If CR was trying to upset MR to demonstrate how easy MR is to anger, I would say he failed. CR seemed more angry than MR. So, you are suggesting that the DP show may all have been done with a goal in mind? Hmmm....remember, Dylan's father was reluctant to go on the show and others pushed for it. Now who is manipulating? Just a thought...
Sometimes I swear I feel like I landed on another planet, so I'm going to take sentence by sentence to try to corral my thoughts.
IMO only:
1) I don't know CR, so I don't know what his goal was. I do know anger. MR is angry. He is very angry. Not the yelling out loud kind of anger. The bottled up kind, the contained kind. Look at him.
IMO
2) I don't know if CR is angrier than MR or not -- again, I don't know either one of them.
But, I do know that CR has a *reason* to be angry at MR - actually a number of reasons, and that number is growing every time we hear more about and/or from MR. CR's little brother is gone. Disappeared. The last confirmed sighting of him appears to be on a blurry video taken at Wal-Mart. The last person to see him, as far as we know, is his protector; his father. The father who has blocked phone calls, who won't communicate, who won't take another polygraph to rule himself out. Is CR angry? I would certainly hope so. And I can understand why.
Now MR's reaction, from the very beginning, I have had a hard time wrapping my head around. I won't recount all of the oddities, the strange responses, the dulled reactions, the bizarre proclivities -- they're all out there for the reading.
But where the hell is the remorse? Where is the regret? I don't know, maybe you have to be a parent...but I have never seen MR express anything resembling the "Oh my God, what could I have done differently, if only I could take back that evening, or that morning" that we normally see parents expressing.
The anger I *have* seen MR demonstrate has always been either in his response to his perception of being persecuted, unjustly accused, or linked to, and often in combination with, his anger at ER. I have not seen the "some SOB has stolen my son" anger, which I would expect. I just cannot understand his behavior. Just can't.
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3) Well hell yes, it was done with a goal in mind -- to get MR to talk. All of this talk about how manipulative it was to get MR to go on Dr. Phil, or how mean it was to push him to answer questions, or how harsh people are to expect him to pull himself together, put his needs aside and get with the program is just baffling to me.
Manipulative? Sure, okay. Hmmmm indeed. Why on earth does it take an appearance on a national TV show to get this man to answer some simple questions -- questions which every parent who's the last to see their missing child is subject to, and which most gladly answer? And answer right away, not three months later. Why does he have to be cajoled into getting his son's name and face out there if he truly thinks he's been abducted?
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Just a thought: MR had already "lost" DR in some ways -- he was no longer in physical proximity (and yes, I know that MR didn't exercise his visitation rights even when he *was* close by), and the little boy that DR was in MR's memory was now approaching the age when he could decide, court decision or no, to remove himself from his father's life completely -- physically and emotionally, and MR must have, at least on some level, been aware of that.
If only.
JMO, IMO
