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The Listener: Canadian Telepaths on the warpath

Lady EriLady Eri Registered User regular
edited June 2009 in Debate and/or Discourse
The Listener is a Canadian show that aired last year, and is apparently the only good thing to come out of Canada since maple syrup. So now it's on US TV.

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This man, who will be my future husband, after I divorce Jeffrey Donovan, reads peoples minds and solves mystereys. It's a good show and I hope it goes places, he's basically an EMT and helps solves crimes with his dashing good looks mind-reading. There is also his past which he is piecing together. It's also on hulu, yays. Anyway I support anything basically out of the normal mold. And since Medium sucks, Kings got cancelled, and BSG is over, this is what we get.

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  • DukiDuki Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    How does he not just solve every crime instantly then

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  • Nakatomi2010Nakatomi2010 Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    So, Pushing Daisies, but instead of reviving the dead for a minute he reads minds? Fascinating...

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  • Lady EriLady Eri Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    So, Pushing Daisies, but instead of reviving the dead for a minute he reads minds? Fascinating...

    It's Canada. Give them an A for effort.

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  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I like Medium. ):

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  • TalleyrandTalleyrand Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Another telepathic crime solver show?

    I guess it's become its own niche genre like zom-coms.

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  • Lady EriLady Eri Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Duki wrote: »
    How does he not just solve every crime instantly then

    He can only read what they are thinking at that point as I understand it.

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  • Nakatomi2010Nakatomi2010 Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Lady Eri wrote: »
    So, Pushing Daisies, but instead of reviving the dead for a minute he reads minds? Fascinating...

    It's Canada. Give them an A for effort.

    Being Canadian myself I'm going to be looking into it... Just, you know... Makes me giggle a little...

    Finally I can watch some nice, fine, female Canadian ass.

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  • KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    The Listener? The Mentalist?

    What's next, the Lip Reader?

    The Aura Seer? The Smeller? The Hair Stylist?

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  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Kagera wrote: »
    The Listener? The Mentalist?

    What's next, the Lip Reader?

    The Aura Seer? The Smeller? The Hair Stylist?

    The Watcher :winky:

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  • LoathingLoathing Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    SkutSkut wrote: »
    Kagera wrote: »
    The Listener? The Mentalist?

    What's next, the Lip Reader?

    The Aura Seer? The Smeller? The Hair Stylist?

    The Watcher :winky:

    Pretty sure there's already a porno named that out there somewhere.

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  • KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I mean we already got people solving crimes through dreams in Medium, through body gestures in Lie to Me and the Mentalist, through equations with Numbers, through touch with The Dead Zone, through profiling in Criminal Minds (though that's actually valid), through super observation with Psych, and through OCD with Monk.

    Do we need any more unlikely everymen being heroes?

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  • ProtoProto Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Kagera wrote: »
    The Listener? The Mentalist?

    What's next, the Lip Reader?

    The Aura Seer? The Smeller? The Hair Stylist?

    the lip reader would be great!

    except he's not very good at it...

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  • DukiDuki Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Kagera wrote: »
    I mean we already got people solving crimes through dreams in Medium, through body gestures in Lie to Me and the Mentalist, through equations with Numbers, through touch with The Dead Zone, through profiling in Criminal Minds (though that's actually valid), through super observation with Psych, and through OCD with Monk.

    Do we need any more unlikely everymen being heroes?

    fat slob finds out that baseball stats he's memorised as a kid from 1909 onwards predict modern crimes

    starring kevin james

    only on abc

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  • KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Boys boardgame (which is a fake ripoff of Clue to avoid copyright) predicts future murders only he can stop...

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  • Captain CarrotCaptain Carrot Alexandria, VARegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Duki wrote: »
    Kagera wrote: »
    I mean we already got people solving crimes through dreams in Medium, through body gestures in Lie to Me and the Mentalist, through equations with Numbers, through touch with The Dead Zone, through profiling in Criminal Minds (though that's actually valid), through super observation with Psych, and through OCD with Monk.

