#negative reaction

[columboscreens]

#columbo #season 4 #negative reaction #god his face #what a frank description #that is exactly what he is

[vavandeveresfan]

Birthday Week Random Shit Queue.

SPOILER for Columbo: Negative Reaction, season 4, episode 2.

I'm a murder mystery/detective series addict, so I've seen a lot of "clever" endings that weren't really.

This is one of the very best ways I've ever seen the detective catch the murderer. It incorporates Columbo manipulating the murderer into believing he's incompetent, which makes the murderer so cocky he has to prove his superior intelligence.

The trap uses a specific technology, which required specialized knowledge, which van Dyke's character of course has, and which Columbo knows he has.

It also shows just how fucking brilliant Columbo is. He uses knowledge of the tech which he only recently gained -- flipping negatives -- and does it incorrectly, so van Dyke will hang himself to prove Columbo's "mistake."

And I love how it shows the men with him, who've been a part of the set-up, respect him. I'm particularly annoyed with a series when the person who's solved uncountable murders is held in contempt by the police. "Well, yes, Father Brown has solved 103 murders. But he's still a busy-body, interfering Bible-thumper!" "So what if Miss Jane Marple is why we've caught 200 murderers? She's an old woman!" They've even done it in Columbo, with his superiors and others making derogatory snips about him.

The best part of this scene is the very end, when, with his back to us, Columbo starts pulling on his coat. He pauses, evidently looking at the blown-up photo. He slumps onto the table. We don't know what he's feeling or thinking. Exhaustion after a long, difficult case? Allowing himself to fully realize just how close he came to not proving van Dyke is the killer? Sadness at the death of the woman in the photo? We're left to draw our own conclusion. I love that instead of Columbo proudly walking off, satisfied with a job well done, we see this reaction.

#Columbo #Negative Reaction #S4 #detective drama #murder mystery #crime drama #queued post #TV detective #sleuth

[ashleybenlove]

Dick Van Dyke describes Columbo as "like a little shaggy-haired terrier" lol.

#ashleybenlove posts #Columbo #season 4 #Negative Reaction

[spockvarietyhour]

#Columbo #Peter Falk #Negative Reaction #He's fine #He's fiiine #Danny and Renae watch Columbo #Hide and Queue

[orange-s-mario]

watched negative reaction. Really Great Columbo episode

#columbo #negative reaction

[ingloryous]

well hey there

#columbo #negative reaction

[hadescavedish]

To prove that Paul Galesko is really renowned, they put a picture of Duke Ellington there on the wall lol

#negative reaction #my screenshot #columbo

[immaculatasknight]

Complicit media

#child prostitution #sex trafficking #organ harvesting #Sound of Freedom #mainstream media #reviews #negative reaction #agenda #Hollywood #trivialization

[carlyraejepsans]

asgore saw a bee gently land on a flower petal and cried at the beauty of nature, like, the other day. toriel had a breakdown so bad she passed out on the floor the moment her children's deaths fully caught up with her and then she got back up and hasn't shed a tear since in 700 years

#i feel like asgore's the kind of man who tears up really easily as an emotional reaction #not just for negative emotions. mostly the positive ones like awe and affection and beauty #toriel's death grip on her emotional state would put sans to shame #they're emotionally constipated like that #undertale #toriel #asgore #hcs

[stuckinapril]

Lowkey glad that I’m pretty aware of the fallible nature of a young adult brain. I’ve had friends before who said things like “I’ll probably never find love ever” “I’ll probably feel this way forever” “this situation will get worse I just know it” and you can truly tell they believe that w their mind body and soul. And I can be like that sometimes too. Bc that’s just how an underdeveloped brain works, it makes you want to believe things in absolutes. But I’ve been getting so much better at combating that and being aware of when I’m getting into the incorrect mode of thinking something is 100% the truth when I don’t have nearly enough data to back it up

#like no ur probably NOT gonna be alone forever bc uve decided that at 21 after getting rejected a couple times #this is a convo I had w a guy friend & I was astounded by the conviction w which he told me this #the negativity bias is real #this is not minimizing the experiences of a young person either #the feelings r valid but the reaction can be a little out there like in this case

[columboscreens]

#columbo #season 4 #negative reaction #lieutenant... #take me out to dinner first

[vavandeveresfan]

So there’s gonna be a “Knives Out 2.”

