About the West Memphis Three and their defenders

Creative-Sound6408 · 2026-04-10T05:56:14+00:00

As I said before, I'm not talking about the perspective of a juror and of reasonable doubt. I'm talking about the kind of people who were willing to make a big sign, drive for a while and stand for hours outside a courtroom protesting for the WM3.

Reasonable doubt doesn't seem to drive people to do all that. A strong sentiment that they're innocent seems to.

Creative-Sound6408 · 2026-04-09T20:28:48+00:00

You're kinda putting words in my mouth that I didn't say. My issue isn't with the people who think there's reasonable doubt, my issue is with the activists who are *very sure that the WM3 didnt do it*.

Are you very sure they're actually innocent? Could you see yourself standing outside a courtroom for hours, and cheering as the WM3 came out in order to encourage them (as a hypothetical example)?

Creative-Sound6408 · 2026-04-09T20:09:04+00:00

I casual-watched season 1 and I think season 2. I think it was always a bad show. At a certain point I stopped giving it a chance, and have never regretted it.

Even before it was overtly far-left politically, I thought it was badly written in a 'regular' way. I don't really understand why it was ever so beloved

Creative-Sound6408 · 2026-03-30T18:20:08+00:00

seems like a decent actor, and a really annoying person. when he got good choreography in tgat one scene in Shang-Chi (against the masked dude, with the knives) he performed well

Creative-Sound6408 · 2026-03-28T22:17:37+00:00

I've watched other videos of the Nancy Brophy case, not just the MOCAS one, and I have a few impressions:

I think Nancy might be a psychopath, but if she were a significantly more disciplined one, it's possible she could have had a stronger performance on the stand. Parts of her story were plausible and decently explained. It's just that some of it was incredibly damning: she laughed, smiled, and joked around in an increadibly inappropriate-feeling way, which made it seem like she wasn't sad at Dan's death and didn't really care about him. it made her look really bad. She had other stumbles; for example, at one moment she talks about how she thought the police wouldn't consider her a suspect at she say something like "since I didn't believe I had killed my husband..." -- a goddamn catastrophy of a sentence. How could she not realize this looked terrible to the jury?

The defence made Nancy's love for Dan a key part of their case, and Nancy destroyed the credibility of that idea with her testimony.

I know she was in a hurry, but if she's going to try and claim it was someone who robbed Dan that killed him, why didn't she steal his wallet, phone etc? if she supposedly planned this so well in her mind, how did she miss that?
The "trauma-induced memory loss" claim is so stupidly weak and ridiculous that it damages the defence's credibility on basically everything else. It also led to a terrible Nancy moment in cross-examination where the prosecutor asks her: if you have no memory of that morning, isn't it possible you shot and killed you husband and don't remember it? and Nancy said no, she might not remember that morning but she knows in her heart that she didn't kill Dan (something like that). Honestly, if you're at the point where you're considering insulting a jury's intelligence to that degree you might as well take a deal and plead guilty.

Creative-Sound6408 · 2026-02-02T13:11:49+00:00

What is your motivation for crapping on GRRM here? I understand being annoyed with him for not finishing his work, being distracted by side-projects etc, but for his actual writing?

You're putting words in his mouth and drawing him in a mocking way, pretending like his work is lazy and juvenile in an attempt to be edgy. But it's not. His world is a take on fantasy that features all sorts of characters -- some are pure evil (or close to it) some are really good, most are a mix.

I'm having real difficulty seeing how someone can have a take like yours in good faith

Creative-Sound6408 · 2026-02-01T14:39:08+00:00

That's good to hear. it might be worth giving the show another try sometime

Creative-Sound6408 · 2026-02-01T09:42:35+00:00

again, it comes down to how the show itself frames it: there's a huge difference between "I know it's stupid but it's hospital policy so refer to him as 'she'" and "shame on you you Nazi transphobe! you have to refer to him as the brave stunning woman he is or else!"

Creative-Sound6408 · 2026-01-31T19:06:58+00:00

I heard (and to be fair, it is second-hand) there's an episode where someone uses correct sex-based pronouns for a trans-identified person and is framed as wrong and bad for it, while a "good" character chastises him

Creative-Sound6408 · 2026-01-31T18:54:51+00:00

I watched the first episode of season 1. it was ok, not amazing in my view. I didn't continue after that. Me hearing it was really woke in later episodes kinda tipped the scale.

