I don't think Vorenus would have killed anyone, but we will never know.
Oh, I think he would have killed Niobe, but he would have regretted it for the rest of his life and it probably would have destroyed him pscychologically (as merely standing by while she killed herself did.) I think Vorenus, as much as Pullo, can act in the heat of the moment and regret his actions later on (and sometimes that's beautiful - like he when he strides into rescue Pullo - and sometimes it's terrible, like when he curses his children.)
Although I think a little bit of Vorenus's ability to see Lucius and think of Niobe instead of his own shame/betrayal is because Pullo MADE him think about the boy and brought it up to him and made sure that they were both clear that they were taking little Lucius (remember that in the overseer's office, Vorenus says he's looking for two girls, and it's Pullo who adds "and a boy"). BUT I also think it's a different situation - to be a jealous husband who kills his wife in the first moment of finding out that she's unfaithful versus deliberately and calculatingly leaving a small and innocent boy to die in this hellish place.
You don't get the previews, but from the ones we saw, Vorena the Elder is very unforgiving of her father - remember that the children, I think, still believe that their father killed their mother. And of course, because they spent much more time with their mother, they are probably much closer to her, in a way. So Vorena the Elder says that she hates Vorenus. Oh, dear me!
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Date: 2007-02-06 09:04 pm (UTC)Oh, I think he would have killed Niobe, but he would have regretted it for the rest of his life and it probably would have destroyed him pscychologically (as merely standing by while she killed herself did.) I think Vorenus, as much as Pullo, can act in the heat of the moment and regret his actions later on (and sometimes that's beautiful - like he when he strides into rescue Pullo - and sometimes it's terrible, like when he curses his children.)
Although I think a little bit of Vorenus's ability to see Lucius and think of Niobe instead of his own shame/betrayal is because Pullo MADE him think about the boy and brought it up to him and made sure that they were both clear that they were taking little Lucius (remember that in the overseer's office, Vorenus says he's looking for two girls, and it's Pullo who adds "and a boy"). BUT I also think it's a different situation - to be a jealous husband who kills his wife in the first moment of finding out that she's unfaithful versus deliberately and calculatingly leaving a small and innocent boy to die in this hellish place.
You don't get the previews, but from the ones we saw, Vorena the Elder is very unforgiving of her father - remember that the children, I think, still believe that their father killed their mother. And of course, because they spent much more time with their mother, they are probably much closer to her, in a way. So Vorena the Elder says that she hates Vorenus. Oh, dear me!