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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]


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.


Steph L. - Oct 18, 2013 11:52:06 am PDT #10165 of 11831
I look more rad than Lutheranism

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.

With every successive reveal, it was like an onion of Utter Badness. Peel away one layer of badness, and wait! There's more badness! Dude dies! No, dude was killed! Co-worker made it look sketchy just to get a bigger bonus! Nanny was accused of killing dad long ago! Nanny is framed! Nanny really DID kill her dad! Wife busy plotting to kill husband! Husband is an abusive fucknut! Son killed father!

About the time the tablet was discovered (and seriously, horrible abusive fucknuts, don't save the video if you don't want to get caught), I just groaned and said, "Everyone is horrible. Everyone. They all suck. All of them. Kill them all. Now."

I admit I'm a sucker for any hint of Sherlock And His Demons, so I loved the closing shot of him beating the hell out of the punching bag.

t edit I have Strong Feelings about Captain Gregson's dye job. And they are as follows: BAD IDEA. BAD BAD BAD NO NO NO.


WindSparrow - Oct 18, 2013 11:57:24 am PDT #10166 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.

I do rather like that they successfully brought forward for a modern interpretation of Holmes' propensity to occasionally let a murderer go, if he thought it was justified. Of course, this Holmes does have a functioning moral/ethical compass in a way that Cumberbatch's Sherlock, as a "functional sociopath" may not.


Steph L. - Oct 18, 2013 12:23:37 pm PDT #10167 of 11831
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I do rather like that they successfully brought forward for a modern interpretation of Holmes' propensity to occasionally let a murderer go, if he thought it was justified.

My memory is so lousy these days -- have we seen him do it before? And last night, really, there wasn't much he could do once the nanny confessed.


DebetEsse - Oct 18, 2013 1:02:40 pm PDT #10168 of 11831
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Andi, I think your underlying point stands, but you should be aware that there's a dynamic between the Elementary and Sherlock fandoms that Elementary fans use terms like "less human" to describe Sherlock's Sherlock, which is really hurtful/alienating/off-putting to fans who identify with that portrayal (particularly fans who are on the autism spectrum, so there are able-ism/anti-neurodiversity undertones to the conversation). I'm not accusing you of that: just warning you that you're treading close to some sore subjects (which, IMO, have soured some people on a show that they'd really like if not for parts of the fandom)

What I want to know is whether he'll be writing to Abigail while she's in prison.


le nubian - Oct 18, 2013 3:03:45 pm PDT #10169 of 11831
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

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

I am so thankful this wasn't posted in Natter.