Follow TV Tropes

Following

History Series / MinorityReport2015

Go To

OR

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* SharedActorBackground: Like Dash, Stark Sands has a twin brother and an older sister.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* TheCastShowoff: Stark sands has appeared in the original Broadway casts of AmericanIdiot and KinkyBoots so it's not surprising that his character Dash sings "Sexual Healing" in one episode
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* ThwCastShowoff: Dash sings "Sexual Healing" in one episode

to:

* ThwCastShowoff: TheCastShowoff: Stark sands has appeared in the original Broadway casts of AmericanIdiot and KinkyBoots so it's not surprising that his character Dash sings "Sexual Healing" in one episode
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* CastShowOff: Dash sings "Sexual Healing" in one episode

to:

* CastShowOff: ThwCastShowoff: Dash sings "Sexual Healing" in one episode
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* CastShowOff: Dash sings "Sexual Healing" in one episode
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

** Selfie-drones are a trendy commercialized variant of this concept.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* AmbiguouslyEvil: The inspectors (led by Henry Blomfield) pursuing the precogs towards the end of season one. [[spoiler:It's established that they're rogue agents working without the authority of their government agency, but they claim that they're pursuing the precogs because they genuinely believe that TheNeedsOfTheMany justify [[PoweredByAForsakenChild putting the precogs in the milk bath indefinitely again]]. This would make them [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-Intentioned Extremists]] and possibly {{Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist}}s. However, they also are revealed to have taken payments from some unknown group, which is not revealed as of the end of season one. Depending upon what group this actually is, that could take them out of the well-intentioned extremist category.]]


Added DiffLines:

* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:After [[GirlFriday Andromeda]] is killed, Arthur is ''pissed'' and wants to kill the agents who are responsible for her death. The only thing stopping him from doing it is that Wally does it first.]]

Added: 153

Removed: 126

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* PickUpArtist: One is a suspect in an early episode. [[spoiler:The actual perpetrator turns out to be one of his followers.]]


Added DiffLines:

* SenseiForScoundrels: A famous pick-up artist is a suspect in an early episode. [[spoiler:The actual perpetrator turns out to be one of his followers.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* PickUpArtist: One is a suspect in an early episode. [[spoiler:The actual perpetrator turns out to be one of his followers.]]


Added DiffLines:

* ProphecyTwist: Given the premise of the show, this is almost inevitable. Many of the visions do not mean what the precogs initially expect them to mean. Particularly central to the show's MythArc is that [[spoiler:Agatha thinks that the vision she sees about Vega indicates that Vega will betray the precogs, when of course it's the exact opposite]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* WesternTerrorists[=/=]WellIntentionedExtremist: Memento Mori commit terrorist attacks on innocent civilians, but they sincerely seem to believe that [[spoiler:the legislation they're trying to stop with the attacks will lead to the end of human life. It remains to be seen whether [[VillainHasAPoint they have a point or not]].]]

to:

* WesternTerrorists[=/=]WellIntentionedExtremist: Memento Mori commit plan terrorist attacks on innocent civilians, civilians who simply made the mistake of working for prominent senators, but they sincerely seem to believe that [[spoiler:the legislation they're trying to stop with the attacks will lead to the end of human life. It remains to be seen whether [[VillainHasAPoint they have a point or not]].]]

Added: 331

Removed: 244

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
moving The Other Darrin to Trivia


* TheOtherDarrin: recasting the precogs entirely, replacing Samantha Morton with Laura Regan as Agatha and Matthew and Michael Dickman with Stark Sands and Nick Zano as Dash and Arthur. Averted with Wally, with Daniel London reprising his role.


Added DiffLines:

* WesternTerrorists[=/=]WellIntentionedExtremist: Memento Mori commit terrorist attacks on innocent civilians, but they sincerely seem to believe that [[spoiler:the legislation they're trying to stop with the attacks will lead to the end of human life. It remains to be seen whether [[VillainHasAPoint they have a point or not]].]]

Removed: 1454

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Doesn\'t go here. And them saying he\'s responsible for one thing doesn\'t mean he\'s by default responsible for EVERY thing.


