Series lost all of it's credibility when I watched that scene. Kick the knife out of her and chuck her at a wall FFS. She may have the mind of an old man, but she only has the strength of a nine year old girl, silly and unbelievable!!
I was thinking that too. They've got Madison taking out quite a few adults.
Unless Alpert's covered in bacon grease, I don't think Hugo can track anything.
I don't think it keeps happening because it's difficult to overpower her, but because people have an internal barrier against attacking a child. Just like Richard hasn't been able to shoot her.
And the first two adults she killed didn't know anything about Marcus, to them she was just a 9y.o. girl. So they simply didn't expect any such possibility from her.
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sharesaxondale, i agree w/ you. the scene you mentioned in tonight's ep was infuriating. it would be more acceptable if (in this show's universe) the little girl has her body but has the strength of Marcus. i still think the girl's killing of the woman in the rest stop bathroom was absurd. but oh well. lol.
sharejjet I realise, as other posters have said. that she can take them by surprise because they don't know she has the mind of a serial killer and just assume she is a little girl. Having accepted that point both Richard and Todd know the truth and still do not use the fact that she only has the strength of a 9 year old girl to their advantage. I also agree with you about the bathroom killing. it was pretty absurd and unbelievable and it is starting to ruin my enjoyment of this otherwise pretty good show. OK that's my 2 pennies lol.
The thing is its not Madison doing the killing its Marcus...that's the whole point...
shareit would be more acceptable if (in this show's universe) the little girl has her body but has the strength of Marcus
Awesome to see you here jjett! We apparently like a lot of the same shows!
I was actually yelling at the tv but also cracking up at the fact that no one overpowered this lil pipsqueak. I wonder if some were afraid in their mind (subconsciously) to hurt a little girl - or were so shocked to see a lil girl behave this way. Sort of like if you saw something totally unbelievable or out of sorts that you couldn't react properly? Still, I would have knocked that kid out! My fave, besides her constantly outwitting silly Richard Shepherd (James Frain was awesome as usual in this!), I nearly died laughing at her driving off in the car. I kept waiting for that! She finally stole the car and crashed it. she could barely see over the wheel!
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older;shorter of breath, one day closer to death..share
She's a nine-year-old girl with the skill set and intent of a thousand year old serial killer, with zero regard for anybody's lives, holding a knife.
I'd *beep* my pants, too.
I don't know, this kid isn't sell me on that. I sit there going "I could probably take her..."
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And that, my friend, is why you would die.
shareDoubtful, it seems like everyone's fear and NOT taking out the little brat is why they die.
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Ever been attacked by a rabid animal? A 9-year-old girl outweighs a fox or raccoon. Guess how much damage a rabid fox or raccoon (or cat, I'd imagine) can do to you. It's not the size, it's the crazy.
shareMadison may be a 9 year old girl but is not the soul taking over Madison really is Marcus Fox inside her who is a very dark evil sadistic soul of a killer with 1000s of lives before Madison!!!!????
I am sure Marcus Fox/Madison has many ideas on how to make your day go south!!!!!!
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I don't think marcus had thousands of lives. That would mean he either has very brief lives or has been around since like 20000 BC.
What a lovely way to burn...
Well, let's see, there's the famous Trilogy Of Terror story where Karen Black is chased around her apartment by the fetish doll. There's episodes of Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea and Lost In Space where adults are held at bay by what are obviously toys. And there's been more than a few stories/movies whatever with murderous children (The Bad Seed, anyone?). There's the Talons Of Weng Chiang serial of Doctor Who, with the murderous ventriloquist dummy...
You see where I'm going with this, don't you? Things or beings that shouldn't be hard to defeat frequently just that: hard to defeat. It's a time honored plot device in horror/suspense/sci-fi.
In this case, there's an assumption that the people Marcus/Madison attacked had a chance to defend themselves. In the case of the woman at the rest stop, Marcus could have jumped her from behind, for instance.
And as has been said, there can also be a mental block about shooting children. I've heard it said this actually happens on battlefields, where soldiers are unable to shoot at the enemy, because they suddenly have a mental block about killing another human. I've even heard that theory applied to why "the good guys" never get shot in movies (whether it's a western or Star Wars), because the people shooting of them don't have the kind of morality it takes to kill someone in cold blood. So it makes perfect sense you could extend that process to children, and say that ok you know intellectual that child harbors the spirit of a demented murderer, yet, she's still a child, and in the case of Richard Shepherd, he also knows that child's body still harbors the soul of the little girl.
well put SDG
but there is more
2 the mind - sensorium
than peeps on this board r willing 2 face
2 moi
the essence that is dwellin' in the 9 y o
quite simply could affect - effect the minds of the "adults" that were in
her - it's way
nutralize - immobilze & destroy
as it is a shew on the TeVee
it is hard to "sell" but it is real
It's like writing a book about a super-genius
it's a hard sell if yer no mo' than a hundredplusser
the shew is fun tho
pour Moi
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Ha! Your question reminded me of this brilliant thread. It's very long but very worthwhile:
http://archives1.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Number=1556673&view=c ollapsed&sb=9&o=14
The specifics:
- You are in an enclosed area, roughly the size of a basketball court. There are no foreign objects.
- You are not allowed to touch a wall.
- When you are knocked unconscious, you lose. When they are all knocked unconscious, they lose. Once a kid is knocked unconscious, that kid is "out."
- I (or someone else intent on seeing to it you fail) get to choose the kids from a pool that is twice the size of your magic number. The pool will be 50/50 in terms of gender and will have no discernable abnormalities in terms of demographics, other than they are all healthy Americans.
- The kids receive one day of training from hand-to-hand combat experts who will train them specifically to team up to take down one adult. You will receive one hour of "counter-tactics" training.
- There is no protective padding for any combatant other than the standard-issue cup.
* The kids are motivated enough to not get scared, regardless of the bloodshed. Even the very last one will give it his/her best to take you down.
So you'd have no qualms over killing or harming a little girl? What is the life expectancy of small pets in your neighborhood?
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