H50 Ep: Ku I Ka Pili Koko

[the_other_sandy]

You know how I started last episode's post with how I saw Captain America: The Winter Soldier and it was awesome? I'm starting this post the same way because I just saw the movie again for the second time in a week and it's still awesome. Sorry, Steve, but I love another Steve.

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[superbadgirl]

The thing with Danny is - that's Steve's perception of him, the "afraid of everything" thing. But where the rubber hits the road, Danny gets it done. Always. Aside from his panicked baseball lineup thing, he was not freaking out nearly as much as a claustrophobic person would as their surroundings got smaller and smaller. Danny's a fatalist, but he isn't a coward. Hell, I am always saying, "oh, that's no good, that won't work, I totally tanked that test" so that when it was good, it did work and I aced the test, it seemed that much sweeter. I dunno, I guess I'm not normal either.

Still, sometimes I want to shake him. ;)

Totally with you on the rebar thing. I know this show isn't about realism, but it would have been just as dramatic had Steve ... I dunno, had to stop Danny from trying to yank it out on impulse, rather than have the injured one be right about leaving it in and having the trained Navy SEAL explain how it had to come out to avoid infection. (Because a gaping hole in one's side covered with a dirty T-shirt and duct tape is so much less likely to become infected...).

And Cath scrambling at the debris was oy as well. Small "TV DRAMA!!" things that are ultimately plain stupid.

[the_other_sandy]

Small "TV DRAMA!!" things that are ultimately plain stupid.

Everyone has their pet peeves and grievously bad information is one of mine. This isn't like the time the murderer hid under a trap door in the floor and was magically able to replace the rug covering the trap door after he'd already sealed himself beneath it. That was just bad writing. Removing the rebar and the random frantic digging are both actively dangerous and could actually cause someone's death.

The thing is, people do things they see on TV all the time. There's a famous video showing people taking shelter from a tornado under an overpass. People saw that on TV and came to believe that overpasses were the best place to shelter from a tornado when they are in fact among the worst, which led to a whole rash of deaths in circumstances that had never been a problem before. People have actually left safer shelter to hide under an overpass and died because of it.

So there's me and my soap box. There's a difference between sloppy writing and something that can actually harm a person.

I dunno, I guess I'm not normal either.

I'm a worst case scenario person myself. My boss hates it because I'm a real buzzkill when it comes to her "innovative" ideas. She tends to get caught up in the innovation and is less able to see the repercussions.

[superbadgirl]

Oh, I was agreeing with you. In this day and age when common sense is out the window and actual education is in the tanker, the last thing we really need to be doing is glorifying stupid things on TV for the sake of drama. I'm sure it would come as quite a shock to some that CPR isn't the miracle cure TV shows would lead you to believe, and that even a minor concussion will knock a regular person on his/her ass for a good long while.

It's a fine line. Being a realist is often seen as pessimism. As for Danny, well - dude really does need to stop with the raincloud thing if the guy who lost his mother, lost his father, regained his mother, has an archenemy who should have lost his father but actually lost his mother, has PTSD (oddly untriggered by this latest big trauma - it's Hollywood Pick And Choose time - or any other foundational event, never mind that tangent) is the one skipping through life tossing daisy petals on the ground as the walks. ;)

[the_other_sandy]

Sorry. I actually knew you were agreeing with me. Apparently I just wasn't done having Feelings. Like I said, this is a huge pet peeve with me and this episode stompled all over it.

the guy who lost his mother, lost his father, regained his mother, has an archenemy who should have lost his father but actually lost his mother, has PTSD (oddly untriggered by this latest big trauma - it's Hollywood Pick And Choose time - or any other foundational event, never mind that tangent) is the one skipping through life tossing daisy petals on the ground as the walks

Yeah, but it's not like Steve has ever dealt with any of that stuff in a healthy, adjusted way. He just locks it all in a box and pretends it isn't there. Danny may spray his feelings all over the place, but at least he gets it all out of his system and then moves on.

[superbadgirl]

Very true. I did kind of choke a bit when Steve called Danny not normal. Pots and kettles, my friend. Pots and kettles. ;)

[kahuna_burger]

The thing is, Danny was totally right about fear being healthy. Not irrational fear, but an actual awareness of the possible consequences of your actions. I always think of the S1 scene of Steve speeding around blind curves on a cliff, mocking Danny for being afraid and saying "I know this road" as if that will change whether there's a washout or parked sightseer around the next curve.

And just like moving someone with unknown injuries and pulling out an impaled object, I feel like Show is telling us through outcomes that this sort of reckless 'optimism' is a good thing. *sad face*

[the_other_sandy]

Good thing Steve and Danny have each other for balance.