Mike St.Louis
Supporting Actor
- Joined
- Sep 22, 1999
- Messages
- 518
Maybe in your universe.
That's "cheap laughs". "Cheap"!
Judging from the rest of the character behavior and attitudes I've seen in the episodes of this show, I'd say they'll share "our"---or, more accurately put, the Hollywood writers'---viewpoints on the matter, just as they share "our" viewpoints on almost everything else, which is one of my gripes about such shows (including the Star Trek programs): "The future (and its people) will be just like the present (and us), except for a few technological details."
The safe, comfortable, and familiar re-served to the viewing public. A failure of "imagining".
one of my gripes about such shows ... "The future (and its people) will be just like the present (and us), except for a few technological details."It's easy to make the argument that the past (and its people) was just like the present (and us), except for a few technological details. Especially since this case concerns human beings rather than another species.
Aaron Thomas
If I can figure out why cotton supplants other fibers, I've got everything figured out but the G.I.Joe lazer-firing guns.
goal-orientedThat's certainly one way to describe him!
That's "cheap laughs". "Cheap"!Yeah, trying to keep a crew mate from breaking under torture by discussing whatever possible yet still presenting it in a way that's humorous to the audience is cheap laughs. Pardon me
On the part of the writers, it sure is.
And, by the way, I did and do find the scene humorous (and, ultimately, silly), as well as false. Maybe if I saw it again, I would see something in the actor's reactions and/or pick up some snippet of dialog that I missed the first time that would convince me that the character, as a professional criminal and torturer, would follow this particular protocol and allow these behaviors on the part of his victims (which is the part that I find incredible; not the victims' behavior per se, as it seems you're claiming).
So far, I remain unconvinced.