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Incuriousness (spoilers s2ep2)

posted a year ago by Andy91042 (85)
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It's always bothered in stories such as though how the characters seem to lack curiosity. E.g. bus passengers pass the night in the diner. They've heard screams. Even if they don't know or believe the warnings they have to know there's some weird stuff going on. Yet no questions beyond the driver wanting to know how they knew about the log in the road?

Sid Vicious wants to run outside & look for himself, but no questions beforehand or after?

Boyd discovers that it wasn't the monsters that shackled Martin. Hints of new & possibly even more dangerous players seem like kind of a big deal. So what's Boyd do ... says let's change the subject.

Tabitha spends the night with Victor, who's been there longer than anyone else. He doesn't want to talk about how he arrived. Okay. But there are lots of other subjects his experience might not only enlighten but be life-saving. Yet again, nada.

Granted it's probably a bad idea to engage the monsters in conversation, but no one's ever asked them straight up what they are, where they are or what their deal might be?

It's not as though the writers are shy to engage in seemingly endless dialogue, either.

[–] NoEasyBuckets (334) 10 months ago

This is a problem even in much, much better shows like Lost, but at least with that they had to write 120 episodes and basically all of them were better than anything we're getting here.

Here the writers usually handle it by having another character shut down the curiosity for no good reason. Usually under the silly premise of not wanting to give false hope or scare people. Jim heard a voice over the radio that knew what was happening in the town, but Donna doesn't want him to pursue it for some reason. I don't know if you've finished the second season yet, but Jim spends the whole time trying to find answers and then when his wife has an interesting lead he tries to talk her out of it. They have a dead creature and Kenny wants them to burn it.