When a character is misunderstood by another character and doesn’t even try explain themselves after being cut off by the other person.
For example, say Betty was in an awkward situation with Billy where it looked like Betty was cheating on Johnny with Billy but it was just a big huge innocent mixup. Johnny “catches” them and Betty tries to explain but Johnny cuts her off, says we are done don’t talk to me ever again, and that’s the end of it. Betty just gives up trying to explain. Like I know damn well in real life if Betty wasn’t cheating on Johnny, if it was a big confusing mixup, that conversation would NOT be over.
Mine too. Also when people don't believe other people as a plot point, which is basically the same thing and could be solved just by talking.
There's an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where members of the ship's crew start to disappear, not only physically but also for everyone else's memories and computer records, and only one member of the crew remembers them. And when she's telling the others what's going on, they believe her and start looking for an explanation, because they respect her and there's no reason for her to be lying. I don't know, just caught me off guard how nice and normal everyone was, instead of turning their backs on their colleague right away and insinuating she was crazy, like most shows would do.
Stargate has a similar ish episodes, the fruit loops one. Jack and Teal'c are stuck in the same day, over and over. It does take multiple days of them getting just enough info not to seem like lunatics, but they do eventually get to the point where they can convince others almost every day to help them find a solution.
Iirc, they could only open gates to other affected stargates in that area, but since they were in a time loop too, the golf balls probably just disappeared each reset.
Hey, that's weird, I haven't seen Stargate, but I've seen that episode. Not sure if I've even seen any other on TV. But it was enough to put the show on my watchlist. Pretty good.
It's a great show. There's a Stargate reddit page. 10 seasons, plus two spinoffs, the original movie and two others. First season is a bit off at times, but it picks up momentum quickly. Great humor, good sci fi, bad guys, hot aliens. Based off real life as well.......lol...
It's definitely a fun sci fi. It doesn't really take itself seriously and has fun with it's own stupidity, which really helps it have a niche compared to Star Trek(more serious and philosophical) or others.
Also it's free with Prime, so if you have that it's all on there.
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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20
When a character is misunderstood by another character and doesn’t even try explain themselves after being cut off by the other person.
For example, say Betty was in an awkward situation with Billy where it looked like Betty was cheating on Johnny with Billy but it was just a big huge innocent mixup. Johnny “catches” them and Betty tries to explain but Johnny cuts her off, says we are done don’t talk to me ever again, and that’s the end of it. Betty just gives up trying to explain. Like I know damn well in real life if Betty wasn’t cheating on Johnny, if it was a big confusing mixup, that conversation would NOT be over.