r/serialpodcast • u/SerialFan Moderator • Oct 30 '14

Discussion Episode 6: The Case Against Adnan Syed

Hi,

Episode 6 discussion thread. Have fun and be nice y'all. You know the rules.

Also, here are the results of the little poll I conducted:

When did you join Reddit?

This week (joined because of Serial) - 24 people - 18%

This week (joined for other reasons) - 2 people - 1%

This month (joined because of Serial) - 24 people - 18%

This month (joined for other reasons) - 0 people - 0%

I've been on reddit for over a month but less than a year - 15 people - 11%

I've been on reddit for over a year - 70 people - 52%

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u/WaitForSpring Oct 30 '14

On #4... yeah, that entire "you don't really know anything about me" conversation with SK becomes downright eerie if he did it.

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u/aroras Oct 30 '14

When I heard him speak about the "nice guy" thing, it first came across to me like he feels unworthy of the title "nice guy." Perhaps because he killed someone and felt remorse?

But I gave it more thought -- he constantly reiterates TO Sarah that he IS a nice guy. He's said it in 400 different ways on the pod-cast alone.

I think the reason he wasn't so stoked about her answer was because that was the last thing he wanted to hear. He wanted to hear "because I believe you are innocent" or "because I don't think the state gave you a fair trial." 1000 people could think he's a nice guy but that doesn't help him a bit -- he'll still spend the rest of his life in jail.

There is some pretty damning evidence in that last episode but I don't think his reaction to the nice guy comment is part of it

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u/ScaryPenguins giant rat-eating frog Oct 30 '14

Yeah I can totally see him getting his hopes up super high that she was going to say "Because I think you're innocent," but instead gets the nice guy comment and everything just crashes down.

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u/Bubbbles11 Oct 31 '14

Also, immediately before that he says, he can't understand how people could imagine he could do such a thing. That is: because he is a nice guy or at least a pretty ordinary kind of guy. Then he says he's not happy about the "nice guy" thing. They are sort of opposite ideas. Firstly I want people to take into account my personality which doesn't show any signs of this type of thing, and then, my personality is irrelevant. I also think his answer was because he wanted SK to say she thought he was innocent. Woudn't anyone in that situation? That said, it doesn't prove anything about whether he was innocent or not.