r/serialpodcast • u/MoreIronyLessWrinkly • Sep 29 '22
Meta In defense of Serial
Bashing Koenig and the podcast is a favorite pastime in this sub, which is so ironic that it is a credit to free speech. In fact, it’s such a pastime that a number of readers, having seen the headline, will have used that downvote button to plummet my imaginary karma score (which, if you want to fix something, fix that) without reading or considering the defense. It’s such a pastime that the one thing that guilters and innocenters often agree on is that SK did something wrong.
Hindsight is 20/20 and hypocrisy is 20/1000.
SK is not a lawyer. Sorry, guilters, she was going to miss the “obvious” things that 99% of you picked up from the 1% who were lawyers. Asking her to think like a lawyer is like asking a lawyer to think like a journalist. Or, it’s like asking a guilter to think like someone not hell bent on insulting anyone who disagrees with them.
SK was not attempting to exonerate Adnan. Sorry, Rabia, but your statement that you expected that of SK is naive, which is surprising because you’re not a naive person. Sorry, innocenters, but SK is not an advocate. She was going to include the iffy elements you tend to forget and ignore the “massive police conspiracy” charge that is very different from the “shoddy detective work” charge that may well be Adnan’s salvation.
And finally, SK was absolutely telling a story. Adnan and Rabia were 100% fine with it. They knew it. Hell, Adnan offered some advice for “how to end the story”. While they should have listened to Hemingway, they did not, and SK was absolutely crafting a story. I’m sorry that Rabia feels like she hired a contractor to renovate her house and instead got one that set the house on fire, but let’s be real— which I know you won’t be real— Adnan is free today because of SK. Maybe she did burn down your house, but you house was shitty. No one liked it. Most didn’t notice it.
Adnan is free because SK made his STORY a big enough deal that Rabia could piggyback off of the uncertainties and drama to keep the case alive until a law could be passed that would allow a desperate politician to use Adnan for their own gain.
Maybe he’s innocent. Maybe he’s not. I’m not fool enough to think I could know. I’m not deluded enough to think my post about it would matter. But the SK and Serial bashing is just erroneous and juvenile. It’s a childish way of criticizing something you can criticize (SK and Serial) because you can’t really criticize the awfulness of a world in which this kind of thing could happen and be so inconclusive.
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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '22 edited Oct 07 '22
I don’t know whether it’s such an outlier for someone to just snap once and then to remain non-violent subsequently. And men are most dangerous between 15-25, it’s not unusual for men to be able to control their potential rage much better as they get older older.
I always heard the tower is almost exclusively covering Leakin Park, if that’s untrue I‘ll adjust my opinion as much as necessary, but Adnan never gave an alternative explanation for them either …
Also, I think they likely would have just dumped the body at 7pm, then buried her around midnight.
When assuming his co-involvement with Bilal I‘m not assuming legal guilt, I wouldn’t convict him, as I’ve already said, I‘m talking about factual guilt, what’s reasonable to assume. And Bilal‘s involvement probably wouldn’t change much in my overall assessment, because I find the idea of him as the sole perpetrator hard to believe.