pagerunner-j:

re: all the assassin school business people keep talking about in the CR comics:

I wish I could find the post and figure out the exact wording of the quote, but searching Reddit is unfortunately a pain in the ass, especially since I can’t remember if this comment was on CR’s subreddit or Coville’s. But early on, when the first issue was new, there was talk about this mysterious school. As I recall, the way it was described, Mercer asked about it when he saw it in the script, and Coville’s response explained his thinking for why it was a thing, but also amounted to that he wrote that in there because it’s the kind of thing he likes writing about.

Which has made me take the entire concept with a grain about twenty pounds of salt from day 1.

(In the process of trying to find it, I also found an interview where he was asked, amongst other things, if he’d watched the entire series. He talked very neatly around what was obviously a “no” and landed at, “I think you could watch 30 minutes of almost any episode and get a really good idea who these characters are.” Which…dude. Just. You can also watch thirty minutes and get a battle with almost no characterization. Or you can watch thirty minutes where smaller groups dominate the conversation. And there’s ongoing development that happens very subtly over very long periods of time. There’s a thing called “nuance” here and you are missing a lot of it.)