Yes, I've thought about this as well... my take on thier relationship is this: They broke up because the reappearance of Bossman shook things up. Now I don't know about anyone else, but I find it undesirable to stay in contact with my exs. If we have to serve together, I'd be requesting a transfer.
At that point she was under no obligation to stand by him during the trial, though as you said, she did defend him publicly.
I'm not sure what Bossman would really change about their relationship... but it's a story that someone else can tell sometime.
I agree with you that Angel and Blair's relationship may not have been well founded, and during war time isn't the best time to start a relationship. What do we make of Angel's refusal to support Blair over Tolwyn? I don't think she really refused to support him. It did seem like she was trying to organize a transfer for him to the Concordia... As we all know, Tolwyn can be a tough man to get along with.
I think that people did need relationships during this particular war... since it lasted for more than a generation.
If everyone stopped having babies in 2634 then there wouldn't be any young men to die on Kilrathi beacheads at the end.
As for accepting stealth fighters were real or not... I don't know how much she believed or didn't believe, but I do think that her hands were tied and there was no way Tolwyn was going to listen to that sort of "ridiculous claim."
There's a scene where Blair confronts her about this, after she doesn't accept his report of fighting stealths on a solo mission.
Which orders of Angel's did he ignore exactly? Are you referring to the final mission where Blair duels Thrakath and takes out 'Mang? If so, I just finished playing Wing Commander 2, and honestly the order to patrol rather than attack seemed more like a direct order from the Admiral. "Non, the Admiral wants you to fly this patrol." As for winning the Glory, well who wouldn't? Show me someone who tried to do something ten years ago, failed, and was disgraced for it, and then given a second chance? Who wouldn't take a shot at redemption?
I know if it were me, I'd be like, "No one else is going to be sacrificed for mistakes made ten years ago. Seeing the end of that base is my responsability and I'll see it through.
Yes, but the thing Blair tried and failed to do eleven years earlier wasn't destroy the space station... it was flying the patrol mission.
As for the kiss with Grimaldi, come on now, she surprised him with that, and I don't know how I would handle it either, for the sake of maintaining piece, I might just shut up about it and hope she gets transferred off soon.
I always thought the cut after the Minx-kiss was somewhat suggestive - we close at "Then don't say anything, Christopher..." and then cut to seeing her again after at least a mission has passed saying "Hey, handsome!"
Well, depends, blair knew the stealth fighters were real, and with the skills at his disposal "The terran pilot who caused so much trouble", I don't know about the novelisation, but sparks could have called security when he asked her to refit his sabre with torpedoes. she said he "was in the clear on the Tiger's claw" early in the game. She let him fight his lost battle once more.
Everyone knew the stealth fighters were real at this point - remember, K'Tithrak Mang 4 didn't vindicate Blair... his shooting down Jazz and locating his lost flight recorder disk eight days earlier did.
Blair was Sparks' superior officer, she had to follow his orders regarding the loadout.
-on a side note, this was the keyword to trigger hobbes peronality, would thrakhath already given him such a noble nickname when he instructed hobbes at the end of the secret missions?-
Yes, Blair was given the name immediately after The Secret Missions - Thrakhath sent him a personal message in 2655, vowing to avenge his father, which revealed that he was the 'Heart of the Tiger'.
Of course. That's the whole point of the plot of Wing Commander 2. We're showed that Tolwyn is a moron and hates Blair with a passion over and over and over and over and over... so that at the end of the game, we're not thinking "Oh, I should fly the patrol. It's my mission." We're thinking "Tolwyn?! *&#@ him! He couldn't find his own fleet!"
I think Wing Commmander II is actually remarkably fair to Tolwyn - it limits the conflict to being between him and Blair, and when it comes down to the wire no one *ever* sides with Blair. Angel, Sparks even Paladin defend their Captain when Blair complains about him.