Rapist guesses, Duncan: Because I say he's guilty of pretty much everything. One day I'll be right with him as well I tell you!
That made me laugh so freakin hard!
I meant to mention this when I was over there, (too distracted yay!)... But the whole sociology/psychology/criminology thingie totally would never have happened right away. You're totally right. But my point, I once saw a German film based on a real experiment that this episode's subplot was a total ripoff of. They really did take a group of people and make some prisoners and some staff and make them live like that. They ended up mostly going crazy and one guy was killed (in the film). The movie was Das Experiment. And the original thing was the Stanford prison experiment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
Freaky shit, man. And then you read that and you KNOW there's no way they'd throw a first year class into something so potentially dangerous/traumatizing.
That was my only real main beef. And I will kick Lamb in the nuts one day... ;) Then kiss him good to show him not all short girls are evil.
Not unless that was the picture the prof was showing them during the class... but even if so fans update wiki all of the time so it's more likely that it just was updated.
and yeah, having had one of the most intense Psych profs for my first year class who still didn't have us do any experiment as dangerous as that had me pretty much rule out the reality of that. I mean yes, they could all be supervised etc etc but that could seriously mess someone up. I mean the guy who wet his pants and everything, no way he'd be okay come monday morning.
It's like the Milgram experiement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment which is what I thought they were going to re-inact at first but even more twisted. Not good for intro to psych. Unless they were looking to fuck up a few kids so the school therapist could keep his/her job ;)
HA! The Milgram exp!! That brings back so many memories! Mostly of uni...where we watched the documentary of that and discussed it for weeks. and what's hilarious is i can't even remember what class. None of them make sense. I never took a psych course! And I touched on it in Gr 8 gifted ;)
They're lucky it was only 48 hrs long. The stuff that Peter Pan, I mean, Ryder Strong was pulling didn't happen in the original experiment until later in the 6 days (with the bathroom breaks).
What surprised me is that a)pee in the pants kid didn't go pee when they went to the food court. b)they voluntarily went back to the prison.
If they hadn't gone back, Wallace's plan would have failed. But meh. You know what's also funny? the way they were divided up. What if the majority of people had SS #s ending in an odd number? Or vis versa? The whole subplot seems rather convienient, IMO. ;)
Duncan: Because I say he's guilty of pretty much everything. One day I'll be right with him as well I tell you!
That made me laugh so freakin hard!
I meant to mention this when I was over there, (too distracted yay!)... But the whole sociology/psychology/criminology thingie totally would never have happened right away. You're totally right. But my point, I once saw a German film based on a real experiment that this episode's subplot was a total ripoff of. They really did take a group of people and make some prisoners and some staff and make them live like that. They ended up mostly going crazy and one guy was killed (in the film). The movie was Das Experiment. And the original thing was the Stanford prison experiment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
Freaky shit, man. And then you read that and you KNOW there's no way they'd throw a first year class into something so potentially dangerous/traumatizing.
That was my only real main beef.
And I will kick Lamb in the nuts one day... ;) Then kiss him good to show him not all short girls are evil.
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I see VM is even referenced in the wiki article. Did they reference the experiment on the show and I missed it?
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and yeah, having had one of the most intense Psych profs for my first year class who still didn't have us do any experiment as dangerous as that had me pretty much rule out the reality of that. I mean yes, they could all be supervised etc etc but that could seriously mess someone up. I mean the guy who wet his pants and everything, no way he'd be okay come monday morning.
It's like the Milgram experiement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment which is what I thought they were going to re-inact at first but even more twisted. Not good for intro to psych. Unless they were looking to fuck up a few kids so the school therapist could keep his/her job ;)
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They're lucky it was only 48 hrs long. The stuff that Peter Pan, I mean, Ryder Strong was pulling didn't happen in the original experiment until later in the 6 days (with the bathroom breaks).
What surprised me is that a)pee in the pants kid didn't go pee when they went to the food court.
b)they voluntarily went back to the prison.
If they hadn't gone back, Wallace's plan would have failed. But meh. You know what's also funny? the way they were divided up. What if the majority of people had SS #s ending in an odd number? Or vis versa? The whole subplot seems rather convienient, IMO. ;)
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