But he did not “save these people” - they were already dead - not mostly dead, completely dead - his ability to have a quick question does not change the fact that they were, in fact, dead.
In this last episode, with Pidg - I was extremeley worried for Digby - I cannot decide if the black bird that died was “bird for bird” (and was the closest) or if that actually answers wether or not the revived are subject to the proximity rule.
The moral question, is temporarily bringing someone back to solve their murder better or not using his power at all?
He did morally screw up by letting Chuck live, but the incidental death was of course a very bad man, so its ok. Well no, not really, but I am enjoying the show too much, to let that get me down.
I reported it for you, hopefully a Mod will fix it for you.
We do not know yet. That has yet to be covered, but Digby is in great shape for a 23 year old dog. If something else is not going on, he should be dead already from old age.
I don’t think killing would be a smart option as of course, killing Ned could result in the death of those he has brought back.
Jim
Haven’t seen either of these shows, but I originally thought you mean he and Dexter should live in different cities. Ned: good person or next victim: discuss.
Along the lines of Ludovic’s question - what if a person had Ned’s powers in real life and society was aware of these powers - what would we do?
Well we couldn’t allow Ned to bring people back to life as he choses because of the other people that would have to die. Maybe some countries would allow Ned to bring back an “important” person while having a condemned person nearby. Once that happened I don’t think society would be willing to allow Ned to touch that important person again and kill him or her.
So, is this where the frog on “Dead Like Me” came from?
Given the last ep, the question now is, “Is Digby able to live unnaturally long due to Ned’s powers, or is it related to Digby’s other unnatural attributes, such as a human-level understanding of fire emergencies and a magical understanding of Ned’s powers beyond the abilities of mere humans?” Presumably reanimation doesn’t impart these superpowers, since none of the human subjects has come back with supersmarts or psychic/magical/?? sources of knowledge about their situation.
I love it, I hope that is somehow true, but I think it was a different type of frog.
Unauthorized Cinnamon: Good point, apparently Digby is a super dog and maybe his long life and health is all him.
The fact that Digby the dog knows that he can’t touch Ned or he will die certainly makes him a super dog. I don’t think he has ever seen a demonstration of Ned’s powers.
I think we are joking about his journey to find Ned at school were Digby had never been and oh, on the way, he pulled a fire alarm when he saw a building on fire.
Jim
Personally, I loved the scene a couple of episodes ago where they had revealed to Chuck that her life had been at the expense of another, and you thought that there would be some sort of big discussion of the morality or something. And then Ned just comes out and says that he’s not at all sorry.
I was all, “Wow! A show unashamed of making their main character deeply morally lacking without actually making him seem like a serial killer! What fun!”.
Yes, we are going along with a lot of abhorrent behavior because the show frames the situation in a way that makes light of the cute way Ned “wakes people up” and then “puts them back to sleep again.” It reminds me of when we see a nature show of lions feeding their cubs and we are okay that they have to eat a deer because that’s nature. But when the show is about a baby doe being eaten, we would like to stop the lions.
Watching the halloween episode brings up another point. When Ned brings back a dead person back part of the fun is that they are often mangled. In this episode dead people had horseshoe prints embedded more deeply in their skin than is likely possible. The point being that when he revives them, they are not healed.
Buy when he touches fruit for his pies it changes from being spoiled to being fully ripe. When he ate a piece of his own pie the fruit changed back to rotten when he ate it. It must lower his cost significantly to be able to buy spoiled fruit for his pies.