Characters behaving badly
Apr. 26th, 2013 04:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sg_lab2I dislike It when a show makes me feel like I’m supposed to agree with certain characters just because they’re the leads, as if what they do or say is always right. I don’t agree with that.
I was starting April 23rd episode of Body of Proof recently and I couldn’t stand the arrogance of the two lead characters. A pathologist and a police detective.
Tommy, the detective, demanded he be allowed to question a group of kids (teens mostly), who were patients at a psychiatric hospital, alone.
Oh the pathologist, Megan, sat in on the questioning too. She is a whole level of entitlement I can’t stand.
The psychiatrist denied him and demanded he-the psychiatrist-be present during the questioning. Sure there was a glaring spotlight of suspicion on the psychiatrist, but just because Detective Tommy is a lead doesn’t mean anything he says should be allowed. And about that suspiciousness with the psychiatrist, I thought it had more to do with casting than any evidence-at least to start with.
If a show wants their characters to be arrogant and entitled, fine, but someone needs to call them on the carpet occasionally and make it stick.
I was starting April 23rd episode of Body of Proof recently and I couldn’t stand the arrogance of the two lead characters. A pathologist and a police detective.
Tommy, the detective, demanded he be allowed to question a group of kids (teens mostly), who were patients at a psychiatric hospital, alone.
Oh the pathologist, Megan, sat in on the questioning too. She is a whole level of entitlement I can’t stand.
The psychiatrist denied him and demanded he-the psychiatrist-be present during the questioning. Sure there was a glaring spotlight of suspicion on the psychiatrist, but just because Detective Tommy is a lead doesn’t mean anything he says should be allowed. And about that suspiciousness with the psychiatrist, I thought it had more to do with casting than any evidence-at least to start with.
If a show wants their characters to be arrogant and entitled, fine, but someone needs to call them on the carpet occasionally and make it stick.
