(Please don't mistake me saying I'm entertained by it as a recommendation. This is my full on trashfire-for-warmth show.)
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haha. yeah I was wondering a bit how they'd adapt it and I guess they er... basically didn't.
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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
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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
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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"
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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"
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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"
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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"
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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
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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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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
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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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Which started way back in the Song Dynasty (the legends of Judge Bao) and was a *massively* dominant form of literature through the Ming and Qing Dynasties Western scholars talk about how this obsession with "crime fiction" bespeaks a society struggling with "law and order"
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