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Calling Syril a "good man" lmao okay buddy he was a space nazi who deserved worse.
E: also the point of his character was to show that all cops are nazis at heart.
not just cops, but the rent-a-cops/private security which was where Syril got started. he was a completely devoted cop-wannabe that was too dim and ineffective to even make it into imperial security.
he got completely bent out of shape by his two fellow "corporate security" rent-a-cops getting popped while doing the dirt and was so upset that the institution didn't want to investigate, that he went over his superior's head (Chief Hynes) after being told to let it go.
so he calls it in anyway to get a rapid response team of gungho door kickers on the case, which of course costs a bunch of money and leads to nothing but the corporation losing the contract, just like the boss said it would, and Syril gets shit canned from his mall cop shift supervisor job that he had his uniform tailored for. so he moves back in with his mom and broods about how troublemakers go unpunished.
personally, i loved how they portrayed him as instrumental to the fascist machine. a completely unlikable and dimwitted asshole who worships rules and procedures for security and social order. he was like supervisor meero, except zero guile or cunning. meero, by contrast, was fucking terrifying and i loved how she ended up getting hers. absolutely poetic, since she was the one that perfected the prison work process to get promoted into ISB.
anybody who comes away from this sympathetic to syril should be isolated and studied in a lab.
I'm sympathetic to him in the sense that he clearly grew up with a narcissistic mother and I think his whole embracing of the Empire's ideology was essentially him trying to replace her structural control over his life with a new one but one that made him feel less emasculated. Plus clearly at the end of it all he realized he was being used and didn't even know why the fuck he was so stupidly dedicated to an Empire that didn't give a fuck about him.
Still a total piece of shit and I'm glad he got-got, but he definitely had a human side to him.
His character introduction is being the sort of loser that tailors his corpo slop security uniform and argues with his superiors about following the rules (on the side of rules).
reminds me of that quote "It Is No Measure of Health To Be Well-Adjusted to a Profoundly Sick Society", i doubt the hog can properly abstract what "good men" and "bad society" is; his definition of good men is probably rigid and subscribes to harmful patriarchal themes.
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We get to know him as an incompetent cop and he only gets worse, yea. The only thing that Drinker is correct about there is that the Empire obviously does not give a fuck about the little cogs in it's machine.
The point is he stands for something, larping as a cop gives his life meaning, and he does think he's doing the right thing. The point about his final realization was just entirely spot on. He literally walks away from the empire and his evil girlfriend after telling her shits fucked like ten seconds before he dies. You get to see how he could have been a good person.
I appreciate how he dies regardless. He had ample opportunity to be a good person, yet he fought against it to the last possible moment. It is not enough to be good “on the inside.” Being a good person, doing the right thing, requires courage.
This I think was what I liked the most, that redemption isn't easily earned and just realizing you "might be the bad guy" doesn't mean you aint getting a bullet in the head for what you've already done. Syril encapsulates that there is no final hour come to Jesus moment for Nazis and their enablers, they either realized much earlier the system was F-ed or they wouldn't have come along for the ride so far into the shitshow to then pull back at the last second because "oh BUT THIS is too much".
Reintroduce the concept of purgatory into Protestantism so that people don’t imagine their sins can be erased in an instant of clarity
If he'd been born into a system that wasn't dysfunctional and evil at every level, he could have been an annoying but ultimately harmless jerk nobody likes
Oh, like there aren't good obnoxious jerks nobody likes.
I thought about this a lot while watching it. He would've been a great, albeit annoying bureaucrat in a communist society. It doesn't matter what the rules are, he would make sure they're followed to the letter. In his life, that meant dying for a fascist empire.
In a communist utopia, he would've made sure all the forms are filled out before getting your alottment of food or guaranteed job, or tracking down corruption in party officials, or something else indispensable that doesn't require people to like you, but does mean picking some principles and following them to the end and gives him some authority to retain some control he never got while living with his mother.
Maybe your idea of utopia is different than mine, but my version of a communist utopia doesn't have forms or bureaucrats .
Fair. Think I was just looking for a word with a different connotation than empire and "society" or "state" felt boring lol.