{"id":26839,"date":"2015-05-22T17:28:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T22:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26839"},"modified":"2015-05-26T09:36:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T14:36:06","slug":"resident-evil-ep3-meet-scott-unbrella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26839","title":{"rendered":"Resident Evil EP3: Meet Scott Umbrella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HYuInNYJm4c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HYuInNYJm4c'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t watch a lot of horror movies, so I&#8217;ll crowdsource this question and see what we can find: Has there ever been a time in a movie \/ game where a male protagonist has backed slowly away from a threat, fell on his ass, and then stared helplessly as the threat overcame him, when all he needed to do was stand his stupid ass up and walk away from it? Because that happens a lot in movies, I only see it happen to women, and I think it has the opposite effect the writers intend. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clearly supposed to heighten the tension. <em>Get up! Run away! Hurry! It&#8217;s going to eat \/ dismember \/ suck the brains out of \/ stab you.<\/em> And you know what? The first couple of times, it worked. But after a couple of decades of this I find it really annoying. Whenever I see someone sit of their ass instead of fighting for their survival, I kind of feel obligated to let Darwin have his way with her. <em>No offense lady, but I don&#8217;t want your lack of intelligence and survival instinct to get spread around the gene pool.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Does this make me a horrible person? Probably. Although bear in mind we&#8217;re talking strictly about fictional women. I like to think I&#8217;d be more charitable to someone real. <\/p>\n<p>I will say that Jill Valentine spends entirely too much time screaming for help and gawking at things trying to kill her. I give her a pass for her first encounter, but somewhere around zombie number ten its time she got with the program and stopped being so surprised. Particularly since she&#8217;s supposed to be a capable police officer or whatever she is.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s Resident Evil. It&#8217;s an interesting specimen and even though I don&#8217;t care for the franchise, it&#8217;s the great-grandsire to a bunch of stuff I really love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) I don&#8217;t watch a lot of horror movies, so I&#8217;ll crowdsource this question and see what we can find: Has there ever been a time in a movie \/ game where a male protagonist has backed slowly away from a threat, fell on his ass, and then stared helplessly as the threat overcame [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[160],"class_list":["post-26839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-resident-evil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}