That would be risky, because they wouldn't know for sure what innocent people might be in the room when the device was set off. I'm more comfortable with the use of a weapon that Sarah can choose when and whether to fire.
Hmm, maybe. I can see how that could've worked, but I don't think it would've been dramatic enough for the climax of the season. So in that sense I can see your point about the writers contriving it for its impact, although I still think you were a little harsh in how you expressed it.
Well, I think it would've been a lot harder to get that past security than a fire extinguisher. As for getting it from Alison, the writers seemed to prefer to keep Alison off in her own storyline this year.
I just think that people who have no real-life experience with violence tend to overestimate how easy it is to engage in it, because a lifetime of fiction has given us the impression that anyone can turn into an action hero at a moment's notice. I've read articles and quotes from people who have real experience with violence, and they've talked about how much harder it is than you'd think from TV and movies.
It's a question of where the threshold of detectability is. Loosening one restraint enough that she can work her own wrist out of it is subtle enough that there's a good chance it could be overlooked. Completely releasing a restraint, or repeating the action on both arms, would be more likely to get noticed. Any action taken before the distraction kicked in had to be kept to a minimum.
Except it doesn't seem that Scott was supposed to be there, given that he was hiding behind a mask. And Rachel has met him, I'm pretty sure, so she might've recognized him and known that something was wrong, which is the last thing they wanted.
But the former is more loud, abrupt, and shocking. And again, I think TV conditions us to assume that everyone would react to violence calmly like a trained soldier or police officer would. Realistically, there'd be a lot more confusion and panic and shouting and "What the hell was that" and it would be a real mess.
A taser needs to be reloaded after each use, doesn't it? Well, I guess I have seen one (Alison's?) that was loaded with two cartridges with separate triggers.
And I still think a smoke or flash bomb would've impaired both sides equally and thus not been much of an advantage. Not much of an escape if you can't orient yourself to find the door.
Yes, and again, they wanted to make it difficult and dramatic, not smooth and easy.
I think we're both getting tired of this at this point. Of course there's always more than one way to put a scene or an episode together, and sometimes the reason for doing a scene a certain way is ineffable. Sometimes it's just that that's the way they happened to go instead of doing something else. I just don't think it's fair to assume there was a negative motivation behind anything you don't personally agree with.
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