sleeping_gorilla wrote:
Astonishingly, the girl's father did not kill her abductor. And even more surprising, her mother had an affair with the guy!
The weird thing about reality VS fiction is that it's so much more complex. In fiction and hypothetical situations when we think about situations like that we think: “yup, I'd kill that person for that”, but reality has proved time and again that approach is often a fantasy. I mean we wouldn't have scams, cults, and all the weird Harvey Weinsteins and Jeffrey Epsteins and Nazis and all the other crap situations in the world if people didn't behave that way.
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I've been catching up with MORE 80s shows. Lately I've started watching
Rip Tide.
I'd only ever seen a few episodes back in the 80s. I thought it was just another vehicle based action series- there were a LOT of those in the 80s! But while it IS, with the beautiful early 60s corvette, a wooden motor yacht (named Rip Tide), a high performance speedboat, and a Korean war era cargo helicopter, it's a smart action series that has good plots, good characters, and good writing.
It's a huge contrast with
Bones, the more modern series I'm watching:
in Bones smart characters always laud their intelligence over others. More physical characters laud their abilities over others (strength, speed, sexual accomplishments) and so on. SOOOOOOooo much really
TOXIC interaction on this modern show. I like it, but that aspect is wearing.
In Rip Tide there's a core crew of 3 guys, two very physical and attractive ex MPs working as detectives, and one very intelligent but very nerdy, weedy guy who's along for the ride after his business failed.
But the character dynamic is weirdly refreshing- When the nerdy guy says something smart the others ACTUALLY listen! They heed what he says, they remember it and use that knowledge, they thank him. When he wants to try to do more physical stuff they actually help him. When they don't understand the terms he uses he apologises and make it more understandable, he doesn't sigh or act like he's talking to idiots. They work together happily to come to a common position. No one lauds their traits over someone else or dismisses them for not having the same advantages.
After watching modern shows where they are always snide and toxic to each other (especially Bones), this is strange and wonderful. I love it.