Tuesday 29 January 2013

The Bad Guy

As my friends and I sat in my living room watching Season 8 Episode 1 of Criminal minds, 'The Silencer', I came to a conclusion; I always feel sorry for the bad guy. Just because he may go around killing hundreds of people doesn't mean he's a bad guy, you have to look into their back story.


Take this guy for instance, he was the main target in last nights episode, (Spoiler alert). At the start of the programme we see this John Doe, (as he's known during the whole show), shaking and being handcuffed to a bed, and his head being put in the red thing, (please excuse me, I have no idea what it's called.) Now obviously your first thought is, 'yep, thats the bad dude', and you would be right.

I'm not gonna go into the whole episode but bottom line he escapes while he's being transported to the hospital, the Ambulance crashes because a dear jumps into the road forcing the Ambulance off road and crashing into a tree, the driver now has a big tree trunk through his chest and the paramedic in the back is dead, (see what happens when you don't wear seat belts!), the only one alive is the officer who's travelling with him.

Now, I hear what you're saying, 'OMG get to the killing part and why do you feel sorry for the bad guy?!' well to those people, I say Shh! I'm getting there! This officer is the reason the FBI BAU know the 'silencer' has escaped, when the team finally do find the Ambulance, they find the officer sitting there with his mouth sown up. I know! Disgusting right!? During the examination of this officer, the BAU find out that the officer was still alive while being sown up, but he was unconscious because John Doe had already made his that way.

Now down to my main point! As a child our John Doe was deaf, he's mother would yell and him and John would frantically sign to her but she'd just push his hands away and continue yelling. Having a deaf child isn't easy, so when the mother found out about this new hearing aid procedure that they would be testing on humans not animals, and she could get it free of charge, she jumped at the chance, (The mum was serious trailer trash). They were to implant a hearing aid directly to his brain.

There was a problem ... although the procedure worked and John could start to hear things, the implant was faulty, and every time a loud noise happened it would magnify X10 and he would hear a buzzing noise, he never spoke, and he's mum would still yell at him causing him to place his hand over his ear trying to silence out the noise.

The poor man, although he would sow the lips of his victims together, just wanted silence, he wanted the buzzing to stop, for the world to remain quiet so it didn't hurt him any more, the poor man was in pain. In the end when the BAU finally caught up to him, he was about to sow someone else mouth shut killing him, Alex Blake, (the new Agent, we don't like her), told him that he had to go back inside, but he didn't want to, he told her he wasn't going back in there, telling him he had no other choice, he took a gun to his head and killed himself, ending his pain. The man wanted silence, and peace and in the end ... he did.



Regina Mills, A.K.A, The Evil Queen, from Once upon a Time. This is a character I will always route for ... Well now anyway. We all know the original story of Snow White right? Snow White's a princess who lives with her father in a castle, he gets married to this woman, dad died leaving the evil queen as her stepmother, the step mother wants her dead because according to the mirror, Snow White is the fairest of them all and this is unacceptable to the Evil Queen.

Now, I don't know about you, but this is a little far fetched, just because someone is prettier then you doesn't mean you should kill them! Hell, if that happened in real life, we'd have no life because everyone would be dead, weither you admit it or not, you're all jealous of someone.

In this version of Snow White, Regina is pretty much forced into marrying Snow's father by her mother, Cora, (I'm still unaware of her character but she is just pure evil, so I don't route for her, no matter how cool she is). Regina was in love with a man called Daniel, a stable boy, but her mother would never approve, Cora is all about power and status. Regina had save little Snow one day when Snow's horse went out of control and because of this Snow's father wanted to marry Regina, to have that mother figure for Snow but Regina was having none of it.

The day before the wedding, little Snow had asked Regina was was wrong after seeing her cry, Regina made Snow promise not to tell anyone. Seeing the little girl promise her, Regina, (who was nice at the time), trusted the girl and told her about Daniel and how they planned to elope, getting married and live their happy ever after far far away.



In true fairytaleness we all know this is not how it went down. Snow was tricked by Cora into telling her why her daughter was upset about her wedding to the king and snow tells her. Cora was not happy so she finds Daniel,  but she didn't JUST find Daniel, she found her daughter, Regina as well.  With the Magic Cora possessed she trapped Regina whilst she killed Daniel, poor Regina saw the love of her life die at the hands of her mother.




Regina, since then had a thing out for Snow, but she didn't let it show because she was good, it wasn't until she took the magic from Rumpelstiltskin  and pushed her mother into the looking glass. All Regina wanted was true love, she had it and her mother took it away from her because a child couldn't keep a secret! Still not convinced  Think of it this way: You're madly in love with a guy (or girl), but your mother or father wants you to marry someone else, someone you knew you could never love, you try to elope with the person you love only to have said family member come and kill him because you entrusted a child, someone you thought was close to you, who looked up to you. You'd be pissed ... ok you wouldn't want the child dead because again ... this is real life but you would not be nice would you?



Ok this is here because I can't remember the film. It's a remake of a remake of a remake, only it's the 2003 one. This bit has more to do with my friends who watched Criminal Minds with me! They felt sorry for the bad guy, because although he was going around killing people, all he wanted was a face, he took someone else's straight off of them, but he just wanted his own! Poor thing.

House of Wax - Yes I saw this! The bad guy was half man half wax because he had crappy parents and he just didn't want to feel alone! That all I have on this film because I can't really remember it. (I was too busy hiding my face! I hate horror films.)


So do me a favour. Next time you watch a show with a male or female going around killing people, please just have their background in mind, the way they lived, how they were brought up, what they saw. It's not always the hero's that have it rough!        

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