Stuff I noticed
Mar. 17th, 2013 01:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sailorhathorWatched the rerun of the latest ep of "The Following" tonight, and I noticed a couple of things I didn't see before.
Spoiler
I wasn't paying attention before when Emma removed Carroll's finger splints because they were getting on his nerves. Um, it's only been a few days since Ryan broke his fingers. Bones don't heal that quickly. Carroll was using those fingers like they'd never been broken in the first place. It takes roughly 6 weeks for broken bones to heal, sometimes longer. With the way Ryan broke Carroll's fingers, there's no way he'd be able to use them the way he did without excruciating pain. When I broke my fingertip in 2005, I could take the splint off and wash dishes, but I had to be very careful. If I bumped the tip of my finger on anything, the pain was horrible. I guess the writers were like oh, it's so inconvenient for his fingers to be broken. Okay, then don't put it in the script. You don't get to pretend that broken bones heal in a few days and insult the intelligence of your viewers like that just because the splint is inconvenient. Stupid writers.
The worst part is all they had to do was have Carroll remove the bandages and wear the kind of finger splints that I bought at freakin' Wal-Mart or CVS or some place like that; I'm not sure which store I got them at. It's a pack of three different sizes of finger splints made of metal padded up with foam and held on with velcro straps. You can slip them on and off very easily. They're adjustable, even. If your finger is swollen (which mine was for a while), you can bend the metal over your thumb to make the part that goes over your fingertip wider. Then it fits over a swollen finger just fine. Anyway, by putting a splint on each individual broken finger, it would at least give him some freedom of movement back, although the broken fingers would still be held straight. And don't even give me the "he's a serial killer, he can stand pain" bullshit excuse. He causes pain, he doesn't take it. Even Bundy bawled his little head off before they executed him. Quite a few serial killers are/were whiny little babies when it comes to their own pain and discomfort. Big surprise there! That wouldn't even account for the fact that using broken fingers is going to fuck them up even more than if he'd worn a splint. I wore a splint, and my fingertip still healed crooked. Think of how gnarled and messed up Carroll's fingers are going to be after he "works through the pain" instead of wearing a splint. Please, TV show. I just hate it when shows do dumb shit like that and I have to keep watching them because other stuff on them is interesting. :P
Unfortunately for me, I thought of a way this show could still make Mike a member of The Following. The whole show he put on in this latest episode could have been just that - a show to throw the FBI off the track. Maybe Carroll wants him so deep in the FBI that he can get him any information he needs, and in order to do that, no one must know that Mike is his follower, not even other followers, and especially not the FBI. That could be why he's making an effort to get close to Ryan. Mike will tell Carroll where Claire is when he can do it without blowing his own cover. The reason why I'm still on this track is Mike knew that Roderick was Roderick. Is that something anyone in the FBI was aware of before this? If so, I missed that part. And I mean that sincerely, I'm not being sarcastic. I could have missed that part. Was it just an educated guess? Or does Mike know who Roderick is because Carroll told him? Pbbbbt. I don't want any of this to be true, and I hope I'm wrong. I think it would be quite a stretch even if it can be made sense of. There have been too many times when Mike wasn't being observed and still made disapproving "what a bunch of psychos"-type faces in reaction to Carroll and his gang. Why would he make those faces if he's a member of Carroll's following? Why would he be acting all scared before Roderick and Company kidnapped him if he knew it was going to happen? (Again, while no one was looking.) It wouldn't surprise me at all if the writers did do all this, though, after some of the other ridiculous BS they've done.
Mostly, I don't want Mike to be a member of the Following because he's my little bugaboo, and Ryan is opening up to him. It would devastate Ryan for Mike to betray him like that after he allowed himself to care. :( That's probably why it'll happen. :PPPP
In movie news, I could not recommend Silent Hill: Revelation LESS. Lousy, boring movie. No where near as cool as the first one.
