Mark Sheppard's face is an excellent face. It's nice that we get to see so much of it these days. XD (Have you watched "The Middleman," btw? It is made of joy and awesome and ladies being excellent. And Mark Sheppard is the Big Bad. ♥)
Why don't some hunters make an effort to inform the people in charge? THIS MIGHT BE USEFUL.
You'd think, right? I mean, obviously it's "because the show's premise demands that they don't" but it still bugs me. In kind of the way it always bugs me in canons where there are crazy supernatural things going on behind the scenes of a real world-like setting, and non-clued-in people are getting killed a lot. (Harry Potter, Buffy and all the other vampire canons, etc.) Sometimes the canons will give a handwavey explanation like, "Oh they wouldn't believe us anyway," or "if the regular people knew there would be MASS HYSTERIA," but the more examples I see of this trope the more it feels severely condescending towards normal humankind, and ultimately kind of morally indefensible. People have a right to know if there's a serious danger they'll be murdered by dark wizards or eaten by monsters, yo! Even if it makes things harder for your little evil-fighting club.
I'm sort of...okay with it if the series seems to know that this is a messed up decision characters are making for selfish reasons (Being Human, arguably The Vampire Diaries) or there's been real effort put into trying to show that people really wouldn't believe them no matter how hard the heroes tried to get the word out (The X-Files). But otherwise it does make me a little twitchy.
[/taking it too seriously]
Oh also. I meant to ask - so does the Stella/RayK hunting team thing mean that the whole bank robbery thing was a scary supernatural event of some kind? Because that's kind of awesome. And hunter!Stella who left her wealthy background in order to kill monsters? BEST AU!STELLA CONCEPT EVER. ♥_♥
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Why don't some hunters make an effort to inform the people in charge? THIS MIGHT BE USEFUL.
You'd think, right? I mean, obviously it's "because the show's premise demands that they don't" but it still bugs me. In kind of the way it always bugs me in canons where there are crazy supernatural things going on behind the scenes of a real world-like setting, and non-clued-in people are getting killed a lot. (Harry Potter, Buffy and all the other vampire canons, etc.) Sometimes the canons will give a handwavey explanation like, "Oh they wouldn't believe us anyway," or "if the regular people knew there would be MASS HYSTERIA," but the more examples I see of this trope the more it feels severely condescending towards normal humankind, and ultimately kind of morally indefensible. People have a right to know if there's a serious danger they'll be murdered by dark wizards or eaten by monsters, yo! Even if it makes things harder for your little evil-fighting club.
I'm sort of...okay with it if the series seems to know that this is a messed up decision characters are making for selfish reasons (Being Human, arguably The Vampire Diaries) or there's been real effort put into trying to show that people really wouldn't believe them no matter how hard the heroes tried to get the word out (The X-Files). But otherwise it does make me a little twitchy.
[/taking it too seriously]
Oh also. I meant to ask - so does the Stella/RayK hunting team thing mean that the whole bank robbery thing was a scary supernatural event of some kind? Because that's kind of awesome. And hunter!Stella who left her wealthy background in order to kill monsters? BEST AU!STELLA CONCEPT EVER. ♥_♥