i think what is going on here is making an example. This is not a moral problem with some kind of inevitability. This is an execution that is trying to make a point
Honestly, I usually saw this alongside Wile E. Coyote style antics performed by someone literally twirling a mustache, so I was never looking for consistency!
And less charitably, the character tied rarely seemed to do more than protest delicately even when she wasn’t tied…
Something I never got about the “tied up on train tracks” trope is that the victim is never tied to anything. Can’t they just wiggle out of the way?
i think what is going on here is making an example. This is not a moral problem with some kind of inevitability. This is an execution that is trying to make a point
Honestly, I usually saw this alongside Wile E. Coyote style antics performed by someone literally twirling a mustache, so I was never looking for consistency!
And less charitably, the character tied rarely seemed to do more than protest delicately even when she wasn’t tied…