User blog comment:Western Gen/TEH NEW EPISODE BLOG/@comment-160529-20121023153111/@comment-4616231-20121023171136

Really, I think the whole "Failing" thing is bullshit, because anything could be considered a failure if you word it correctly. And if she does fail, it's not because something's wrong with her, it's because of outside forces.

For example, in Season 1, she failed to kill the Reds, but it wasn't because of her, it was because of Donut. It wasn't her fault she got blown up by a grenade, it just happened.

For a more recent example, when she failed to stop Meta from throwing Carolina off a cliff, it wasn't her fault. She just wasn't there to stop it. Was there something in her programming that like, KNEW Meta was about to do this, and made sure she wouldn't be there? I doubt it.

And she's won just as many times as she's "failed". She beat the Reds and Blues in S8. True, she was locked down later, but that was due to an outside force. She was able to kick their asses just fine. She managed to beat the Freelancer guards without failing. She recovered the briefcase. Yes, Carolina was faster, but that wasn't Tex's fault. And ultimately, it didn't matter. The main thing I'm wondering is, if she's supposed to fail at everything she does, why does she win so many of her fights?

It's mostly because of other people that she fails. There's no fucking possible way for the Director to have found like, the programming code for Fate itself and put it in Tex. Or for it to have already been there. Because for her to be based on Failure, there would have to be some control over things that aren't Tex.

The reason she apparently "fails" so much is just because she's based on a human, and humans aren't perfect. We make mistakes.