I find it hard to believe that a single knife or arrow to the back would be an instant kill. The victims should have been screaming in agony for some time before they kick the bucket. Enough time in fact to tell Jessica who stabbed them in the back.
shareWell, one may suppose that "MSW" producers enjoy keeping homicides short and sweet, along the lines of a little light murder or something to avoid audience nightmares--or at least to attempt to minimize them.
Then, of course, we observe murders by pillows, ashtrays, flashlights, binoculars and quinine water.
So, perhaps if the single knife or arrow to the back doesn't seem to do the trick, then let's not make it too hard on the audience although a few certain murders here and there do prove excessively gruesome and quite nightmarish, such as one of the homicides in "Murder on the Thirtieth Floor," or killers' aiming firearms into windows and....
...Well, as they say on here, "Cringe-worthy."
If Sheridan were here, he'd be appalled.
people screaming in agony doesn't really fit n with a light show like Murder she wrote. And anyway, why wouldn't a single arrow or knife wound be enough, if it was in the right place? and if they lived long enough to say who the murderer as, there wouldn't be much left for Jessica to do, would there?
shareYour subject line made me LOL (really). The human body is quite fragile and anybody that has spent any time in a hospital or nursing home realizes this. Besides, it wouldn't really be a "story" if we always were TOLD whodunit, right? That's the fun part...walking with Jessica through the big "clue" that jolts her to the right solution.
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The human body is fragile and little things can kill us.
And the human body is very tough and things that should kill us we recover from.
There are so many factors involved that it is impossible to predict how a particular person will react to a particular injury.
I think what you fail to understand is that we only see the stories where it DID happen to be instantly fatal. All the times that the victim was only wounded, or took their time in dying, never made it onto film. Just didn't make the cut.
It’s a cozy mystery!
shareThe human body is frail; however, it is not unusual for people to be stabbed, or shot with arrows or bullets, and survive. If a knife, arrow, or bullet didn't hit a very vital organ, like the heart or brain, the victim might survive, or take a long time to die from shock or blood loss.
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