>>936842423
If Lias had not died, Barnes would have been court-martialled when he was not shot by Chris.

The whole prospect of Barnes surviving would make the movie less entertaining, yet not to some of us, we would have more data to establish what a soldier willing to break the rules and still be a good soldier would do in more situations.

I want Barnes to live, so I can see him turn to the civilian life as a pure and no-longer threatening unit of absolute purity of will.

Would Barnes go into counterintelligence when he left the corp? Would he make the next enemy squirm without having to raise a weapon?

Platoon 2 - the wake up

Lias gets a sweet job in the BootCamp at Fort Worth and spreads enlightened knowledge to new recruits who ask all the questions you wanna ask about combat. Whilst Barnes develops propaganda techniques to weaken the enemy at a classified location.

The big finish is the argument which lasts 15 minutes that Lias and Barnes have whilst meeting after work in a bar and they get hassled before they come to blows and kick some drunk assess.