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Water taxi is by far the easiest (and most expensive) way to get to Venice from the station. If I had spent an entire train ride from Paris to Venice with someone and they then offered me a lift on their water taxi I would take it without question.
It's his money and he can leave it however he wants. His children, their spouses, and his grandchildren had been living off of him for years (whole lives?). Only Jamie Lee Curtis' character had made anything of the money he gave them and he didn't approve of her husband or the way they raised their son. The truth is that they all considered his money to be "their" money and his house to be "their" house (despite the fact that it was purchased after his children were already old enough to have been well out of the house). They were all entitled mooches and should have been cut off years sooner.
While some people try to keep their money in the family (and often leave the bulk of their estate to only one heir; usually through Primogeniture.), some exceptionally wealthy people have made it very public that they intend to leave their children/family very little and leave the vast bulk of their estates to charity. The basic idea is that their children have been raised in privilege and should be able to build their own lives without an inheritance.
There would have been no pressure angle for the family to use to blackmail her into giving them the money. Besides, we don't know that he hadn't already offered and she refused. It's one thing to accept money willed to you and another to accept charity.
In the bar fight scene the retired sheriff said that the townspeople somehow blamed Tom for the original murders and possibly the deaths of the miners when he was just a kid who had nothing to do with either. Bitterness is a better motive than most horror movie killers. Though at then end he does claim to be possessed by Tom...
Totally agree with your correction. I especially get annoyed when this type of person hasn't even watched the show, but is judging based on a two sentence blurb about the show or a 30 second preview.
I don't think the OP is agreeing with the article. My take is that Satan2016 is just making us aware that social justice warriors are on the attack.
I have watched TP 3 times all the way through and my take on the Josie story has always been that she is Triad. That she is tied to a Triad family and was sent to Washington to marry the mill owner, kill him, inherit the mill, sell the mill, and take the money back to Hong Kong. The local sheriff is no match for a Triad boss. A long con for sure, but the payout is there. Very little in the way of expenses and a $5 million payout.
There wouldn't be much point to a murder mystery program if no one got murdered. It is presumed that we are supposed to suspend disbelief. My mum has a friend who is a mystery writer who once had her protagonist experience a mental breakdown because of how often she (sometimes literally) tripped over bodies. I think that American friend of yours was having you on! Here in California the city of Oakland is infamous for its murder rate and they only had 85 murders in all of 2016 with a population of not quite 425,000 (and many of those were gang related).
My husband and I frequently joke about Midsomer. I wonder that there is still anyone in Midsomer County who doesn't immediately leave any activity as soon as they realize that Joyce Barnaby had joined.
1) Yes, it was bullying, but I think Clay saw it as justice/retribution. He was giving Tyler "a taste of his own medicine".
2) Clay either lied because he is not ready to deal with Jeff's death and/or it suits the plot better as we do not yet know about Jeff's death.
3) She made a bad decision. She is already pretty broken and she is giving fitting in one last chance. Yes, she stripped down to her underwear and got into the tub with a group of people who were questionable when it comes to determining whether they were her friends (I'm pretty sure I actually hated some of my HS friends). However, her underwear covered more than many bathing suits. Would you be questioning if she had had a bathing suit on?
Right?! Thank you!
I get that there are constraints. However, rape victims often feel shamed; like they should have done more to stop it, and he had already started off their conversation by telling her it was her fault. He shut her down before she even had a chance to tell him what had happened. He basically told her that by not saying "No" and/or "Stop" that it was consensual. She was confused and hurt. He could have asked her if she was physically hurt/injured. She was covered with scrapes and bruises from trying to get away.
Porter sucks as a counselor. Through distraction and incompetence he victim shamed her when she came to him for help. Recording the session was a jerk thing to do on Hannah's part as she was using him as ditch effort to change her path and maybe it really would have taken a miracle to change the outcome, but he should be properly horrified to hear how he sounded to her in her time of need. How many other children did he dismiss through his leading questions/statements and lack of attention?
He made a very nuanced situation too black and white; either she accused the boy of rape or she moved on with her life. She didn't feel like she could accuse him, so she moved on. Just not in the way that Porter had intended. He could have at least offered her anonymous helpline resources. Something like: "If you aren't comfortable discussing this with me now or need time to think about what you need to say you can call this number and talk with someone anonymously. These people have specialized training to help with situations like this."
Also, don't think she felt like she had the right to tell him about Jessica. Telling the other kids on the tape is one thing; telling an adult in a position of authority is entirely different. Besides, at that point Jess would not have backed her up. What would that gain her? Everybody already called her a drama queen and a slut who lies to get attention. Who would believe her if she told him that the hugely popular captain of the basketball team raped her? Accusing someone of rape is a total frakking nightmare (I know this because it happened to friends of mine in HS) and she was already living a nightmare. I don't think she would have seen that as a win in any sense.
On the whole I think Porter was a typical school counselor; overworked, distracted, other priorities,etc... What makes him a jack ass in my book is his initially asking her if she participated in consensual sex and then later regretted it. This is a crazy assumption. He puts the onus entirely on her "Did you say "No"?" "Did you tell him to stop?" The thing about consensual sex is that it requires consent, not lack of negation.
The tiniest bit of support might have made a difference. Perhaps getting a female counselor for her to speak with? I'm not saying she still wouldn't have killed herself, just that he should have taken her situation more seriously and gotten the other counselor. Especially given how distracted he clearly was.
A few things support Tyler attempting to kill Alex in my mind.
1) Tyler bought the gun.
2) After we hear the shot and before we hear the ambulance we see a boy furiously riding a bike, and it is not Clay.
3) When Tyler is "getting a sweater" he is clearly putting a gun away in that chest.
4) Immediately after "rescuing" Tyler from bullying in the hall Alex basically tells him to "f" off and leave him alone.
5) He is clearly planning some kind of mass retribution; either a school shooting or a series of set up cluster "suicides" for all of the people he holds responsible for Hannah's death and/or his own bullying.
Also, not concrete, but Alex seems like the kind of kid who would have confessed to his perceived wrong doings to his dad once the deposition became a reality.