On May 29, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Larry Talbot wrote:

> If we can agree that Klaus does nothing without a very good reason,
> and he would hardly be willing to waste a perfectly good spark on a
> fit of pique, then we must consider the possibility that Dr Dim did
> something VERY nasty to earn brain coring. Consider, Dupree killed
> one of his charges, then didn't get so much as a slap on the wrist.
> DuMedd and Sliepnir and the hostages all got directly in his way and
> just went nappy-time. Othar is a homicidal socio-pathic yadda-yadda-
> yadda who has directly interfered with Der Baron, and STILL he was
> only threatened with brain coring (heavily threatened, as in scalpel
> directly over his melon, but still...) and was given the chance to
> escape and test Gil.
>
> No, Dr Dim had to have been a VERY bad boy to get the melon baller
> treatment. Kidnap kids, rape the wife, shoot the dog, burn down the
> house kind of bad boy. Name one other person who has been "cored".
> Anybody? Anybody at all? How many people has Klaus directly and
> willfully tried to kill other than the Other?

Well, Dupree is not a spark (so no advantage in his experiments) and
useful in other ways (the right monster for the right job. The kids
have a very different purpose as well that would be ruined by any
experimentation (and at worst their interference was just "not
grasping the situation").

Othar, well, I'll grant that he's someone that to know him is to hate
him. It's possible that Klaus may have just given up on trying to
kill him...it doesn't work, and attempting to brain core a force of
chaos is risky.

And we have heard of his harsh judgement in action. In Mechanicsburg,
there were a lot of lowlifes hanging on around the Castle gates, but
nobody really dangerous. Gamblers, grifters, small time thieves. And
he sends them into the castle where they'll probably die.

So while clearly Dr. Dim was not on Klaus's buddy list, I'm not sure
we can assume that he was evil incarnate. Dr. Dim said about the
teddy bears: "It's my last secret. He's taken all the others, but
not them! I've kept them safe." So, Dr. Dim had secrets. They might
have been bad secrets, secrets that Klaus needed to stop something
very bad. Or they might have been something that Klaus wanted for
whatever reason, Dr. Dim wouldn't give, and thus the brain coring.

Klaus did it for a reason, but I don't think we can assume that reason
is always truth, justice, and the Europa Way.


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