Buffy: How bored were you last year? Giles: I watched 'Passions' with Spike. Let us never speak of it.

'Beneath You'


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]


Morgana - Jun 02, 2009 1:43:14 pm PDT #3336 of 11831
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber

In classic Buffista style, I read this as

promos that say "the team loses one of its own" when the victim turns out to be someone we've met once, hacking into computer systems by typing random keys really fast and people who don't wear seatbelts.

Perhaps in my own classic Buffista style I conflated all the examples in the second quote, and was trying to figure out what stray team member we've seen die because they easily hacked into a computer system and didn't wear a seatbelt. Were they using a laptop? Maybe while driving? And then my brain wrenched its way back to the proper channel.


le nubian - Jun 02, 2009 5:00:39 pm PDT #3337 of 11831
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Oh, I would watch Ginger's network. In a heartbeat. I feel like adding to your list, but that may suffice for now.

The problem with the Medium finale is that she JUST HAD a fucking medical crisis like 4 weeks ago - the ep with Jeffrey Tambor. They stack these medical crises on Allison as if anyone normal adult could still be mobile, walking around and employed by the DA's office.


sj - Jun 04, 2009 1:39:21 pm PDT #3338 of 11831
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I am watching a syndicated episode of Bones on TNT. I hadn't realized that Zach had gotten home from Iraq in the same episode that the Gormagon's first victim was found. Also, I miss Zach and really wish they had gone deeper into what happened in Iraq and how it lead to him working for Gormagon.


DebetEsse - Jun 05, 2009 8:30:13 am PDT #3339 of 11831
Woe to the fucking wicked.

I think we would have gotten that, if the writers' strike hadn't shortened the season.

And least, I choose to believe so.


Connie Neil - Jun 05, 2009 9:02:46 am PDT #3340 of 11831
brillig

So do I.


sj - Jun 05, 2009 12:43:21 pm PDT #3341 of 11831
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Oh, I do too. I think they could still give that too us though. The team still doesn't know that Zack didn't kill anyone. I was really hoping they were going to find a way to deal with it this season, and the delve into his motives for what he did do a little deeper, instead of that stupid dream finale.


§ ita § - Jun 05, 2009 3:35:45 pm PDT #3342 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

BBC interview with Hugh Laurie in which he discusses House and Twitter.


Stephanie - Jun 10, 2009 2:41:34 pm PDT #3343 of 11831
Trust my rage

zach wasntthe guy on the motorcycle, was he? I can't remember what he did. He just discovered that Gormogon was watching the vault through mirrors but I can't figure out if he's working for G yet.


aurelia - Jun 10, 2009 2:59:29 pm PDT #3344 of 11831
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I think Zach became the apprentice after the guy on the motorcycle.


Kathy A - Jun 16, 2009 11:10:53 am PDT #3345 of 11831
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I'm only getting caught up on Bones now, but I have to point out one thing that's bugging the shit out of me re: this show. I've seen probably twenty or so eps so far (since the Memorial Day marathon), and other than the completely awesome prosecutor lady, the only times that they have on fat women is to mock them or make them into the crazy person. There was the mother of Howard Epps, the serial killer, whose BO was so bad when they had her in interrogation that Booth was reeling and Bones explained it as the mold growing in her fat folds, leading anyone watching to assume that all obese people smell bad. Then there was the overweight woman who found the body in the fairground's horror house and was told by Brennan she should lose weight. And last night, we met Fat Pam, the singer's stalker who turned her gaze on Booth.

Is there any woman that they have on other than the prosecutor who is heavy yet normal or at least not urged to diet by Brennan?