Over the last few months, I've caught a lot of old episodes of Midsomer Murders on online TV channels. And there is something that really puzzles me: whenever the next murder victim turns round and sees the murderer bearing down on them, they don't move. At all. They just lie, sit or stand there, impassively, open their eyes wide, allow their mouth fall open and let the murderer shoot, stab, push them off a balcony or kill them in some other, more devious way.
And I wonder if people really have no reflexes these days? Don't they have any instincts of self-preservation? Can't they roll out of harm's way? Can't they turn sideways? Take a few steps back? Duck?
Not in Midsomer Murders and a few other TV series, it seems. In a similar vein to what the Victorians advised women who had to put up with their husbands' "urges", they just lie back and take whatever is coming to them. Even when I shout a warning at the screen...
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