ITA! I personally thought the entire ep was a little over the top. Rossi's lines tended toward the melodramatic at times. And the explanation of him killing again because he couldn't remember the last one was hollow and bordering on ridiculous.
My grandfather had Parkinsons and dementia. I've seen what it can do. In the early stages he remembered more than he forgot - maybe that's what the writers were going for. I think we could debate this for a long time and never come to a satisfactory conclusion. It is hard to watch someone you love suffer and to see it depicted in such a manner is disturbing.
I think that the episode was supposed to be more about Rossi and his reactions than The Butcher. At least that's what I'm going with.
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Date: 2010-10-09 12:56 pm (UTC)My grandfather had Parkinsons and dementia. I've seen what it can do. In the early stages he remembered more than he forgot - maybe that's what the writers were going for. I think we could debate this for a long time and never come to a satisfactory conclusion. It is hard to watch someone you love suffer and to see it depicted in such a manner is disturbing.
I think that the episode was supposed to be more about Rossi and his reactions than The Butcher. At least that's what I'm going with.