Snoopy Dance

Tim, of course. Everyone knows beagles prefer ballet to interpretive dancing.

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Read. Ponder. Discuss.

Speculate, even.

If it's scheduled for March, they'll probably wait until after the January premieres.

... and the February cancellations ....

Oh, god, another show about profilers.

I know one former profiler and another woman who just got her PhD critiquing the entire concept of profiling. Kinda think this is gonna be a hard sell...

If profiling is the basis for good storytelling no one will care whether the science is a valid one. See vampires, werewolves, demons, faster than light travel...

Evil bunnies out to take over the world however are documented fact.

I'm pretty excited about it. I'm all...Tim gets to kill twenty people! Every week!

Oh, see now, that's much better than the high school thing. So much better. I enjoy the profiler concept. And, hey, she's a rookie, so there'll no doubt be some angsty, painful, screw-ups. Neat. When did I become this person? She's kinda morbid. Oh well.

Read. Ponder. Discuss.

Speculate, even

Oooo! I'm very intrigued. Cop shows and even profilers may have been done to death, but nsm the serial killer sidekick. (This is what I'm assuming from the Silence of the Lambs reference, anyway.)

(Also, someone needs to take away my refresh button so I can get off the Minear random quote generating crack on Kristen's site.)

So, here's my thoughts on the whole thing.

Buffy wasn't really a show about a Slayer. It brought her adventure, certainly, but it was a show about a girl who sort of found herself (and sometimes lost herself) while battling evil gooey things and trying to make sure the evil gooey things didn't soak into her skin and change who she was, but they certainly helped shape her views on things.

I think that's a little bit of who Rebecca will be. She's broken, whip smart, strong, but young and stumbly. She's surrounded by people who have preconceived notions about women, pretty women, young women, broken women. She's aware of those preconceived notions, and that's a part of what makes her good at her job, she thinks outside of those notions to find the complete person.

Part of her investigational duties is to profile the victims of violent and painfully creepy and dark killers and sadists. Since she's still struggling with who she is, it's easier for her to slip into someone else's skin, find the common threads between brutalized women and sort of become their fists.

The procedural aspect of the show, that there's a mystery to be solved, and it's all sort of fantastic (yet possible, nothing supernatural here) drives the story, of course. And so I think a large audience will enjoy that particular part of it.

The second part is character development, and um, I say this without intent to stroke his ego, Tim is one of the few writers I've seen who genuinely understands that you have to earn the audience's heart and then break the fuck out of it and have to do it without losing them.

Jane brings in the lighter side of people's souls, and so I think the combination of the two producers is brilliant, since this show is so dark and creepy in that Angel-locks-the-lawyers-in-the-cellar kind of way.

So there's a small ensemble of interesting characters who all have a lot to offer to fill in the nooks with crunchy bits of savory development, as well.

X-Files was just another cop show, and quite procedural at heart, but what made it not Law & Order was the gorgeousness of the characters, we loved them and loved how they dealt with the weirdness around them. They were just FBI agents, investigating weird shit.

So is Rebecca, pretty much. It's the premise of the show, but not what it's all about.