* FridgeHorror: The show mentions that Wally was responsible for brushing the teenage precogs' teeth and cutting their hair and nails. But there's a lot more to caring for the health and hygiene of people who are effectively in a medical induced coma 24/7 (and the show went out of its way to make clear that they didn't get breaks). Even if they were fed purely intravenously, they'd still need diapers and/or urethra catheters that need frequent changing to avoid infection. And Agatha probably was put on contraceptive injections to prevent her from needing menstrual tampons and messing up the milkbath, but nothing can prevent a pubescent boy from having the occasional nocturnal emmission in his sleep, necessitating clean-ups and a change of bodysuits. Plus, you know, just your basic sponge bath to scrub off the dead skin cells that the body sheds all over, and to get rid of accumulated germs in other places with mucous membranes than just their mouths. (Given that this is set in the US, they probably circumcised the boys, but that still leaves the need to prevent Agatha from developing a yeast infection in that nutrient bath.) Combine that degree of forced intimate contact with the fact that Wally was acting kind of creepy over at least Agatha in the movie, and the implications get really squicky and disturbing. Why, exactly, wouldn't the police at least hire a professional coma nurse instead of letting the tech guy do these things?
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* Fridge Horror: The show mentions that Wally was responsible for brushing the teenage precogs' teeth and cutting their hair and nails. But there's a lot more to caring for the health and hygiene of people who are effectively in a medical induced coma 24/7 (and the show went out of its way to make clear that they didn't get breaks). Even if they were fed purely intravenously, they'd still need diapers and/or urethra catheters that need frequent changing to avoid infection. And Agatha probably was put on contraceptive injections to prevent her from needing menstrual tampons and messing up the milkbath, but nothing can prevent a pubescent boy from having the occasional nocturnal emmission in his sleep, necessitating clean-ups and a change of bodysuits. Plus, you know, just your basic sponge bath to scrub off the dead skin cells that the body sheds all over, and to get rid of accumulated germs in other places with mucous membranes than just their mouths. (Given that this is set in the US, they probably circumcised the boys, but that still leaves the need to prevent Agatha from developing a yeast infection in that nutrient bath.) Combine that degree of forced intimate contact with the fact that Wally was acting kind of creepy over at least Agatha in the movie, and the implications get really squicky and disturbing. Why, exactly, wouldn't the police at least hire a professional coma nurse instead of letting the tech guy do these things?

to:

* Fridge Horror: FridgeHorror: The show mentions that Wally was responsible for brushing the teenage precogs' teeth and cutting their hair and nails. But there's a lot more to caring for the health and hygiene of people who are effectively in a medical induced coma 24/7 (and the show went out of its way to make clear that they didn't get breaks). Even if they were fed purely intravenously, they'd still need diapers and/or urethra catheters that need frequent changing to avoid infection. And Agatha probably was put on contraceptive injections to prevent her from needing menstrual tampons and messing up the milkbath, but nothing can prevent a pubescent boy from having the occasional nocturnal emmission in his sleep, necessitating clean-ups and a change of bodysuits. Plus, you know, just your basic sponge bath to scrub off the dead skin cells that the body sheds all over, and to get rid of accumulated germs in other places with mucous membranes than just their mouths. (Given that this is set in the US, they probably circumcised the boys, but that still leaves the need to prevent Agatha from developing a yeast infection in that nutrient bath.) Combine that degree of forced intimate contact with the fact that Wally was acting kind of creepy over at least Agatha in the movie, and the implications get really squicky and disturbing. Why, exactly, wouldn't the police at least hire a professional coma nurse instead of letting the tech guy do these things?
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* Fridge Horror: The show mentions that Wally was responsible for brushing the teenage precogs' teeth and cutting their hair and nails. But there's a lot more to caring for the health and hygiene of people who are effectively in a medical induced coma 24/7 (and the show went out of its way to make clear that they didn't get breaks). Even if they were fed purely intravenously, they'd still need diapers and/or urethra catheters that need frequent changing to avoid infection. And Agatha probably was put on contraceptive injections to prevent her from needing menstrual tampons and messing up the milkbath, but nothing can prevent a pubescent boy from having the occasional nocturnal emmission in his sleep, necessitating clean-ups and a change of bodysuits. Plus, you know, just your basic sponge bath to scrub off the dead skin cells that the body sheds all over, and to get rid of accumulated germs in other places with mucous membranes than just their mouths. (Given that this is set in the US, they probably circumcised the boys, but that still leaves the need to prevent Agatha from developing a yeast infection in that nutrient bath.) Combine that degree of forced intimate contact with the fact that Wally was acting kind of creepy over at least Agatha in the movie, and the implications get really squicky and disturbing. Why, exactly couldn't the police at least hire a professional coma nurse instead of letting the tech guy do these things?

