Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24677150-20140407173608/@comment-192.160.117.141-20140408200928

Relevant tangent, I just looked up the citations on Miller's page (I've never finished MG2). The exact wording was "Snake, that guy is a monster. You'll never beat him with just your fists. Use your head!" That doesn't actually sound anything like "Big Boss is a monster and must be defeated", but much more like "Snake, if you try to take Big Boss in hand-to-hand, your face is gonna remember the basics of CQC". Saying "Miller calls Big Boss a 'monster' in MG2" implies resentment, either from Big Boss's betrayal of FOXHOUND or, as we'd hypothesized since seeing the trailers to TPP, because of some kind of personal falling out between Big Boss and Miller; but I don't think that kind of feeling is actually conveyed by the real line at all. It still sounds way too detached coming from a guy who was Big Boss's BFF for years, but it also sounds too detached for a guy who was Big Boss's BFF for years before having a messy breakup because one or both of them went too far and became terrorists. (I mean, we actually know exactly what Miller sounds like when he's going through a messy break up; he sounds like a damned fiddle.) If anything, I think this makes Miller entering FOXHOUND as a double agent even more plausible.