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.
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bon bon - Jun 17, 2005 3:50:01 pm PDT #9592 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Cashmere - Jun 17, 2005 3:51:38 pm PDT #9593 of 10001
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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.
§ ita § - Jun 17, 2005 3:58:00 pm PDT #9594 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
David M - Jun 17, 2005 4:11:04 pm PDT #9595 of 10001
Putting the plain in plainclothes.
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?
JenP - Jun 17, 2005 4:17:27 pm PDT #9596 of 10001
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.
Polter-Cow - Jun 17, 2005 4:57:32 pm PDT #9597 of 10001
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Cashmere - Jun 17, 2005 4:59:02 pm PDT #9598 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
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.
Deena - Jun 17, 2005 5:38:13 pm PDT #9599 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
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.
DCJensen - Jun 17, 2005 5:50:21 pm PDT #9600 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
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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Trudy Booth - Jun 17, 2005 8:13:14 pm PDT #9601 of 10001
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I'm not an expert (much to my dismay) and I could be wrong, but my understanding is that selecting a safe word is pretty much Step A. At the very least it happens well before anyone puts anyone in cuffs.
Assuming that's the case, it's a pretty bright line. Flirting or not, without a safe word he didn't have consent to cuff her.