06-16-2018, 09:12 PM
(06-16-2018, 02:22 PM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: The basic process in "brainwashing" involves "breaking" the existing personality through physical abuse and/or the use of psychoactive drugs that render the mind open to suggestion, then "building" a new one through indoctrination. Cults are a real-life example. Most fictional examples are extremes of these techniques that have never been officially acknowledged as something that can actually be done in real life.
Expecting G&K or their writers to have actually researched this thoroughly (or even at all) is unrealistic. It's probably not just a coincidence that "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." and "The Winter Soldier" came out the year before Juliette went hexenbiest and the first hints of Chavez and her mysterious black op team were introduced. HW is basically S.H.I.E.L.D. and BC Hydra.
The showrunners clearly don't care about how subjects like these are handled and I never expected otherwise. I don't even criticize them for it. The only thing they need to concern themselves with is if their methods work within the story they're telling. I find that to be a more interesting conversation.