IVIV When you wish upon a joint (MAJOR SPOILER WARNING)

[Robin Landseadel]

On Sep 5, 2009, at 3:02 PM, David Payne wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 (16:47:02 -0400), Laura (kelber at mindspring.com)  
> wrote:
>
>> ... Bigfoot hassles him [Doc], occasionally pressures him, but  
>> never sets him up for any serious jail time. That amounts to a  
>> certain amount of professional respect or friendship right there.
>
> SPOILER WARNING! BIG TIME SPOILER WARNING!
>
> I'M GIVING AWAY THE END OF THE BOOK!
>
> But doesn't Bigfoot totally set up Doc with the dope in the trunk at  
> the end -- set him up for either serious jail time or else getting  
> killed by the Golden Fang?

Yes.

> Or do you think that Big Foot realized the clever manuvering that  
> Doc would pull off?

I think the whole Bigfoot/Doc thing has a lot of Chuck Jones in the mix.

> Or I did totally read it wrong (or recall it incorrectly--I've  
> "lent" to the book to a friend and haven't made it out to buy  
> another copy yet)?

Nope, you read it right alright.

> I guess that I thought the same as everyone else here seems to  
> think, until I decided that everything "nice" that Bigfoot did for  
> Doc was just an attempt to get Doc to something that Bigfoot needed  
> him to do.

Probably.

> Maybe there's enough ambiguity surrounding Bigfoot's motives that we  
> can read into there whatever we want.

Probably not. Bigfoot does [to a certain, limited extent] respect Doc,  
but he also is responsible for Doc's most dangerous set-ups. I see  
Bigfoot as having a very "rounded" character, very complicated &  
interesting. But there's ain't no doubt about it—Bigfoot is screwing  
with Doc bigtime.