Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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 § - Nov 12, 2011 5:25:03 pm PST #8342 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was her.


sj - Nov 12, 2011 5:26:52 pm PST #8343 of 11831
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

sj, I think it was Jaime Ray Newman: [link]

Thanks! The red hair was throwing me off.


le nubian - Nov 15, 2011 12:05:41 pm PST #8344 of 11831
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

NBC shutting down Prime Suspect.


brenda m - Nov 15, 2011 12:09:13 pm PST #8345 of 11831
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Dang.


§ ita § - Nov 15, 2011 12:12:16 pm PST #8346 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

So they dropped that and Community from their midseason schedule, and that's being shut down....


sumi - Nov 15, 2011 12:18:54 pm PST #8347 of 11831
Art Crawl!!!

Yeah.


Scrappy - Nov 15, 2011 12:31:31 pm PST #8348 of 11831
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Bummer. I liked that show.


le nubian - Nov 15, 2011 12:41:00 pm PST #8349 of 11831
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

ita, I KNOW.

NBC's assurances do not make me happy.


§ ita § - Nov 15, 2011 12:52:13 pm PST #8350 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I thought the show was a waste of whatever rights they were paying the UK, though. It had nothing to do with the original series. No throughline at all. Nothing save names.

But it was becoming a decent cop drama. They were getting less thoroughly unlikeable.

NBC, you're on the list.


le nubian - Nov 15, 2011 1:09:58 pm PST #8351 of 11831
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

apparently the first couple of episodes did borrow plots from the original. I wouldn't know because I didn't care for the series that much.

I agree though, that the series didn't even have a passing resemblance to the originary.