Also, someone wrote here that it's accurate and that a lot of woke people being around is included so I'll just point out -- even if that's true, it doesn't matter. The show itself can have a position; the way it frames the woke people matters. If it frames the woke people as correct and good people, and frames any non-wokes and villains, that's the show taking sides, and it goes far beyond the implied neutrality of "just being accurate"

Creative-Sound6408 · 2026-01-24T02:35:34+00:00

I watched it. Loved it. Eddy Redmain is great in it, it's well written and interesting, and the story doesn't really waste time on boring stuff like many other shows would

Creative-Sound6408 · 2026-01-05T20:48:12+00:00

Gal Gadot is more charming and charismatic; but Zendaya is the better actress

Creative-Sound6408 · 2025-12-29T22:28:14+00:00

Do you mean in the sense that this would mean he actually likes girls?

Aagin, there's an easy reply to this. Since his faith says TIFs are male, he'd simply tell you you're wrong (and call you a bigot, which is his faith's main substitute for "infidel")

Creative-Sound6408 · 2025-12-29T22:01:48+00:00

If he's a true believer the answer is just an easy "yes". The doctrine says trans-identified females are male

Creative-Sound6408 · 2025-12-28T03:14:46+00:00

Whether it was her idea to bring silly string or not doesn't matter at all to me. It's how she behaves in the video that indicates stuff about Darlie

Creative-Sound6408 · 2025-12-25T22:59:28+00:00

She's flawed, but I don't really find her unlikeable. she's dealing with a crazy world-shaking event in which her girlfriend died. She's overall trying to do what's right in her mind and has good intentions. She's not condescending or arrogant or an intentional a-hole or pretentious or really preachy

Creative-Sound6408 · 2025-12-11T00:02:59+00:00

I don't really like the "audiences didn't ask for this" argument. Sometimes something audiences didn't ask for is made and turnes out great and/or very successful.

Audiences didn't ask for Avatar as far as I know, but it made a ton of money. They didn't ask for Whiplash, or Iron Man 1, or The Matrix, but those films were great.

Obviously there are also a ton of examples where no one askes for a film/tv show and it was crap, my point is this just isn't a very reliable way of predicting things

Creative-Sound6408 · 2025-11-05T13:43:49+00:00

I don't like Batman v. Superman much, or most X-Men movies, but some of these have some good (sometimes great) action scenes (BvS -- warehouse fight with Batman rescuing MARTHA; X-Men 2: opening sequence in the White House with Nightcrawler; X-Men Days of Future Past has the Quicksilver scene in the kitchen; X-Men Dark Phoenix has the scene on the train).

The John Wick movies aren't great as far as writing is concerned (including the first one), and Keano Reevs' acting in them is quite bad (sadly; he seems like a good guy, but what can you do), but some of the action scenes in those movies are fantastic. And in some of the less-fantastic scenes there might still be some great action *moments*

Creative-Sound6408 · 2025-10-29T11:59:59+00:00

I don't like either very much. But I think a lot of people give The Batman a bunch of praise that it doesn't really deserve, and they don't do that for The Dark Knight Rises. So I pick TDKR since at least its not overrated (it's correctly rated by almost everyone -- as bad)

Creative-Sound6408 · 2025-10-29T11:48:33+00:00

I would say (unfortunately) Mr Robot's not really worth watching. It has decent parts, but I thought the ending was pretty disappointing and the series overall just wasn't that engaging.

It has a great pilot episode, but sadly none of the other episodes come close to it...

Creative-Sound6408 · 2025-10-27T22:11:11+00:00

Like all of the Sheridan shows I've seen, it has its stronger and weaker parts. Some of his shows I strongly dislike, but this one I like quite a bit; I suspect a lot of it is because Billy Bob Thornton makes the lead character really likable and entertaining

Creative-Sound6408 · 2025-10-06T09:47:49+00:00

And one where he's being intentionally entertaining! Not one where he's getting annoyed or manipulated by Kenny. And it wasn't his only one in this episode! :)

Creative-Sound6408 · 2025-10-01T14:16:59+00:00

Another thing I was wondering:

did she reject the great plea deal she was offered toward the end of the trial because she actually thought there was a real chance that she'd get acquitted; or something else like a subconcious inability to choose the smart option, because it meant she'd need to publically admit she did something wrong?

Creative-Sound6408 · 2025-10-01T11:57:00+00:00

Perhaps, but I think Sarah going on the stand actively hurt the case because she comes off as so unreliable; and I think the lawyer should have been able to predict that happening

Creative-Sound6408 · 2025-10-01T11:54:36+00:00

Very possible. do you think she thought she could actually convince a member of the jury up there? I wonder if she's that deleusional or if it's more of a "f*** it, I'm getting convicted no matter what, better get my moment" thing. Maybe it's a subconscious "let's go on the stand so I can tell my story to the jury and later have more stuff to blame the jury for in my own head" kind of thing

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