I haven't been feeling very well the last few days. Just so, so tired no matter whether I get enough sleep or not. Pbbbbt. Now my stomach is getting involved.
Spoiler
I wasn't paying attention before when Emma removed Carroll's finger splints because they were getting on his nerves. Um, it's only been a few days since Ryan broke his fingers. Bones don't heal that quickly. Carroll was using those fingers like they'd never been broken in the first place. It takes roughly 6 weeks for broken bones to heal, sometimes longer. With the way Ryan broke Carroll's fingers, there's no way he'd be able to use them the way he did without excruciating pain. When I broke my fingertip in 2005, I could take the splint off and wash dishes, but I had to be very careful. If I bumped the tip of my finger on anything, the pain was horrible. I guess the writers were like oh, it's so inconvenient for his fingers to be broken. Okay, then don't put it in the script. You don't get to pretend that broken bones heal in a few days and insult the intelligence of your viewers like that just because the splint is inconvenient. Stupid writers.
The worst part is all they had to do was have Carroll remove the bandages and wear the kind of finger splints that I bought at freakin' Wal-Mart or CVS or some place like that; I'm not sure which store I got them at. It's a pack of three different sizes of finger splints made of metal padded up with foam and held on with velcro straps. You can slip them on and off very easily. They're adjustable, even. If your finger is swollen (which mine was for a while), you can bend the metal over your thumb to make the part that goes over your fingertip wider. Then it fits over a swollen finger just fine. Anyway, by putting a splint on each individual broken finger, it would at least give him some freedom of movement back, although the broken fingers would still be held straight. And don't even give me the "he's a serial killer, he can stand pain" bullshit excuse. He causes pain, he doesn't take it. Even Bundy bawled his little head off before they executed him. Quite a few serial killers are/were whiny little babies when it comes to their own pain and discomfort. Big surprise there! That wouldn't even account for the fact that using broken fingers is going to fuck them up even more than if he'd worn a splint. I wore a splint, and my fingertip still healed crooked. Think of how gnarled and messed up Carroll's fingers are going to be after he "works through the pain" instead of wearing a splint. Please, TV show. I just hate it when shows do dumb shit like that and I have to keep watching them because other stuff on them is interesting. :P
Unfortunately for me, I thought of a way this show could still make Mike a member of The Following. The whole show he put on in this latest episode could have been just that - a show to throw the FBI off the track. Maybe Carroll wants him so deep in the FBI that he can get him any information he needs, and in order to do that, no one must know that Mike is his follower, not even other followers, and especially not the FBI. That could be why he's making an effort to get close to Ryan. Mike will tell Carroll where Claire is when he can do it without blowing his own cover. The reason why I'm still on this track is Mike knew that Roderick was Roderick. Is that something anyone in the FBI was aware of before this? If so, I missed that part. And I mean that sincerely, I'm not being sarcastic. I could have missed that part. Was it just an educated guess? Or does Mike know who Roderick is because Carroll told him? Pbbbbt. I don't want any of this to be true, and I hope I'm wrong. I think it would be quite a stretch even if it can be made sense of. There have been too many times when Mike wasn't being observed and still made disapproving "what a bunch of psychos"-type faces in reaction to Carroll and his gang. Why would he make those faces if he's a member of Carroll's following? Why would he be acting all scared before Roderick and Company kidnapped him if he knew it was going to happen? (Again, while no one was looking.) It wouldn't surprise me at all if the writers did do all this, though, after some of the other ridiculous BS they've done.
Mostly, I don't want Mike to be a member of the Following because he's my little bugaboo, and Ryan is opening up to him. It would devastate Ryan for Mike to betray him like that after he allowed himself to care. :( That's probably why it'll happen. :PPPP
In movie news, I could not recommend Silent Hill: Revelation LESS. Lousy, boring movie. No where near as cool as the first one.
I haven't been feeling very well the last few days. Just so, so tired no matter whether I get enough sleep or not. Pbbbbt. Now my stomach is getting involved.
