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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]

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Trudy Booth - Mar 29, 2010 6:15:54 pm PDT #5190 of 11834

Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

OK, love Castle. I do. But...

WHY bust in to his apartment with fiddy people and THEN have a stake-out?

I'm the last person in the world to get all SHOOT HIM! SHOOT HIM! but WHY didn't Beckett shoot him when he jumped on the subway? And WHY have "Castle, I'll distract him, you untie Dana Delaney"? SHOOT THE FUCKER IN THE BACK. She's NYPD. She's actively holding a loaded weapon both times. FIRE THAT THANG.

Morgana - Mar 29, 2010 6:23:39 pm PDT #5191 of 11834

"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber

Why say you're going in quietly and then take "WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP" helicopters?

Trudy Booth - Mar 29, 2010 6:28:57 pm PDT #5192 of 11834

Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

No kidding.

(I went with "maybe there's a helipad nearby and he's expecting to hear them" so I could keep watching.)

§ ita § - Mar 30, 2010 6:17:54 am PDT #5193 of 11834

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

SHOOT THE FUCKER IN THE BACK.

Don't you get in trouble for that?

Frankenbuddha - Mar 30, 2010 6:28:40 am PDT #5194 of 11834

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I think you also get in trouble for shooting into a populated subway car.

SailAweigh - Mar 30, 2010 6:29:25 am PDT #5195 of 11834

Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Don't you get in trouble for that?

Yes, you have to be in imminent danger of your life. His back to you, NSM.

beekaytee - Mar 30, 2010 6:40:58 am PDT #5196 of 11834

Compassionately intolerant

Ugh. I'm watching Castle right now...ominous garage scene.

Eep.

Zenkitty - Mar 30, 2010 6:47:00 am PDT #5197 of 11834

Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Yell an insult to his parentage and make him turn around, THEN shoot him.

erikaj - Mar 30, 2010 7:59:21 am PDT #5198 of 11834

Always Anti-fascist!

You could always go the Kellerman route and shoot him AS he gets Miranda. Seriously...it was like "You have the right to remain silent.Bam!" I've seen it a few times and still laugh nervously. But I like the backstory on that one better than chocolate.David Simon wrote this whole arc on H:LOTS about Luther Mahoney, the Moriarty of the West Balmer drug trade, right? And he goes in for a meeting with the suits and the suits are all like "David, sweetie, baby, cookie, honey. Love your stuff, but our guys are totes gonna catch the big bad drug dealer. Right?"
And Simon being Simon was probably like "Why? Because the police never caught This Guy, and they had to let This Other Guy go...people do get by with this shit sometimes."

So they say "Well, he has to die, then. We can't let people watching our sponsors think that people don't pay for drug dealing." So, Simon, still rolling his eyes forever, set out to write the most ambiguous officer-involved in the history of TV. Because he was damned if he'd give us the easy satisfaction. I still ponder the level of fuck-you that takes, even though it's a landmark in procedural TV.

Zenkitty - Mar 30, 2010 10:20:35 am PDT #5199 of 11834

Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Nathan just tweeted: Castle got a third season pickup.

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