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Tommy as the real successor to both Loomis and Jamie? (Producer's Cut)


1) Like Jamie, Tommy did confront Michael at a young age as a child.
2) Like Loomis, Tommy has become obsessed with Michael and has researched extensively on how to stop him.

But where Jamie and Loomis fail, Tommy succeeds. Tommy technically stops Michael in the producer's cut in a very cerebral and rooted fashion. Tommy also takes characteristics from both Jamie and Loomis.

Jamie and Loomis failed to stop Michael in Halloween 5. They failed. Tommy succeeded in stopping Michael in 6 (producer's cut). You have to tap into the power of Thorn in order to stop Michael, because Thorn is what's behind Michael. Neither Jamie nor Loomis understood Thorn.

Jamie and Loomis try to use psychology to redeem Michael and this doesn't work. Michael is beyond psychology.

A) In 5, Jamie tries to use her innocence, humanity and similar genetic/psychological identity with Michael in order to stop him. Jamie says "Uncle" to Michael, trying to make a familial/loving connection with him. Jamie tries to appeal to Michael's innocent side. This fails because Michael is beyond this. Michael started killing when he was roughly Jamie's age. Jamie ultimately does feel similar impulses to Michael and even has a psychic connection to him. Jamie is "kidnapped" by Michael's impulses at the end of 4. Finally, Jamie is kidnapped by the Man in Black at the end of 5.

B) Loomis tries several methods. Loomis does sorta recognize what Jamie is doing - trying to appeal to the human side of Michael. If Jamie can recover from her evil impulses at the end of 4, why not Michael as well? "The little girl can stop the rage inside of you." "The rage will destroy you." First, Loomis tries to do Jamie's method of appealing to the human side of Michael. This fails - Michael attacks him and then Loomis responds the same way later. Loomis goes from using psychology to physical violence. Loomis ends up becoming a hypocrite. Loomis succumbs to his own rage at the end of 5 when he's beating up Michael with a wood plank. Loomis suffers from a stroke because of his attack against Michael.

C) Instead of appealing to psychology or brute violent force like the above do, Tommy resorts to going straight to the source of Michael: the thorn rune. Through his alternative studies and research, Tommy calls upon a supernatural force to stop Michael at the end of 6. Maybe even God Himself helped to stop Michael. Instead of psychology or brute force/violence, Tommy uses runes/spirituality. This has been criticized as being anti-climatic, but it's the most original solution in the entire Halloween franchise as to how to stop Myers. Basically everyone else uses violence in order to stop Michael. In 2, it was a hospital explosion. In 4, it was guns/dynamite. In 5, tranquilizer darts. In H20, it was a beheading, etc.

Spirituality has also been foreshadowed already. In 4, Jamie did say a prayer and Loomis met that traveling pastor that was hunting the anti-Christ. "You can't kill damnation. It doesn't die like a man does." Jamie and Loomis didn't go far enough into religion/mythology, they only briefly encountered it. Unlike Tommy who extensively researched it.

Tommy took characteristics from both Jamie and Loomis, almost as if Tommy is a combination of Jamie and Loomis. Tommy is both the traumatized young person and the scholarly elder. It does suck that Jamie and Loomis had to die, but...maybe we had to see our investments die in order to see what works.
Evil keeps you in suspense. How long will it last? What will work and what are the real solutions?

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