Or instead of saying all that he could just go ahead and kill new strong arm guy and leave “next time ask politely” tattooed to his forehead.
If we’re gonna buy Brian is capable of murder that is.
Great response there. I’ve always wanted to see good guy respond to the old “I’m gonna count to three…” line by saying: “Look, you’ve got the guns and I’ll do what you say, but go ahead with the whole counting to three thing if you feel compelled to demonstrate your mastery of that task.”
Which is why I always liked that line in the Dark Night -
[QUOTE=Lucius Fox]
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands; and your plan, is to blackmail this person?
[/QUOTE]
Seems to me that if I was taking a pill that made me superintelligent, and I have an in with the FBI, and I wanted to take someone out, i.e. the mysterious and menacing “Mister Sands”, all I’d have to do is come up with a way to involve “Sands” in the next case:
“I’ve done some research on this drug dealer you’ve been looking for and it looks like one of his hitmen is David James Smith, aka ‘Sands’, there could be some evidence at his place but it looks like this guy should be considered armed and extremely dangerous.”
Then let the FBI, who by now clearly trusts my reasoning even if they can’t fully understand it, blow Sands away. Done. Worst case, if Morra cuts off all contact, I’d either try to come up with my own treatments for NZT side-effects or, at the extreme, possibly arrange for me to be on an FBI raid and die heroically in the line of duty, which is how my family will remember me, I hope. A few months after my death, the secret file I wrote detailing Morra’s actions gets mailed to the FBI (or possibly I hint to Morra that a secret file I wrote detailing his actions would get mailed to the FBI in the event of my death), if I felt it was justified.
As with the movie, the primary conflict seems to stem from the main character being kind of dumb and short-sighted, in contrast to what NZT is supposed to do for him.
Or just deal with his problem like Eddie did: figure out how to make more NZT then figure out how to deal with the side effects.
Exactly. Brian is a little dumber than I’d like on the whole Sands/Eddie front. And I’m not sure why Eddie is taking this approach. After all, he knows exactly what can be accomplished on NZT under pressure. He’s been there. Setting himself up as Brian’s enemy seems short-sighted.
All true. I hope that the show is going to reveal that Eddie is being cleverer than we think, and that threatening death-by-NZT-withdrawal for Brian, and it’d-be-a-shame-if-anything-happened-to-your-loved-ones, will actually be part of some deeper, more benign motivational scheme.
But I doubt it.
I’m expecting that twist. Not from anything to do with the script but because I can’t see Bradley Cooper making himself the bad guy.
Me three.
To reiterate the earlier point about the ease of fixing the NZT withdrawal/side effect problem: in the movie Eddie had multiple labs working on the project for him. He actually didn’t figure it out himself. So maybe we should stop expecting Brian to do it, at least until he builds up a bit of a war chest ( which is what he really should be doing)
Eddie started of as basically a bum like Brian, why should we not expect both of them to do the same?
I’m not saying otherwise. In the movie, Eddy did not reverse engineer the drug. He made a shitload of money and had a lab work on the problem. Brian can do that too, he just has to do it under the nose of his handlers.
Can’t Brian take five minutes out of his Junior Justice League duties of Wrong-Righting to find out who the fuck Sands is?
Further, this bit with the mouse DNA strongly suggest that putting Brian to work sorting garbage is a truly preposterous waste of his abilities. Doesn’t the FBI realize this?
My guess is that Brian will enlist the guy who is researching aging in mice to help him with needing the shot regularly. Perhaps he’ll be able to rejigger NZT so that the shot is no longer necessary (or that the effects are permanent).
Most shows that feature a hyper-intelligent personality do it one of two ways-they either use craploads of pseudoscience and pseudologic that wouldn’t work in the real world, or they surround the star with morons that make him look hyper-intelligent in comparison.
It’s really hard to make a convincing genius. You have to somehow find a way to make something smarter than the average person, but still understandable when explained. Which usually takes a genius to figure out. So if your writers aren’t geniuses, and want to be understood by nongeniuses, they have to dumb it down, mostly for themselves.
And to appeal to the widest possible audience, they dumb it down a lot. Yeah, it takes an I.Q. of a hyperEinstein to devise an elaborate escape plan that consists of…jumping down a laundry chute.
And then he walked out the fire exit in the ground-floor laundry room. He didn’t need the FBI agent at all to get out of the building.
Any one watch this week? WTF?
Either Sands is off the leash or Morra is not a good guy. I’m also wondering if Naz is in on it, either with Morra or with whoever started the NZT bake off in the first place.
I keep waiting for Brian’s reasoning to be applied to things like who made NZT in the first place, or creating a poison pill file that would be released in the event of his death or disappearance, so he would have some leverage on Morra. He never seems to think long term, which is annoying.
Reading this thread, I guess I am alone. While I like the main characters and I like the crime-of-the-week part of the show, I’ve got no interest in the conspiracy theory, bigger picture part. I’d be more than happy if they just dropped it and went to Brian solving the crime of the week every week.
And seeing what he’s done with his supposedly incredible intellect so far, maybe they could retitle the show “Not Quite As Limited”.