Post by aldenata on Jun 28, 2013 6:03:16 GMT -5
Well, probably not; TV almost never shows what can actually happen when someone puts a wrench in your skull or a mickey in your drink. But it does seem to be a surprising move for someone who has been shown thus far as a level-headed professional.
Bloodgood mentioned this in Second Watch, it went along the typical lines of "blah blah blah acting on impulse blah blah blah motherly instinct blah blah blah do anything to protect child."
Ok, fair enough. So the course of events go as such:
1. She asks Dr Kadar to test the DNA of her child, and he confirms what she already suspected.
2. He suggests letting the rest of the medical staff know so that they can presumably work to save the human part her child. Given how squeamish they were about shooting fully-mutated, heavily-armed harnessed children, I'm pretty sure post-natal abortion is out of the question.
3. She clocks him in the face, knocking him unconscious in one blow. Nice swing, Annie.
4. May or may not have soundness of mind to tie and gag him. Concussion means depressed respiratory function; hope he doesn't suffocate with that sock in his mouth.
5. Head up to the medical ward to steal some date-rape drugs for use on Lourdes. Head home, Put her out of commission. Then grab the baby plus all the provisions the average human can comfortably carry (all 72 hours worth, at best), diaper bag, some more booze (sober babies are noisy)...
...a gun too, maybe? Steal a car or wagon on the way out? A stroller at least? No? Well, ok.
7. Exfiltrate the city by passing through an outer defenses of trigger-happy soldiers who know about the city's spy problem and are presumably on the lookout for strange comings and goings. Try not to step on any landmines.
In all fairness, this doesn't seem like a tall order; Hal's been literally doing it in his sleep.
If Kadar hasn't woken up by now, he'll never be quite the same when and if he ever does.
8. Pass through the ring of besieging skitters who themselves will probably be on some sort of lookout for human weirdness and may well know that Alexis is heading their way.
9. Head for the Appalachians. Live off the land and the occasional roasted skitter until she loots enough libraries and learns enough about bioengineering to preform gene replacement therapy on her child using the contents of an Upcountry South Carolina meth lab. (That would actually be pretty cool.)
Steps 1 through 4 are understandable. I mean we all have our monkey brains working in the background and they can hijack even the best of us. Somewhere between 5 and 7, however, she probably should have realized that her frying-pan-to-fire strategy was in need of reconsideration. Anyone who can get that far in their actions is acting on intellect, not impulse.
The writers should probably know this; whatever flaws they have, they seem to have a pretty good grasp on human psychology. Makes me wonder if something more than the monkey brain is at work in Anne's head right now.
Bloodgood mentioned this in Second Watch, it went along the typical lines of "blah blah blah acting on impulse blah blah blah motherly instinct blah blah blah do anything to protect child."
Ok, fair enough. So the course of events go as such:
1. She asks Dr Kadar to test the DNA of her child, and he confirms what she already suspected.
2. He suggests letting the rest of the medical staff know so that they can presumably work to save the human part her child. Given how squeamish they were about shooting fully-mutated, heavily-armed harnessed children, I'm pretty sure post-natal abortion is out of the question.
3. She clocks him in the face, knocking him unconscious in one blow. Nice swing, Annie.
4. May or may not have soundness of mind to tie and gag him. Concussion means depressed respiratory function; hope he doesn't suffocate with that sock in his mouth.
5. Head up to the medical ward to steal some date-rape drugs for use on Lourdes. Head home, Put her out of commission. Then grab the baby plus all the provisions the average human can comfortably carry (all 72 hours worth, at best), diaper bag, some more booze (sober babies are noisy)...
...a gun too, maybe? Steal a car or wagon on the way out? A stroller at least? No? Well, ok.
7. Exfiltrate the city by passing through an outer defenses of trigger-happy soldiers who know about the city's spy problem and are presumably on the lookout for strange comings and goings. Try not to step on any landmines.
In all fairness, this doesn't seem like a tall order; Hal's been literally doing it in his sleep.
If Kadar hasn't woken up by now, he'll never be quite the same when and if he ever does.
8. Pass through the ring of besieging skitters who themselves will probably be on some sort of lookout for human weirdness and may well know that Alexis is heading their way.
9. Head for the Appalachians. Live off the land and the occasional roasted skitter until she loots enough libraries and learns enough about bioengineering to preform gene replacement therapy on her child using the contents of an Upcountry South Carolina meth lab. (That would actually be pretty cool.)
Steps 1 through 4 are understandable. I mean we all have our monkey brains working in the background and they can hijack even the best of us. Somewhere between 5 and 7, however, she probably should have realized that her frying-pan-to-fire strategy was in need of reconsideration. Anyone who can get that far in their actions is acting on intellect, not impulse.
The writers should probably know this; whatever flaws they have, they seem to have a pretty good grasp on human psychology. Makes me wonder if something more than the monkey brain is at work in Anne's head right now.