CodeBlack wrote:
I remember before, she didn't care about the connection between most of Torg's pursuits because her impression what that he was doing most them out of denial over what they thought was Zoe's death, and she wanted no part of that. So she'd have missed how Oasis, hC and such were all connected, and how he joined the Minion Master in part to investigate that.
And not only that, but that the connection between almost all of them is Zoe. Working for Minion Master is the most involved, but besides investigating hC (which is connected to finding the truth about Oasis, in hopes of stopping her from killing Zoe out of jealousy), the other reason for Torg to work with Minion Master in the R&D wars was to get access to technology that would help Sasha improve the DFA and get access to the dimension Zoe got zapped into.
And on that last point, even if Torg were to acknowledge that Zoe was probably dead, he wouldn't be able to get closure until he was
sure - and until Riff brought her back, the only way Torg could get that closure would be to gain access to the dimension Zoe got zapped into (therefore figuring out the DFA, therefore working with MM for potential DFA tech).
CodeBlack wrote:
She's being a bit of a jerk lumping Mokhadun into that, though.
And here we have the one that
wasn't ultimately about Zoe, and actually
was about Gwynn. Unfortunately, Gwynn's self-absorption is the one area of her character that she's been slowest to grow out of. There've been some signs that she's getting there, but not enough, not yet.
The crucial point that Gwynn is missing about Torg is that he doesn't
drop things - he
prioritizes. He tries to identify the thing that poses the greatest threat to what he cares about at the moment, and devotes all his resources to that until the threat is countered, then moves on to the next thing.
Or put even most simply: the conversation Gwynn missed, the one that would correct her misunderstanding about Torg if she'd been there for, is
this one. Or possibly just this one sentence:
Oasis, the gymnastic assassin who keeps coming back from the dead and who can set things on fire with her mind, who almost fatally burned Riff, Zoe, and Bun-Bun... we'll finally learn her secrets and stop her once and for all. It's always been about Oasis, because she's the real threat to you guys, my friends.