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Post by gbaxter on Aug 14, 2007 21:59:28 GMT -5
I love The Shield show and also seeing what a ferociously cunning tactician and strategist Vic usually always is (to the point where sometimes I wonder why he didn't become a US army general in Iraq, or a federal US politician), but I'm finding it extremely far fetched observing Vic's ability (under often enormous mental / emotional and physical duress and stress) to keep his cool both externally and internally most of the time (without use of any liquid or drug related stimulants), when most forum readers (if they were in Vic's same position, including myself) would surely go insane in Vic's shoes and probably also have a nervous breakdown (as in the case with Shane, who's of course no match for Vic, as a crime strategist and tactician) trying to tolerate what Vic has to put up with (through both his own deep character flaws and those of those of his work colleagues and his cop bureaucrat superiors).
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Post by darkflower on Aug 28, 2007 20:18:43 GMT -5
I love The Shield show and also seeing what a ferociously cunning tactician and strategist Vic usually always is (to the point where sometimes I wonder why he didn't become a US army general in Iraq, or a federal US politician), but I'm finding it extremely far fetched observing Vic's ability (under often enormous mental / emotional and physical duress and stress) to keep his cool both externally and internally most of the time (without use of any liquid or drug related stimulants), when most forum readers (if they were in Vic's same position, including myself) would surely go insane in Vic's shoes and probably also have a nervous breakdown (as in the case with Shane, who's of course no match for Vic, as a crime strategist and tactician) trying to tolerate what Vic has to put up with (through both his own deep character flaws and those of those of his work colleagues and his cop bureaucrat superiors). Oh, I just think some people have a mental make-up that allows them to do just as you describe. They're like sharks, at least on the outside. Ever noticed how vacant the eyes of a shark look when they're turning their prey into spaghetti? I know you can't really compare the instinctive, emotionless feeding behavior of a shark to a human, exactly, but, well, you kind of can. I've met some people in my life, mostly combat-experienced military people, police, or some other occupation where high stress is a factor, who were the same way almost. They: *Compartmentalize. I don't think this is something you can necessarily learn. I think it must be a skill one is born with, the ability to fully aknowledge that something is scary, horrible, difficult, disgusting, or otherwise intolerable by another person, but that now is not the time to deal with those aspects. Therefore, they put those reactions or observations into a compartment, and close the lid. They leave it there until a more opportune time to deal with it. *Have lightning fast decision-making capabilities. They can dowload on a dime the possible solutions to 100 problems, and choose the most effective one with a very low failure rate, since failure often results in death, for themselves or someone else. *Are adrenaline junkies. They actually crave action, stress, danger . . . anything challenging that gets the blood in your brain and body moving. Further, Vic's been on the job for 15 years. Experience has to count for quite a bit.
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