>But then again, this vignette depicts him being outwitted,
>outmaneuvered, humiliated, and killed (for some values of), in his own
>office, by a woman. (Well, all right, technically Boone killed
>him, but in this instance he's more of a weapon system.) There is a
>certain poetic justice in that, which I finally decided I could live
>with.

Almost all stories need villains. Using a villain in a story doesn't imply approval or acceptance of his evil so long as it's made clear he IS the bad guy. Killing his worthless ass is just cathartic.

What interested me the most is Azula gives no noticeable signal in the story to Boone. I'm tempted to think Boone took the shot on his own initiative (possibly listening in through equipment Azula had), and given the sheer seething hatred he had for the Legion, I'd say his killing Beria without orders fits his MO rather precisely.

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this world created by the
hands of the gods
everything is false
everything is a LIE
the final days have come
now
let everything be destroyed

--mu