but for young, dramatic balance was not enough, and the skill of execution made the problem he saw even more acute. the drama was not just making an "observation on human affairs as these illuminated the human condition", rather "it purported to be a faithful rendition of events, and the purpose of it was to conduct a forensic inquiry into the moral quality of those events." "[a]ctors playing scripted parts: sir john hermon, the ruc chief, stalker himself, were displayed as if wholly and completely real." he worried that such techniques could be "capable of fatally blurring the line between what is true and what is televisually convenient".