Talk:Behind the Mask/@comment-27574307-20190320214835

I'm re-playing MOTP (in my opinion, the best season of CC) and, with the benefit of hindsight, I realized how much some future implications were already present here.

Unpopular opinion, but I think that, however snobbish and unpleasant, between Lawson and Archie, Archie was right. Between the two, I decidedly empathized for Archie and his crush on Giulietta (of course, the courtship technique he uses is very creepy), his feeling inadequate. I shouldn't, but he even inspired me tenderness. In spite of everything, he seems to me the product of the society in which he is immersed and of the pressures to which he is subjected: he tries to free himself in part, to find his own happiness and his own place, but he does it in the most wrong way.

Let me explain better: in what the boy did there was nothing criminally relevant, so Lawson's insistence on the concept of "justice" (we already know what will culminate ...) did not have much reason to exist. As for the murders that occurred to Mr. Alastor's soireés, we have arrested some guilty parties with their motives: there is no reason to believe that Alastor actually instigated them to commit a crime, so the responsibilities are genuinely theirs. Yes, holding bets on who will be killed at parties is certainly a sign of unprecedented bad taste, but 1) bad taste is not criminally relevant; 2) he has only put together people with strong conflicts, but even this does not appear to be a crime (the killers did it all themselves); 3) I don't believe that Alastor had talents of clairvoyance and could foresee, for example, that at the party at the lighthouse Lucrezia declared his love for Jordan, after having lied to him about her identity, that then between the two occurred a scuffle and finally an accident in which the girl would have lost her life. But this perhaps depends on the plot of the district which, although interesting, turned out to be a bit weak.

So, in my opinion, in this episode it was already evident in Justin a certain aptitude for a blind faith in "justice" (a somewhat abstract and extreme concept) and a lack of aptitude in dealing with the most profound situations and also considering the motivations of people - although not always acceptable.