women cop partners!!!! (also, kissing!)

[pellucid]

I don't know how I've missed this, but this summer TNT is premiering a new show about WOMEN COP PARTNERS!!!!!!!!!!! Rizzoli and Isles, starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander. Technically, they're not partners but cop and medical examiner, it seems, but the point is that BOTH LEADS ARE WOMEN!!!! And it looks like they are FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!! Cop

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[holdouttrout]

Guh. I LOVE their kisses. Absolutely the best kisses EVAR.

Also, that show sounds like it could be really fun!

[pellucid]

Oh look! I have that icon, too! (sort of)

John/Aeryn kissing FTW, definitely!!!!!

[gateslacker]

Nope, I can't think of any other couples whose kisses rival John and Aeryn for total hotness.

You cannot control the contented sigh that escapes you when watching.

[pellucid]

I think the thing that makes John and Aeryn work so very well is the combination of the sheer hotness and the extent to which their relationship was so strongly a part of the fabric of the show. It wasn't tacked on as fodder for fans, and it wasn't a soap opera. It was a love story, and they went after it with enthusiasm, and that just made the whole thing spark like crazy, I think. (Also, they're SO HOT, OMG!!!!)

[pellucid]

One of them shot the other point blank in the head? Or shot somebody else? Because if the first, well...I'm not sure whether I'd find that hot or incredibly disturbing! But perhaps context matters. :)

[callmeonetrack]

Heh. I read a few of the Rizzoli/Isles books (by Tess Gerritsen), but it's been ages. I'm interested to see this show though!

I'm reading an awesome sci-fi novel right now, Crossover by Joel Shepherd, that has two female leads and it's really excellent and different than your usual, as they are the only main characters. One is a cylon in the Number Six vein who is basically deisgned to be the strongest/best super soldier but given intelligence and reasoning and more emotion as an experiment; the other is a female SWAT leader. They have a really fascinating friendship.

[pellucid]

I didn't know they were books--though I'm not surprised, either. I keep up with popular crime fiction not at all, so...

And the book you describe sounds awesome! Robot/human friendship between women! Yay!

[danceswithwords]

That scene from "A Human Reaction" is one of my favorite all-time scenes of television. Everything about it is perfect. And I never thought I'd see another TV couple whose kisses challenge John and Aeryn for hotness, but then I saw Legend of the Seeker, which while not very good in some ways, absolutely excels at the pretty and hot, and gives us things like this to stare at.

I wish I could get excited about Rizzoli and Isles, since I imprinted on Cagney & Lacey as a kid, but Angie Harmon sets my teeth on edge.

[pellucid]

Legend of the Seeker seems to have become popular, at least on my flist, during the time I was not paying attention to the internet, and I have no idea what to make of it. I don't know ANYTHING about the show--is it new? currently airing? old? on what channel? what on earth is it about? why does it suddenly feel like something I ought to know something about?--and while I suppose I could do something about this confuzzlement (I'm pretty adept with the google, after all), I have not yet gotten around to it. The last show I remember being introduced to in this manner--suddenly lots of people on my flist were fans, and I'd never heard of it--was Supernatural, so it's possible that has unfairly prejudiced me against Legend of the Seeker? Hmm.

I'm no great fan of Angie Harmon, either, but I think the premise here is enough to overcome that. Or at least it's enough to make me want to check it out to see if I can overcome it.

[danceswithwords]

Unfortunately, the show just flew under the radar for a long time. It's syndicated, so it aired at wildly different local times; and somehow it only started developing a real fannish buzz late in Season 2--which is when word of the cancellation came down. (The Season 2 finale airs starting Saturday.) The show's major customer was the Tribune Co. network of stations, and they dropped it because they're broke, even though the ratings were decent; it wasn't able to find a replacement.

The last show I remember being introduced to in this manner--suddenly lots of people on my flist were fans, and I'd never heard of it--was Supernatural,

I think it's pretty much the polar opposite of Supernatural, so that's funny. It's a completely cheesy, epic sword and sorcery show with an angsty and adorable canon OTP, and despite the fact that the main character is nominally a dude with a sword, it's mostly all about the women--fantastic female characters with lots of agency, who have complicated relationships with each other, and even the episodic