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WTF?

posted 8 years ago by ElphieDefyingGravity
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I like this show very much, but it seems like the police are constantly missing clues or neglecting to ask questions that seem obvious. Watching Paul escape in the Botanical gardens was infuriating.

I also found peoples reactions to Paul crazy. The woman on the train, who had the newspaper with the police sketch of his face. Everything about the questions Paul asked would have set off huge alarms to any rational person. He practically admitted being the killer for God's sake, and she just kept smiling at him.

The reaction of Roses daughter when she met Paul in her house in the middle of the night was nuts. Even though she was young, a normal child would scream.

Am I alone in this? Is it just the way Irish people act?

Et lux perpetua luceat eis

[–] SomeMovieReference 8 years ago

The woman on the train, who had the newspaper with the police sketch of his face. Everything about the questions Paul asked would have set off huge alarms to any rational person. He practically admitted being the killer for God's sake, and she just kept smiling at him.

It was severely lacking subtlety but I liked this bit. We naturally trust people we find attractive, and she was demonstrating it. But in her defence, you wouldn't expect the actual killer to tell you. They tend to keep those thing under wraps

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[–] tuklat 8 years ago

I agree that people generally find attractive people more trustworthy, but that scene was ridiculous. I don't care how good looking someone is, if they start talking to me the way he was, I'd be a little weirded out. He was pretty much full out saying that it was him and she was being a complete moron. To top it off, she SHOWED HIM HER FREAKIN' DRIVER'S LICENCE AFTER TALKING TO HIM FOR 2 MINUTES!!!!! I'm sorry, but I just couldn't get my head around that. A smart, successful, attractive, young, women who is aware there is a serial killer on the loose in her area would never be that stupid to show a complete stranger her driver's licence (which I'm assuming has her address on it), when he was basically trying to convince her that it was him in the sketch of said serial killer and never even once tried to deny whether it was him. That was too weird. I kept thinking they were going to reveal that she was an undercover cop or something that happened to notice him and went over to bait him, but apparently not. Suspension of disbelief was really hard in that scene.

[–] SomeMovieReference 8 years ago

I guess I'm giving it a pass because I've seen people forgive some proper douchecanoes based on their face. True, as far as I know my friends aren't dating murderers, but I know people who have watched their partners attack others for no reason and let it pass without a comment.

Also, out of everything in series 2, that's one of the most forgivable. Giving counselling to the woman he attempted to murder was a stretch

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[–] mollys-lips 8 years ago

On top of the fact that she is talking to an extremely attractive man and likely flattered by the attention, women are programmed to be polite. How many women have had total strangers make some stupid "Smile, honey...it can't be that bad!" when they are walking around with with a less than pleasant look on their face? Nearly all...and I would guess that most men have not heard such advice from a stranger. Girls are supposed to be sugar and spice and everything nice, after all. It's amazing how often that programming can override warning signals and red flags.

[–] Lola_Bedworthy 8 years ago

I thought the same right down to showing him her driving license with her address on it. If I were sitting on a train across from a Brad Pitt-type, his creepy questions would set off all kinds of alarms in my mind. I would excuse myself and find another seat pronto; no ifs, ands or butts. And after getting off in Belfast, I'd get the Hell out of there before he could stalk me. The blonde on the train was incredibly naive or a Big Mac short of a Happy Meal (or both).

[–] jpkrunch 8 years ago

The woman on the train, who had the newspaper with the police sketch of his face. Everything about the questions Paul asked would have set off huge alarms to any rational person. He practically admitted being the killer for God's sake, and she just kept smiling at him.

Totally agree. And she actually dies her hair to avoid the killer! Now she wants to have a friendly chat with a stranger who looks like and is acting like the killer? Absurd.

I would say my memory is not what it used to be. But I don't remember what my memory used to be.