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What was the reason for the violence of the organ harvesting?

posted 14 years ago by Readyman45
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Some of that was to make the victims/ex-customers/what-have-you an example to keep potential ex-customers from defaulting, but all of the "prepared" ex-customers (as oppoesed to the ambushed ex-customers) have bondage attire (is that the right word?), and Nathan breaks a guy's neck while harvesting his spine, and the Repo Men almost never treat intestines with any care whatsoever. If Nathan was harvesting a kidney, I could understand breaking his neck to stop the noise from interfering with the phone call, but doesn;t purposely making unusable the organ you're harvesting kind of detract from the point of harvesting it (I had assumed that if he wanted spinal fluid, it would be less wasteful to extract it with a needle)? Was that just Nathan's hobby, playing with GeneCo's waste products, and the other Repo Men are either less wasteful/destructive in the post-morten period or are just as insane as him? If so, why do they bother pulling out the bowels if they're just going to damage them in the process?

[–] TheFatDruidofNacyl 14 years ago

I think there was just certain organs they went for and cleaned out the rest. Also made it look more horror and gross to do that. I suspect none of the Repo cared about the rest of the body. It is also possible the body parts are fake or artificial.

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[–] anji-13 14 years ago

You have to remember this was a goth rock opera on stage. It wouldn't fit that description without some sort of dark effect.

The scenes where they are digging through the organs, its because its the fastest way to get to the heart. Which in most of those scenes was the organ they were after. They tore out the stuff getting in the way.

And the part with the spine, it was the lower spine he wanted. They even show the barcode on the bones at the end of the scene.

I think a lot of his violence and extreme methods were what made him the Prime Assassin. It was what made him the most fearful. The biggest threat. He didn't have limits, until it came to Mag that is. What better threat to new customers than the lead Repo Man if you default?

[–] annamariesmith113 13 years ago

He didn't want the spinal fluid, he wanted the spine.
Anyway, I've always wondered -in addition to just repossessing the defaulted organ- if they took the other organs to just to keep their stock up and to reuse them. I mean, if the kidney was defaulted and taken, why waste a perfect heart, stomach, lungs, etc.?

[–] TheaterRaven 11 years ago

I always thought the violence was kept from customers until it was too late. Like, when they had the surgery, they'd be warned, "If you can't pay, the Repo Man will come", but the bloodiness of it all was kept hush-hush so GeneCo would look like saviors. At least, that's my impression with the "Genetic Repo Man" song, where Graverobber is describing the Repo Men, how they work in the dark, they come at the person's weakest hour, etc. It's like the mob or the boogeyman--nobody knows for sure who they are or how exactly they work, but the whispers and rumored stories still get around.

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