the observation and disconnected fascination with the display of ultra-violence
I'm so happy you mentioned this because that's something I really would love to explore in a longer work from this. How much of the disconnection is GT and how much preexisted it in these killers? Was the gene therapy not only a mistake in giving them the level of non-verbal communication and collaboration, but also in further desensitizing already-murderers to human suffering?
Perhaps we shall see.