[ SECRET POST #5958 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5958 ⌋

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


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[Succession, Roman Roy]



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[minecraft youtube?]



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[Green Hell]



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[Lost Ruins]
























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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Yes, I'm familiar with the skeletons in the closet that DNA test kits can uncover for families. I'm also quite familiar with how geneaological research works. And as a fan of crime procedurals with an understanding of forensic genaeology from true crime I just don't think there's enough there to support an entire multi season 20 episode per season show based on the concept alone.

This is mostly because DNA is binary in crime scenes - it indicates the presence of someone's biological material. Other 'concept' crime shows like Numb3rs or Lie To Me also had a problem of the concept being limiting, but I think with those shows there was at least enough room to move that other crime fighting techniques/ dramatic storytelling could complement the concept.

But with the focus on DNA, there's less ambiguity to hang a narrative on. As a plot device it works much better as the final dramatic reveal than the initial confounding piece of evidence. And even drawing on family drama (secret adoptions, infidelity, sisters actually being mothers etc) or the tension of missing records/ unclear family history, I just don't think there's enough drama there for it to be the bulk of the plot.

I think a factor here is that in a lot of genaeology you are uncovering the history of a known individual, ie their history is the mystery. But in a crime show, the individual's identity is a mystery, and the majority of their interesting family history will be largely irrelevant to finding that out. In other words, the interesting family history stuff needs to be either directly linked to the crime or to finding out the person's identity (or appear to be so) - and writing stories in such a way that e.g. the suspect's grandma's double life is relevant to the crime could get convoluted and unbelievable fast.

That said, I would absolutely watch a documentary on developments in forensic genaeology or on how it helped solve a particular case.

I would also watch a mini series where there's a murder and you gradually find out that it was precipitated by a DNA test that revealed a family secret, but is tightly plotted to keep you guessing about both the secret and the killer.

I can maybe see it working in a cold case miniseries, where perhaps improvements in DNA technology allow for old evidence to be analyzed, and there are cases where it was suspected to be a stranger attack nut DNA reveals that it was a family member, or vice versa. I think it would have to be a miniseries to be able to focus more intensely on the reveals about the suspect/suspects for it to work dramatically.

And of course it would work like a treat as something that is drawn on occasionally in a detective show.

However fundamentally I don't think forensic genaeology would work as a lynchpin concept for an episodic crime procedural in particular.

This is just my opinion of course. And I could be proven completely wrong (who knows what there is already in development?).