This is entirely a matter of opinion, but I don't think an English butler would say "gotten". I'm English myself, and I've never heard the word used except by Americans. I suggest "obtained" instead.
Love the page, though!
This is entirely a matter of opinion, but I don't think an English butler would say "gotten". I'm English myself, and I've never heard the word used except by Americans. I suggest "obtained" instead.
Love the page, though!
I know I'm commenting way after the last two comments, but I've just read this transcript for the first time and I have to say that I love it. The addition of this to the main entry takes me from "Oh, that's cute" to "Tell me more, Mr. Deeds!"
There's something about the end of this that I find really offensive. After a casual and friendly talk, Mr. Deeds proceeds to casually murder another human, simply because it was requested of him. Then Agent Graves proceeds to torture him to death. The way it clashes with the earlier, seemingly amicable conversation is kind of jarring. Well done.
Mr. Deeds: My apologies for the delay, finding a way out was troublesome.
I love "finding a way out," like there are holes in existence, when no one is looking, that he can access.
I do find the ending of this too be a big, drawn out. 662-L1 definitely goes from bad to worse for Mr. Deeds and I feel like it could use some tightening up.
I'm not generally one to downvote for violence or even massacre, but torturing an old, serviceable guy to death by evisceration is just too much for me… if not for the gore, for the sheer ridiculousness. Interrogatory torture is nasty, sure, but this falls squarely into "Foundation hired a psychopath" territory. Never mind the fact that it puts a skip at extreme risk (there was no confirmation at the time that it would endlessly respawn) for a completely irrelevant piece of information. I don't doubt that the Foundation would go here and further if they were trying to prevent a K-Class scenario; here it's just used for shock.
And you know what? I could forgive that if the interview itself was good. It starts relatively well, but quickly not only turns repetitive but gives me a bunch of information I already knew (I know it's "realistic" but half of the tests being detailed here were also mentioned in the article).
Fourthing. It just totally killed the article for me.
Idea.
"Mr. Deeds… we'd like to examine you more intensely."
"Certainly, sir."
"To be specific, we'd like to examine you internally."
"Certainly, sir."
"We'd like to do an autopsy."
"Ah. Shall I kill myself? Or would you prefer to do it yourself? And since you will no doubt be examining my organs, do you have a preferred method?
That keeps the horror, but without the "lolEVUL." I can dig it.
While I did upvote, this idea sits much better with me.
Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if Agent Graves was known for doing this kind of thing in other cases, as well…or at least if Dr. Mirth were horrified after finding out what happened.
I find it curious that while there was a somewhat detailed description of the torture methods, there were no mention of how he reacted; and they didn't ask him about his opinion on what happened after he came back.
ps: I'm also of the opinion the torture and murder seemed a bit too sudden and out of place.
As many others have pointed out, the sudden Agent Graves torturing the nice butler thing is way out of place. It doesn't even reveal why they are torturing him.
It was clearly added for shock factor, and you just can't do that…it's cliche, in this case it doesn't even make sense, and it ticks people off.
Besides, Mr. Deeds obeying orders to kill someone worked much better as a shock factor. Having him act extremely nice and decline from serving human flesh or blood, but then being willing to kill someone if ordered is a nice contrast, and fits the story much better than Mr. Graves torture session.
Mr. Deeds himself is a very charming character. It's nice every now and then to see an SCP who is polite without having an ulterior motive. He's a nice balance…normally he's harmless, but under certain circumstances, can become dangerous depending on who rung the bell.
I also find the warning to Dr. Mirth to stop using him to do his chores on the main 662 page funny.
I wonder, however if is he growing uncomfortable because he's unable to answer the questions, or because he's realizing that he does not know much about himself.
Overall, a very underrated SCP, and one of my personal favorites, because of the character in it.
You needn’t call me sir any longer, I appreciate it, but it’s becoming a bit grating.
But it shows the old feudal spirit!
Like everyone else has said, it's totally out of place and seriously, seriously out of character for the foundation. Like it says in the writing guide, "Cold, not cruel." Especially not cruel for no reason.