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Fic update and TV show plot complaining....
First off, fic update to Forging Alliances....I finally finished the setup some 4K later...Methinks this is going to be very very long.... It can be found on A03 if you prefer, under my username.
Okay, if I start writing like I'm tempted to (thanks to lots of warm fuzzy feedback), I'll never want to go to work and will not be efficient at work. So instead, I'm going to vent about the NCIS twins last night.
First off, NCIS itself was boring. Ausiello's blind item makes a lot more sense now. Of course, it could just be that I loathe all the characters except Gibbs now because they've almost become caricatures. *shrugs*
And then NCIS:LA....I don't like it when the show I look forward to all week has massive plot fail. I like it less when they use multiple instances of artistic license just to tell their story in a hackneyed fashion. Granted, there were a few great G moments...."The big man does not like to pushed"...but they did not make up for the rest of it.
Okay, first off, ALZHEIMER'S AND DEMENTIA DOES NOT WORK LIKE THAT!!!! Unless you are going to actually go in and say the character is in very very early stages, but even then, NO. When people start to forget like that, they tend to get paranoid and defensive and not like to move out of their comfort zone. Allowing people to take them to a strange lab for national security? No. And unless you showed all the equipment in there being circa 1960s, the whole "well she remembers everything from 20 years ago perfectly, it's just more recent events that she can't grasp." If that's the case, she'd have trouble remembering what she did on a protocol when she was making the stuff. Also, alzheimers/dementia, while it does leave older memories more intact, it also manifests by making people actually have trouble performing tasks they once found routine, which is why many patients with dementia actually get diagnosed due to malnutritiion because they forget how to cook but are scared they'll be put away if anyone finds out how bad their issues are....So the idea that this woman remembered perfectly how to do a very complicated and dangerous procedure without any accidents? No. Also, would have been more believable if the writers had made a point to say that she taught them how to do the procedure rather than insist that she isolated it all herself.
Final point here, it would have been a nice bit of authenticity if NCIS had trouble to get her cooperating the longer she was with them and have Nate explain sundowning effect. I'm sorry, I know this seems nitpicky, but after having my grandmother diagnosed with alzheimers/dementia and having to do research in order to explain why she acted the way she did (aka, she wasn't doing it to play a mind game, etc), I've gotten very touchy about the way the media represents these diseases. It really causes people to overlook symptoms until family members or friends that live alone and have the ability to hide some of their symptoms until its too late to get much help to delay the progress of the decline. The only time I've ever seen it realistically portrayed is Ducky's mother on the original NCIS.
So that was the medical foul up. I'm tempted to go and do research on botulism to nitpick that to death because really, lots of things there just screamed hand waving, though I assume they at the least did research the botulism exposure protocol. That said, you can't dangle the fear that two of your agents have been exposed throughout the show without addressing what happened to the camera crew and swat team from the intro segment --- did they get sick and die? Any of them? I'm assuming not otherwise why the hell would NCIS show up hours later without any gear and possibly be exposed? Also, you cannot tell me that cops walk into a crime scene with lab equipment and two mysteriously dead fake marines and that they don't pull out a bioweapon test kit? SWAT or the regular detectives should have access to one in this day and age of bioweapon training drills (And these aren't all that big - now if you'd explain that botulism isn't in the normal rapid detection kits, okay, but again, I doubt it. Tempted to ask my cousin-in-law who actually worked on this type of research for his thesis....and other stuff).
Finally, Sam undercover? Nothing about that entire sequence was the least bit believable and was just lazy writing employed in order to show Sam messing with the minds of the bad guys and getting to use the ceramic knife...and somehow he instantly transports to save G? You should at least tell us how long it took G and Kinsey to get to the mall so we'd have some frame of reference..because if it was 5 minutes away, I have a lot harder time believing that the auction was safe from any fallout (or that people would be able to rapidly leave once the auction was over etc).
Just gaaaaaaaaahhhhh. If you are going to write bioweapon/science story lines, get a decent freaking consultant!!! Hell, surely one of the CSI show consultants could have helped you out with some of this....or grab one from the Unit. But stop pissing me off during what should be my fun show watching my tv boyfriend.
Okay, I think I just undid all my Matt Bomer morning therapy there....
Okay, if I start writing like I'm tempted to (thanks to lots of warm fuzzy feedback), I'll never want to go to work and will not be efficient at work. So instead, I'm going to vent about the NCIS twins last night.
