HIGHLA-L Digest - 7 Jan 2003 to 8 Jan 2003 (#2003-4)
Automatic digest processor (LISTSERV@lists.psu.edu)
Wed, 8 Jan 2003 22:00:01 -0500
There is one message totalling 49 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. About those bodies...
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 08:54:20 -0500
From: jjswbt@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: About those bodies...
Me:
>>>> I'm not so sure. Are there no scrupulous morticians out there? <g>Would
>most morticians just take the cash and the multiple body bags and just do
>the job?>>>
Nina:
>My point is that there's no need for the morticians to be shady OR stupid.
>They would just hit their speed-dial for the cops & report yet another BH'd
>corpse brought in by the tall dark hottie, then proceed under the law.
I get your point...I simply want to find another explanation<g>.
If the mortician called the police every time a body with a side order of severed head came in, the police *would* come and start an investigation. The body and the person who brought it in would be looked at - closely. No Immortal is going to risk that. And the writers avoiding having to deal with it by *not* discussing what happened to the bodies 99% of the time. In most cases, the viewer can either not think about it at all or can imagine that the body was dealt with by the winner in an efficient and non-attention causing way. I think that the few cases where we see funerals could have been dealt with "better" by not introducing the question about how such funerals were arranged. (Not that 99.9999999999% of the audience ever wondered.)
>The
>fact that in the HL universe the cops are dumb &/or lazy is enough to
>protect DM & other Immies who know their local morticians by first names.
>And, in the HL universe, I really don't see a way around the dumb cop
>stereotype.
But the "dumb cop" answer is...inelegant. It's too..easy. It encourages lazy writing..when in doubt, just remember the cops are stupid. I much prefer a solution that doesn't require sub-par intelligence for the TV cops (or the viewers). Either keep the Immortals from holding duels in places where the cops will undoubtedly notice or come up with an explanation why the cops *don't* notice. And, while you're at it..come up with an explanation why no one ever notices the "light show" no matter where or when it occurs. Exploding walls of glass, lightning from a clear sky, whirlwinds of fire and smoke..and no one ever sees it? And...how about all those people who might have actually seen a beheading? People who live with windows which face all those alleyways so popular with Immortals. Joggers in those parks. Those Parisians who watched Duncan kill Kagan in broad daylight .
Q-Waves. In the end, the writers needed to use the Q-Wave theory.
Me:
>>(Does anyone even write HL fanfic anymore?)(Besides slash, of
>course.)(Does anyone even write HL slash any more?)
Nina:
>No. They're all terrified of my righteous wrath. And I told their mommies.
Oh, you're not so very scary.<efg>
Wendy( I suppose I'll never finish that Duncan and the Cathars fanfic now)(Well...*he* wasn't with the Cathars.)(Oh...never mind.)
Fairy Killer
jjswbt@earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~jjswbt/index.html
------------------------------
End of HIGHLA-L Digest - 7 Jan 2003 to 8 Jan 2003 (#2003-4)
***********************************************************