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Such a dystopian, dysfunctional world comes to life in Ai no Kusabi. Ceres is a particularly desperate place. The slums in all their reviled trashiness feel far more honest than Guardian, the poisoned Eden where its children grew up. Certainly more honest than the rigidly controlled and corrupt Midas. Certainly more than Eos, the elite Paradise of Pet life and Blondy disdain, still dependent on the slums to furnish them in more ways than one.
Perhaps Iason Mink expressed that need with a more honest ruthlessness than most Blondys. A need which no one else understood (or wanted to understand). A need which led to his downfall along with Riki’s.
If ever a world cried out to the TARDIS, it’s this one. If ever a society was sickened by hierarchy and humiliation, trapped in its own ways, it’s this one. If ever a place needed a Doctor, it’s here.
Perhaps Iason and Riki were a fixed point of time and space, far too important to meddle with. Perhaps they could be saved.
Their existences remain mysteries the Doctor(s) and their companions could explore. The answers could help the survivors, even if the answers feel poisonous.
I definitely see Katz at being a temporary companion/contact the Doctor and their companions would work with or against. Possibly both. The same is true of Guy.
Zico is more likely to be an adversary, but he could turn. Raoul and the Blondys would be adversaries. Raoul seems the most resistant to change, the most likely to strike back at anything that threatens his stagnant world. Iason’s fate may have made him more fearful and rigid than ever, but he can’t help doubt in the face of determined adversity. He doesn’t have the drive, energy, or wit that Iason had, something which may well have maddened him.
The ultimate adversity and answers may lie with Jupiter, Iason’s god. Why was Riki so special? Why did Iason react to his so passionately in defiance of the order he was on top of? Why did
Jupiter tolerate it, even when all the other Blondys felt Iason had gone too far?
Some of these answers were already revealed. I feel like there’s more to come, beyond the tragedy of Riki and Iason, yet also concerning the tragedy of Riki and Iason.
Perhaps it was all an experiment which became real. Not only Riki and Iason, but this elaborately structured world which collapsed under individual determination to exploit it.
Not everyone in this drama has reached a resolution or a reckoning. I could see the Doctor having a hand in this as the Doctors have had a hand in the revolution of many a dystopian world.
It’s something to think about.
Perhaps Iason Mink expressed that need with a more honest ruthlessness than most Blondys. A need which no one else understood (or wanted to understand). A need which led to his downfall along with Riki’s.
If ever a world cried out to the TARDIS, it’s this one. If ever a society was sickened by hierarchy and humiliation, trapped in its own ways, it’s this one. If ever a place needed a Doctor, it’s here.
Perhaps Iason and Riki were a fixed point of time and space, far too important to meddle with. Perhaps they could be saved.
Their existences remain mysteries the Doctor(s) and their companions could explore. The answers could help the survivors, even if the answers feel poisonous.
I definitely see Katz at being a temporary companion/contact the Doctor and their companions would work with or against. Possibly both. The same is true of Guy.
Zico is more likely to be an adversary, but he could turn. Raoul and the Blondys would be adversaries. Raoul seems the most resistant to change, the most likely to strike back at anything that threatens his stagnant world. Iason’s fate may have made him more fearful and rigid than ever, but he can’t help doubt in the face of determined adversity. He doesn’t have the drive, energy, or wit that Iason had, something which may well have maddened him.
The ultimate adversity and answers may lie with Jupiter, Iason’s god. Why was Riki so special? Why did Iason react to his so passionately in defiance of the order he was on top of? Why did
Jupiter tolerate it, even when all the other Blondys felt Iason had gone too far?
Some of these answers were already revealed. I feel like there’s more to come, beyond the tragedy of Riki and Iason, yet also concerning the tragedy of Riki and Iason.
Perhaps it was all an experiment which became real. Not only Riki and Iason, but this elaborately structured world which collapsed under individual determination to exploit it.
Not everyone in this drama has reached a resolution or a reckoning. I could see the Doctor having a hand in this as the Doctors have had a hand in the revolution of many a dystopian world.
It’s something to think about.
