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lightcastleAs I mentioned earlier, I don't consider the "I didn't see that coming" news my friends have kindly spared me the details of an actual spoiler. This is a Whedon piece, and one he set up a fixed timeline for. Therefore I expect both scenes from the future we saw to happen but not necessarily mean what we thought they did in context and for at least one switcheroo on the big bad.
The most obvious case for big bad switcheroo is one of the "good guy" cast.
"You had a moral dilemma. Your first. It didn't go well." -- The case for Topher
At first glance, Topher seems an unlikely person to switch to the big bad. He already is amoral, and we see him in Epitaph One as a broken man, destroyed by the realization of what he's done.
Thing is, that leaves lots of room for him to go bad before that. (Assuming that really is him and not a print/a composite/etc.) He could decide to "fix all his toys", or he could get hurt again by trying to have a conscience, only to decide to turn against anything such softness in the future.
The most effective thing about Topher as the actual danger is that it is a failed redemption story. We're seeing both DeWitt and Topher start down what appears to be a redemption path. One of them not making it would be very Joss. (See Lyndsey in Season One of Angel.)
About the only thing we know about the reveal is that it is going to be someone we are invested in emotionally, to maximize the gut punch. (Otherwise I'd root for Ivy. *grin*) Starting Topher down the path of "maybe he had a soul after all" only for him to decide a soul hurts and turn on everyone is a fine way to do that.
Still, Topher trying for redemption and breaking under the strain is already a good story and serves the "only one makes the redemption road" quota, so I give this fairly long odds.
The most obvious case for big bad switcheroo is one of the "good guy" cast.
"You had a moral dilemma. Your first. It didn't go well." -- The case for Topher
At first glance, Topher seems an unlikely person to switch to the big bad. He already is amoral, and we see him in Epitaph One as a broken man, destroyed by the realization of what he's done.
Thing is, that leaves lots of room for him to go bad before that. (Assuming that really is him and not a print/a composite/etc.) He could decide to "fix all his toys", or he could get hurt again by trying to have a conscience, only to decide to turn against anything such softness in the future.
The most effective thing about Topher as the actual danger is that it is a failed redemption story. We're seeing both DeWitt and Topher start down what appears to be a redemption path. One of them not making it would be very Joss. (See Lyndsey in Season One of Angel.)
About the only thing we know about the reveal is that it is going to be someone we are invested in emotionally, to maximize the gut punch. (Otherwise I'd root for Ivy. *grin*) Starting Topher down the path of "maybe he had a soul after all" only for him to decide a soul hurts and turn on everyone is a fine way to do that.
Still, Topher trying for redemption and breaking under the strain is already a good story and serves the "only one makes the redemption road" quota, so I give this fairly long odds.
