Did Tommy feel any remorse?
his stupid actions digging up Jason got a bunch of people slaughtered.
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Don't forget now. He did try to warn as many persons as he possibly could. Fact is nobody believed him.
shareyea, but his actions caused the whole bloodbath. you can't blame people for not believing him, if someone told me they dug up a corpse and it was killing people I'd think he was crazy too
shareCan't blame Tommy.
What are the odds that lightning would hit the metal pole he jammed into Jason?
And then what are the odds of that lightning actually reviving Jason as a zombie?
"Can't blame Tommy."
Yes, you can. Digging up someone's grave without any authorization whatsoever is illegal, and breaking that pole off the fence was illegal too (vandalism). Tommy would only be blameless had he been doing something that he was legally authorized to do.
Personally, I would say someone is only responsible if they had, or should have had, a reasonable expectation of what could happen. He should have had a reasonable expectation that a metal pole sticking up in a storm would be struck by lightning. He would have no expectation that a bolt of lightning would animate a corpse.
Why didn't that metal pole get struck by lightning during every other storm? He only moved it from the fence to Jasons grave and actually put it lower to the ground then it was. road signs don't get struck by lightning, metal fences don't, my point is there is no reasonable expectation that it would be struck by lightning.
Jason had already come back from the dead a few times in the series. It was going to happen regardless if Tommy dug him up or not. The film actually introduced the new rule that Jason must be chained in the lake in order to be stopped.
Why does lightning strike anywhere. The pole was moved from the fence, one among many, to the "center" of the graveyard, all by itself.
Lightning can strike roadsigns, and poles, and trees, and cars, and people.
Jason may, or may not, have come back from the dead before. But Tommy had no way to predict that a metal pole used to stab him, and then struck by lightning, would revive him. He couldn't have known. Did it happen before?
People are all to quick to assign blame or responsibility to others for things they could not predict.
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He should feel remorse. That dumb fvck!
shareYeah I can't help but feel it would be sweet if he got together with Megan after the closing credits, but then I remember his actions directly got Megan's father and all of her friends killed in the space of 24 hours. Not the best foundation for a healthy relationship...
shareThe question is if Jason would have awakened at some point anyway had it not been for Tommy Jarvis to have been there at the time. If no, then it was indeed all Tommy's fault. But if Tommy's suspicion was right, it would have been inevitable.
shareYeah, "Should've left well enough alone" and "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" are strong themes here. I know we're supposed to love Tommy, because the twice-recast character, who is inconsistent throughout, is one of the few recurring protagonists in this series. But every time he's on screen I just think about how it's his fault.
shareIt was obvious he did. His guilt was driving him.
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