3rd June 2010, 12:49 PM
lazy, that's nonsense. The horror cliche of "calling the police will do no good" is stupid and untrue. All you need to do is say "someone is stalking me and I'm not sure who, but they are really tall" and you can have someone watching your back. The moment THEY see it too, you're good. Heck, the moment you see a sink filled with blood in an abandoned house, you should always call the police.
At the very least, you can find out if you were mistaken. People are poor judgers of reality at times, and calling in someone to help them figure out that maybe, just maybe, that huge light in the sky they saw rushing by the trees as they drove by the woods one night turned out to be the moon (I'm not kidding, this is a very common mistake people have made).
For that "not contacting the authorities" thing to be resolved in this series, I think their best bet is to simply make it a result of their psychological state deteriorating to the point they get too paranoid to ask for help, thinking everyone is out to get them.
At the very least, you can find out if you were mistaken. People are poor judgers of reality at times, and calling in someone to help them figure out that maybe, just maybe, that huge light in the sky they saw rushing by the trees as they drove by the woods one night turned out to be the moon (I'm not kidding, this is a very common mistake people have made).
For that "not contacting the authorities" thing to be resolved in this series, I think their best bet is to simply make it a result of their psychological state deteriorating to the point they get too paranoid to ask for help, thinking everyone is out to get them.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)