I wonder if the general public, (meaning those people who get all their information about this case from television news, alone) feel as strongly negative about the A's?
If I wasn't aware of the events surrounding the situation, I probably would have laughed at Cindy's 'hammer time' or related to her as a mom protecting her kid and told her to take a swing at those fools on her front lawn.
I have developed a "shell" I guess you could call it, regarding people I see on TV. Growing up in the 70's, very much a child of my times. The Vietnam War was in our living room every night, college kids dying in protests, followed by the Brady Bunch and Happy Daze. It all took on the same not quite real, it's all acting 'feel'. It's very hard for me to make a connection with people through the TV. It's very hard for me to make an accurate assessment of someone on TV; unless I go back and pick apart their body language and facial expressions.
The written word on the other hand says so much. To read the transcripts and hear little things we didn't pick up the first time, put that together with a good face or body reading. Bam!!
So for me I guess the answer to your question is no. I can sit in front of the tube with my hubby, completely engrossed in a movie or book, stare straight at the TV during a commercial and not be able to tell you 1 thing about what I just watched.
RE: George saying "They need me."
CAYLEE needed George too.....to help find her after her mother did something to her. To clear up the lies surrounding her diappearance, not feed into them. He didn't do a very good job when hos granddaughter needed him. I don't think he will be much of a help to this family either since he really has no idea what they are going through. His granddaughter wasn't even suspected to be abducted. Everyone seemed to know from the getgo, grandparents included that Caylee was deceased.
George saying "they need me" hurt my heart, he wants so badly to be there for someone, to be supportive of another human in pain.
He has been so abused by his own family. Telling KC he would put himself in her shoes in jail to spare her, that he would give his own life to get Caylee back. I'm sure she got a good giggle out of that later that night. And I'm also sure she would trade places with him, put him in that cell in New York minute if she could figure out how to get away with it.
By the time Caylee went missing, she was already beyond George's help. Caylee needed George when the A's let KC leave their home with her. She needed George when KC was dragging her to different mens homes and putting her sleep in their beds. During the 2 years that KC said she was going to work and George suspected she didn't have a job. I have a horrible feeling there were a lot of times that Caylee really needed George when he wasn't around and when he was, she didn't yet have the words to tell him what she was going through.
I think in Caylee, George saw a second chance. An opportunity to care for a child who really needed him and I think George was embracing the chance. I think KC was jealous of the attention George gave Caylee, attention that she didn't get herself. This is why KC told her friends ugly stories about George. No doubt some of those stories got back to him and hurt him to his core. Caylee was George's sunshine, morning and nite. She needed him.