Funny, I have a bunch of problems with the show (like her frequent abductions and that fairly brainless interrogation of the girl in her treehouse) but I wasn't that bothered by her abilities. If it continues to be that she's Never Wrong and Is The Only Voice Of Truth then it might get on my nerves, but it struck me a little different from that. Not sure why.
I never thought of her as psychic, just a very good profiler. Some of the others make intuitive leaps that seem just as hard to do. And, it seems to me that they do a good job of showing how she sees this different way and no other way at all. She does nothing but this.
I guess it's that she spent 18 months with this guy and sees his mind and nothing else. She doesn't get other people. That's how she sees the world, and when she finds what she recognises, it's like coming home, it's like that's the one thing in the world she does recognise and understand. I don't know--I have a low-grade version of this and so I guess I find it easier to believe in a more extreme version.
But the show is flawed in the way it's written and her frequent almost-victimization stuff is annoying. Also, in the last episode I found most of the story good but every time the show or characters tried to reflect on things in a meta way it was just baaaad. Yet that's a nit-pick. She picked out the girl as a liar because she was the only one still watching the screen and saw the girl stop crying and start whistling and swinging her feet. It's a leap to say the girl is the psychopath and the killer, but for some reason I'll grant her that jump.
Going to see the girl in the treehouse was just plain stupid but the previous one, going by herself to see the S&M guy, seemed not like a stupid detective move but a compelling sick move on the part of someone who was more than a little screwed up. Things like that, and the fact that Webb seems to understand her mind better than she does herself, make her more interesting to me. She's not just magical girl solving crime. She's a tool and she doesn't really get what's going on, herself, all the time.
I have only seen Medium once and it wasn't enough to get how the episodes usually go as it was kind of a strange one that was mostly about her being on trial to see whether she should have her job. Or something like that. But while I could probably find the stories interesting (I kind of like psychics and bits like that) I wouldn't think of them in the same category at all as things like CSI or Lay & Order or all those. I guess I wouldn't attempt to compare them, but if you did, I can see how the psychics come out lacking. Especially if they're constantly trumping the logical, reasonable ones.
Yet I still find the stories interesing--funny, that. There's something that appeals to me (I'm talking the Medium, Dead Zone kind of things, not The Inside, which I find also different from CSI but different from psychics) about the psychic finding out what really happened. I guess because I believe the truth gets covered up most of the time and people just get away with things most of the time. I like CSI and such but it doesn't add to my faith that people get caught. Not sure why. There's something appealing to me about undoing someone's plans by simply knowing what happened and making it impossible to cover up. Not realistic. But appealing.
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Date: 2005-07-04 11:57 am (UTC)I never thought of her as psychic, just a very good profiler. Some of the others make intuitive leaps that seem just as hard to do. And, it seems to me that they do a good job of showing how she sees this different way and no other way at all. She does nothing but this.
I guess it's that she spent 18 months with this guy and sees his mind and nothing else. She doesn't get other people. That's how she sees the world, and when she finds what she recognises, it's like coming home, it's like that's the one thing in the world she does recognise and understand. I don't know--I have a low-grade version of this and so I guess I find it easier to believe in a more extreme version.
But the show is flawed in the way it's written and her frequent almost-victimization stuff is annoying. Also, in the last episode I found most of the story good but every time the show or characters tried to reflect on things in a meta way it was just baaaad. Yet that's a nit-pick. She picked out the girl as a liar because she was the only one still watching the screen and saw the girl stop crying and start whistling and swinging her feet. It's a leap to say the girl is the psychopath and the killer, but for some reason I'll grant her that jump.
Going to see the girl in the treehouse was just plain stupid but the previous one, going by herself to see the S&M guy, seemed not like a stupid detective move but a compelling sick move on the part of someone who was more than a little screwed up. Things like that, and the fact that Webb seems to understand her mind better than she does herself, make her more interesting to me. She's not just magical girl solving crime. She's a tool and she doesn't really get what's going on, herself, all the time.
I have only seen Medium once and it wasn't enough to get how the episodes usually go as it was kind of a strange one that was mostly about her being on trial to see whether she should have her job. Or something like that. But while I could probably find the stories interesting (I kind of like psychics and bits like that) I wouldn't think of them in the same category at all as things like CSI or Lay & Order or all those. I guess I wouldn't attempt to compare them, but if you did, I can see how the psychics come out lacking. Especially if they're constantly trumping the logical, reasonable ones.
Yet I still find the stories interesing--funny, that. There's something that appeals to me (I'm talking the Medium, Dead Zone kind of things, not The Inside, which I find also different from CSI but different from psychics) about the psychic finding out what really happened. I guess because I believe the truth gets covered up most of the time and people just get away with things most of the time. I like CSI and such but it doesn't add to my faith that people get caught. Not sure why. There's something appealing to me about undoing someone's plans by simply knowing what happened and making it impossible to cover up. Not realistic. But appealing.
I have to go. I think I was done. :)