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favrielle:

It’s so interesting that Micro called the work he did for the NSA “a monumental waste of my time”. It almost sounds arrogant in that moment, as though he considers wading through all that data to be somehow beneath him, but I think it’s one of the earliest moments in which we catch a glimpse of how that man’s brain works. 

Ebon said at the recent Punisher-panel that he has read a fair bit about whistleblowers and the NSA and all that stuff, and that one of the things that struck him about Edward Snowden in particular was how many steps ahead Snowden was in his thinking when he was about to leak classified information. It’s something I feel strongly informs Micro’s character as well. Micro appears to be nervous and soft-hearted a lot of the time, which I think is true for him to an extent, but there is not a single moment in this series where he fully loses the plot. He’s always either in control or scrambling his way back into control, and there’s a sense of him having back-up plans for his back-up plans. Hell, he talks himself down from his freak-out in episode 2 by going “what’s going on, what are we doing” at himself. Micro rationalises things to the point where he finds a new weapon to wield in the chaos.

Micro flippantly dismissing his job as “a monumental waste of my time” falls square in line with his actual character: this is a man who’s at least twenty steps ahead of you at all times, who’s intelligent enough to assess the danger of the Kandahar video but morally good enough to want to make things right, who says “walking Homeland through all that stuff” instead of “having Homeland question me on that stuff” when talking about the depositions he gave as though he is the one leading them instead of the other way around, and who would never be happy writing apps in Silicon Valley just as much as he isn’t happy doing desk job analyses of ‘actionable intelligence’. 

Micro may have created a shitstorm for himself when he sent Madani the Kandahar video, but I can’t help but think that he was the one steering his boat straight into that storm and laughing in elation all the while as he did it.