I possess a dim clue as to what this is about that is just sufficiently bright enough to convince me to run away!
It happens that I am watching a British cop show, Touching Evil (its main themes are angst and exotic murders). It also has a psychic in it, as well as a tough female cop as a major character (not the same person!).
The contrast is pretty striking. The psychic here is a minor character (male, not cute, and not with a great grasp of social niceties) and treated as something of a nuisance by the cops who know of him. He does hand out clues, which are so obscure as to be thoroughly useless until after the fact (and the case is solved), when you can say, oh, that's what he meant. Mostly (and much more interestingly) he acts as a means to reveal the character and past of the main character, whom he knew before the events of the show.
And the female cop? Tough, competent, principled, but not a miracle worker.
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It happens that I am watching a British cop show, Touching Evil (its main themes are angst and exotic murders). It also has a psychic in it, as well as a tough female cop as a major character (not the same person!).
The contrast is pretty striking. The psychic here is a minor character (male, not cute, and not with a great grasp of social niceties) and treated as something of a nuisance by the cops who know of him. He does hand out clues, which are so obscure as to be thoroughly useless until after the fact (and the case is solved), when you can say, oh, that's what he meant. Mostly (and much more interestingly) he acts as a means to reveal the character and past of the main character, whom he knew before the events of the show.
And the female cop? Tough, competent, principled, but not a miracle worker.