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Technically speaking, I guess that Gus was wrong to have killed Malvo by shooting him when Malvo was unarmed and defenseless with a broken leg and all. I suppose it could be said that it was murder and illegal. On the other hand, Malvo had killed so many people, it might have been possible for Gus to argue that he was right.
But this poll is not about legal vs illegal. It’s about your opinion of right and wrong. Was Gus right to have killed Malvo the way he did? Would you have done the same thing? Or should he have taken the chance that if he called the police and kept Malvo waiting, maybe Malvo could have found a way to kill him somehow?
There has been a lot of talk about how when one person has another cornered, it is a big mistake to start to talk to them and give them a chance to somehow get the drop on the first person. I recall a lot of talk about this regarding some James Bond movies.
For example, in The Game of Thrones, remember the Trial by Combat where Oberyn Martell had The Mountain on the ground and all but finished with his spear stuck into The Mountain?
But then Oberyn failed to finish him off. He started talking. He said something like, “Oh no. You cannot die yet. First you must confess to how you killed my wife. You raped her. You killed her children.” And then he removed his spear from The Mountain. Big mistake? Probably.
Remember what happened while he was talking? The Mountain upended him and crushed his skull (killing him).
So, when Gus got the drop on Malvo, I think many people would say that he should have finished him off immediately and never given him any chance to kill Gus. But he failed to do that.
Many people don’t get to watch a show when it’s first broadcast, and record it to watch later. There are likely some folks who haven’t seen the *Game of Thrones *episode you referenced, much less the Fargo episode.
That said, Charlie Wayne, wow. The deal with spoiler is this: if you’re talking about a major event in a new-ish TV show/book/movie that would ruin a surprise or affect people’s ability to enjoy the show, add a spoiler warning to the thread so people have some idea what they are getting and can avoid it if they want to. Not only was this an open spoiler, it was right in the thread title and then you added a spoiler for an unrelated show.
The thread topic is fine if you give people a warning, but think about other people. If you hadn’t seen this show and were thinking about getting into it, would you want to know about these things in advance? If the answer is no, use spoiler boxes and/or a warning and don’t put it in thread titles. Fewer and fewer people watch TV live instead of catching it the next day or even getting into series months or seasons later through platforms like Netflix. If you still want me to get rid of this thread, let me know.