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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]


§ ita § - Oct 12, 2009 5:34:12 pm PDT #3793 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Kate was too prissy for me. She also never met a protection detail she couldn't botch. I don't think the writers ever let her get one right, except for the bullet she blocked for Gibbs, and then she took one to the noggin right afterwards.

Beforehand I would have said that Gibbs wouldn't fire Ziva for fraternisation because he wouldn't fire her for anything because she was his ever-so-favourite, but he's been right pissy to her this season (my least favourite part of the writing so far), and it's not quite like he's hired her yet. Is she working for free?


Connie Neil - Oct 12, 2009 7:33:24 pm PDT #3794 of 11831
brillig

Now that she's resigned from the Mossad she's working for free, until she gets hired on with NCIS. And Gibbs is pissy with her because he was thinking she took out Ari just to earn his trust. Having seen what Dear Old Mossad Daddy considered proper family relations, Gibbs is entitled to be leery.


§ ita § - Oct 12, 2009 7:59:09 pm PDT #3795 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Then I think Gibbs should send her home. It's a high security job, and if he can't trust her, she shouldn't be there with access to sensitive material and evidence. I don't think he's acting like a grownup in the workplace, but I guess he's just taking Functional Mute to the next logical place, and he's never really been grownup in the workplace.


aurelia - Oct 12, 2009 9:08:31 pm PDT #3796 of 11831
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

since Grissom was lecturing at the Sorbonne for the semester

This would be even more amusing to me if they said he was in Chicago since Mr. Peterson and I had dinner in the same restaurant yesterday.


Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 13, 2009 12:41:59 am PDT #3797 of 11831
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

This is the first episde where Chase was interesting. Even though I disagree with him

I wasn't sure I believed that the character would do what he did. It will be interesting to see what the fallout involves in the coming weeks. I hope they show the decision continuing to affect him.

SO glad to have the original team back together! I was wondering when they were going to do that. It seemed a dead cert that they eventually would, given that the credits never changed.

Does anyone know if that trick House pulled on the amputee is a real neurological treatment? I couldn't figure out what the hell he was doing. An explanation of some kind would have been nice.


Connie Neil - Oct 13, 2009 6:15:24 am PDT #3798 of 11831
brillig

Still hate Cameron. I miss Taub.


Kristen - Oct 13, 2009 6:20:31 am PDT #3799 of 11831

It's a real treatment.


Zenkitty - Oct 13, 2009 6:29:46 am PDT #3800 of 11831
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Does anyone know if that trick House pulled on the amputee is a real neurological treatment? I couldn't figure out what the hell he was doing. An explanation of some kind would have been nice.

It is real, but I don't think it's ever been shown to work quite that fast. Basically, the mirror image tricks the brain into thinking that the missing limb (that it can still feel) is there again, and seeing it obviously unharmed, the mind relaxes its grip on the remembered pain. Phantom pain is fascinating and weird.

eta, or, just read Kristen's link.


Zenkitty - Oct 13, 2009 6:37:23 am PDT #3801 of 11831
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Kate was too prissy for me. She also never met a protection detail she couldn't botch. I don't think the writers ever let her get one right, except for the bullet she blocked for Gibbs, and then she took one to the noggin right afterwards.

That was the dumbest thing. She took a bullet in the vest, saved his life, and then they all three stood around on the rooftop bantering, as if - what? the gunman dropped dead after he fired, like a bee? They should have been taking cover, firing back, calling for backup. Not just standing there.


billytea - Oct 13, 2009 6:42:53 am PDT #3802 of 11831
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

That was the dumbest thing. She took a bullet in the vest, saved his life, and then they all three stood around on the rooftop bantering, as if - what? the gunman dropped dead after he fired, like a bee?

The same thing happens to honeybee drones after sex. They basically explode and leave their genitalia jammed inside the queen. You'd expect more performance anxiety from them, really.