Hi! Thanks for your response, I appreciate your input.
Wildflower3 said:- Victim got stabbed with a needle AFTER broadcasting was interrupted. Remember Torage was still the one checking his pulse and LYING so everyone thought he was already death which caused a commotion (and naturally so). So there must have been some time until Dr. Mofu reached him to perform CPR. Torage could have pretended to adjust the victim's body posture and then using the needle (I kind of wished they would have written it that way to make my point more valid). It could be argued it's still too obvious using a pen but then it's a fact that often when crimes happen and there are eye-witnesses they describe entirely different scenarios or even culprits because in a situation like this thinking rationally and noticing minor details is difficult for most people. Plus Torage already publicly "killed" him so at that time he wasn't the focus of attention.
I'm well aware why the mole didn't get up, and that he didn't hear the commotion. I also know he was waiting for a sign to stop, he can't be sleeping there forever. Unfortunately, I don't think my confusion is addressed. I believe you have made some assumptions.
The commotion only involved verbal uproars. With the broadcast cut off, directors & host wouldn't let audience run amok, nor would the audience crowd around the corpse because they know corpses shouldn't be tampered with (they aren't kids who don't know better). It's not like someone armed has appeared.
Therefore, "there must have been some time until Dr. Mofu reached him to perform CPR" is an assumption. Dr. Mofu would have rushed to the "corpse" to verify the truth because she's signed an oath to save lives (we can see how passionate she is from her backstory). Being a revered surgeon, she wouldn't take the psychic's words at face value. Dr. Mofu is also extremely observant (as expected of an esteemed neurosurgeon) who has caught signs of the mechanisms of Ron's geass (she said "that wasn't merely threatening" in Japanese to Toto). Even if there's nobody observant or level-headed enough from the audience/backstage cast to catch the psychic making motions around a "corpse", Dr. Mofu would have caught it. If the author planned for Dr. Mofu to somehow miss that, it's overlooked plot armour as it's out of character (I'm aware she pretends to be clumsy/silly for a comedic trope).
Wildflower3 said:The only possible explanation would be psychological one caused by a shock (the possibility of being pricked by a poisened needle. Like when we hit an onject with our arm or feet and say "Ouch" even though it didn't hurt and we are fully aware of it but our brain tells us we touched it - not to mistake for when we actually do and it hurts like hell).
I mentioned that it's psychologically impossible because, there's no record of such cases in scientific literature (that I could find at least!). There have been experiments where we can be frightened by perceived harm to our body part (e.g. hand, finger), but it's been concluded (so far) that no amount of anticipation can produce that phantom pain long enough for Toto to believe he got stabbed by the needle for the next 20+ seconds. Long-term phantom pain is possible due to traumatic memories (e.g. of losing a limb) from the amygdala affecting the somatosensory cortex, which isn't the case with Toto. Oh well, of course I wouldn't expect manga authors to be well-versed in physiology and psychology 🤭 It's my fault, my understanding of such concepts has made me naturally see such events as illogical.
Wildflower3 said:Also I'm not a fan of writers having to explain their work outside of it because I think it should be mostly self-explanatory so I think that's the main flaw here, not the lack of logic (at least for me personally).
I believe you and I are saying the same thing! 😉 If a work isn't self-explanatory or isn't able to be explained without using assumptions, I'm afraid, for the lack of better words, it is lacking logic. |