to:

* Fridge Horror: The show mentions that Wally was responsible for brushing the teenage precogs' teeth and cutting their hair and nails. But there's a lot more to caring for the health and hygiene of people who are effectively in a medical induced coma 24/7 (and the show went out of its way to make clear that they didn't get breaks). Even if they were fed purely intravenously, they'd still need diapers and/or urethra catheters that need frequent changing to avoid infection. And Agatha probably was put on contraceptive injections to prevent her from needing menstrual tampons and messing up the milkbath, but nothing can prevent a pubescent boy from having the occasional nocturnal emmission in his sleep, necessitating clean-ups and a change of bodysuits. Plus, you know, just your basic sponge bath to scrub off the dead skin cells that the body sheds all over, and to get rid of accumulated germs in other places with mucous membranes than just their mouths. (Given that this is set in the US, they probably circumcised the boys, but that still leaves the need to prevent Agatha from developing a yeast infection in that nutrient bath.) Combine that degree of forced intimate contact with the fact that Wally was acting kind of creepy over at least Agatha in the movie, and the implications get really squicky and disturbing. Why, exactly couldn't exactly, wouldn't the police at least hire a professional coma nurse instead of letting the tech guy do these things?
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* Fridge Horror: The show mentions that Wally was responsible for brushing the teenage precogs' teeth and cutting their hair and nails. But there's a lot more to caring for the health and hygiene of people who are effectively in a medical induced coma 24/7 (and the show went out of its way to make clear that they didn't get breaks). Even if they were fed purely intravenously, they'd still need diapers and/or urethra catheters that need frequent changing to avoid infection. And Agatha probably was put on contraceptive injections to prevent her from needing menstrual tampons and messing up the milkbath, but nothing can prevent a pubescent boy from having the occasional nocturnal emmission in his sleep, necessitating clean-ups and a change of bodysuits. Plus, you know, just your basic sponge bath to scrub off the dead skin cells that the body sheds all over, and to get rid of accumulated germs in other places with mucous membranes than just their mouths. (Given that this is set in the US, they probably circumcised the boys, but that still leaves the need to prevent Agatha from developing a yeast infection in that nutrient bath.) Combine that degree of forced intimate contact with the fact that Wally was acting kind of creepy over at least Agatha in the movie, and the implications get really squicky and disturbing. Why, exactly couldn't the police at least hire a professional coma nurse instead of letting the tech guy do these things?
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* AscendedExtra: Dash and Arthur were extremely minor characters in the original movie.


Added DiffLines:

* TheOtherDarrin: recasting the precogs entirely, replacing Samantha Morton with Laura Regan as Agatha and Matthew and Michael Dickman with Stark Sands and Nick Zano as Dash and Arthur. Averted with Wally, with Daniel London reprising his role.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* {{Fingore}}: Dash was subjected to this by a henchman, when one of Arthur's connections wanted his money(which he stole) back from Arthur. Fortunately the future has advanced medical technology to reattach it.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

** The episode "The American Dream" has Akeela stating that the price of granting illegal immigrants amnesty was the repeal of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which requires ignoring the entire Constitutional Amendment process' requirement of three-quarters of state legislatures approving it after two-thirds of Congress does.

