How's it sit? Pretty cunning, don'tchya think?

Jayne ,'The Message'


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]


brenda m - Oct 15, 2013 9:13:58 am PDT #10155 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

This latest ep I think has crossed the amount of stupid I can tolerate, even though I was already only watching for Spader. I think I will give it one more week.


§ ita § - Oct 15, 2013 9:20:02 am PDT #10156 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You can paralyze people so that they can still breathe. It's a different nervous system from the one she'd use to move around. I don't know if you can do it with a drug, but I wouldn't be surprised. But you can definitely do it.

What you can't do is punch someone lying at the base of the tree while you stand up like that and knock them out. Schwarzenegger couldn't have pulled that haymaker off. You'd need a different punch, but most of all, it'd be easier with a different angle.

Also, James Spader punched like an actress. Please fix how actresses on TV punch first, then Spader.


WindSparrow - Oct 15, 2013 10:26:26 am PDT #10157 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.

You can paralyze people so that they can still breathe. It's a different nervous system from the one she'd use to move around. I don't know if you can do it with a drug, but I wouldn't be surprised. But you can definitely do it.

Yes, general anesthesia consists of two parts: the drug which causes the temporary paralysis, and the drug that knocks you out so you don't feel the pain. There are rare occasions in which the former succeeds but the latter fails so the patient feels the entire procedure but cannot call out for help to let them know things have gone wrong. One of my psych profs in college had a client in therapy from the trauma of that.


Toddson - Oct 15, 2013 12:22:53 pm PDT #10158 of 11831
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I watch for the snark; James Spader has mastered supercilious.


-t - Oct 15, 2013 8:01:22 pm PDT #10159 of 11831
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I do watch Breaking Bad...

Heh. I did actually know about plastic containers for HF from high school chemistry! It's used for etching glass, among other things.


Trudy Booth - Oct 18, 2013 9:46:56 am PDT #10160 of 11831
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

How hard do we think it would be to put a good-sized corpse into a latex suit?


Sophia Brooks - Oct 18, 2013 9:49:46 am PDT #10161 of 11831
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

That seems like it would result in a comedy of errors similar to Ross and his leather pants.


Steph L. - Oct 18, 2013 9:54:18 am PDT #10162 of 11831
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Like Sherlock said, without talcum powder, damn near impossible. Because it's not like the dude can cooperate and therefore help. Like when you try to get a shoe onto a toddler's foot -- that kid ain't helping, mostly because it doesn't really understand that it can or should help. So you're shoving a foot into a shoe and hoping it all works.

Only this is a much larger, much nakeder scale. Ick. That co-worker must have REALLY wanted the extra bonus money to be willing to shove his dead, hairy, jiggly boss into the suit. And again I say ICK.


WindSparrow - Oct 18, 2013 11:39:34 am PDT #10163 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.

Only this is a much larger, much nakeder scale. Ick. That co-worker must have REALLY wanted the extra bonus money to be willing to shove his dead, hairy, jiggly boss into the suit. And again I say ICK.

Not to mention the foolish futility of it. The man should see jail time - and will likely be paying through the nose for a lawyer at the very least - for all the laws he broke in doing so, when in fact the dead guy took care of his morals clause all by himself, it being the why and wherefore of him getting deaded to begin with.


Tom Scola - Oct 18, 2013 11:43:37 am PDT #10164 of 11831
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

It was like they had 2 or 3 pitches for episodes that were incomplete, and they sort of just mixed them together to get one full episode.