I believe you are completely right. Although I will reserve the right to avert my eyes, it's not up to me to advise someone else to do so.
A person I and my husband had known for decades stepped off a nearby bridge and killed herself a little over a year ago. A few days later Caprica had a scene of a woman attempting suicide doing the same thing. The look on her face of joy and utter peace as she stepped out into the air was very cathartic and healing for us. We weren't sure we wanted to see that scene, but there it was, and it made us hope and believe that the person we had known had found the peace and safety she had been looking for all her life. A close friend called us up right afterwards, hoping we hadn't seen it, and I was able to tell her that it actually helped us to start to come to terms with it all. Not sure we'd have watched if there had been a "triggery" warning (though it's not like we couldn't see it coming), and that would have been too bad.
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Date: 2011-07-13 08:58 pm (UTC)A person I and my husband had known for decades stepped off a nearby bridge and killed herself a little over a year ago. A few days later Caprica had a scene of a woman attempting suicide doing the same thing. The look on her face of joy and utter peace as she stepped out into the air was very cathartic and healing for us. We weren't sure we wanted to see that scene, but there it was, and it made us hope and believe that the person we had known had found the peace and safety she had been looking for all her life. A close friend called us up right afterwards, hoping we hadn't seen it, and I was able to tell her that it actually helped us to start to come to terms with it all. Not sure we'd have watched if there had been a "triggery" warning (though it's not like we couldn't see it coming), and that would have been too bad.