An employer, well, duh. Of course that's different. I said to try it with someone helping you. Not an employee.As an employer, I have and I do
An employer, well, duh. Of course that's different. I said to try it with someone helping you. Not an employee.As an employer, I have and I do
No it's not. The conversation stemmed from "why do they treat Strand with so much suspicion and disdain?" And the answer to that was the Gilligan nonsense. And every time I've asked how that has any impact on the way they've treated him since day one, you people have been ignoring it.!. His treatment of Travis IS the conversation at hand.
No it's not. You just know the answer is "No, it does not."2. That's a strawman argument. Come up with something more apropos worth responding to.
You guys make it sound like they're paid passengers on a cruise ship or something. They're only on that boat because he invited them in a moment of crisis. They owe him everything, and he owes them absolutely nothing. They sure as heck shouldn't expect to just sit on the boat the entire time with their feet propped up sipping margaritas while he does all the work at keeping them safe and finding yet another place for them to find safety.
1. Please point out how it matters to the conversation at hand. Namely, how does that scene in any way, shape, or form explain their attitude towards him since day one of meeting him?
2. You were kind of a jackass in this post. Does that mean I should treat you as an enemy, break into your house and rummage through your things trying to find proof to back that up, and threaten to kick you out and take over all of your possessions? I'm sure you think I'm a jackass, too. Does that mean you have the right to do all of those things to me, too?
'Cause that's pretty much what they've been doing practically since they met him. All based on information only the audience knows, with little to no reasons of their own. Certainly not to the level of suspicion they've had right out the gate.
No more basic than avoiding biting the dozen hands that surround you. So many people are all up in arms here about the law of the sea, but that has literally nothing to do with the basis of this group. In fact, the whole problem is that this group has no basis at all. They've all wound up together mostly accidentally and they have absolutely no commonly understood system of how to work together or treat each other.
Strand - who you've repeatedly described as the only real survivor in the group - is attempting to force a system of dictatorship on them while simultaneously making decisions that openly disgust them and treating every single one of them like dirt.
What matters is that this supposedly smart survivor is actively turning the entire group against himself, even though he knows they massively outnumber him. That is stupid and a major character flaw (even if he does turn out to have an understandable motivation behind it).
Because I'm not talking about how he theoretically lived before the ZA. I'm talking about the fact that he turned to this boat as his only lifeline to survive and has thus far spent all his time sitting alone in the cabin worrying instead of making even the slightest effort to learn how the boat works and how to fix it if need be - and the fact that even when someone else takes it upon themselves to do so, he actively antagonizes them instead of just letting them get on with it.
I never called anyone else a dictator because none of the other characters have acted like dictators.
But your complaint about me disliking him more than the others are total bullshit. Chris, Nick, and Alicia have all been unbelievably stupid morons again and again. Madison is literally all over the place - she wants to do the right thing, but seems completely incapable of actually accomplishing it. Travis is more consistent, but also so far unable to accept the fact that some things are inevitably different. Daniel is so far the only character who has seemed even remotely intelligent with no major blind spots for most of the show, but that comes at the cost of him being basically a sociopathic mass murderer. This show isn't very good with characters, and Strand is no exception, especially right now (at this particular moment in the show - ie, for the last 2 eps or so, and potentially for the next few as well - he is easily the dumbest character they have).
...stop for a second and think about the actual position here. Strand is one person, with seemingly few skills outside of hurting and manipulating people. Travis fixes the entire boat by himself while Strand sits around making threats. The kids pay attention to the world and come up with good plans to go gain more supplies while Strand sits in the cabin ignoring the world and obsessing about his secrets.
Threats were already coming dangerously close to the farm multiple times during that season, so the idea that isolation in any way would've protected them is ridiculous.
(It certainly didn't protect Morgan's mentor).
And the fact that the barn had dozens of zombies in it in the first place made it pretty much inevitable that something would go wrong eventually anyway.
It seems that some think Strand has the authority to do whatever he wants, but every other character should shut up and follow orders.
I'm starting to believe you may actually be a robot, Arrrrggggh. Or is it Fandango? Your profound lack of understanding of human interaction, humor, and communications is amazing.The conversation stemmed from "why do they treat Strand with so much suspicion and disdain?" And the answer to that was the Gilligan nonsense.
What is it with you people? Making weird accusations against someone because you don't share their opinions?I'm starting to believe you may actually be a robot, Arrrrggggh. Or is it Fandango? Your profound lack of understanding of human interaction, humor, and communications is amazing.
You certainly seem to be twisting yourself into a knot over this. I never said it wasn't a joke. All I did was point out that it wasn't a very good analogy at all.The Gilligan thing was a joke. You know, 'cause they're on a boat. Don't go twisting yourself into knots about it.
