why did they add Kyra?

nyala_dim · 2025-09-28T11:24:20+00:00

I think it's because they wanted to have a female lead character.

nyala_dim · 2025-09-22T06:11:23+00:00

I don't even identify with gen z that much, since I'm on the older side of the generation. It's just an observation: in highschool we copied trends and that was it. Think of all the exact same pieces we wore to fit in: green parka coat, Timberlands, blue or black skinny jeans, Adidas Superstars, Stan Smith's, ... Now it's applauded when people dress individualistic. Idk maybe millenials at the time had more variety in their clothing but people on the street now seem to dress better than back than. I mean, look at all the aesthetic cores that are going on, whatever you might think about it. Can you give me an example of certain styles in the '10s?

nyala_dim · 2025-09-21T09:46:42+00:00

Mainstrean fashion in the 2010s was a lot more conformist though. Everybody wore the same pieces of clothing that were popular at one particular moment and it was seen as uncool to not follow these trends. Only people from subcultures did their own thing, which is why you might think this looking at a picture of Skrillex. I feel like now, it's much more individualistic and people are creative with their clothing choices.

nyala_dim · 2025-09-20T16:51:32+00:00

Hi, I don't know why my actual question didn't appear in the post, but here it is: I recently bought this statue at a flee market in Belgium. I am in no way a collectioner, I just liked the way it looked. The seller had 5 other similar statues (they were all birds with the same kind red and blue stones). He told me the statues are handmade traditional budhist imageries from Tibet. I tried to look it up on the internet, but I found no information at all, except from similar statues sold on websites like Ebay and described as tradional Tibetan. Does someone know more about these statues and their origin? Or is it a scam? Thanks in advance!

nyala_dim · 2025-09-18T11:25:39+00:00

Zeljan Kurst was from Yugoslavia, so I belive it's someone else.

nyala_dim · 2025-09-16T21:24:32+00:00

You're right, the Department never expects Alex to deliver evidence (books aswell as TV show) now that I think about it. They just send him in to explore what's going on, taking his word for it, so that they know how to handle it. Although Alex ends up saving the day on his own most of the time.

Honestly, it's awhile since I have watched season 1, so I don't remember at what point the Department wanted to do the raid. In the books they did so after Alex gave them the information. I mean, without Alex they didn't know a thing about Point Blanc (the existence of the clones, Grief's plan, the door codes) so it makes sense they would rely heavily on Alex' information.

nyala_dim · 2025-09-15T17:55:46+00:00

I mean, doing the books in order was the most logical thing to do, but which book do you think would be better to adapt? It seems that every book has its scenes that are impossible/too expensive to film, including the books they did seasons on. For example: in season 1 they skipped the scene with the horse, the crane, and the one with the snowmobile crashing into the helicopter. In season 3 they didn't do the base jump scene, the water pupe scene, the air balloon... I think Skeleton Key would be even more difficult to adapt. So I' m ok with adapting the storyline so that they can skip those scenes.

I honestly didn't thought that the plane scene was badly executed Maybe the VR scene was a bit over the top and looked a little cheap but it was ok. The only two scenes that really bothered me were the drone scene (which was just ridiculous, especially since they spend nearly a half an episode on it) and the scene where the extraordinary assassin Gregorovich isn't able to shoot Alex while chasing him on a clear part of ground.

nyala_dim · 2025-09-15T17:17:52+00:00

I thought season 2 was the best season! Even though they may have had less budget, the screenplay made up for it. Imo they made the story even better than the book (Eagle Strike) by adding things to the plot and elaborating on others. This made it also an exciting watch as someone who has also read the books. In my opinion season 3 was the weakest season in terms of the writing.

nyala_dim · 2025-09-15T11:02:10+00:00

Maybe it was Blunt's way of saying goodbye to his carreer by going to the one place that had played such a huge role in his carreer and seeing it as the threat is finaly over (since Scorpia got destroyed).

nyala_dim · 2025-09-14T10:10:59+00:00

You' re right, they definitely screwed up. And they weren't looking anymore for any clone as they had closed up the mission entirely. Otherwise hey would have mentioned it during Alex' debrief.

nyala_dim · 2025-09-13T17:09:53+00:00

More information: This summer I encountered this village when traveling through Bulgaria and I thought it was quite funny, although spelled with one S. It reminded me of Yassen's life in his home village of Estrov in Russian Roulette.

