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Jessica - Jun 24, 2005 11:19:33 am PDT #111 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

I think my problem is that I have a hard time buying into any of her profiling. I realize that Rebecca being a good profiler is part of her character's premise (along the same lines as "Angel is a vampire with a soul") but I just don't buy them. Because she makes her intuitive leaps with such little evidence (which is, of course, why she's good), there's almsot nothing I can evaluate on my own terms. I have to either accept that she's right until I'm shown otherwise.

So far, Roger's required the most suspension of disbelief.

§ ita § - Jun 24, 2005 11:23:46 am PDT #112 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I have to either accept that she's right until I'm shown otherwise.

Yeah -- that's where I am. We may be shown later that she's been off all the while, but I'm not going to sweat questioning her (or the writing of it) until then. You want her infallible, Tim? Then it shall be so.

Jessica - Jun 24, 2005 11:29:55 am PDT #113 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

(I have no idea how the word "either" got into that sentence. It's a sneaky little bugger.)

Allyson - Jun 24, 2005 11:37:37 am PDT #114 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I have to either accept that she's right until I'm shown otherwise.

On this one, I believed she could absolutely be wrong, as could prefiler. I always think she could be wrong. Profiling is a guess, not an absolute. She's saying, "this is the likely scenario/description according to my understanding of things."

Which isn't a good enough reason to execute someone.

There's a "get out of my gene pool!" response I have to it, but he's already seeded it with his whiny video game playing kids who should get offa my lawn.

§ ita § - Jun 24, 2005 11:55:22 am PDT #115 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Which isn't a good enough reason to execute someone.

If she was right, to me, it still wouldn't be a good enough reason. The execution is separate from the guilt, morally.

As for her accuracy -- I'm waiting to be shown she's wrong. Either she's been right, or it's been untestable. I don't have the information to second-guess her. Only Tim does here, so I'm going to leave it be.

Kristen - Jun 24, 2005 12:52:58 pm PDT #116 of 10001

Profiling is a guess, not an absolute.

I want there to be an episode where they're all completely wrong a la Gary Ridgeway.

alienprayer - Jun 24, 2005 2:21:41 pm PDT #117 of 10001
Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -Bierce

I had the feeling that the pre-filer was altering his standards through the episode. Then he sees and investigates Rebecca, and once he finds out about the kidnapping, pushes her at the pedophile that he's noticed.

So if the FBI still had the de-gloved profiler from the first episode, he would have found a bipolar target to taunt her with.

JadeHand - Jun 25, 2005 5:12:32 am PDT #118 of 10001
"Waiting to be recognised, quite applause will do. They shower you with flowers, when they bury you." -Brave -Marillion.

ahhhhh......Ice Cream Sandwich Snuff.

Frankenbuddha - Jun 25, 2005 5:37:30 am PDT #119 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

ahhhhh......Ice Cream Sandwich Snuff.

Ice Cream Sandwich Snuff PORN, thank you very much. Never forget the porn around here.

Jessica - Jun 25, 2005 6:03:03 am PDT #120 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

To conform to the Buffista standard, it should really be Gay Ice Cream Sandwich Snuff Porn.

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