Do you have no self-awareness at all? In the Big Bang Theory thread, a poster made a joking comment about a Green Arrow shirt being blue, and you freaked out about it and took it totally seriously. In the Agents of Shield thread, people made an observation that there might be some additional subtext behind a character remarking about someone's cold hands, and you felt the need to angrily clamp down on the idea and condescendingly post links explaining that cold hands are in fact a real thing, as if everyone didn't already know that. In this thread you've demonstrated all those qualities of pedantry, needless hostility, and humorlessness in spades. And those are just the three threads I'm currently interacting with you in; you've had lots of other problems with lots of different posters since most recently joining, so you can't blame it all on me.But hey, if yelling at people, making accusations, and focusing on completely pointless things is the only way you can defend your point of view, I think that says it all.
So long. And love the personal insults, by the way.Anyway, I see no further point to this, so I'll make an effort to move on to something else.
Human relationships where a sense of ownership is concerned do not dissolve overnight, otherwise, Hershel--early in the ZA--would not have set down rules about the actions and behavior of Rick's group on his farm. It does not matter if its "law of the sea" or the "laws on land," individuals do not relinquish basic rights to their property simply because a crisis situation occurs.
Disgust them?? This is the group who accepted torture and murder with the deliberate release of the stadium walkers. They have no moral ground of judgement to stand on.
He expects something the Travis group has proven to reject--the concept of gratitude. It all begins there, but all we see is the Travis group demand, bark and threaten from the moment they boarded the boat. Just as you think he's turning them against him, do they--for a moment--think that their behavior might come back to haunt them?
- How he lived before the ZA is relevant, as the crisis dropped on society so fast, he--like anyone else--would not have time to become maintenance man on a boat.
- You notion that he should have learned how to repair a boat is ridiculous, since the reason he's on the boat is to escape from the ZA in L.A. He's driving the boat, so he cannot be a jack of all trades while in the process of saving not only himself, but the hostile group he's lugging around.
They are forcing their demands on an individual, and threatening his life. Call it whatever you like, but its immoral, ungrateful behavior that cannot go anywhere good.
Come on, you now criticize the others, but earlier you said:
...and now, you continue to refer to Strand as dumb, when he--and he alone--is the reason all other characters are still alive. There is no "gain more supplies" if they were left on the mainland to die by bombing or walkers. There is no fixing a boat if left on the mainland to die by bombing and walkers.
The farm was not in danger of being overrun until that gunshot attracted the horde. "Better Angels" proves that. The Green family had successfully lived and survived the ZA, even scouted / hunted in the woods, and never managed to attract a horde. Only one action brought death to the farm.
Guess how Eastman suffered his bite? A conflict with an outsider (Morgan). If he remained isolated / never encountered / trained Morgan, he would have been in any situation other than the one where his attention was occupied long enough for the walker to bite him. Until that moment, he survived the ZA for years, and maintained a decent lifestyle, and knew how to protect himself.
The few walkers in the barn were not going to overrun the farm. Otis and Hershel alone could have gunned them all down if necessary.
The Travis group has the right to leave the boat...or at the start of it all, just refuse to join him. They did not, so.....
What is it with you people? Making weird accusations against someone because you don't share their opinions?
But hey, if yelling at people, making accusations, and focusing on completely pointless things is the only way you can defend your point of view, I think that says it all.
And ownership never has and never will be the sole deciding factor in human relationships. Certainly not in absence of any legal authority.
Or, maybe it would've been smart for him to truly isolate himself from them, but then why didn't he actually do so physically?
And yet, they've mostly gone along with everything he wants. So far. Even though they massively disagreed with it. Why is that, I wonder? Maybe because they've been trying to work with him and show some gratitude?
I never once said a single thing about Strand being stupid for not spending his pre-apocalypse life learning to fix boats. I said the exact opposite. Pay attention.
2. He spends most of his time apparently staring out the window. And big boats like that typically aren't driven by holding your hand on the wheel and steering manually anyway. Most of the time the boat will be holding course itself, all Strand has to do is keep an eye on the instruments and make sure it's still going the right direction and not about to hit something. He therefore has more than enough time to crack open a damn book and learn something.
Strand sits around on his ass doing nothing to earn his great survivor reputation while almost everyone else actually contributes.
Saying he 'alone' is the reason they're alive is pure bs.
He helped them. They helped him. Now, they're all stuck on a boat together. The only logical thing to do is find a way to work together.
Right. Because a herd of hundreds of zombies passing so close to the farm that they literally arrived minutes after the shot (and zombies are known for their speed of movement) constitutes 'no real danger' at all. And, of course, there would never be any other herds wandering through the area either, even though they were still ridiculously close to Walker central (Atlanta).
Guess how Alexandria wasn't overrun by zombies? They took in outsiders.
And his latest F off was so huge and unreasonable (and actually just plain stupid, even when viewed solely from his own selfish interests) that it may very well destroy any chance they had of creating a workable group dynamic.
Yes, because saying that the writers have done a disservice to the story by having all of the characters treat him with utter contempt and way too much suspicion from the very beginning when he didn't deserve it from their perspective, is exactly the same as saying that he's a saint and can do no wrong.Man, I hope Strand dies tonight. I look forward to certain people moving on to propping up Salazar as the next badass that can do no wrong.
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