So probably just a random person who was standing near a portal at some point.
This is interesting. I wonder if there's a transcript, because what I got was the revelation that Benson was DUI and caused the accident.
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No, my recollection tracks with what the others said -- the "Were you drinking?" question to Benson was only about when he pulled the plug, not about the original accident.
Benson seemed more broken up about the decision to plug the plug than the original accident. The dialog between both men suggests this scenario to me, too. I assumed both men were happy in life prior to the accident. Benson may have been a recovering alcoholic and sober in his relationship with his husband. Benson turned (or re-turned) to drink after the wreck. The decision to pull the plug was made over an extended period with doctor's recommendation. Regardless of drinking, Benson understood the medical condition and made the correct decision. He just couldn't handle the grief.
Okay, there is a transcript and it was the line "How much were you drinking that night?" that I interpreted as meaning that Benson was driving, but he wasn't. Weird, because that would be exactly the type of revelation that would give Punky the edge to manipulate him.
Exactly. The prognosis was the same regardless of how much he was drinking. The husband wouldn't have gotten better if he was sober.
It already is. His guilt is over his decision to pull the plug on his husband's life support. If he was drinking that night, then it calls his judgment about that decision into question, and that's what Izel (please learn character names, it's not that hard) was using to manipulate him.
That's a rational assessment. The monoliths tap into our fears, and fear is not rational.
At the risk of starting a philosophical debate, I disagree. Some fears are irrational but there are many forms of fear that are rational. The earliest form of fear, a primal fear, existed rationally as a survival mechanism, to name one example.
Which doesn't contradict my premise. As long as some irrational fears exist, then my point stands.
For instance -- I'm a cancer survivor. There was a time when I had a very rational fear for my survival. But I'm also a hypochondriac, so I routinely experience completely irrational, counterfactual fears that very familiar, ordinary twinges are harbingers of something far worse. The existence of rational fear does not preclude the existence of irrational fear alongside it.
So the point is, even if Benson knew intellectually that his husband was brain-dead, that doesn't make it implausible for some irrational part of himself to fear that he might've been wrong to pull the plug. We can and do experience fears that directly conflict with our factual, rational knowledge, and sometimes we can't talk our subconscious minds out of them no matter how much we remind ourselves of the facts.
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I'm not disputing your overall point about Benson. Just that fear is not rational.
Life is not binary. It's not about all-or-nothing, black-and-white choices. "Fear" is not a single thing, it's a whole spectrum of things. Some fears are rational, others are not.
Isn’t that next week?
My bad. I misread my PVR scheduled recordings. Thought it said 1 hour for Friday.
Are they on one of the better lots? Some of the bigger studios will leave stuff up for tours, when The Big Bang Theory ended they announced they were leaving some of the popular sets up as part of the WB studio tour.
Maybe they could do the same thing with AoS's standing sets.
Maybe they could do the same thing with AoS's standing sets.
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