And this is why we love Tim Minear

[meganbmoore]

So, lately, I have been watching The Inside with prozacpark. It's a pretty spiffy about an FBI team. The boss, Web, is a bit evil and sadistic and likes to surround himself with people with Issues. Because apparently, people who could snap at any given time are much better at it than anyone else. I rather love him for it, because it means that he stamped the approval papers for Rebecca Locke, a young profiler who failed the entrance exam several times, due to the part where she was kidnapped as a child and returned on her own a year later with no memories of where she'd been or how she'd escaped. She's wonderfully unhinged.

But before Tim Minear got ahold of the series, it was this: 

 

THE INSIDE: At first glance, DANNY ROBERTS (RACHEL NICHOLS, “Dumb & Dumberer”) seems to be the quintessential American teenager, dating the quarterback at a suburban high school. Only a few know her secret: Danny is not really a high school student, but a 22-year-old federal agent working undercover. Helping Danny – who is actually Agent ELIZABETH WORTH – maintain her cover is Agent SEAN ECKHARDT (PETER FACINELLI, “Fastlane”). In the pilot episode, Danny/Elizabeth’s drug investigation is sidetracked when her high school “boyfriend” is murdered. She must confront the pressures of getting personally involved in the lives of her classmates, while working to solve the murder and put the drug investigation back on track – all without blowing her cover. Over the course of the series, Danny’s assignments will vary, but she always faces the unique challenges of going undercover to solve crimes.
ETA:  Seriously, it went from that to this:



Though, the idea of Rebecca in pink...

*wonders if Rebecca even knows what pink IS*

Comments

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

I liked that show when I was twelve and it was called 21 Jump Street.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I saw a lot of previews for it when it was called Alias. Though I'm pretty sure the Alias chick didn't have an underaged boyfriend who thought she was his age.

[prozacpark.livejournal.com]

The underaged boyfriend bit remains my favorite and almost makes me wish FOX would go there again with a different title. Then it can be our new "Dollhouse!?"

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Could we survive 2 trainwreck shows at once?

[prozacpark.livejournal.com]

Judging from your LJ entries, you're surviving more than that. ;) And I survived "Roswell". I AM STRONG ENOUGH FOR ANYTHING NOW!

[prozacpark.livejournal.com]

I LOVE TIM MINEAR!

And Rebecca Locke. <3 <3 <3

And "The Inside."

And this comment has, like, no information that's new but I still needed to flail over my show because besides me? NO ONE POSTS ABOUT IT!

And, of course, Web is love. :)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I will make a pimp post of love when we finish it. And icons.

[prozacpark.livejournal.com]

I was totally planning on harassing you into making a pimp post after we finished. I'm glad that I would not have to do the actual harassing this time. Yay! <3 <3 <3

[umadoshi.livejournal.com]

I read your post and thought, "hmm, sounds potentially interesting", and then I processed that Adam Baldwin is in the picture. Eeee!

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

I read the post and had that same thought, but missed the picture until I saw this comment. Eee!

[umadoshi.livejournal.com]

Adam Baldwin makes everything better. It's a law of the universe.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

DANNY! AND SHARON FROM WONDERFALLS! It...it may have led to proxt crack!shipping of Sharon and Jayne.

[umadoshi.livejournal.com]

*g* I haven't seen Wonderfalls, although it's on my to-see list. (I have quite a backlog of things I ought to see, after my years of flatly refusing to watch domestic shows. >.>)

Anyway, now I'm trying to download The Inside, but it may or may not be working. -_- If it ever comes in, I'll add it to the pile. ^^

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I'll see about getting you access to the DLs I've been using.

[umadoshi.livejournal.com]

Oooh! ^_^

[swanjun.livejournal.com]

I watched this while it was airing. For all of six episodes. I have it now on my computer but haven't yet embarked upon a rewatch. I wish they'd put it out on DVD, though. I think there's something like 15 episodes in existence.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

There's 13. I'm about to watch ep 9. It says something that I have to be warned about the plot for almost every episode. (I'm here for the crazy Rebecca.)

[foenix.livejournal.com]

This show started off iffy for me, but quickly grew interesting. I wish it was a little more...something. Anything to make it more than just a well done precedural. In the sea of L&Os and CSIs and NCISes, it's no wonder it got buried and died quickly.

I do miss it though, and this and Alias have made me a pretty big fan of Rachel Nichols.

[prozacpark.livejournal.com]

I always saw "The Inside" more as a psychological thriller that used the structure of a procedural to explore the messed up psyches of its characters. It never felt like a typical procedural to me, and I never found the cases they worked on very suspenseful and they interested me in only so much as they affected the characters.

I do think that it mostly got buried because a lot of people (including me, at first) did dismiss it as a procedural. And also? Because FOX buried it during the summer rerun season.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Who was she in Alias?

[foenix.livejournal.com]

She came into the last season, along with Amy Acker.

She played a computer genius named Rachel Gibson, and was kiiinda being groomed to take over the show if it came back and Garner wanted out.

Or maybe I just thought that's what they were doing. ;)

[uclamaverick.livejournal.com]

Rachel Nichols is very hot in that last season of Alias. Along with Amy Acker, she was also joined by Balthazar Getty in that final season. I miss Alias. But hey, we get to see more Rachel Nichols as Scarlet in G.I. Joe the movie.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize that was her in G.I. Joe.

[kakkobean.livejournal.com]

wow...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Isn't it just?