re: #44 Backwoods Sleuth

as I’ve seen it, the big mistake was portraying that baby as being held hostage all by himself, which I saw all over the place for many days. But the first mention I saw of him included the huge fact that it was his entire family taken hostage together.

But that didn’t pull heart strings as much as implying he was being held hostage all by himself and letting people’s imaginations run wild as to what happened to his family.

Again, why is this a mistake? It looks like mission accomplished to me, given the notorious effectiveness of first impressions vs later corrections.