And then there's H:LOTS. Where they can get the right guy in the Box and still make you wonder who the bad guy is.
Dawn: Is that supposed to scare me? Spike: Little tremble wouldn't hurt.
'The Killer In Me'
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]
erikaj - May 22, 2009 9:30:07 am PDT #3272 of 11831
Always Anti-fascist!
§ ita § - May 22, 2009 10:47:17 am PDT #3273 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
CSI and Cold Case are always calling people into the box until they hit one that sings. Every episode. It's not that rare, I don't think.
Connie Neil - May 22, 2009 11:23:53 am PDT #3274 of 11831
brillig
It may be anti-social of me, but I love when the guilty one won't crack. The cases are so often so flimsy that they wouldn't get anywhere without a confession. And I notice the cases almost never show the conviction. Which is standard, I believe.
§ ita § - May 22, 2009 11:34:40 am PDT #3275 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I notice the cases almost never show the conviction. Which is standard, I believe.
It doesn't fall under the umbrella of the procedural, I don't think. That gets as far as solving the crime, and a little bit of satisfaction of seeing the guilty person nabbed. L&O has to excise so much time to include the legal proceedings in the same narrative.
Tom Scola - May 22, 2009 11:38:27 am PDT #3276 of 11831
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
On Dragnet, they would announce at the end of each episode what sentence the perp got.
DUM DA DUM DUM!
Java cat - May 22, 2009 2:18:25 pm PDT #3277 of 11831
Not javachik
Whatever happened to the Closer? I should Google it, but maybe someone will know before I get around to it. I saw a couple of eps and it looked like Brenda and Fritz really were going to get married. This was before my Tivo was fixed, and I missed a bunch of eps, I think. Then it vanished. Very weird. THAT's the procedural. Where did my show go and what happened to it that made it disappear?
ITA about WaT. They went over the line with the extended story line about Jack's father, who I think died at the end of the storyline. But I don't know what they are doing now, I've watched maybe 2 or 3 episodes in the last 6 months. I hope they marry off Danny and the new dark haired chick before they end completely.
§ ita § - May 22, 2009 2:22:04 pm PDT #3278 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I hope they marry off Danny and the new dark haired chick before they end completely.
They got married off screen in what turned out to be the series finale.
As for The Closer, the season ended. It'll be back in a month or two.
le nubian - May 22, 2009 2:36:06 pm PDT #3279 of 11831
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
next month.
§ ita § - May 22, 2009 3:13:09 pm PDT #3280 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was assuming you meant Elena when you said new chick, right? She has been on the show four years.
sumi - May 22, 2009 8:09:24 pm PDT #3281 of 11831
Art Crawl!!!
The Closer is going to be back in the first week of June.
(Hee, I know she's been there forever but I think of Elena as the new chick too.)