okay so my thoughts are a little messy but thinking a lot about the intro of Kenneth Marshall and how his campaign/propaganda seems to revolve around the idea of him being 'the one and only' or smthn (can't remember the exact wording but it's that sentiment), ending with him being the one human killed(not self sacrificed) for everyone else's survival/to make things equal....... good.
and obviously there's the commentary on how he panders to the westerner's (specifically American's) rampant sense of individualism, and need to believe they're special, but there's something to be said about how he says in the cafeteria when we first meet him that he feels like everyone there could be 'the one and only'. yes all that stuff I said before, but I truly believe he would have thrown as many bodies at the problem before he'd thrown himself (obviously) and so many would I have let him.
Obviously Marshall had to die, he always had to be the one to die, but I also think he's the only one who can be killed in a way that would truly make it even. Because of who he is, people may sacrifice themselves for him, and people may be sacrificed for him. Like I know that's weird and reductive, but do you kind of get what I'm saying? Kenneth Marshall was the one and only death that would make it even, narratively speaking; he had to be the one killed, anyone else would have been simply a sacrifice.
