Why would you leave your spouse after getting Amnesia

[Jhaelen]

A new topic, not about shooting people, straight from a TV show.

I'm getting the impression you're watching too much TV!
(or at least you're thinking too much about what you see on TV...)

How about reading more books instead, e.g. "The Glamour" by Christopher Priest?
Here's a good review.

Note particularly the following bit:

Christopher Priest's The Glamour tells the story of Richard Grey, a television cameraman for news programs, who wakes up to find himself in a hospital after having been injured by a car bomb explosion. He does not remember anything about the previous few weeks of his life before the explosion, and is surprised when a visitor tells him she is his girlfriend, Susan.

If you haven't heard of Christopher Priest yet, it's about time to check out some of his works.

(If you can't be bothered to read: The movie "The Prestige" is based on one of his stories. If you don't know it yet, go watch it!)

 

[Janx]

Well, hold on there a second. You're talking about super-spies and "obvious it is the truth" in the same breath? Really? You're talking about people who manufacture much more complicated "truths" as their daily bread-and-butter.

"Hi, love. You don't remember me, of course, because you have amnesia, but I'm your amazingly hot wife, and we're super-spies together!" Yeah, that should *totally* engender confidence in the amnesiac.

Didn't you ever see Total Recall? I mean, clearly, the amnesiac won't remember seeing it, but... geeze, the genre trope would be that it was totally a trap!

You want sound tactics? The first person who says you're a amnesiac super-spy? Run away from them!

they already played through those scenes. If after you go through the "that's total BS" and then you get to the truth is where I be sayin the reaction is a bit off.

 

[Janx]

I'm getting the impression you're watching too much TV!
(or at least you're thinking too much about what you see on TV...)

How about reading more books instead, e.g. "The Glamour" by Christopher Priest?
Here's a good review.

Note particularly the following bit:


If you haven't heard of Christopher Priest yet, it's about time to check out some of his works.

(If you can't be bothered to read: The movie "The Prestige" is based on one of his stories. If you don't know it yet, go watch it!)

I've seen the Prestige about a zillion times (my wife really liked it). The book wasn't as good. I though the movie was a good reassembling of the main ideas of the book.

I just finished the last of the current Game of Thrones books. Alas, there are no more.

I'm presently working through the sherlock holmes stories again, which i haven't read in 20 years or so.

 

[Umbran]

they already played through those scenes. If after you go through the "that's total BS" and then you get to the truth is where I be sayin the reaction is a bit off.

I don't watch Chuck, so I'm going on only genre knowledge.

Ultimately, with Hollywood smnesia and Hollywood super-spies means there is not such thing as getting through the "that's total BS" stage. If you accept super-spies, there's no such thing as proof.

But, allowing that the character accepts it as true - the other points raised apply. The amnesiac feels no emotional connection to their spouse. They don't have any particular reason to stick around!

 

[RangerWickett]

I was a little miffed at that plotline in Chuck. I mean, Sarah shows up, and Chuck's like, "Okay, you're acting funny. Oh wait, you mean you think I'm a villain?" And he just tries to appeal to her memories and emotions. But Chuck's supposed to be a smart guy.

"Hold on," he should say. "I've got, like, a lot of people who'll back up the fact that I'm a good guy. Shall I get you in touch with a general who'll vouch for me? How about I provide you a list of all these people whose lives I've saved? Let me guess; you're working for a creepy looking guy with a goatee? Well hey, here's a bunch of documented evidence of him being a scumbag who's manipulating you. I mean sure, I could have manufactured all this evidence, but how likely do you think that is in this time frame?"

Overall I liked the ending, but a) they should have just made it mind control or something, and b) they should have had more references to the "Take On Me" video during the final episode.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

Heh, immediately thought of Chuck when I read the OP, though the series finale was a while ago now.

I hated that entire arc for many reasons as well, including what Janx has said. Maybe living together right away would be awkward, but running away completely was just...ugh. The last 3 episodes I really just don't like. I'd say ruined the series for me if it wasn't so easy to just ignore them from having ever happened.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

I was a little miffed at that plotline in Chuck. I mean, Sarah shows up, and Chuck's like, "Okay, you're acting funny. Oh wait, you mean you think I'm a villain?" And he just tries to appeal to her memories and emotions. But Chuck's supposed to be a smart guy.

"Hold on," he should say. "I've got, like, a lot of people who'll back up the fact that I'm a good guy. Shall I get you in touch with a general who'll vouch for me? How about I provide you a list of all these people whose lives I've saved? Let me guess; you're working for a creepy looking guy with a goatee? Well hey, here's a bunch of documented evidence of him being a scumbag who's manipulating you. I mean sure, I could have manufactured all this evidence, but how likely do you think that is in this time frame?"

Overall I liked the ending, but a) they should have just made it mind control or something, and b) they should have had more references to the "Take On Me" video during the final episode.

Also, all of this. And not just people he's saved. What if he said, "How about we go visit your mom and 'sister'?" *Look of shock from Sarah*

I mean cripes, that was a pretty important secret to her, and it only just happened like half a dozen episodes ago and at most a month ago in-show time. Why not make it actually have some significance?