Small, Dark Movie, and another freaky accidental death.

There's that thing we don't believe in.

[jimsmyth]

That's actually more satisfying to me.  It makes Daphne's death (oddly) less random.

It makes the death something she took on, a price she knew she'd have to pay sometime.  It means that she didn't die randomly without that death accomplishing something.

My mind is apparently an odd place when it comes to seeking meaning.

[MadGastronomer]

She was a Witch, and a first responder; she knew death was the price of the ride long before Lucky Day. It's the price for all of us. She was more aware of that than most, and she went into that moment ready to pony up.

Which does not make what dwg's saying less true. Just trying to expand upon it.

[jeffy]

Yup, we all pay the same price, but some buy more with it than others.

The freak accident parallel dwg points out is resonant, but, of course, neither death was an accident. Both were wrought by the anomaly. (whatever the frack it is. Getting a little impatient with the rate of revelation. Not that I don't trust the PTB, just saying.)

*sitting on the bus in traffic on the way to NK thinking about Daphne.*

[DavidG]

The freak accident parallel dwg points out is resonant, but, of course, neither death was an accident. Both were wrought by the anomaly.

I think it can be both wrought by the anomaly, and yet still an accident. The anomaly allows mythology to become reality, Creirwy's mythology was the freak accident manifest. No matter the anomaly's involvement, it was still someone rolling snake-eyes against Murphy's Law.

[DavidG]

She was a Witch, and a first responder; she knew death was the price of the ride long before Lucky Day.

Not only that, but as a paramedic she looked into the face of a gamma that had just killed two of her friends, killed it, and signed up to the FBI with the express intention of joining WTF and hunting more, because it was a job that needed doing. Daphs to the core.