User blog comment:Western Gen/Speculations for Season 14/@comment-66.31.189.65-20160107210353/@comment-24675428-20160111073132

Im starting to see a pattern here. In RvB there has always been a neutral bad guy relationship. What I mean is there has always been a grey area for atleast one villian. There was no bad guy for the first part of the gulch cronicals, unless you claim Tex is one, but she is not really evil and is just a freelancer. The freelancer idea was expanded upon with A.I. when Doc was possesed and turned evil, but he was not really evil as Doc was a good guy and the A.I. was the force of true evil. The freelancer idea was expanded upon with the Director and the Insurrection and the Freelancers themselves as people who could be put as bad guys, but were fighting for something they believed in, with the exception of the Director, who was manipulative and had no problem using everyone as his lab rats. However, even he was fighting to bring back his dead wife. Here we met Wash who like Western Gen said is a conflicted character who is not really bad. Wyoming fills a middle evil gap, a space between the sort of bad Wash and really bad Director, and is sort of a more evil Wash. Then the formula is used again with the really evil Hargrove, the conflicted Locus, and Felix in between. My point is that a good and evil villian formula is being used, in a primitive state with Doc and evolving as time goes on. Each new iteration of the formula comes with a new program, such as the freelancers or Hargrove, or a expansion of a program.

Things get more complicated when we get reintoduced to the Counselor Aiden Price and Sharkface. Price is evil and Sharkface is ruthless and spiteful, but it is because of revenge. Felix dies and I think that Sharkface will fill in his spot in the formula. Locus looks like he is turned to the good side like Wash, so it is possible that Locus returns as evil or that Sharkface becomes conflicted and fills Locus spot, leaving Price in Felix's spot. However, seeing as the counseler does not fight and Locus is no longer evil, I think it is more plausible that Hargeove dies or goes to jail in the next season but the Counselor escapes and becomes the really evil person. It is also possible he is replaced with a new evil person from an expansion or a whole new 'program' and this is also where the new conflicted person comes from.