Mal: Ready? Zoe: Always.

'Serenity'


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]


Hil R. - Feb 17, 2009 2:54:34 pm PST #2436 of 11831
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

OK, I know I said I wouldn't complain about the Jewish stuff on House, because, first, they get much more right than most shows do, and second, I know not to expect much from TV on this front. However. This one's bothersome enough that I had to mention it:

Cuddy told House at the beginning of the episode that the Simchat Bat would be on Friday night. Now, I am impressed that they got it right that she'd be having a Simchat Bat -- there's no set ritual for celebrating the birth of a baby girl, and a few different traditions have developed, and the Simchat Bat does seem like the one that Cuddy would be most likely to pick. And lots of people do have it as a ceremony at home. There could be a rabbi there, but there doesn't have to be. Cuddy seems like the type who'd want a rabbi there, though -- she doesn't seem terribly observant, and so having a rabbi at the ceremony would make it seem more religiously official. I didn't notice anyone in the scene who was obviously supposed to be a rabbi, but I'm not certain. But anyway, rabbi or not, have an at-home Jewish ceremony on a Friday night makes little to no sense. At Conservative and Reform synagogues, Friday night services are generally at 8. People have dinner at home first, then go to synagogue. Services take 45 minutes or an hour, and then there's cookies and coffee and socializing and stuff. This leaves no time for either the rabbi or any of the congregation to go to a ceremony somewhere else.

(I'm also iffy on Chase and Foreman wearing the kippahs, and also on the particular ones they were wearing, but that's just somewhat odd, not to the making no sense point that the Friday night thing was.)


§ ita § - Feb 17, 2009 2:59:24 pm PST #2437 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm hoping it's Daniels that leaves. She barely does anything. She has the smallest role of the whole team. Even the A/V guy gets more lines.


Vortex - Feb 17, 2009 3:43:08 pm PST #2438 of 11831
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Yeah, it seems that Tao, Flynn and Provenza get all of the good stuff.

for those who haven't seen Leverage, there seems to be a marathon starting at Tuesday at 10AM


§ ita § - Feb 17, 2009 4:01:54 pm PST #2439 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Again? Cool. They just ran 6 or so episodes on Friday and Saturday.


Barb - Feb 17, 2009 6:45:59 pm PST #2440 of 11831
“Not dead yet!”

Oooh... Rigsby's goin' out. And not with Van Pelt.


beekaytee - Feb 18, 2009 6:38:07 am PST #2441 of 11831
Compassionately intolerant

I enjoyed the Leverage episode...especially the 'then I thought, what would ____do' bit.

The thing I didn't like was the blowing up the office bit. They could have destroyed evidence in a more sophisticated, L-team way. Like fillng up the office space with insulaton foam, or something. Pell mell blowing up a building (even just on floor) where other people work and might be walking by when the shards of glass and rubble come-a-tumblin-down? Shot me right out of the story so much that I almost missd Badger's amoral speech.

I did love Elliott taking knocks and still ticking. Kane looked like he was having a good time.


Vortex - Feb 18, 2009 6:43:29 am PST #2442 of 11831
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I did love Elliott taking knocks and still ticking.

Why won't you go down!!

And if he hadn't been sucker punched, it would have been over a lot quicker.


§ ita § - Feb 18, 2009 7:08:11 am PST #2443 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Bonny, ita "Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name..." Feb 18, 2009 9:05:37 am PST.


Kathy A - Feb 18, 2009 7:54:01 am PST #2444 of 11831
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Trailer for Law & Order: UK. I knew Freema Ageyman was in it, but had no clue Jamie Bamber was!


Juliebird - Feb 18, 2009 4:03:23 pm PST #2445 of 11831
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Dani's hair! It's out of her face!

There is hope.