Topic: Storm: courageous, a coward, or mentally unstable
Topic Posted by: bingo
Date Posted: Tue Apr 29 22:27:41 2008
Additional Comments: A lot of you called Storm's suicide courageous, he did the unthinkable to give his sister his heart. Question: Do you think he would have done it, if Katie was in need of a heart for other reasons and Storm had not been wanted by the Police for Shooting two people? I do not think so. Courageous to me would have been Storm facing the charges when he shot Stephanie, owning up to his wrongdoings. In my opinion he decided to end his life, because he realized he really messed up, when he shot Katie, he let his sisters, who he protected all his life, down. I do not think any suicide, for whatever reason a person decides to take her/his life should be labeled as courageous.
Posted by: fee Date posted: Wed Apr 30 17:34:16 2008
Message: I misunderstood! From your title, I thought you were polling people on which they thought it was! I'm going to do one!
Posted by: heck Date posted: Wed Apr 30 16:47:20 2008
Message: Storm was faced with several unpleasant and tragic circumstances all at once, and he made a decision he thought would help his sister. He only did so when Bridget told him there was no hope for Katie.
Yes, he was mentally unbalanced, and yes, his family will think what he did was courageous. It was self-sacrificing and he did it more to help his sister and less to escape prison.
Posted by: Edward Date posted: Wed Apr 30 13:31:27 2008
Message: You summed it up perfectly Bingo.
Posted by: ingyandbert Date posted: Wed Apr 30 8:43:22 2008
Message: I'm with you, Bingo. Well said.
Definitely unstable. Everything of late shows an unbalanced person, a dangerous person. I am surprised they would change the Storm character so much and eliminate him completely.
I must add, the scene when he was talking to Ashley before he showed her the gun was chilling. His body language, his grabbing her arm. That was good acting on both their parts. Scary!
Posted by: Dr. Tim Reid Date posted: Wed Apr 30 2:12:53 2008
Message:
I already stated my opinion as to why I think Storm was mentally unstable in another post (Obie's),
so I'm not repeating all that here. It doesn't matter whether we think what he did was an act of
courage or an act of cowardice. In Storm's mental state, it made ''sense'' that this is what he had to
do. Also, as I said in the other post, I think the writers made this pretty believable from the way
he's been behaving ever since Stephanie's shooting, and then coupled with what we know about his life as
his sisters ''protector.'' imho, He's pretty classic overdeveloped superego now
suffering total failure in his own eyes, and horrible guilt, thereby seeking self-punishment, e.g. suicide.
I think he was extremely courageous, and I don't think there are many people on this earth that would have done it. And we have no way of knowing if he would have done it under other circumstances. But I think he would have. Also, I don't think it was the threat of the police coming that made him do it. I think he did it because he KNEW it was the only way she would live. Plain and simple. Otherwise she would have died at his hands. I think it was killing him anyway, knowing what he had done. He was responsible for killing (basically) one of the things he loved the most in life. And in his mind, he was doing what he could to make up for it, and give her the life she otherwise would not have had.
Also, did you listen to what Ashley said? She was the only eyewitness to the whole thing. She believed that he did it for good. She didn't seem to think he did it to get away from the cops!
Posted by: molsongrrrl Date posted: Tue Apr 29 22:33:24 2008
Message: i wouldn't label what he did as courageous either - because i agree with you ... he wouldn't have killed himself if they found out katie needed a heart and he wasn't in trouble with the law. this was a way to escape taking any responsibility for what he did and let's face it he's been doing that since shooting stephanie in the first place! he's been a coward ... not telling the police ... letting his sisters lie and cover-up for him.
now don't get me wrong - i think its nice katie got a heart ... but i don't find storm's actions courageous ...
