Talk:Dating Game/@comment-30530882-20161117232330

Read the story, didn't personally like it that much, but didn't necessarily think it was bad. Read a lot of the reviews too, and although some good points were made about a lack of character development in the protagonist, I found most of them uninformed in regards to psychological behavior. To assume that he should have seen the signs earlier is incorrect, not to mention that wives and husbands of serial killers often have convinced themselves that there is nothing out of the ordinary because the pain of the truth would be too difficult to handle. Secondly this story actually reflects a specific type of mass murderer called a "family annihilator." Many of which kill themselves with the family, however the one's that do not usually view the family as form of personal gratification. The family they create only exists for their pleasure. When that is no longer occurring the annihilator removes the family from the equation.

In this story the wife/annihilator, is also a sexual sadist, another form of murderer who gains sexual arousal from the pain inflicted, they often keep well defined memento's like images or in this case videos so they can enjoy their crimes later. Neither of these types of killers views their victims as people, so a child would be of no more consequence than anyone else. The "gore" of the story is necessary to her character as a sexual sadist, and her need to gratify herself when watching these snuff films is an aspect of that. It is repulsive, and taboo, and disgusting; it's supposed to be, to think that these types of people don't actually exist is simply and fundamentally untrue.

I will say this though, the graphic nature of the kills, goes against the highly organized thought process required to have "minions," or to "trick" him long enough to marry her. Disorganized killers have too much trouble keeping their composure, and she is disorganized, her need to stab when they talk back, and the death of the baby as well as the laugh, are disorganized killers behaviors so there is a muddle of psychological aspects that do not all fit together.