@Graham_LRR This hits it pretty solidly on the head for me! All these character interactions and faction setup and crisscrossing loyalty in the first "act" or 2 is made entirely irreverent by sudden brutal character death with the intent of being sudden and brutal. So your left holding this characters corpse in your hand questioning like... "well what was the point in using 500 lines of your script if this is all you're doing with it?"