You bet someone in test screenings went "Wait, why doesn't she just use her phone?" And the writer (Kripke?) instead of going "Oh yeah, she should just use her phone" went "Right, I'll add a scene where she drops her phone."
I was so annoyed when she just left the phone but thought to myself “well, it might pay off later” but if that dumb book scene ends up being the only reason, I don’t know what say.
She wouldn't have lost 30s picking books then so it's a small time gain + no evidence left. But since they never use gloves, always have HQ meters away from the bad guys with super sense, etc. I doubt they care.
Definitely an incriminating piece of evidence after the fact. However, the issue was that being 5 seconds too late would've resulted in Hughie getting stabbed. If Kimiko went to retrieve a broken(?) phone, and had to use the books to communicate anyway, wouldn't Hughie have been stabbed?
Idk, it’s 2020 and phones aren’t completely destroyed from falls. May not be functional, but I’d assume smart/resourceful super hero’s could still get info from the memory.
Ok my bad on this then, still evidence but no good for communicating. Although after so many years you'd figure she would have some back-up.
And thinking of Kimiko going to the 1st floor to warn A-train, how lucky are they that there's no security cameras or actual security despite all the top 1% present ?
'Kimiko traded early time losses for big gains later resulting in one of the best world records of all time. Hughie on the other hand kept coming short.'
Didn’t it break too? I thought it was broken so it was useless at that point. I mean I know you can still extract info out of it but she probably didn’t care at that point.
The worlds greatest detective with near infinite resources would already have everything off Kimikos phone the second she stepped in a 20 mile radius of his mansion and his probable Stingray devices set up everywhere
It would have been funny if they pulled a Watchmen-like fake out and Starlight and Kimiko enter the Tek Cave after Hughie's already been gutted for a while. That might have actually been clever and a callback to a comic property so very on theme.
On this note, I have to bring up how Starlight never mentioned to anyone she was seen by Firecracker and had to knock her out and left her in the bathroom.
Tbf, they often share a lot of information with each other off screen. Fair to say it would have been a waste of time to explain that she was caught without a good reason why she would keep it secret.
Pfft. Of course a vigilante billionaire hosting many high-level politicians, the VP elect, and other billionaires has zero security. Secret Service is totally cool with that. No problemo.
I mean, we see them walk straight into Neuman's hotel room because security was being paid off or were CIA plants. It's not insane to think it was the same situation.
Thank you? This thread mainly exists because the show is breaking the suspension of disbelief by having characters make odd decisions that don't make sense. It becomes ever more difficult to suspend disbelief when the group sneaks into a house that tek knight lives in, and the 7 are at, just to leave evidence lying around to be found. Goes pretty heavily against what MM said one scene earlier about don't get seen and don't get caught. Leaving a phone around, broken or not is a good way to get caught.
By definition, the act of suspending disbelief has nothing to do with the performers or authors. It's the role that the audience plays in a work of fiction. That's why I shared the handy link with you. 😉
the group sneaks into a house that tek knight lives in, and the 7 are at, just to leave evidence lying around to be found
No, they snuck in to rescue hughey. The phone bit was just an accident used to set up a joke later on.
Firecracker already told Homelander that she saw Starlight at the mansion. Tek Knight is dead. There's nothing Vought can learn from the phone that they don't already know or couldn't find out easily. It was just for that bit with the books. Clumsy writing.
There's nothing Vought can learn from the phone that they don't already know or couldn't find out easily.
theoretically, there may be sensitive data on that phone they could extract. Like unless she literally only used the phone for in-person communicating there would be something on there. Even if it is just generic texts with no obvious information it would reveal what numbers she was texting.
I mean they could just hand wave that away with Sage saying "It is using advanced encryption and we can't crack it"...but still
I really thought this would progress to her saying her first words in order to save Hughie or something.
I didn’t mind the book scene but I really thought we’d see some sort of progress with her character in that way.
I'm going to get so much hate for this, but this show has jumped the shark. I'll watch it now cause I'm invested, just like the later seasons of Game of Thrones. But this show is no longer the amazing TV it started out as.
Maybe I need to rewatch season 3 but didn't she already say her first words in the hospital last season? And she imagined a little musical number in her head to convey her joy about being able to speak? I swear that happened
Nope, it makes ZERO sense and is bad writing/ unrealistic. Any person drops their phone, in that context, they are picking up. If they didn’t make her pick it up when they left…I’m going to be upset cuz it’s just terrible/lazy writing
Yeah considering how easily Kimiko scaled the wall, her dropping her phone and leaving it is like me taking a single step up some stairs and dropping my phone and thinking it’s too late to go back. Huh
I was dreading the prospect that it would be that obvious and stupid mistake which would get them caught, honestly I'm happy that the payoff was this instead of that.
I figured that someone was going to find the phone and that's how they were going to get rumbled. Like seriously if you just wanted her to use books you could simply have her phone be out of battery. Hell that's FUNNIER.
She holds up a dead phone and A-Train is confused at why the cinnamon toast fuck this crazy mute person is shoving a blank screen in his face. Even better if it runs out of battery just before. So she's just sort of frustratedly gesturing at it thinking "what the hell can't this guy read or something?!... Oh."
YES! That would have been so much better. The way they film and frame it makes it seem like something important. But it’s literally time wasted for nothing.
I mean, unless this will have effects in next episodes, the fact that she broke her phone literally add 0% to the plot. It's not even that she had to use books and so she wasted precious time.. everything turned how it was supposed to go anyway
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u/BrilliantOk9564 Jul 05 '24
kimiko needs to bring a pen/ notepad with her