Can you really hypnotize someone without them realizing it happened?
supposedly yes with a really suggestible person.
Yes, there is. There's a hurry, Xander. I'm dying...I may have as few as fifty years left.
Anya ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...
To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])
le nubian - Jun 28, 2010 7:22:53 am PDT #5720 of 12003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Polter-Cow - Jun 28, 2010 7:39:35 am PDT #5721 of 12003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
A lot of mind control going on this season. Nate hypnotizing Hardison, Sophie neurolinguistically programming Eliot...
§ ita § - Jun 28, 2010 7:49:42 am PDT #5722 of 12003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think it's hysterical (and perfectly logical) that Hardison is a prime target.
Laga - Jun 28, 2010 8:41:45 am PDT #5723 of 12003
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
My understanding of hypnosis us that you need a willing subject and you can't make them do something they don't want to do. But you also can't blast a perfect circle through six inches of concrete and drop someone to the floor below so I'm filing the hypnosis with my usual Leverage suspension of disbelief.
§ ita § - Jun 28, 2010 8:50:32 am PDT #5724 of 12003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, brushing away the cobwebs on Hardison's skill is hardly making him do something he doesn't want to do.
Laga - Jun 28, 2010 8:56:32 am PDT #5725 of 12003
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
right, but irl he would remember being hypnotized.
§ ita § - Jun 28, 2010 9:12:32 am PDT #5726 of 12003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So you don't believe in post-hypnosis amnesia?
I have no idea if it exists, really. The only experience I have with hypnosis is stage hypnosis, where a particularly bullish friend did all the dumb shit suggested--when asked he said he wanted to do it, not because he was hypnotised to do it. He could just never explain why in hell he'd want to do all that dumb stuff.
Laga - Jun 28, 2010 9:53:55 am PDT #5727 of 12003
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I'm not an expert, I've just done some reading, but I'm pretty sure you can't make someone forget that they've been hypnotized.
§ ita § - Jun 28, 2010 1:20:37 pm PDT #5728 of 12003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I know the TV convention is that you can have them forget, but I know very little about real hypnosis.
On the shippery front, my heart went pitter pat when Parker cried during Hardison's solo, and when she went after him when he stormed out of the bar. I like this speed. I could go the entire season without a sex scene.
I'm not saying I want to. But I could.
Polter-Cow - Jun 28, 2010 1:26:03 pm PDT #5729 of 12003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
On the shippery front, my heart went pitter pat when Parker cried during Hardison's solo, and when she went after him when he stormed out of the bar. I like this speed. I could go the entire season without a sex scene.
Those were both good moments. Another was the exchange that went something like:
Nate: "Can you [break into the Steranko system]?"
Hardison: "[Are you listening? It's bonkers! Impossible! Insane! No way!]"
Nate: "No, I mean, for Parker, can you do it?"
Nate's observant.