Thread:Panzysoldat/@comment-31330278-20190725214555/@comment-31330278-20190807225950

Talking on the internet is easier with numbers.

1A. I would like to hear more about your stories when you feel ready. Obviously you write about horror, but do you write about sci-fi, fantasy and action too? And do you agree with the statement that Jason is a better villain than Michael Meyers?

1B. On a personal note: my paternal grandfather have PTSD. I met all sort of people with PTSD. But none of them used it the way Hook Man used it. Using PTSD to make Marcus feel guilty about hating the man who killed is brother is low. Even if we disregard the fact Hook Man is the first killer in the franchise to kill a child, his cynical abuse of PTSD is just low enough to cut the chase.

1C. Good thing you're not a psychopath lol. Stu is irrelevant to the "if you were a psychopath..." question. He's psychotic. The part with surviving an accomplice's wish to be redeemed can work. If you join him/her and get back to life, which will prove him/her you're worthy of his trust, both of you will be just fine. Beth did a mistake on that one. She was so afraid to go in jail, like Ben Whigham from your class was, that she practically shot her own head. She could survive jail, and taking the risk she took makes her more brawn than brain compared to other masterminds. The original Piper done the same mistake. Before the retcon, Audrey was her partner, maybe even the real mastermind. Audrey had a change of heart ("come on, Piper. Let's give it a rest. I have friends now. Emma got what she deserved for abandoning me. Can we just let Emma suffer and live it behind?"). By turning off the proposed redemption, Piper betrayed Audrey, and the rest is a 9mm headache pill. A pen-mate say the original Piper was loyal, but insisting on being evil while one's partner want to be a better person is betrayal in my book.

2A. The plot armor was relevant only to the first movie. Ever since Debbie got serious, Sidney became another badass character who can be killed. Unless you consider Kieran's bond villain stupidity as a plot armor, I don't recall Emma had one. Kym had a plot armor, because before Manny was murdered, she was one of those talkative girls who go around saying everything to everyone because they rely on the fact no one will hit them. Marcus and Liv didn't enjoyed that kind of armor.

2B. You're saying that "Scream" got you into the horror movies world? That's strong stuff. It's funny you suspected Derek, because in the original scrapped script, he was indeed one of Debbie's soldiers. I've even met a "wise guy" on youtube who wished that Derek and Mickey were the killers instead of the canon scenario. I actually liked Derek as a lion to the slaughter, but if he was Doctorface, which motive would you give him?

3. I believe the real surprise was less that Debbie was the killer and more her appearance. Sidney saw her coming from miles away, even recognized her by sight, and Cotton was on to Debbie midway through the movie. Gale herself said that she was surprised only because Debbie was supposed to be fat. I see your point with Jill, because petite girls are usually less likely to kill people. They are either like Kirby or like those girls who orchestrate excommunication. Charlie is technically tragic, but I stopped sympathize him at the very moment he killed Robbie and took pride of it. I guess you figured Piper out faster than I did. It's important to say that the reason Emma didn't suspected her, other than Piper being a genius, is that Emma suspected that one of the killers will be closer to her than what Piper was. Out of all the people who were close to Emma, Piper was the least close. She suspected Kieran, but just like Sidney, she had to hug someone so bad that she strangled her suspicions at their sleep. Jamal was probably the killer that I figured out the fastest. I can totally see why you never saw Beth coming until she survived Liv's assault. Kym could never be a killer, because she went through a real development after losing Manny.

4. Killing people because your parents are divorced is just dumb. I met many people with divorced parents. My own parents are divorced. I try not to judge people, but there's only so much whining one can do about it. If Liv was the killer, it could be for a far better reason than that. Even if her father thought the divorced made her crazy (a personal note: My own brother is worse than Jamal, but our own parents' divorce didn't made him any crazier than he already was), he would never think she want to be operative about killing people. Your theory is possible, but to my humble opinion not likely.

5. Season 4 can be a blast. Hopefully the showrunners won't repeat the mistakes of season 2. Maybe they can finally find a way to mix 3K into it. The possibility that the white male killer will have a thing for Liv make sense, because brave, tough and fleshed-out women like Liv always have people who fantasying about them. And the fact she trashed Beth for most of the fight definitely helps.

6. He's one of my own favorite killers as well, along with Jill and Jamal. Except for one moment of bad luck with throwing the knife at Dewey (Dewey's unnatural luck is one of the few things can get through something like that), he showed skill in everything he did. If Jamal was his partner, he might've been more effective at killing Jamal than Beth was. Or, if Roman would be practical enough to not shooting his own head during Jamal's quest for redemption phase, he could play along and get back to life, or portray Sidney as the ultimate evil.

7. If Sidney could, then Jill could too. She was supernatural (up until the electrocution, she was practically immortal, and she did the smartest attempt for a second round), sneaky and had one of the higher IQs in the franchise, even if she isn't the best improviser. The question if Piper could take down Hook Man depends if she's supernatural or not. If she wasn't supernatural, then her best chance would be bringing her partner with her. If the partner was Audrey, she would be a bigfoot's meat.

8. She wasn't sneaking as much as she came to see him. Until removing the mask, Jamal possibly assumed it's someone else. Another possibility is that Jamal was overconfident. In his defense, his overconfidence is more grounded in reality than some other characters', including Beth's.