swanpride

The Framework was amazing, because it really allowed to explore the characters further, and I liked the philosophical underpinning of our regrets being part of who we are. But I agree that the show had a darkness overload since season 5. I am still optimistic for season 7, though. This looks like it will be fun!

I look forward to more sharon.

Sure, but if he retires in the past without changing anything, it basically means that he is sitting on his hands for 70 years knowing fully well that Bucky gets tortured by Hydra in the meantime. That isn't quite the same thing as saying "yeah, there are so many Avengers and heroes out there, someone else can take care of sh... for a while". Frankly, it sounds like Steve's personal hell.

I think it is less that children need to be the FIRST priority, but they need the feeling that the parents will have their back. In fact, aside from the "got abused" serial killer, the other kind seems to be the ones which got overindulged when they were children and then couldn't deal with the fact that in adult life they no longer were that adored. But I guess spoiling a child to no end is just another form of abuse… It's a difficult balance.

I guess it shows how badly organised the police was in the past. Otherwise they might have caught him earlier.

Well, not that they have a biggest team, they could mention that they are doing exactly that.

So basically he was lucky that he has a slow metabolism? That's really creepy.

Yeah, mothers end up hurting or killing their own children fairly often, that is not exclusive to men at all. I am just saying that if the mother hurts her own child, she is some sort of monster. When the father does it it, he is "stressed at his job" or, if he the mother isn't in the picture, some poor guy who just couldn't handle the situation. If a woman kills her husband(s) she is a black widow. If a guy keeps killing his wives, he is Henry the VIII. There is a clear double standard when it comes to murder cases….not just gender specific, but also race specific. I am kind of convinced that the reason why we have this "white, middle aged guy" as standard serial killer in mind is partly because in our mind, those guys are mentally ill. When a black guy does it, he is more likely to be treated simply as a criminal. Because he is black you know and (irony modus on) naturally black people are more predisposed to kill, look how big and scary they are. But a white guy, there was certainly something which went wrong in his life. That's the danger with profiling, too. Let's say, there is a series of axe murders. The profile would most likely assume a man, but there is always a chance the killer is a woman after all.

Well, those children usually have two parents. and often it is not even the mother who does the abusing, but the father. But abuse victims often have a tendency to put more blame on the one who didn't help them than on the actual attacker. I guess partly because they think that the attacker can't help himself, but the one who stands aside can. Plus, girls have sh... mothers too and they are way, way less likely to become serial killers. There is a societal aspect to it which tells males that they HAVE to be in power and that it is okay to express themselves through violence. I am getting kind of sick of this "poor guy got rejected by his mother/girlfriend and flipped" narrative. It's shifting the blame too much. I can get behind "poor guy had sh... parents" because childhood abuse certainly impact the social development of a child. But I draw the line at blaming the mother alone when the father is still in the picture.

I always thought that it was his mother who neglected him above all. Though his father most likely did too before he got arrested. Anyway, I didn't really mind the revelation that he really was a killer after all, because that meant he conned Ellen, which in turn must have really thrown Neal off. I just wish that the revelation had happened one or two episodes earlier, so that the show could deal with the fall-out more.

If I were a parent I just wanted confirmation that he really was it, so get some closure. Wait, is the case with the toddler bound to the cross a real one? Anyway, that Brians is allowed to run around with other kids in the neighbourhood isn't really that unusual. Remember, that was before the internet, and before it was typical to fill the schedule of a child with all kind of "activities". Having children outside playing with each other in a supposedly save neighbourhood was pretty much standard back then.

that's strange...Batista was in the past pretty realistic about his acting abilities. Either he got too much praise or he doesn't realize that carrying a movie is more difficult than just being in one.

Possible too, but didn't the Kraft usually roofie his victims? Though I guess he could have started to use drugs exactly because too many escaped by not getting drunk enough before escaping….

Another studio wouldn't dismantle Sony, though, just like Disney didn't dismantle Fox.

No, they won't. If Sony sells the whole studio, the right will move with it. They can't sell the rights separately, but they are part of the package.

Also, the point of the questions is more to get information which can actually be compared. It's not really helpful when one tells exactly how he felt during the killing and the next only explains how he picked his victims and the next only talks about his relationship to the police. They need information they can match up in order to figure out which behaviours are connected with each other and which aren't.

No, that is unfair...it was Bill who largely shut her out of his work. That Nancy don't want him to discuss this stuff with his neighbour doesn't mean that she doesn't want him to discuss it with her, to be more of a partner to him then just the person he comes back to from his travel. But Bill hasn't really shared his life with her for a long, long time. Instead he apparently uprooted her several times for his job. Bill tried, but not every woman is made for being basically a single who has from time to time a guest in her house.

I honestly didn't think that Wendy was THAT snobbish...her throwing the fact that she was just a bartender into her face was not really about her thinking that someone with such a job is beneath her, but about her lying to herself that she likes her place in life when in reality she has a crappy apartment, a crappy job and has to lie in order to keep contact to her child.

It would be easier to sympathize with her if it were only about her and Bill. But it is about her and Bill and Brian. And since Brian is the only child in the set-up, my main concern happens to be with him. The move shouldn't have happened without talking to the therapist (while also asking him if Brian should have contact with the mother of the dead child - I am not sure if her talking to him would help him or make him feel even worse, but in any case, the option should be discussed), it shouldn't have happened so sudden, and there should have been some thought put where a good place for a move would be. Maybe close to a school which has the expertise to help a child like Brian, if something along the line existed back in the day.

Reading the story above, I wonder about two things… One: Which German short story is he talking about? Two: If we assume that the story is true (not that I think he is lying, but maybe the guy wasn't Kraft after all. Memories are strange things), maybe the reason why Kraft let him go was how he reacted to the notion of sex. I suspect most of his victims reacted by either revulsion or curiosity - the former would have most likely angered Kraft and the latter would have excited him (after all, he saw supposedly straight men as a challenge). A victim which gently lets him down because he is simply not interested might have been the absolute exception.

You know, that would be perfect to put the "you only study the ones you caught" narrative across.

I don't know...I have the feeling that we will get to see more cases which are initially unsolved or even never solved at all.

That wasn't really a matter of character rights and more that they wanted Wright to make the movie, but he kept delaying it in favour of other projects.

Wendy wasn't really upset just about this, it was more that her girlfriend constantly berated her for not being "open" enough, but then went and denied her. If they had talked about the situation earlier and honestly, she would have reacted better...though it would have been nicer to introduce her as a close friend.

Well, Wendy didn't exactly stick by the script in the end, so I think she learned her lesson.