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Date Posted: 09:59:09 05/26/08 Mon
Author: Eurydice (donning the Kevlar)
Author Host/IP: 63.22.195.212
Subject: Well....
In reply to: anyasbuttmonkey 's message, "*rains on Eury's parade*" on 08:51:42 05/26/08 Mon

I liked it, too. But then, I don't expect anything about this show to be realistic or to make sense. I always expect the logic behind a serial killer story to be, "Because he's nuts," so I don't let my brain hurt over things like dentures entirely made of canine teeth drawn from the skeletons of blady-blah-blah. Did the canniblistic serial killer replace his own teeth with the dentures? Never mind, forget I asked.

To me, all those forensic procedural shows are like creepy fairy tales, or maybe like the Whedonverse - with a little band of beautiful, sexy, supernatural experts fighting a world filled with icky, crazy monsters. If they wanted to do realism, they should try CSI: Boston - with crime lab that's got a 20 year backlog of DNA tests and a coroner's office which buries John Does two to a grave.

Zach's PSTD maybe could sorta work, except it's hard to see how he could be recruited as the serial killer's acolyte in such a short period of time. Zach is so methodical and needs so much nit-picky proof before he'll admit to anything - I could see the PSTD triggering such an obsessive compulsive loop that Googly-moogly would have slain him out of pure frustration.

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[> [> [> [> You never know... -- anyasbuttmonkey, 10:15:57 05/26/08 Mon [1] (80.7.61.205)

CBS hasn't had much luck launching new dramas since "Criminal Minds" (although I didn't think Shark and Moonlight did that badly), you never know when they'll dip into the CSI well again - they'll need something to make it different to the other three, so why not some gritty realism of the police procedure? I'll take that over Caruso any day!

As for Bones, the problem with psychological storylines is that as nothing can be set in stone with regards to the brain, it's an easy way out because you can't argue definitively against it. I'm perfectly fine just going with PTSD and moving on ;) Besides, as harsh as this may sound I don't have high expectations when it comes to Bones - I mean, if they tried this on BSG I'd probably throw the biggest bitch-fit this side of Alec Baldwin's voicemail (hey-oh!) :D


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