i think even more insidious is that the scripted often apply 'logical' actions to the attacker bc that's what drama likes to do - tie up loose ends and provide reasons
but these attacks are often crimes of passion - meaning the person is not in the 'right mind' and how do the people orbiting the attacker respond? who knows? you've never trained for this
'you see it all over this thread, 'if i was _____ (the guy, the girl, the parents, the cops), the i would have...' - it is a completely pointless exercise - if you've never been in such traumatic/life or death situations, you have no idea how you would act