SPOILERS AHEAD

I love mysteries.  They’re 80% of what I watch and 30% of what I read.  I worked in a Mystery bookstore for 8 years.

I hated Knives Out.

The film’s main premise: if Marta lies, she vomits.  Stupid.  Something I’d expect from a kids movie.

Once this vomit response was proven indisputable, all detective Benoit Blanc had to ask was, “Did you murder Harlan?”

No.

Next, “Did you see Harlan die?”

Yes.

Next, “How did he die?”

He slit his throat with a dagger.

Next, “Did he cut his own throat because of something you did?”

Yes.

Next, “What did you do?”

I unintentionally gave him an overdose of morphine.

If Marta lied she’d have vomited.

But Blanc never asked these questions.  Because it would have ended the plot right there.

That’s how fucking feeble the writing is.

If he had asked, Blanc would have called for a toxicology report immediately and for the body to be held by the coroner. Let’s say Ransom still set fire to the lab -- this was after the report was printed, because Fran had a copy.  But supposedly the blood and report were destroyed in the fire (except for the copy Fran hid) and Ransom killed Fran to keep her from revealing the lab’s results.

No lab keeps toxicology results just on paper.  It would have been in the lab’s computer mainframe database.  And The Cloud.  Which Ransom’s fire wouldn’t have touched.  It’s like thinking you’d destroy someone’s emails if you burn their laptop.  All Blanc had to do was have the stored information accessed.

And even if the results weren’t stored in the Cloud and had been completely destroyed, they’d still have Harlan’s body and they could retest.  Unless Ransom burned down the entire fucking morgue.

PLUS

After Harlan is injected  Marta tells him that in 5 minutes he’ll experience sweating and disorientation, and that he’ll be dead in 10 minutes.  Harlan says they have 8 minutes left, which means it’s 4 minutes since the injection. By the time Joni comes up to talk to Marta it’s been 6 minutes, yet he’s not experiencing any symptoms.  He talks to Marta for at least another minute with a clear head.  That makes it 6 to 7 minutes with no symptoms.

At that point he and Marta should have suspected something, and waited another minute.

After 9 minutes with no symptoms they should have been damn suspicious about WTF was in the bottles and why the antidote was missing from her bag.  Then they should have called 911.

Would it still have gotten Marta in trouble?  Possibly; she’d be a suspect.  But, as is later established in the movie, Harlan had ample enough money to deal with any threats to deport Marta’s mother and sister, and she had tried to save him.  Blanc, anonymously hired by Ransom, would then have been investigating an attempted murder.

The screenwriter set up dominoes without completely thinking through exactly where they’d fall if people responded logically to the situation.

I won’t get into why the rest doesn’t work, because these alone are enough to have contempt for the screenplay.

By the way, Knives Out, the 70s called and Columbo wants his cigar back.

I’m going to go watch Columbo’s episode “Negative Reaction” to wipe out the memory of this movie.

#Knives Out #shitty writing #murder mysteries #mysteries #when the main premise would end the story if the writer were honest #Columbo #Colombo used a cigar first and better #Negative Reaction #season 4 episode 2

[ashleybenlove]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN COLUMBO'S CAR DOESN'T HAVE SEATBELTS?!

#ashleybenlove posts #Columbo #season 4 #Negative Reaction

[spockvarietyhour]

Columbo’s dog got sad(der) that his favourite cocker spaniel has moved away.

#ACTUAL. DIALOGUE #Also Pinup for a Dog would be a Terrific Columbo episode Title #Columbo #Peter Falke #Dick van Dyke #Negative Reaction #Danny and Renae watch Columbo

[drchiropterajones]

New book I'm reading has two different viewpoints - fine, no problem, I like getting to see a romance from both ends and see how utterly mistaken both people are about each other.

First section is first person, not what I was expecting but fine. Second section we swap to the other guy and IT"S IN THIRD PERSON.

WHAT. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT

#I don't know why I have such a viscerally negative reaction to this #but I do

[poisonousquinzel]

little me, we made it.

it took like 15 years, but we made it

#the one fandom i have kept away from my entire time being in fandoms #there's only 1 youtuber who's atla reactions i trust. #cause seeing negative comments based on mischaracterizations and misinformation is depressingly infuriating #it makes me sad but annoyed ya know #and i remember being like 12 and the way folks were about ship wars and hating aang for idk being a kid made me so sad #i just wanted to read fanfics of my boy and it was just so much negativity #not dc #atla #kataang