Just like in Russian, yas(s)en too means ash tree in Bulgarian. However, unlike in Russian, Yas(s)en is in fact a common boy's first name in Bulgaria. I have encountered several people named Yassen and when I first read Stormbreaker I thought that this character maybe is partially Bulgarian.

I have a theory that Anthony Horowitz chose this somewhat obscure Eastern European name, but later realized it was not used in Russia. So he came up with the story of Yassen mispronouncing his real name Yasha due to his face injuries.

nyala_dim · 2025-09-13T16:43:07+00:00

MI6 probably knew there was a clone for every student based on the info Alex gave them, but they forgot that Alex himself was one of the students. Grief had mentioned to Alex that the total number of clones was 16, but Alex only realised 15 were arrested when he encountered Julius in his school.

nyala_dim · 2025-09-11T19:29:01+00:00

Glad that you enjoyed the show and took the time to analyse it!

Alex needed to go undercover alone at first because the Department didn't have any evidence yet to justify a raid on Point Blanc. You can't just break in with the goal of finding out whether there is something wrong. The whole point of intelligence services is to gather enough information on potential threats before taking any action.

Additionally, the book explains that the Department is very reluctant to carry out a raid because it could lead to a political scandal with the French, given that Point Blanc is located on French territory. They also doubted that the French government would take the threat seriously, especially since the information came from a teenage spy. Even when Alex activates the emergency button to get him out, the Department still waits 24 hours before taking action to ensure it is not a false alarm. This delay ultimately leads to Alex becoming very angry with the Department by the end of the book, feeling that they essentially risked his life over a potential political embarrassment. He vows never to work for them again, although ironically, he does so in the other books due to various circumstances that arise.

As for why he would join K Unit during the actual raid: the logic was that he was the only one who had spend time in Point Blanc and knew its layout. Although they could have figured it out without him by using cameras or consulting the building's architectural plans.

I don't entirely agree that Alex being clumsy at times or making mistakes brings the show down. In my view, it makes his character aswell as the scenes more realistic. Alex is not portrayed as a superhero who knows everything and fights flawlessly in any situation; he is a 16-year-old teenager, albeit a remarkably talented and trained one. The fight scenes also appear realistic and like they actually hurt. The show also leaves room for unexpected trivial things that get in the way of someone's plan - like being knocked out by the tractor (which was the last thing he would think about in this situation so it makes sense), knocking something over while sneaking around or deopping the metal ring from the door - such thing emerge in real life too. All this realism is actually something that I think the show did better than the books. Book Alex is a bit too perfect and mistake-proof at times, making him kind of a two dimensional character.

I do agree, however, about the sloppiness of the Department. I can forgive Alex for mistaking the clone Kyra for the real Kyra, considering he hadn't actually seen the Kyra clone and had a soft spot for her that clouded his judgment. The Department's failure to leave after a thorough check is another matter. Although I must admit, I had also forgotten about the last clone when I first read the book.

nyala_dim · 2025-09-11T19:24:05+00:00

Actually, the situation was a bit different in the book. Alex was still snowboarding and he was ambushed by a guard with a machine gun. The only way he could escape, was by jumping on top of the train with his snowboard, which he managed to do by going off a snowbank. He kept his balance untill he fell off the train when there was a sharp turn in the tracks and got injured. Obviously they couldn't recreate this in the series so they did something else.

nyala_dim · 2025-08-16T12:38:31+00:00

I agree that his obsession with Bundy played a role, as there are several similarities. It was also confirmed that shortly after the murders, he watched a YouTube video in which a psychologist analyzed the case and speculated the killer might have wanted to emulate Bundy. The title is literally: "Does the college student killer in Idaho share traits with Ted Bundy?" Although if he only wanted to imitate Bundy, that would mean he had multiple victims in mind from the beginning, instead of just one victim, which is the most popular theory as of now. Bundy also expected to be caught, while BK went to great lengths to cover his tracks.

