surely he’s too disciplined for that and acted in self defence rather than from any loss of temper I suppose you can argue that it's no less uncontrolled than shooting someone in a fight,and granted it's effective (!), but I didn't entirely like Tony's chances in Involvement until Bodie pulled Doyle off, and that wasn't a fight. And I'm sure there are other moments where I've been worried about what Doyle would do, though naturally I can't think of them right now!
But I’m familiar with tempers – children have them Yeah, but so do adults - and they quite often end in death and the newspapers, or at least severe beatings. Do I think Doyle would go that far? Probably not, but it doesn't mean that level of uncontrolled violence (until someone's able to control themselves) doesn't frighten me! And i'm not sure that a victim of domestic violence, say, would appreciate the idea that it "shows you're human"!
that scene with Kathy towards the end of Hunter-Hunted – he barely touches her but his actual physicality is threatening Yeah, but the thing is, I never believe that he'd actually do it, not in cold blood. I'm more chilled there by the idea that Cowley really would sit back and let him kill someone - I don't believe that Bodie would in that scenario, but I believe that Cowley might, if he thought it was the best solution to something... And look what happens when Bodie's out to get May-Li, who actually did shoot Doyle, several times. Bodie was all cold-revenge then ("For Christ's sake, who did it Ray?") but when it came to it, he didn't go through with it. He could have stared May-Li down while she died, or just left her dumped there as his revenge, but he didn't.
I suppose it all comes down to the different things that scare us about people! Not that Doyle scares me, but I'd be just as wary of him as I would be of Bodie, for slightly different reasons...
RE: Part 2
I suppose you can argue that it's no less uncontrolled than shooting someone in a fight,and granted it's effective (!), but I didn't entirely like Tony's chances in Involvement until Bodie pulled Doyle off, and that wasn't a fight. And I'm sure there are other moments where I've been worried about what Doyle would do, though naturally I can't think of them right now!
But I’m familiar with tempers – children have them
Yeah, but so do adults - and they quite often end in death and the newspapers, or at least severe beatings. Do I think Doyle would go that far? Probably not, but it doesn't mean that level of uncontrolled violence (until someone's able to control themselves) doesn't frighten me! And i'm not sure that a victim of domestic violence, say, would appreciate the idea that it "shows you're human"!
that scene with Kathy towards the end of Hunter-Hunted – he barely touches her but his actual physicality is threatening
Yeah, but the thing is, I never believe that he'd actually do it, not in cold blood. I'm more chilled there by the idea that Cowley really would sit back and let him kill someone - I don't believe that Bodie would in that scenario, but I believe that Cowley might, if he thought it was the best solution to something... And look what happens when Bodie's out to get May-Li, who actually did shoot Doyle, several times. Bodie was all cold-revenge then ("For Christ's sake, who did it Ray?") but when it came to it, he didn't go through with it. He could have stared May-Li down while she died, or just left her dumped there as his revenge, but he didn't.
I suppose it all comes down to the different things that scare us about people! Not that Doyle scares me, but I'd be just as wary of him as I would be of Bodie, for slightly different reasons...