Good point...I was being mostly facetious. I'm sure he sees the way he ignored/misinterpreted intel briefings as very serious and his grasp of the salient points almost miraculously encyclopedic. Of course, he's never opened an encyclopedia.... He's gotta be an intel officer's worst freaking nightmare to brief.
Good point...I was being mostly facetious. I'm sure he sees the way he ignored/misinterpreted intel briefings as very serious and his grasp of the salient points almost miraculously encyclopedic. Of course, he's never opened an encyclopedia.... He's gotta be an intel officer's worst freaking nightmare to brief.
A. Agree, He is certainly convinced he's a "very stable genius." Heck, for that matter, I'm convinced I'm a very stable genius...Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV. See?
B. Agree that the master conmen/authoritarians had his number from day one. He's a conman himself, but an amazingly soft mark for anyone with a half semester of psychology.
C. Half agree...drugs would be absolutely unnecessary. He's an adulation addict, and just some Gríma Wormtongue whispering in his ear about how much "the people" love him would be enough.
Like the Grima reference. :-) But Grima comes to a bad end in the book and the movie. I actually think the movie did a better job at getting rid of both Grima and Saruman (extended version of movie). Also Grima wasn't the top man - that was Saruman. :-)
Good point...I was being mostly facetious. I'm sure he sees the way he ignored/misinterpreted intel briefings as very serious and his grasp of the salient points almost miraculously encyclopedic. Of course, he's never opened an encyclopedia.... He's gotta be an intel officer's worst freaking nightmare to brief.
A. Agree, He is certainly convinced he's a "very stable genius." Heck, for that matter, I'm convinced I'm a very stable genius...Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV. See?
B. Agree that the master conmen/authoritarians had his number from day one. He's a conman himself, but an amazingly soft mark for anyone with a half semester of psychology.
C. Half agree...drugs would be absolutely unnecessary. He's an adulation addict, and just some Gríma Wormtongue whispering in his ear about how much "the people" love him would be enough.
Like the Grima reference. :-) But Grima comes to a bad end in the book and the movie. I actually think the movie did a better job at getting rid of both Grima and Saruman (extended version of movie). Also Grima wasn't the top man - that was Saruman. :-)
I'm not at all opposed to the various Grimas and other enablers from the last administration coming to bad ends...