The BS Alert: Discuss "Liberties" The Show Takes

[Kromm]

I think we have a different idea of what 'taking liberties' means in this context. The entire show, with the exception of the parts in the courtroom that were filmed, is based on stories people told and things that have been reported/published. Such is the case for every biographical document.

Okay, let's lay this out. The story about AC opening the bag and finding no knife is inherently self-serving if he's got something to hide (like being a co-conspirator). Why does it matter in the least that it's a story that people have repeated before, or that someone before now has published that he's claimed this?  How many times something's been repeated doesn't affect the veracity of a story.

 

And it's not the kind of thing that can just be hand waved off as a "biography thing".  Bios can be subjective, sure, but that's not a blanket excuse. This isn't the biography of a person, which is inherently understood to be communicating their specific claims, it's the explanation of an event. And the people involved are mostly all still living, so there isn't the distance of history. 

 

There are tons of behind the scenes things which are minor liberties at best. Does it matter if Darden and Clark danced in her office?  Not really (although how it leads into the assertion of a sexual affair between them might matter a bit, but overall that scene was inherently harmless). But AC being shown opening the bag states a definite opinion--that AC wasn't involved. That Kardashian (because in this version the scene is more about him) wasn't involved. It's a greater liberty because while there's no proof against either of them, their involvement or lack thereof really potentially changes the picture of what happened the day of the murders. It's substantiative, not trivial, whether or not a person who has always vaguely been suspected of being a co-conspirator opened a bag in private and saw a murder weapon... or didn't.