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Re: Did they forget Trish know how to fight?

[(Anonymous)]

Well, she's had some training in Krav Maga... but you know what, I had some training in Karate, and it didn't make me into a building-jumping ninja who's ready to fight crime. They should have acknowledged it, somehow, probably by Trish demanding in on the action (and Jessica flat-out refusing), but in the end, I was quite glad that we didn't get another hero-ex-machina. At least the ones that we have are already established in their roles.

Re: Did they forget Trish know how to fight?

[(Anonymous)]

OP.
You have a point but remember she fought a guy on her house and she was pretty damn good so it does not make sense that she didn't even try to help

Re: Did they forget Trish know how to fight?

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, she could also have just been too startled and out of place? I have self-defense training and do a martial art but I don't know how I'd react to a dude suddenly trying to hurt me in the middle of a party, lol.

Re: Did they forget Trish know how to fight?

[(Anonymous)]

I honestly don't remember much of the scenes that you're referring to. But, yeah, I definitely expected her to offer to help/demand in - it's well within her character, kind of happened before and seemed to be the whole reason why she started taking lessons in the first place.

The way I envision it, Jessica would flat-out refuse (also well within the character), and then maybe the attack that you're referring to would happen, Trish would be startled and wouldn't know what to do - reminding us all that a few months martial art training doesn't make you into a superhero - and Jessica would have a particularly stron argument as to why Trish should shut up and let others handle this - which does actually finally shut Trish up.

so eah, maybe they did actually forget. Or they just resigned from addressing it, like many other issues, so that they can fit it all into eight episodes and tell each other that they focused on the main story.

Re: Did they forget Trish know how to fight?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it was a matter of training or willingness, Trish was just too far away from Jessica to help her. She was on the ground and by the time she got up and got over there, Jessica would have been dead. The laws of time and space can only be bent so much, even by a comic book genre show lol