You're still thinking like a normal non super being
Yes I am, because that's how every person they encounter is going to view them. The average person doesn't know Specials exist.
Fact - it's not hard to find someone who will do anything if you put enough money in front of them
True, but then we get back to the problem of where that money was supposed to come from.
Fact - Money buys a hell of a lot of silence... and cooperation
Not when you're 16. If a 16-year-old, especially one as unassuming as Bob, approached a career criminal with gold to sell, either in one large lump or in regular small quantities, the only thing the criminal is going to want to do is threaten the kid to find where his gold supply is coming from to cut out the middleman. Because the career criminal isn't going to know that Bob has superpowers. And money can buy a lot of things, but loyalty isn't traditionally one of them.
Fact - When dealing with Super Powers anything is possible
Not anything. There are limits to those powers and how they can be used in society without drawing unwanted attention.
I wish the show had done a better job of telling us how
Yes! That right there was my issue. I want to know how they pulled it off, because the odds were totally against them, at least until the 1970's. That's when the gold ban was lifted, and Bob would have been in his mid-twenties. He could have made gold bricks literally out of bricks then without raising suspicions.
Still my favorite ep to date - because as I said, best Angela ep to date.
Still hate it like burning because the writers didn't think their ideas through.
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Date: 2010-02-03 06:04 am (UTC)From:Yes I am, because that's how every person they encounter is going to view them. The average person doesn't know Specials exist.
Fact - it's not hard to find someone who will do anything if you put enough money in front of them
True, but then we get back to the problem of where that money was supposed to come from.
Fact - Money buys a hell of a lot of silence... and cooperation
Not when you're 16. If a 16-year-old, especially one as unassuming as Bob, approached a career criminal with gold to sell, either in one large lump or in regular small quantities, the only thing the criminal is going to want to do is threaten the kid to find where his gold supply is coming from to cut out the middleman. Because the career criminal isn't going to know that Bob has superpowers. And money can buy a lot of things, but loyalty isn't traditionally one of them.
Fact - When dealing with Super Powers anything is possible
Not anything. There are limits to those powers and how they can be used in society without drawing unwanted attention.
I wish the show had done a better job of telling us how
Yes! That right there was my issue. I want to know how they pulled it off, because the odds were totally against them, at least until the 1970's. That's when the gold ban was lifted, and Bob would have been in his mid-twenties. He could have made gold bricks literally out of bricks then without raising suspicions.
Still my favorite ep to date - because as I said, best Angela ep to date.
Still hate it like burning because the writers didn't think their ideas through.