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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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Joined August 2009

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    1. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 25 Aug 2020
      Replying to @benjanun_s

      It is 100% not the same character. Like, not even close. Entertaining in its own way! But way more someone heard "the devil quits hell and moves to Los Angeles" and stopped listening because they had a GREAT idea for how that would go.

      1 reply 0 retweets 14 likes
    2. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 25 Aug 2020
      Replying to @AlexandraErin @benjanun_s

      (Please don't mistake me saying I'm entertained by it as a recommendation. This is my full on trashfire-for-warmth show.)

      2 replies 1 retweet 15 likes
    3. Benjanun Sriduangkaew‏ @benjanun_s 25 Aug 2020
      Replying to @AlexandraErin

      haha. yeah I was wondering a bit how they'd adapt it and I guess they er... basically didn't.

      2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Aug 2020
      Replying to @benjanun_s @AlexandraErin

      It's basically a longrunning joke about American TV that the default mode for any adaptation from another medium or development of an unproduced pitch will tend toward a police procedural because they don't know how to do anything else and those always make money

      3 replies 4 retweets 23 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @benjanun_s @AlexandraErin

      iZombie also discarded almost everything about the original comic book to become a police procedural, for instance The gimmick remains that she's undead and has to eat human brains to live and by so doing absorbs the original person's memories It's just now used to fight crime

      1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @benjanun_s @AlexandraErin

      The standard format for this joke is listing an ever more ridiculous list of character and backstory traits and then just ending it with "They fight crime" "One of them is Lucifer, the First of the Fallen One of them is a zombie cursed to eat human brains They fight crime"

      1 reply 6 retweets 34 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @benjanun_s @AlexandraErin

      There's so many shows that have this really weird complex science-fiction premise and in order to make it an episodic procedural it's "They fight crime"

      3 replies 1 retweet 21 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @benjanun_s @AlexandraErin

      Person of Interest: "A possibly-insane homeless man discovers a conspiracy around an artificial intelligence embedded in the computer systems of the entire world, analyzing and subtly manipulating the whole human race They fight crime"

      3 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @benjanun_s @AlexandraErin

      Blindspot: "An amnesiac naked woman wakes up stuffed inside a suitcase in the middle of Times Square She must search for clues to her identity based on flashes of disconnected memory and an intricate set of coded messages tattooed on her body She fights crime"

      2 replies 0 retweets 10 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @benjanun_s @AlexandraErin

      They're all like this It's partly a structural requirement of American TV series being so long and having so much time to fill -- "solving crimes" is the catchall for "random sidequests" But it's telling that it's almost *always* specifically being a cop and busting criminals

      1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @benjanun_s @AlexandraErin

      Like it's almost impossible for them to think of recurring problems for the heroes to have to solve while slowly advancing their main plot arcs other than "A criminal committed a random crime, as they are wont to do, hunt them down and send them to jail"

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @benjanun_s @AlexandraErin

          I don't think this is a completely uniquely American cultural trait but it's one that you really notice a lot in American media I would compare it to Imperial China, surprisingly, being the culture that pioneered the mystery genre

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @benjanun_s @AlexandraErin

          Much ink has been spilled about the gong'an (公案) genre -- literally the "public case" genre -- which evolved from nonfiction accounts of real bizarre legal cases (i.e. the "true crime" genre) into fiction spinning out a magistrate's investigation and resolution of a mystery

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        2. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 25 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @benjanun_s

          This is weird to realize with Lucifer because he's got this almost informed trait of being a wheeler-dealer who connects people to the things that they want, using almost no supernatural powers, and *that* could be its own "case" every week. Instead it only comes up incidentally.

          1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
        3. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 25 Aug 2020
          Replying to @AlexandraErin @arthur_affect @benjanun_s

          And now I'm remembering the twice-done Cupid series that tried to do something like this, with a maybe-delusional-man/maybe-exiled-to-earth Eros trying to set people up with their soulmates.

          2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
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