Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-47881-20130303202540/@comment-4928331-20130305110831

If you notice in the episode, the scarab was passive-aggressive. It is subtle, but you can see how slow it was to respond to threats -- normally it is a lot more aggressive, but it was acting namby-pamby. It could not disobey direct orders (kill them both), but it can try to minimize the damage done to Blue's friends otherwise.

Instances:

1. Scarab was taking its sweet time to analyze Impulse's movement patterns.

2. Scarab already analyzed the force bubble, but continued hitting it anyway. Despite knowing that continued hits will only strengthen it. Scientist commented on this.

3. Scarab tries to explain everything to delay things. This made the ambassador lose patience when he asks him if he had the means to escape the bubble.