Added: 377

Changed: 24

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


In 2065 Washington, D.C., eleven years after the events of the 2002 film, Precog Dash (Stark Sands) has grown distressed over still seeing murders. Setting out on his own he has attempted to stop them, but as the weakest of the three he lacks important info that his twin brother Arthur (Nick Zano) could see. After his latest failure he runs into Detective Lara Vega (Meagan Good) and, after she pieces together his past, the two team up to [[TheyFightCrime stop crimes]] [[PrecrimeArrest before they happen]]. But Dash's fellow-Precog Agatha (Laura Regan) has foreseen that this partnership will only end in disaster.

to:

In 2065 Washington, D.C., UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC[=,=] eleven years after the events of the 2002 film, Precog Dash (Stark Sands) has grown distressed over still seeing murders. Setting out on his own he has attempted to stop them, but as the weakest of the three he lacks important info that his twin brother Arthur (Nick Zano) could see. After his latest failure he runs into Detective Lara Vega (Meagan Good) and, after she pieces together his past, the two team up to [[TheyFightCrime stop crimes]] [[PrecrimeArrest before they happen]]. But Dash's fellow-Precog Agatha (Laura Regan) has foreseen that this partnership will only end in disaster.


Added DiffLines:

* GreenAesop: climate change's effects are brought up in "Fiddler's Neck" and "Honor Among Thieves," the former stating that rising sea levels created the isolated bucolic off-the-grid commune the precogs moved to after the movie, and the latter has Luca van Zant state that mezcal is now an extremely rare commodity due to the deserts driving the agave plants into extinction.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* GogglesDoSomething: Cops in 2065 wear augmented reality contact lenses that, among other things, let them scan crime scenes and see in thermal and night vision. These lenses also work in conjunction with gloves worn by the cops so that the lenses will scan specific areas the cop is gesturing towards.

to:

* GogglesDoSomething: Cops in 2065 wear augmented reality contact lenses (see Vega in poster above) that, among other things, let them scan crime scenes and see in thermal and night vision. These lenses also work in conjunction with gloves worn by the cops cops' hand movements so that the lenses will scan specific areas the cop is gesturing towards.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Spelling, air born -> airborne


* SurveillanceDrone: Lara uses a new type of mini drone to seek out suspects, which are air born and function the same way as the spiders in the film.

to:

* SurveillanceDrone: Lara uses a new type of mini drone to seek out suspects, which are air born airborne and function the same way as the spiders in the film.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* CentralTheme: LibertyOverProsperity. What steps should the government take to keep its citizens secure? What sacrifices are permissible? What is the suffering of three "[[TheyWouldCutYouUp genetic freaks]]" compared to the lives they could save if they were [[PoweredByAForsakenChild kept drugged and plugged into computers]]? What is forsaking privacy compared to a world without crime? Perhaps most importantly; once the government has that much power, ''who could stop it from doing anything else it wants?''
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


In 2065 Washington, D.C., eleven years after the events of the 2002 film, Precog Dash (Stark Sands) has grown distressed over still seeing murders. Setting out on his own he has attempted to stop them, but as the weakest of the three he lacks important info that his twin brother Arthur (Nick Zano) could see. After his latest failure he runs into Detective Lara Vega (Meagan Good) and, after she pieces together his past, the two team up to [[TheyFightCrime stop crimes before they happen]]. But Dash's fellow-Precog Agatha (Laura Regan) has foreseen that this partnership will only end in disaster.

to:

In 2065 Washington, D.C., eleven years after the events of the 2002 film, Precog Dash (Stark Sands) has grown distressed over still seeing murders. Setting out on his own he has attempted to stop them, but as the weakest of the three he lacks important info that his twin brother Arthur (Nick Zano) could see. After his latest failure he runs into Detective Lara Vega (Meagan Good) and, after she pieces together his past, the two team up to [[TheyFightCrime stop crimes crimes]] [[PrecrimeArrest before they happen]]. But Dash's fellow-Precog Agatha (Laura Regan) has foreseen that this partnership will only end in disaster.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Averted. Dash and Arthur are fraternal twins.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: A 3-D tissue printer is used to print an eyeball based on a DNA sample to get past a retinal scan. But retinal patterns aren't determined by DNA, they develop organically as the eye develops and no two are the same, even among identical twins.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* SurvellianceDrone: Lara uses a new type of mini drone to seek out suspects, which are air born and function the same way as the spiders in the film.

to:

* SurvellianceDrone: SurveillanceDrone: Lara uses a new type of mini drone to seek out suspects, which are air born and function the same way as the spiders in the film.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* SurvellianceDrone: Lara uses a new type of mini drone to seek out suspects, which are air born and function the same way as the spiders in the film.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Unlike most psychic detective shows, precogs like Dash do ''not'' exist in a legal gray area. Their powers are well-known, and exploiting them is extremely illegal. Vega and Dash struggle to keep his involvement hidden, until she gets the idea to bring him in on Hawk-Eye.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: Hawk-Eye uses the ubiquitous surveillance of the setting to try and predict disruptive behavior before it happens. If someone is flagged by the system, they are put under close watch for 48 hours, and most of their privacy rights are suspended for the time. Despite the insistence of its proponents, it's clearly an attempt at a technological replacement for Pre-Crime.


