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The needle in the neck trope

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    George K
    wrote on 9 May 2020, 19:20 last edited by
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    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?

    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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      Copper
      wrote on 9 May 2020, 21:57 last edited by
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      Because everyone is used to seeing it. It's a cliche.

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

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        jon-nyc
        wrote on 9 May 2020, 22:28 last edited by
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        Why do space battles make noise?

        "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
        -Cormac McCarthy

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          9 May 2020, 22:28

          Why do space battles make noise?

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          George K
          wrote on 9 May 2020, 22:55 last edited by
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          @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.

          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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            Axtremus
            wrote on 10 May 2020, 00:46 last edited by
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            The space aliens who telepathically beam English into your consciousness also telepathically beamed the space battle sound into you consciousness, ok?

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              10 May 2020, 00:46

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

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              George K
              wrote on 10 May 2020, 00:47 last edited by
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              @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.

              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

              The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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