== Things I got wrong in *Darker Than Black - Gemini of the Meteor*

As I [[mentioned before DTBGeminiUncertainty]], I had
a couple of speculations and theories about [[Gemini
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darker_than_Black:_Ry%C5%ABsei_no_Gemini]]
that I got completely wrong. Today I feel like writing them up (after
all, why waste my notes on them).

Note that there are ~~spoilers~~ here.
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So, my misses:

* I thought that Suo was not actually a contractor and thus did not have a
  renumeration. Having gotten Hei's power, sucked in by the stone and
  focused through her own imagination, she just thought she had to be
  a contractor and so she was acting out all of the things that she
  knew about them. Contractors have renumerations, so she went through
  the motions on an obvious one for her, and contractors have no
  emotions so she tried not to have any (that didn't really work, of
  course).

* since the anime made a point of showing us that the reason Suo had
  her great big gun was that it was what her mind seized on as a weapon
  when she needed one, I expected that Suo could materialize other things
  as well and someday would when she really needed something else.

* following [[my standard beliefs KampferFighting]], I thought that
  Suo (and July) deliberately missed Tanya during the fight in
  episode 3. Suo had been very accurate up to that point, Tanya did
  not dodge, and there was clear evidence that Suo didn't really
  want to kill Tanya.

  (At the time, I considered this corroboration for my 'Suo is not really
  a contractor' theory.)

I formed these ideas around [[episode 3
http://kurogane.animeblogger.net/2009/10/23/dtb-ryuusei-no-gemini-03/]].
Later the show went on to demonstrate that I was clearly wrong about
the first, probably wrong about the third, and who knows about the
second but no signs of it were ever demonstrated.
In retrospect I could probably have predicted much of this just from
knowing that Gemini was a 12-episode show; those tend to have a very
sharp and limited focus in order to get through everything they need to
in time, so complex side situations generally just don't fit in and thus
don't happen.

In general I disbelieve the *Darker than Black* party line about
contractors being perfectly rational and emotionless, but that's another
blog entry.