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I'm surprised you say that about the characterisation, K,
Spoilers,
I thought the scene on the darkened highway, where the bunny gets it, was beautifully observed, and exactly how this would happen *in real life.* The rabbit's alone and confused, looking for someone in authority to take care of it, get it home, fix it up, and so appeals to what it perceives as a non-threatening human presence, the truck driver, only to find it's lethal programming taking over when the dog takes a run at it, and then be fatally confused when the other boss, the cyber-dog, tells it to stop.
Then again, is the bunny asking for help, or actually demanding it, by holding up the truck in the first place ?
It's difficult to say.
Either way, even though I read it this lunchtime with a fairly bad hangover, and so possibly found it a bit too emotionally affecting, the scene where the dog's sitting round with it's poor blitzed partner, who can't do much except mutter " extinct, " or variations on that, was a bit like a shot from a Peckinpah film, with the principled soldier knowing, after this, that there's no way back home. I'll admit to finding that touching.
Also, what exactly's happening in panel 2 on page 5 ? What's Dr Trendle's agenda in all this really ? Why the apparent lack of concern about all the dead soldiers, as opposed to the guy in the truck ? Is this all in some sense a war game exercise ? Dr Trendle seems to almost relish the horrific consequences of the animals being loose. " Oh those poor men. " indeed. Has he been manipulating this situation all along ? |
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