The needle in the neck trope

[George K]

I'm watching "Homeland" this weekend.

Season 8 has been outstanding, I might add, with nice tight storylines that all intersect. The Costa Ronin, the actor who played Burov on "The Americans" has a major role in this season and he's fabulous.

Anyhow, one of the things that really pisses me off when I see it is the "we have to get this person unconscious right away so we sedate him with an injection into the neck" plot gimmick.

As someone who has done hundreds and hundreds of needle into the jugular sticks, I can assure you of two things.

1. No drug works that fast. At the fastest, it's 30 seconds or so.
2. It's never that easy hitting the jugular vein. Never.

Why do they continue perpetuating this fantasy?

[Copper]

Because everyone is used to seeing it. It's a cliche.

This goes back at least as far as the original Mission Impossible.

[jon-nyc]

Why do space battles make noise?

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in The needle in the neck trope:

Why do space battles make noise?

That's why it's called a "trope" I suppose.

[Axtremus]

The space aliens who telepathically beam English into your consciousness also telepathically beamed the space battle sound into you consciousness, ok?

[George K]

@Axtremus said in The needle in the neck trope:

The space aliens who telepathically beam English into your consciousness also telepathically beamed the space battle sound into you consciousness, ok?

Makes sense.