    Do we need any more unlikely everymen being heroes?

    skinny dork finds out that election stats he's memorised as a kid from 1909 onwards predict modern crimes

    starring nate silver
    fixed

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  • Lady EriLady Eri Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Kagera wrote: »
    Boys boardgame (which is a fake ripoff of Clue to avoid copyright) predicts future murders only he can stop...

    Win!

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    OP tells half truths. Maple syrup from Canada is O.K., but for the good stuff, you come here to Vermont.


    *cough*

    How far along into the series is it so far? I'm curious how much I'd have to catch up on. Time commitments and all that. ;-)

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  • Lady EriLady Eri Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    OP tells half truths. Maple syrup from Canada is O.K., but for the good stuff, you come here to Vermont.


    *cough*

    How far along into the series is it so far? I'm curious how much I'd have to catch up on. Time commitments and all that. ;-)

    They are showing episode 4 or 5 I think this thursday. The rest is on hulu.

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  • devoirdevoir Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    There are 13 episodes. I enjoyed it from start to finish over a reasonably short period of time.

    Avoids quite a few cliches while driving full blown into a number of others. Hoping it gets picked up for a second season.

    It's not as formulaic as some series are, there's an overarching story to it that pulls it out of the pure procedural category. I don't want to spoil or foreshadow too much, though.

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  • CervetusCervetus Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Kagera wrote: »
    I mean we already got people solving crimes through dreams in Medium, through body gestures in Lie to Me and the Mentalist, through equations with Numbers, through touch with The Dead Zone, through profiling in Criminal Minds (though that's actually valid), through super observation with Psych, and through OCD with Monk.

    Do we need any more unlikely everymen being heroes?

    High Fiver.

    Edit: Never mind, here's a hosted version of it. http://www.generallyawesome2.com/pages/the-highfiver.php

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  • devoirdevoir Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    That's pretty awesome. :P

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  • real_pochaccoreal_pochacco Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I've actually thought it would be really cool to take one set crime "story," and then have like 10 different crime shows show how their characters would solve the crime.

    Of course it would never happen, but it would be so cool if it did.

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  • devoirdevoir Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    You could pretty much do that considering how there are so many series which do their take on a particular crime story archetype.

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  • OptimusZedOptimusZed Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Yay. Another mildly off-beat police procedural.

    It's so cute when Canada tries this hard to be America. :P

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  • devoirdevoir Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    OptimusZed wrote: »
    Yay. Another mildly off-beat police procedural.

    It's so cute when Canada tries this hard to be America. :P

    Eh. Not really. Have you watched the show?

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  • OptimusZedOptimusZed Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    devoir wrote: »
    OptimusZed wrote: »
    Yay. Another mildly off-beat police procedural.

    It's so cute when Canada tries this hard to be America. :P

    Eh. Not really. Have you watched the show?
    No, I haven't.
    Da OP wrote:
    basically an EMT and helps solves crimes with his dashing good looks mind-reading
    This could be any of 2 or 3 shows on American tv right now. Throw the non-crazy telepathy equivalents (photographic memory, profiler, "body language expert," etc) and the number grows pretty quickly.

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  • Lady EriLady Eri Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    He does solve crimes, but he also helps drug smuggling transgendered children.

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  • tsmvengytsmvengy Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Duki wrote: »
    Kagera wrote: »
    I mean we already got people solving crimes through dreams in Medium, through body gestures in Lie to Me and the Mentalist, through equations with Numbers, through touch with The Dead Zone, through profiling in Criminal Minds (though that's actually valid), through super observation with Psych, and through OCD with Monk.

    Do we need any more unlikely everymen being heroes?

    skinny dork finds out that baseball stats he's memorised as a kid from 1909 onwards predict modern crimes

    starring nate silver
    fixed
    No, fixed. (for his original career).

    I would watch that.

    And it's called... uhh....

    The Sabrist?

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