tv: Body Of Proof
Apr. 25th, 2011 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynWe started watching Body of Proof recently. I don't especially like it. There is too much going on and so much of it is unbelievable.
The ME is brilliant like House, focused on solving the crimes like Quincy, and gooey enough to be a marshmellow peep.
I'm really confused about the whole daughter angle. And I'm sort of offended because if the main character were a man, there wouldn't be any of that in there. It's like we can't see a professional woman who is wholly successful without harping on how this means she's a terrible mother. And yet, we didn't see Perry Mason's son until he was a lawyer himself. So I'm kind of wondering why the ME woman is upset. She's divorced. Her husband got complete custody. So she's free to focus on her career. Problem solved. The flashbacks indicate that she was really career focused in the first place, to the point that one wonders how she managed to be pregnant while being a neurosurgeon since she was unable to slow down for anything, so it really doesn't seem like not having her daughter around is a problem. Eh, win some, lose some. But the scripting keeps indicating that she's really broken up about this perceived failure. And I don't understand it. There's no characterization which indicates why this would matter to her and certainly nothing where she would feel guilty for not putting her family first before saving people's lives.
If we could get rid of the "women are supposed to be good mothers!" angle, the show might become interesting. Right now it's not. I like the science in it, but not the way the science is unexplained and the intuitive leaps are not connected.
I recently re-watched a Quincy episode and he was a total horndog hedonist. But he did good work and no one minded what he did in his off hours because he was really brilliant. But he was really overstepping his job description by constantly doing the police's work for them.
We're shown the main character being brilliant. But I'm not thrilled that she seems to be stepping on police toes as well. Now that police have CSI teams and are trained to not contaminate evidence, one wonders why they need a ME, 2 assistant MEs, an investigator from the coroner's office, and 2 police detectives to solve single cases one at a time.
Still, a show about smart people being smart.. That doesn't suck.
The ME is brilliant like House, focused on solving the crimes like Quincy, and gooey enough to be a marshmellow peep.
I'm really confused about the whole daughter angle. And I'm sort of offended because if the main character were a man, there wouldn't be any of that in there. It's like we can't see a professional woman who is wholly successful without harping on how this means she's a terrible mother. And yet, we didn't see Perry Mason's son until he was a lawyer himself. So I'm kind of wondering why the ME woman is upset. She's divorced. Her husband got complete custody. So she's free to focus on her career. Problem solved. The flashbacks indicate that she was really career focused in the first place, to the point that one wonders how she managed to be pregnant while being a neurosurgeon since she was unable to slow down for anything, so it really doesn't seem like not having her daughter around is a problem. Eh, win some, lose some. But the scripting keeps indicating that she's really broken up about this perceived failure. And I don't understand it. There's no characterization which indicates why this would matter to her and certainly nothing where she would feel guilty for not putting her family first before saving people's lives.
If we could get rid of the "women are supposed to be good mothers!" angle, the show might become interesting. Right now it's not. I like the science in it, but not the way the science is unexplained and the intuitive leaps are not connected.
I recently re-watched a Quincy episode and he was a total horndog hedonist. But he did good work and no one minded what he did in his off hours because he was really brilliant. But he was really overstepping his job description by constantly doing the police's work for them.
We're shown the main character being brilliant. But I'm not thrilled that she seems to be stepping on police toes as well. Now that police have CSI teams and are trained to not contaminate evidence, one wonders why they need a ME, 2 assistant MEs, an investigator from the coroner's office, and 2 police detectives to solve single cases one at a time.
Still, a show about smart people being smart.. That doesn't suck.
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Date: 2011-04-26 02:47 pm (UTC)Stupid writers. I am glad to hear that otherwise it doesn't suck, but I think the unkind portrayal of the lead character en ré her mothering/career choices will keep me from ever giving it a whirl.
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Date: 2011-04-26 06:05 pm (UTC)