Re: "Full Metal Panic" dub (disc 1).

* Kyle Thomas Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  on Tue, 02 Dec 2003
| I would disagree.  The airliner was a hostage situation and while he
| and Kurz were wounded they did resolve the situation without loss of a
| hostage due to Sousuke's actions.  And during the Hermajistan mission
| Sousuke ended up being in effective command of the unit as Gray
| continued to turn to him for advice.

Prehaps you misremember?  Sosuke was all set to use himself -- who was also
technically a hostage if only briefly -- and Kurz as distractions to let
Kaname escape.  Good plan: Kaname would be safe from the soldiers chasing
them.  Bad plan: it would have gotten them killed, and then Kaname would be
left alone on an island somewhere in North Korea with no weapons, no
wilderness or combat survival skills, and no means of getting off of the
island.

Sosuke becomes hyperfocused on the immediate threat.  That makes him really
good, maybe better than anyone else, at dealing with those threats.  He
gets so hyperfocused on the threat at hand that he can't see beyond it.  He
loses sight of long-term goals.  He did well on the Helmegistan (it's a
made-up country; I can spell it however I want :) mission because there was
no long term goal.

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