I’m not expecting much from this show but this really annoyed me: the lead’s bestie saw him teleport and gave him the cold shoulder for not coming clean about having psychic powers. Not* once did the lead character remind her that she was* the first person he told** and she refused to believe him. In fact, I think she called him a liar and stormed off - and now he’s getting attitude and she shows no contrition for calling him a liar. This sort of crappy writing kills me.
I do love a choice bit of irony, though.
If your description is correct, it strikes me as the protagonist’s fault for not demonstrating his abilities when he first told the friend. Nothing you said above prevented him from doing that, and the fact that he didn’t makes me more sympathetic towards the friend not believing him at the time.
To be fair, he tried and it didn’t work as he didn’t have control (And this should be in CS - reported)
Yeah, I withdraw my earlier comment now that I realize there is actually a chance that readers will know what the OP is talking about. Had the thread been in CS, I would have realized that. Still, my bad, and I apologize for being snarky to the OP for no reason other than my own lack of familiarity with shared American (?) TV experiences.
I’d have even settled for a weak “I tried to tell you.” Instead, I got a strong whiff of “I’m a guy, I must be wrong” coming off that scene. I hate that attitude.
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Moved to Cafe Society.
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I haven’t seen the show in the OP, but I’ve been watching the first season of Chuck on Netlflix, and there was what sounds like a similar scene. In, I think, the second episodes, Chuck, a hapless store clerk caught up in international espionage, is told by his CIA handler (who is a hot blonde woman) not to trust his NSA handler, and is told by his NSA handler (who is not a hot blonde woman) not to trust his CIA handler. Confused as to which of them to believe, he questions his CIA handler’s motives. And she lays this huge guilt trip on him about not trusting her.
This is a woman whom, in the two or three days he has known her, has
- Repeatedly lied to him.
- Dated him under false pretenses.
- Broken into his home, where she:
A) physically assaulted him.
B) beat his best friend with a golf club.
C) destroyed expensive personal property. - Not told him that she was the person who did 3.
- Pointed a loaded pistol at his head and threatened to kill him.
Not to mention, she’s a CIA assassin. And she’s giving him guff for not trusting her?
I thin its the actress’s face. She played a similarly annoying and self-important role in Casualty.
Incidentally, how many people noticed she wasn’t American?
TV shows aren’t like real life, where people only get angry for rational reasons.
But she was hot, thereby rendering all of your points invalid.
Jim Butcher (novellist) does this all the freakin’ time.
“Murphy, I’m a wizard, you should trust me on this, don’t go into that house!”
“Don’t tell me what to do!” (Storms into the house, promptly gets ass kicked) “You bastard, I almost died! You deliberately failed to tell me about the sludge monster in that house. I’m never speaking to you again!”
“Oh I be such a bad man! Woe is me.”
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I was annoyed too by how he chose not to explain himself when it would have been so easy. But hey, where would all the drama come from if they didn’t do stuff like that. As for Astrid, I think she reacted the way she did because she’s a hormonal teenager, and bc she’s in love with him.