First off, NCIS itself was boring. Ausiello's blind item makes a lot more sense now. Of course, it could just be that I loathe all the characters except Gibbs now because they've almost become caricatures. *shrugs*
And then NCIS:LA....I don't like it when the show I look forward to all week has massive plot fail. I like it less when they use multiple instances of artistic license just to tell their story in a hackneyed fashion. Granted, there were a few great G moments...."The big man does not like to pushed"...but they did not make up for the rest of it.
Okay, first off, ALZHEIMER'S AND DEMENTIA DOES NOT WORK LIKE THAT!!!! Unless you are going to actually go in and say the character is in very very early stages, but even then, NO. When people start to forget like that, they tend to get paranoid and defensive and not like to move out of their comfort zone. Allowing people to take them to a strange lab for national security? No. And unless you showed all the equipment in there being circa 1960s, the whole "well she remembers everything from 20 years ago perfectly, it's just more recent events that she can't grasp." If that's the case, she'd have trouble remembering what she did on a protocol when she was making the stuff. Also, alzheimers/dementia, while it does leave older memories more intact, it also manifests by making people actually have trouble performing tasks they once found routine, which is why many patients with dementia actually get diagnosed due to malnutritiion because they forget how to cook but are scared they'll be put away if anyone finds out how bad their issues are....So the idea that this woman remembered perfectly how to do a very complicated and dangerous procedure without any accidents? No. Also, would have been more believable if the writers had made a point to say that she taught them how to do the procedure rather than insist that she isolated it all herself.
Final point here, it would have been a nice bit of authenticity if NCIS had trouble to get her cooperating the longer she was with them and have Nate explain sundowning effect. I'm sorry, I know this seems nitpicky, but after having my grandmother diagnosed with alzheimers/dementia and having to do research in order to explain why she acted the way she did (aka, she wasn't doing it to play a mind game, etc), I've gotten very touchy about the way the media represents these diseases. It really causes people to overlook symptoms until family members or friends that live alone and have the ability to hide some of their symptoms until its too late to get much help to delay the progress of the decline. The only time I've ever seen it realistically portrayed is Ducky's mother on the original NCIS.
So that was the medical foul up. I'm tempted to go and do research on botulism to nitpick that to death because really, lots of things there just screamed hand waving, though I assume they at the least did research the botulism exposure protocol. That said, you can't dangle the fear that two of your agents have been exposed throughout the show without addressing what happened to the camera crew and swat team from the intro segment --- did they get sick and die? Any of them? I'm assuming not otherwise why the hell would NCIS show up hours later without any gear and possibly be exposed? Also, you cannot tell me that cops walk into a crime scene with lab equipment and two mysteriously dead fake marines and that they don't pull out a bioweapon test kit? SWAT or the regular detectives should have access to one in this day and age of bioweapon training drills (And these aren't all that big - now if you'd explain that botulism isn't in the normal rapid detection kits, okay, but again, I doubt it. Tempted to ask my cousin-in-law who actually worked on this type of research for his thesis....and other stuff).
Finally, Sam undercover? Nothing about that entire sequence was the least bit believable and was just lazy writing employed in order to show Sam messing with the minds of the bad guys and getting to use the ceramic knife...and somehow he instantly transports to save G? You should at least tell us how long it took G and Kinsey to get to the mall so we'd have some frame of reference..because if it was 5 minutes away, I have a lot harder time believing that the auction was safe from any fallout (or that people would be able to rapidly leave once the auction was over etc).
Just gaaaaaaaaahhhhh. If you are going to write bioweapon/science story lines, get a decent freaking consultant!!! Hell, surely one of the CSI show consultants could have helped you out with some of this....or grab one from the Unit. But stop pissing me off during what should be my fun show watching my tv boyfriend.
Okay, I think I just undid all my Matt Bomer morning therapy there....
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Oh, re: the buyers being safe - don't forget the bad dude handed out a vaccine thing before the auction started. I reckon Sam was able to hijack a car from the swat team outside and drive to the mall. Timing is a bit fuzzy, sure, but not totally impossible. And besides - FUN TRAIN!!!
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Like I said to LD earlier, I really wonder if crooks have this much trouble watching cop shows and stuff...."Oh hell no, no arms dealer in the world would walk into a setup like that"...
Of course, it's likely I was just very very very spoiled by the first couple of seasons of the Unit where the military consultant was constantly on the set and involved in the writing. And Criminal Minds where several of the writers are or were FBI agents...and you get the picture.
the buyers was the least of my problem...it was just at that point I was already so annoyed at the plot with waaaayyyy too little snarkey payoff.
*pets white collar* At least I got to be entertained by Lithy's story while I half watched it...my slash goggles kept coming on at the strangest times....I don't think I'll ever look at handcufs and a fence the same way again.