Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140904033414/@comment-397235-20140917014553

As for "Wasteland," I think it fits better with Thomas (for those of you at home, that's Tomohiko Kazami). Here's why:

First of all, he doesn't take the Curse seriously. This results in Sherry getting killed, which he never really manages to forgive himself for.

He stops being happy with how Isabel (three guesses who she is) is handling Countermeasures, so he enlists Jonah (Ikuo) to explain things to Kirk. That doesn't end well either.

He vocally opposes Isabel's plan to ignore Kirk and Holly, and is the only member of Countermeasures who does so; he sees his inability to persuade Alexandria (Takako) and William (Junta) as a personal failure.

He and Isabel by mutual consent decide for him not to go looking for Matsunaga (who still has no Western name); he's replaced by Will. We all know where this will go.

He fails in another appeal to Alexandria right before dinner; she sides with Isabel rather than with him and his friends.

He specifically tells the girls not to do anything stupid when he learns they've heard the tape. That doesn't really pan out either.

Basically, Thomas reaches a point where every single decision he's made feels as if it's just made things worse. In reality that's not the case, but he's not used to failure, and when failure means his friends are dying, it's an especially heavy burden to bear. He eventually manages to get past that, though, and saves several of his friends as things start to go bad.

That doesn't really fit in with Isabel's own guilt I plan for there to be two different versions of the nightmare: Kirk has the one where the dead accuse him of being the Extra, while Isabel is haunted by those members of her class who are still alive. Kirk's inner demon is guilt; Isabel's is a fear of failure. I'm not really sure I'm articulating this clearly, but the point is they're different things to be afraid of.