In case you didn't believe that Ironside could be as bad as the reviews: Believe. Don't say I never did anything for you.
Ginger, I trust your judgment. I really wanted to see the show too. Bah.
Wesley: Feng Shui. Gunn: Right. What's that mean again? Wesley: That people will believe anything. Actually, in this place, Feng Shui will probably have enormous significance. I'll align my furniture the wrong way and suddenly catch fire or turn into a pudding.
'Conviction (1)'
Procedurals 1: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You.
This thread is for procedural TV, shows where the primary idea is to figure out the case. [NAFDA]
le nubian - Oct 02, 2013 7:52:37 pm PDT #10083 of 11831
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Dana - Oct 03, 2013 3:41:49 am PDT #10084 of 11831
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
We watched the pilot. Very typical "He doesn't play by the rules!" show.
brenda m - Oct 03, 2013 3:56:38 am PDT #10085 of 11831
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I likeBlair Underwood enough to give it a couple of eps.
erikaj - Oct 03, 2013 7:29:59 am PDT #10086 of 11831
Always Anti-fascist!
Could be good, but is kind of not.I went on for some length at LJ if you want to read it, but I could not follow the case of the week. Blair was good, though.
sj - Oct 03, 2013 8:06:48 am PDT #10087 of 11831
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm not sure where the line is for me wrt to non-disabled actors playing disabled characters, but I know Ironside is over that line.
erikaj - Oct 03, 2013 8:16:06 am PDT #10088 of 11831
Always Anti-fascist!
I don't think seeing him in flashback is absolutely essential, actually I think it plays to a bias that injured people need to be thinking about life Before, or whatever, which keeps me from telling my story on TV because I don't have one. I think probably they sold the show, based on Underwood's involvement(which should have been a mixed bag as I love him, but he's made a lot of stuff that hasn't lasted and/or crap.)
§ ita § - Oct 03, 2013 8:18:39 am PDT #10089 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I know Ironside is over that line.
How?
sj - Oct 03, 2013 1:51:13 pm PDT #10090 of 11831
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
How?
I'm not really sure. It's mostly just a gut thing. Although partially it is quotes I've seen from the show runners talking about the fact that they would have to show scenes of him before the accident throughout the series so that they had to have an able bodied actor. Which seemed to imply, at least for me, that a show about solely about a guy in a wheelchair would not be interesting by itself. I get the impression that this may be the kind of show that has the character get some miraculous surgery at the end of the run, so he is no longer handicapped, and, therefore, everything is right in the world again.
§ ita § - Oct 03, 2013 5:40:36 pm PDT #10091 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is it a problem that it's yet again, not a story about a permanently disabled person and there aren't enough of those, since I'm assuming there's nothing intrinsically wrong with stories about people who became disabled? Or is there something in the way this story is being told that is being done wrong?
WindSparrow - Oct 03, 2013 7:32:55 pm PDT #10092 of 11831
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
So, about Person of Interest - I did a search in thread, and as far as I can tell, we have spent more time talking about whether we should talk about it here or in Boxed Set than we have spent actually talking about the show. I want to talk burble about The Machine as a character, and I feel shy about doing so in Procedurals, because that tells against it being here. But then again, if I get out my pom-poms and enthuse about moving the discussion to Boxed Set but only have a couple of posts of burbling in me, I'd feel silly. Should I go to Boxed Set, get my burbling over with, and let everyone else carry on without me?