Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-5430952-20200104163125/@comment-14909251-20200117000042

Tessa23 wrote: Uh hello that was Tyrian it was confirmed a couple episodes ago.

Yeah, I have been watching the show too, obviously. The team know it is Tyrian, but the general public does not know that and they explicitly said they were not going to announce the fact. Unless they reveal it now, since the Council is informed, the question will remain open for the public. Revealing it in the midst of accusations by a critic about a smear campaign involving fake evidence isn't going to be very effective. All it would be is two powerful Atlesian figures bickering with each other and each accusing the other of faking their evidence or lying.

ChishioKunrin wrote: But Watts needed to use actual existing footage of Penny in order to doctor the footage of the massacre. So where would Weiss or anyone else get fake audio of Watts from? The reason I've been putting so much emphasis on him and Jacques talking very, very specifically about exactly what happened in the video and Jacques saying Watts' name is because they would need to get audio that of those two saying things like that to make such a convincing fake. That is a lot harder than just cutting and pasting footage of Penny fighting. It is not like Watts was doing any complicated maneuvers in that footage. All they really need are some old images of him sitting in a chair and walking. Spoken words can be faked easily enough. The idea here isn't that he can prove that it is altered as we know he can't, though he could maybe fake evidence given enough time, but rather it is about offering a plausible excuse and creating confusion around what might be the truth. His whole schtick is manipulating people's emotions and uncertainties. Ironwood already opened the door for the whole "fake footage" aspect so, even where we know it isn't fake, Jacques can play on that as well.

Alhazad2003 wrote: That's where you're wrong, the possibly of hundreds if not thousands dying from hypothermia due to the Mantle heating grid being shut down was a very crucial detail, one that not even Jacques Schnee was cold-hearted enough to ignore.

The question here is whether he would actually be caught so much off-guard and unprepared that he would completely fumble any defense when presented with information about his activities, not whether he would be bothered by other events.

If he did then he would be a Complete Monster, and if he tried blaming Ironwood for the Mantle incident then he wouldn't leave that dining room alive. What nonsense are you even suggesting here? Are you saying they would just execute him without a trial solely because some people in the room know he is a lying jerk? Ridiculous. That wouldn't happen.