No, they showed the season opener again.
Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us? Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir.
'Safe'
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 § - Dec 01, 2009 11:05:30 am PST #4334 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
§ ita § - Dec 01, 2009 11:10:30 am PST #4335 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Paul Ekman's Lie To Me blog. Not sure why it's unformatted. I only read it through RSS.
Zenkitty - Dec 01, 2009 11:10:42 am PST #4336 of 11831
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Magical DNA and fingerprint results are a staple of practically all the crime shows.
That's something I like about Criminal Minds; they don't get instant results on DNA and fingerprints found on the scene. They're always like, "The results will take days! We don't have that kind of time!" But they make up for it with Garcia and her Magic Computer that can pluck information directly from the fabric of the space-time continuum itself.
§ ita § - Dec 01, 2009 11:14:55 am PST #4337 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ed Bernero has said he's proud that CM solves crimes without forensics. But I can think of Machismo off the top of my head where they sent the glasses back from Mexico and found out the gender of the person who'd drunk from them.
bon bon - Dec 01, 2009 11:16:43 am PST #4338 of 11831
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
The Castle blog is useful, but complaining about the ME doing forensic work is like complaining about the doctors doing tests on House. You can't hire another half-dozen day players and waste all that good exposition time.
Connie Neil - Dec 01, 2009 11:24:41 am PST #4339 of 11831
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The NCIS with the power outage had fun with searching for fingerprints by hand. The odds of finding a match by hand are astronomical, but having the entire team peering blearily at cards for hours at a time was a good touch.
Vortex - Dec 01, 2009 11:26:45 am PST #4340 of 11831
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
But I can think of Machismo off the top of my head where they sent the glasses back from Mexico and found out the gender of the person who'd drunk from them.
yeah, but that's a fairly easy, quick test.
§ ita § - Dec 01, 2009 11:27:47 am PST #4341 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Compressed time, compressed roles--all perfectly standard for expediency's sake. Pointing a gun at every guy on the bus? There you're abusing police procedure for dramatic effect. Other shit is carelessness or ignorance.
I like when John Rogers explains some of the wrong stuff in Leverage. Sometimes they're actually right, sometimes it's to make the story go easier, sometimes they were told by a supposed expert that it was right. His last justification was Law:Leverage as Medicine:House which basically meant get on the fun train and off my back.
§ ita § - Dec 01, 2009 11:34:48 am PST #4342 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
that's a fairly easy, quick test
But it still runs counter to the showrunner's assertion that they don't do that. They've also run fingerprint comparisons, but I think they usually don't come up with matches.
The odds of finding a match by hand are astronomical
Final matching is done by eye, and it sure used to be done that way.
Tom Scola - Dec 01, 2009 11:36:52 am PST #4343 of 11831
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
he's proud that CM solves crimes without forensics.
I would be much more impressed if criminal profiling weren't, you know, hokum.