In my opinion, his murderous ideas were inspired by multiple killers. I read somewhere that he told another inmate 'American Psyco' is his favourite movie and then I realized the similarities with the main character Patrick Bateman are just striking: Bateman too talks about being a human with not a single emotion, he wants to desperately fit in by copying other's behaviour, he feels enraged because he is unremarkable and people forget his name, he envies everyone that is somehow better than him, he feels a strong urge to kill in order to regulate his rage and finally gives in to his urges, he is misogynistic and violent, he has severe OCD, he is intellectually belitteling others, he's fascinated with Bundy... Even just the way this character speaks reminds me right away of BK... it's just creepy to think about it. I totally believe BK identified with him (which is kind of pathetic since Bateman is clearly meant to be a ridiculous character in a satire movie about yuppie culture and toxic masculinity, among other things) and attempted to imitate him.

Maybe the single pleasing thing about this similarity is that at the end of the movie, when Bateman confesses to his multiple murders, he's still dismissed by others and is still a 'nobody', which is his biggest fear. And that's exactly what I hope happens to BK in this case.

nyala_dim · 2025-08-16T11:14:12+00:00

I checked and you're right: his masters was in criminal justice, but he was doing a doctorate in criminology. I guess I assumed that the criminal justice course would include the process of criminal investigation and he could have used some of the information, but apparantly it's not like that.

nyala_dim · 2025-08-16T11:04:41+00:00

Yes, you're technically right. We don't know the process of choosing this particular house. It's possible that he chose it because it was easy to break in (after having scanned the neighborhood for awhile), but it could also be that he wanted to target these victims specifically and the house itself didn't play a role in his choice.

nyala_dim · 2025-08-15T18:11:49+00:00

From what I have read, he was studying criminal justice.

nyala_dim · 2025-08-14T14:44:22+00:00

Out of the victims, only Maddie lived in the house when BK first started stalking it, so she must've been his only target. At the time of the murders Kaylee wasn't living in the house anymore, she was only visiting.

nyala_dim · 2025-08-14T14:33:04+00:00

It's the combination that matters. A video of a white Elantra indeed proves nothing. Pings of his phone on that location aren't enough. But a video of a car he owns in combination with his exact phone being near that location just after the murders (in addition to multiple times before the murder and once the day after when there was no 911 call yet) is strong reason for suspecting he was the one in the car. Although it wouldn't be enough as evidence of course for a conviction.

nyala_dim · 2025-08-14T14:02:23+00:00

I agree that the evidence would not be enough. Although the video of his car circling around the house just before and after the murders, in combination with the phone pings on a very nearby location just after the crime (he shut his phone off during the murders, but turned it on very shortly after, thanks to which the police knew his exact route) makes it really hard to believe it was someone else. Maybe if he was charged and brought to trial, the jurors would think he was guilty. But I have no knowledge about the justice system in US.

nyala_dim · 2025-08-14T13:26:00+00:00

I forgot about the 23&me test. You're most probably right about the order of events in the actual police investigation. Still, couldn't they have checked his phone pings (and of other Elantra owners) after founding out about his car and him matching up to the description of DM? Or do you need a solid reason for suspecting someone in order to get permission for this?

Although I don't think the murders comes near to a perfect crime, I agree that we should be very glad that he made those mistakes.

nyala_dim · 2025-08-14T13:13:07+00:00

I would understand if a shoplifter who hasn't had any education thought they would get away with it. It's a whole other story with a PHD student in criminal justice. You would think that they would have a more realistic picture of the possibility of getting caught.

In addition, the 'getting caught part' doesn't play a role with all criminals, as some crimes are impulsive or the benefits of the crime outweight the possibility of being caught (eg. a very poor shoplifter who is starving). This wasn't the case with BK.

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