I knew I liked Burn Notice
Jun. 8th, 2010 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
firefly124We've just started watching S3. Yes, I know S4 just started, but S3 just came out on disc, and other than Patsfan and his sports, we still don't really manage to watch shows while they are actually airing.
Anyway, I already liked the show, but this season looks like it's starting off even better. And I loved, loved, loved this little dialogue in the first (or was it second?) ep. It's like reason #253 why I like Michael Westen about a gazillion times more than Jack Bauer.The scenario is that a child has been kidnapped, and they're (of course) trying to find a way to both get the kid out of there and take care of the bad guys. The mother is, understandably, frantic. In true BN fashion, they're trying to figure out how to get the info out of the bad guy without him knowing they're doing it.
Mother: Can't we just waterboard him or something?
Michael: No. When you torture people, they'll tell you anything to get you to stop. There are better ways to get information that's actually reliable.
I pretty much wanted to reach into the tv, pull him out, and pack him off to repeat that little bit of sanity to all TPTB who seem to think toture is not only morally acceptable, which is enough of a WTF in and of itself, but also useful, which ample history shows is really, really not. And the favorite argument often advanced to get Regular People to go along with it is, of course, the kidnapped kid who's facing imminent death.
Yes, I did just manage to turn a bit of fannish squee into a political mini-rant. Also, I apparently need to seek out a Burn Notice icon.
Anyway, I already liked the show, but this season looks like it's starting off even better. And I loved, loved, loved this little dialogue in the first (or was it second?) ep. It's like reason #253 why I like Michael Westen about a gazillion times more than Jack Bauer.The scenario is that a child has been kidnapped, and they're (of course) trying to find a way to both get the kid out of there and take care of the bad guys. The mother is, understandably, frantic. In true BN fashion, they're trying to figure out how to get the info out of the bad guy without him knowing they're doing it.
Mother: Can't we just waterboard him or something?
Michael: No. When you torture people, they'll tell you anything to get you to stop. There are better ways to get information that's actually reliable.
I pretty much wanted to reach into the tv, pull him out, and pack him off to repeat that little bit of sanity to all TPTB who seem to think toture is not only morally acceptable, which is enough of a WTF in and of itself, but also useful, which ample history shows is really, really not. And the favorite argument often advanced to get Regular People to go along with it is, of course, the kidnapped kid who's facing imminent death.
Yes, I did just manage to turn a bit of fannish squee into a political mini-rant. Also, I apparently need to seek out a Burn Notice icon.
