Post by Jet Somers on Feb 5, 2014 1:08:21 GMT -5
The Microcosm of Winter 2014
An Editorial by Jet Somers
Brought to you by The Piercing Media Network
What is the Axiom? By definition, it's a truth that is self evident. Something that is established and accepted so readily that it's almost second nature to take it for granted.The sun sets in the west.
The supply must meet the demand.
One cannot divide by zero.
The Axiom, then, represents certain principles that we've learned to expect from the members of that collective. When it comes to Ezekiel Pax, that principle has been determined and proven yet again. But when it comes to Mickey Dragon, the Axiom has changed.
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The Axiom According to Ezekiel Pax
The Red Eyed Warrior has spent his years teaching us that there are two outstanding features to his existence.
The first is one of playing second fiddle. For a long time, he answered to a higher power that directed his actions and decisions. When that power forsook him, he went on a fruitless rampage that netted him exactly squat.
Well, it did net him one of the more forgettable world title reigns, but during a time when so many of us are looking for our second or third go of it, I'm at a loss to point out how this effected his career beyond making it sting a little more that I beat him to yet another goal, the Grand Slam Championship. In trying to become an innovator, an achiever in a fledging organization, Pax wound up playing second fiddle to yours truly.
That rampage saw Ezekiel Pax struggling to become a leader. The Viscious Kind, the failed attempt at a dominating stable, that was ultimately swept up in the proving ground atmosphere that UGWC had become during it's near-twilight. Zeke was absorbed into the Dungeon of Pain, and Jordan King and Marek Daisuke were left to fade into obscurity. Being absorbed into this school caused him to take up his mantle once again, as he ulimately became second fiddle to Donovan Hastings.
When the Dragon's Cave, Dungeon of Pain, and Stars of Tomorrow had battled it out for supremacy in the new talent department (a battle which, of course, saw Pax and his Twisted Cohort falling to my machinations once again) Pax settled into a more zen role, playing second fiddle to his own best friend, as Marek Daisuke rose to a more prominent role before War and Peace eventually faded away.
Second fiddle. Now to Mickey Dragon. It fits.
The other tenet we've come to expect from Ezekiel Pax is diminished returns. I've covered this before when I called him out on the fact that his unveiling of TVK came with a sigh instead of a shocked gasp, and that his turn on Donovan Hastings was, forgive me, inevitable. I think the collective ignoring of the death of Marek Daisuke speaks volumes about how little we as fans and competitors care about what Ezekiel Pax is up to at any given time.
For The Iron Pothead, The Axiom is all about phoned in reveals and standing in the shadow of something greater than himself, which, as we've seen, is anything he chooses to go up against.
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The Axiom According to Mickey Dragon
The current incarnation of the Chaotic Evil has many viewers scratching their heads, and not in such a way that we are confused by his ingenius methods or his twisted engineering.
There was a time when the mind of Mickey Dragon was a beautiful puzzle. Many thinkers greater than myself pondered his motivations and feared for the outcomes of his schemes. The victims of his sick games might be returned ruined, broken, insane, but definitely changed forever. Some might die, failed experiments that he discarded and moved on from, forgetting, perhaps, that he had ever used them as control groups in whatever makeshift laboratory he constructed for that purpose.
But, no longer do we have to sit antsy, clenching our sphincters on the edges of our chairs, wondering if his latest toy will become anything but smashed to bits.
The Monster Study no longer requires any studying.
Because let's be honest with ourselves here. Does anyone really believe that the latest poor unfortunate soul he has befriended will wind up drawing breath by the end of the this month?
Sometime in the past, we might have wondered about the damage done, but now we can rest easy knowing that Mickey Dragon... just wants to kill.
How droll.
Abigail Knight. Dead. Alex Stein. Probably dead. Marek Daisuke. Dead.
We don't even have to guess at his goals anymore. He doesn't want to twist the minds of the weak. He doesn't want to dominate the powerful and bend them to his will.
Mickey Dragon just likes the color red, and his only design now is how gory he can make the kill be. The beautiful puzzle is just Jigsaw now.
He's less Anton Chigurh and more Joffrey Lannister.
It's hard to take a stance where I have to belie the tragedy and horror of death, especially death at the hands of a slasher, but come on, Mick, do something we don't expect.
Because for Mickey Dragon, the Axiom has become predictability.
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