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Why didn't they kill the adjudicator?


What more did Wick and Winston have to lose when she decided to make the Continental no longer a safe haven?

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I could understand Winston trying to get back in good with the high table... but Wick has nothing to lose and should have killed her the first time he saw her without a second thought... didn't understand why he didn't.

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Because the round table would have just sent someone to replace her, and keep on doing so.

And ultimately they would probably have just stormed the hotel anyway if they kept killing adjudicators.

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Like I said I understood Winston... just didn't understand why John didn't eliminate her and send her head back to the head of the table in a box. They have created a situation at this point where in the follow ups John must either eliminate the head of the table and possible all the member or die trying. Nothing else would make any sense at this point.

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The feeling that I got was that John realized she was a professional with a job to do, much like he has always been. She as an individual did not pose an immediate threat, and killing her wouldn't stop the high table from sending others to kill him, so there was no practical or personal reason to take her life.

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That's kind of how I saw it too. She acted more like law enforcement than a threat. If you kill a cop, that doesnt change the law. Would have felt like an unnecessary and frankly out of character thing for him to do.

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That's the perfect way to put it, I think. You put a feeling I had into words when you said it would be an out-of-character thing for him to do.

Yeah. I remember when I was watching the movie that I was thinking if he actually killed her it would just feel weird.

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Could he not just kill Winston? or did he invalidate that deal by not taking the first opportunity to do so?

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Unless they dismantle the whole operation like it seems they set up for John Wick 4.

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John will sit above the rest.

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She did a terrible performance. That alone should be enough for her character to die.

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she is a they. apparently they are non-binary in the movie and real life.

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Im sure she thinks she is.

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Ha, yup. Interesting times we live in...

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They sure are. Have a great weekend.

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It's a castrato man on estrogen. That's why it has bags under it's eyes, and clammy skin. Those are side effects from taking heavy hormones.

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Certainly isn't as good as Farinelli.

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Arrrgh. Stupid english pronoun game. Terrible solution to use a made up pronoun. And using "they" in this way is a made up use. Better would be to not use pronouns at all, if it is so important to that person to not being bothered by pronouns like the rest of us. English is not very gendered anyways. Well, maybe from there stems the desire for that distinction.

If they wanted to make the adjudicator appear non-binary, they did a terrible job.

And btw, I referred the filmmakers with "they", because that is how in this situation the word "they" should be read. But if you start using they as a singular pronoun for known persons you get to ambigous situations, where one might think, "they" refers to a single person instead of a group of people.

What they did, was make this adjudicator - wich I will refer to as her, because appearance conveys her so, no matter what the acting person claims to be in real life - appear a non physical threat. She is a threat because of what she represents, not what she is physically or mentally capable of. I am sure, had she wielded a weapon, Wick would have shot her with no second thought.

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Is she an alien species? A collective intelligence? She may be representative of such intelligence in the movie (high table) but thats just acting, you know that, right?

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She was a very powerful character, if John killed her it would be the death of him, the guy just wanted to live in peace

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He already gave up peace by killing on Continental grounds and then by also not honoring his oath to kill Winston. People will still keep coming after him.

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Actually now even more (all?) will come after him, since after giving the finger to the Arab dude, his price tag will probably be something ridiculous.

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They have Code
They were dedicated mans

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Winston really wanted his power back, so that’s why he didn’t kill her.

As for Wick, he had a moral code against that sort of killing. The Adjudicator was a female, not armed, doing her job. We see how Wick spares people, like Common in John Wick 2 and the Chinese duo he fought right before Zero.

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Not be pedantic, but the duo were actually Indonesian, as evident by their dialect.

I only know because I follow their work, and they've been in some amazing films, like The Raid series.

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