User blog comment:Western Gen/Speculations for Season 12/@comment-24027096-20140814102825

Since it's been shown that Carolina ISN'T Control I have to believe that we're facing a new villain. I for one don't believe RT have run out of ideas to the point of having to recycle old characters to become the villain. We had O' Malley and Wyoming in the Blood Gulch Chronicles, we had the Director, Wash and the Meta over the course of the Recollections and then we had the Insurrection in Season 9 and the Director and the Tex drones in Season 10. I just don't understand WHY, after bringing the protagonists to a new setting (Chorus), and introducing a whole host of new characters (Felix, Locus, Kimball, Doyle, the New Republic soldiers led by the Crew), RT would make the new primary antagonist an old character. It just doesn't fit with the whole "moving on from Freelancer" theme it looks like Seasons 11 &12 have. Yes there is Freelancer tech. Yes we have Wash and Carolina, who were Freelancers, and Epsilon who is a Freelancer AI. But we had 9 seasons where the primary antagonists where associated in one way or another with Freelancer and 1 season (Season 9) where the Freelancers could be considered as the protagonists in fighting the Insurrection. Or at least, the Insurrection were the only main antagonists. Is it so hard to believe that Control could be someone new?