they didn't see that coming?
The primitives are notorious for not seeing something coming.
A classic case of this--although there's lots more--was when George Bush nominated Mukasy to be attorney general a couple of years ago.
The nomination was made, and everybody knew it was a done deal, especially since Charles "Joe McCarthy" Schumer (D-New York) had endorsed it, and then later Dianne Feinstein (D-California) had also endorsed it.
Everybody knew it was a done deal, excepting the primitives.
A couple of months later, Mukasy was confirmed--by a Democrat Senate, remember--and it was BIG news, a shocker, a stunner, to the primitives.
It came right out of the blue, to the primitives.
It was hilarious.
If one watches Skins's island often enough, he sees plenty of times a steamroller's already on top of the primitives, before the primitives even know it's there.
It's hilarious.