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[moon_custafer]

Cracked actually runs some pretty good commentary these days. Here's one about the problematic portrayal of geniuses on tv; and yes, I've heard of the "CSI Effect" on juries.

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[redeem147.livejournal.com]

Excellent article. Of course writers have to invent supergeniuses for TV shows because everything has to be solved in forty-two minutes, but since the audiences are far from geniuses, people believe it's not fiction.

Though Angela doesn't identify people through bone fragments. Skulls, yes.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

I never watched "Murder One" but I gather it dramatized one case per season, and could therefore show the investigation proceeding at a more realistic pace?

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

I didn't watch it, but I think that's the case. I guess The Killing is the same idea?

[donald hutton (from livejournal.com)]

I've never seen "Murder One" but "Criminal Minds" seems to follow me around a lot. I like how their super-genius is portrayed as coming from a Tesla-type family with a lot of members who've wandered across the line into madness. He's constantly worried that one day he'll stop being visionary and just start seeing things. One of the other guys admits he can't begin to understand how it would be to live in that hailstorm of data and associations but manages to be of emotional comfort anyway.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

It also helps that he has a Watson - his partner is not the same sort of genius, but she's above-average in intelligence and she's emotionally very stable.

Goren is also implied to be very knowledgeable about some things, while other times he bones up on subjects that are relevant to the case at hand -- whether those remain in his head long-term is unknown.