I don't watch CSI or any of that stuff, so it's gory to me. Perhaps some of these people complaining are also not CSI watchers. I am watching this show *in spite* of the gore, b/c of the Tim and Jane and Adam and Katie.

Yes, though it's not actually the gore, it's the pictures that bother me.

I kept wanting for them to display a little professional distance in their examination of the subject.

Yeah, that would be nice.

On a completely random side note: did it freak anyone else out when Adam Baldwin was wearing those blue gloves????

Was that this episode? I wondered if it was a Firefly ref.

Yeah, that would be nice.

I took some educational psychology classes and a good friend of mine has her doctorate in psychology. I'll be the first to admit a lot of people in the field have HUGE issues of their own, but most, do learn some kind of professional detachment.

I'd think that would be paramount in cases like these. But I could be missing the point because it might be the closeness to the cases that helps solve them. Or something.

In a character driven drama, though, how much detachment can you get? Especially from a rookie who may have failed her psych test and a guy appointed conscience?

For me, procedurals leave the investigator drama out. I never dreamt Tim ever meant to do that, ever.

The blue gloves were last episode and while they could be standard issue I prefer to see them as a Firefly reference.

Speaking of which, was anyone else reminded of the Alliance interviewing the Serenity crew when they were interviewing the assistants of the murdered women?

Speaking of which, was anyone else reminded of the Alliance interviewing the Serenity crew when they were interviewing the assistants of the murdered women?

Yes. Loved that bit, too. Especially the male assistant and his eagerness to dish.

Tim's been iconified by our very own Partyman.

For me, procedurals leave the investigator drama out. I never dreamt Tim ever meant to do that, ever.

Good point. I'm sitting here trying to think of a way to delve deeply into characters while still maintaining detachment and not coming up with very much.

They did look like they were trying to appear detached when they were questioning the assistants of the women who died, up until the anal, anyway. That was very funny.

I don't see the handcuffing as assault. His expectations were that he was seducing her, and she was responding. She was in his sex room, and she wasn't frightened by his tools of the trade.

Two things could have happened, in his expectations: First, she could have responded positivly and they would have gone a little further, and maybe took a moment and established a safe word. The second possibilty to him was if she had continued to say no, he might have even taken them off and apologized as misreading her. Maybe he would have inferred for her to think about it and come back when she was ready.

But as Arlo Guthre might have said "there was a third possibility that he hadn't even counted upon." That she would immediately go into real freak out and he would have to try and deal with that, or not deal well with it.

In his mind all the signals were there, and he probably expected one or another outcome. How could he expect the third?

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