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Douchey Moments in History

Dec 14, 2010 07:55

Welcome to another edition of Douchey Moments in History!

"I can't do that to him!"
Once again, we get to see the only moral code Noah believes in is "things I want = right; things I don't want = wrong." Like I said in a previous post, turning Jade over to the police was the "right" thing to do -- the kind of thing the guy Noah fell in love with ( Read more... )

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von_questenberg December 14 2010, 18:06:25 UTC

Ugh Noah.

You know, when I watched the final storyline where Colonel Mayer returned, I almost didn't even notice that Noah was being such an ass to Luke, because I was laughing at how unspeakably bad -everything- was about that storyline. Really? Really? A WANTED FUGITIVE MURDERER AND FELON CAN JUST SNEAK ONTO A FUCKING MILITARY BASE?! I -grew up- on and near military bases. IT DOESN'T FUCKING WORK LIKE THAT, ESPECIALLY AFTER 9-11.

peggin December 14 2010, 20:50:24 UTC

Yeah, I don't know what would be worse, an interpretation that a wanted fugitive could just sneak onto a military base without anyone noticing, or the idea that everyone at the army base actually knew about it and was helping him escape justice. Either way, it's amazingly crappy storytelling and a real insult to the men and women who wear that uniform in real life.

von_questenberg December 15 2010, 00:41:35 UTC

Oh yes. And of course, there was never anybody else actually on the base. Even though it was the middle of the day! And it was never made clear exactly -how- the Colonel managed to get there. Why bother with details like that?

Look, I understand budget constraints and all. Soaps barely have any money nowadays. But if they couldn't do a half-decent job of portraying a military base, why bother to do it at all? They were so lazy. Surely professional writers could have come up with something better that could have fit in the budget?

And to bring things back to LuRe: I've heard a theory that makes a lot of sense about Reid's death-by-train: the writers decided to do a train wreck rather than a simple car accident because it was cheaper to just shoot some scenes with a train than to set up a faked car accident.

rehabbed December 15 2010, 03:00:08 UTC

oh, god. considering how LOLsy the hospital parking lot "accident" with Kim was, i believe this.

sripley December 14 2010, 18:23:17 UTC

seriously xD you are just fucking amazing.
all the things we already know, in one place.
it's incredible.
GAH.
i just can't understand him sometimes xP

sripley December 14 2010, 19:13:05 UTC

the worst one is "you just showed up and told me you were leaving" [when noah finds out that luke went to kentucky ( ... )

rhiannonhero December 14 2010, 19:25:08 UTC

As someone pointed out in one of the last entries, Noah was a big douche to Mason, too. Essentially, he used Mason's feelings for him to get a better grade on his project, and he led Mason on in order to get what he wanted. He was a total piece of crap to Mason. Looking at it from this new POV, Mason was a victim of Noah's douchiness in a way, too. Though, as a teacher, he never should have been putting the moves on his student.

sripley December 14 2010, 20:38:27 UTC

Oh, I agree!!! Mason originally apologized and I believe he would have tried to behave, but Noah made a big deal out of it further to both Mason and Luke, and by making a big deal to Luke he got Luke riled up, which got Mason riled up, and ugh. Just crap.
Sigh.
I want Mason back xD

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teranee December 15 2010, 00:41:24 UTC

Thank you for explaining it all to me. Finally, someone who sees Noah for the amazing guy he really is - so loving, considerate, selfless, charming...all those things. How could anyone NOT love him?

Hehe. I rolled my eyes so hard it hurt. :D

peggin December 16 2010, 15:56:03 UTC

It got harder and harder at the end, there, to find excuses. I'm not really sure how Nuke fans do it.

I don't get how they do it, either. I suspect they barely even see the characters as they actually appear on the screen. IMO, they probably have their own fanon version of Noah -- who probably really is a nice guy who deserves to have Luke's love -- and just ignore anything that ever happened on the show that contradicts the happy little "Noah is a nice guy" bubble they're living in.

I felt like I was continuously putting Luke down in order to justify Noah.

So, basically, now you know what it feels like to BE Noah!

If you really do believe Noah is right, then there shouldn't be a need to put Luke down in order to do it.No, there definitely shouldn't be a need to do that. I mean, if for some reason you just plain really don't like Luke, and get some kind of kick out of putting him down, then by all means, go ahead! Have a blast! Just do it in your own journal, or set up your own comm and do it there; don't do it here, because ( ... )

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rehabbed December 15 2010, 03:28:16 UTC

oh, come on. you can't possibly expect Noah to abide by the same standards that he demands of everyone else! and, he totally takes Luke's feelings into consideration, just like he took Maddie's feelings into consideration when he kissed Luke while they were still dating, and how he took Richard's feelings into consideration when he pretty much used him to feel better about himself and also to have transportation. HE'S JUST A REALLY CONSIDERATE GUY, OKAY?

rhiannonhero December 15 2010, 03:29:30 UTC

LOL!!!!

peggin December 16 2010, 16:04:26 UTC

I think they accidentally mixed up the scripts for these 7 minutes. I'm pretty sure all those "Noah's" are supposed to be "Luke's".This is going to be only semi-coherent, because I am far from an expert, but I know I've read somewhere about how there's this thing people sometimes do mentally (I think it's called guilt reflection, but I'm not 100% sure about that), where they attribute their own bad acts to others. The best example I can think of in real life was with the formation of the KKK, one of their biggest fears was of black men raping white women, something which was nearly unheard of at the time... but it had been very common for white slave owners to rape their female slaves. And they just didn't even see anything wrong with their own actions at all, but were terrified of the possibility that the now-freed black men would start raping their women. It's just this really fucked-up mental process where you start seeing in others your own bad acts, and blaming them for it, even though you refuse to admit that you yourself have ( ... )