[ SECRET POST #4813 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4813 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

07. https://i.imgur.com/hPdNb6b.png

[(Anonymous)]

It's overused for sure.

[(Anonymous)]

I can take it in small doses, but at some point I can't help but wonder if they are actually expecting an answer and if the writers meant to create a mentally unbalanced character or it was just a dumb accident.

[(Anonymous)]

Boy, you're going to just love the premise for a show called "Echo" that NBC's apparently picked up for next TV season, then:

https://deadline.com/2020/01/nbc-orders-drama-pilots-at-that-age-echo-good-girls-producer-1202838610/

"Written by Bailey, Echo is a high-concept, genre procedural revolving around a team of investigators who solve the highest-profile crimes by sending our heroes into the past … in the body of the victim. They assume the victim’s identity and must race against time to prevent the crime before it happens."

Seriously, though, I agree that that trope can get really ridiculous. If the character is sort of a kooky sort, to where them talking to the dead regularly is in keeping with their personality/behavior in general and all that, that'd be one thing...but even then, that could easily get overused, too, to where it became their defining trait and whatnot.

[(Anonymous)]

I can see how it would be annoying in some shows... but as the entire central conceit of Raines, I really loved it.

[greghousesgf]

Mercifully, they don't do this a lot in CSI, just on very rare occasions.

[(Anonymous)]

noooo I was unbothered by this up until this minute, but now that I thought about, all "huh yeah I guess they do that a lot, don't they", I'll be bothered forevermore :(

[wannabe_influential]

One of those things that you don't notice until you notice it, and then you can't stop noticing it

[greghousesgf]

like that arm thing Family Guy characters CONSTANTLY do

[wannabe_influential]

Arm thing?

[greghousesgf]

there's this thing they do with their arms when they talk for a long time that looks really unnatural. I'd be better at showing it to you than trying to describe it verbally.

[wannabe_influential]

Oh, you mean how they just hang there all the time unless the characters are gesturing, right? I thought maybe you were talking about how all their arms look so short and stubby

[greghousesgf]

not exactly, I mean that weird pushing back and forth motion with their elbows bent. They only do this while they're talking for a long time and it's a sign of shitty animation (although you're right about their arms just hanging there when they're not doing that and looking too short)

Huh.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't usually mind it, unless it gets to weird. It generally serves the function for me that I assume it is supposed to - to help the audience (and investigator) think about the victim as an actual person with feelings who existed rather than just a dead body.

Re: Huh.

[(Anonymous)]

^^ too weird, not to weird.

[(Anonymous)]

It pales into insignificance for me against the desperately overused and infinitely worse "oh look the clock/watch was broken in the fight that caused the death of the victim, we have an exact time for the murder!" thing, to be honest.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. It's like most shows think coroners have to be lonely crazed individuals with an unhealthy obsession with death. It's just so overused now that it just grates on me.