Oh, do you mean Helen Raven's (Wild Horse's) Technique? Because I agree with you...
Oh, well done! For years I’ve been thinking it was Sebastian so no wonder I couldn’t find it.
but when he's cross about something and about to throw someone from a high building..?! Give me Bodie's control, right then! *g*
Thinking on this again....I think we're doing Doyle a disservice.... it’s not as if he walked up to someone and in a temper threw them off a building, surely he’s too disciplined for that and acted in self defence rather than from any loss of temper? Given that they were on a narrow balcony and in the middle of a fight for survival, it was the rational and sensible thing to do. And it was a similar situation on the scaffolding in A Hiding to Nothing. (It’s probably in the CI5 training manual: when in doubt throw your assailant over the nearest balcony).
That's just why I'd find Doyle more frightening, I think - a temper can't be controlled, whereas Bodie is in control (in the eps - I'm not convinced in this fic!)
But I’m familiar with tempers – children have them - they’re recognisable, out in the open and show you’re human. Bodie might be in control but we don’t know what’s underneath that control and the not knowing (its potential) is menacing and intimidating. Take that scene with Kathy towards the end of Hunter-Hunted – he barely touches her but his actual physicality is threatening. (It reminds me of a scene I once saw in a documentary about Saddam Hussein where he very quietly orders some henchman to ‘round up and separate’ a group of enemy combatants they’d captured. It sent a shiver down my spine.
RE: Part 2
Oh, well done! For years I’ve been thinking it was Sebastian so no wonder I couldn’t find it.
but when he's cross about something and about to throw someone from a high building..?! Give me Bodie's control, right then! *g*
Thinking on this again....I think we're doing Doyle a disservice.... it’s not as if he walked up to someone and in a temper threw them off a building, surely he’s too disciplined for that and acted in self defence rather than from any loss of temper? Given that they were on a narrow balcony and in the middle of a fight for survival, it was the rational and sensible thing to do. And it was a similar situation on the scaffolding in A Hiding to Nothing. (It’s probably in the CI5 training manual: when in doubt throw your assailant over the nearest balcony).
That's just why I'd find Doyle more frightening, I think - a temper can't be controlled, whereas Bodie is in control (in the eps - I'm not convinced in this fic!)
But I’m familiar with tempers – children have them - they’re recognisable, out in the open and show you’re human. Bodie might be in control but we don’t know what’s underneath that control and the not knowing (its potential) is menacing and intimidating. Take that scene with Kathy towards the end of Hunter-Hunted – he barely touches her but his actual physicality is threatening. (It reminds me of a scene I once saw in a documentary about Saddam Hussein where he very quietly orders some henchman to ‘round up and separate’ a group of enemy combatants they’d captured. It sent a shiver down my spine.
Boom boom....