You know, sir, this is one of the two things that fascinates me the most about my fellow alum.
He's a control freak, but the more he tries to control, the less control he has.
Now that I've had some time to consider it, I think the "quasi-sexual fascination with control" remark was a cheap shot on my part. Because I'm conservative, and inherently honest, I have to confess that I more than likely made that crack out of a sense of frustration that I can't simply kick such people in the balls wherever I discover them.
Hence, your fellow alum seems to be quite successful in maintaining a frightening level of control over the island at the moment. Granted, like most far-leftists, he remains stubbornly unaware of the inevitable failure of such incremental authoritarianism, but today, I'm certain he'd take offense at your assertion that he's single-handedly demonstrating the definition of insanity.
Will a character based on Skins find his way into a future storyline?
Hell, he already has! Skinner reminds me of a cut-rate Trinity (albeit without the latter's single-minded dedication to finishing the task at hand), or a tragically less charismatic Jordan Chase. I could even compare him to Boyd, but I fear doing so would be disrespectful; not to Skinner, mind you, but Boyd, given that Boyd didn't feel the need to amend his behavior to suit his victims.
But seriously, he isn't even original enough to be interesting. People like Frank's fellow alum are a dime a dozen, but are annoyingly prevalent on the web for obvious reasons.
No, I don't believe anybody is particularly interested in writing about an over-educated, underachieving, under-sexed, picayune, megalomaniacal pinhead.
