[ SECRET POST #6505 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6505 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Only Murders in the Building]



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[fscom]

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[Only Murders in the Building]

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't watched the show, but that seems like an odd choice. Because I can think of ways for miscommunication to still happen and not have the characters look stupid for not thinking of alternative means of communicating or having her seem insensitive for not learning something (fingerspelling can be frustrating, yeah, but the letters are pretty simple to learn and there are some obvious/easy signs). I guess they could also just be really stubborn.

[(Anonymous)]

They have Mabel picking up a little ASL in later episodes, but the initial miscommunication still doesn't make sense and they let it go on too long. Yelling, "I don't know ASL!!!" once is understandable... and then a smart person who's very used to cellphones and texting would go, oh wait, DUH, and she and Theo would start texting back and forth instead of yelling and gesticulating. To do otherwise makes both characters look kind of dumb.

[(Anonymous)]

This is a show that uses texts frequently and does them really well, so I don't know why they suddenly can't text when these two are involved. I have a couple of HOH friends and that's the easiest way to communicate.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, at my last job I had a regular customer who was HOH and she would always just type things up for me on her phone and then she would read my lips when I responded. I thought that was how most HOH people did things these days when dealing with people who don't know ASL.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. It's well established in this show/universe that people communicate by text frequently, so why all of a sudden have people forgotten their cell phones?

[ava_tara]

I always kind of wonder if they were trying to have a little commentary on the expectation of anyone who isn't perfectly able-bodied be the ones to do all the work to make themselves understood.

That it was on Theo to keep lipreading up (when able to see Mabel's face) and make it easier on her to communicate with him instead of Mabel being like 'this is obviously not working and there is no time for me to be an expert in another language in five minutes so let's text' or pass notes back and forth.

She wanted / needed him to give her the tools instead of finding them herself.

[(Anonymous)]

It's possible, but I don't think so. And they kind of made that point far more aptly with Theo and his father, who didn't learn ASL until later in life even though he had a deaf son.

Also, Mabel is supposed to be a smart, thoughtful investigator who grew up in the Arconia with Theo, so it's not like she's never had any prior interactions with him.