Added DiffLines:

* WildCardExcuse: In episode 3, Vega gets the idea to bring Dash in on the Hawk-Eye project as a civilian analyst. This gives them an excuse to work cases together, and when someone asks where they got their information, they can cite Hawk-Eye.

Added: 157

Removed: 138

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* LongRunner: An amusing throwaway gag from the pilot reveals that ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is ''still going'' in its 75th season.


Added DiffLines:

* RidiculousFutureSequelisation: An amusing throwaway gag from the pilot reveals that ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is ''still going'' in its 75th season.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/minority_report_tv_poster.jpg]]

->'''Dash''': Can...you...see?\\
'''Vega''': See what?\\
'''Dash''': ''Murder''.

''Minority Report'' is a 2015 sci-fi PoliceProcedural airing on Creator/{{Fox}}. It is also a SequelSeries to the [[Film/MinorityReport film of the same name]], which told the story of the Precogs - psychic siblings who could see visions of future murders. Used by Pre-Crime, they prevented almost every murder for years until an internal conspiracy revealed the flaws in the system. The Pre-Crime unit was shut down, and the Precogs released to the outside world and away from the public eye.

In 2065 Washington, D.C., eleven years after the events of the 2002 film, Precog Dash (Stark Sands) has grown distressed over still seeing murders. Setting out on his own he has attempted to stop them, but as the weakest of the three he lacks important info that his twin brother Arthur (Nick Zano) could see. After his latest failure he runs into Detective Lara Vega (Meagan Good) and, after she pieces together his past, the two team up to [[TheyFightCrime stop crimes before they happen]]. But Dash's fellow-Precog Agatha (Laura Regan) has foreseen that this partnership will only end in disaster.

----
!!This series contains examples of:

* AdaptationExpansion: Dash and Arthur were the least-developed Precogs in the film. Here, the two of them are main characters of importance equal to Agatha.
* ApologeticAttacker: Dash apologizes for paralyzing Vega's leg before running off.
* ArcWords: "Can you see?" makes a return from the film, spoken by all three of the Precogs at various points.'
* CallBack: Dash uses the same paralytic Anderton used in the film to cause his face to droop as a disguise.
* GilliganCut: When asked if he's staying for dinner by Vega's mother, Dash confirms and claims they're having Chinese. Vega stops him, saying that she's cooking. Cut to a burnt lasagne and a {{beat}}, followed by Vega declaring that they're ordering Chinese.
* GogglesDoSomething: Cops in 2065 wear augmented reality contact lenses that, among other things, let them scan crime scenes and see in thermal and night vision. These lenses also work in conjunction with gloves worn by the cops so that the lenses will scan specific areas the cop is gesturing towards.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: The series' premise is based on spoiling the ending of the film.
* LongRunner: An amusing throwaway gag from the pilot reveals that ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is ''still going'' in its 75th season.
* PermaStubble: Dash always appears with some peach-fuzz.
* PrecrimeArrest: It has been eleven years since [[Film/MinorityReport the Pre-Crime experiment,]] where people were arrested because the precogs saw them commit murder in the future. Now, Peter van Eyck wants to develop a new system of crime arrest based on computers and data analysis rather than "genetic freaks" in order to accomplish the same thing. The precog Dash joins with Detective Lara to prevent the murders Dash predicts.
* SequelSeries: It takes place eleven years after the film. Actor Daniel London also reprises his role of Wally the Caretaker.
* TechnologyPorn: The creators were sure to expand on the paths that future technology took, based on the film and real life. The movies motion controls have been replaced with augmented reality displays, and there are significantly more automated elements. Selfie Drone, anyone?
* TwinBanter: Dash and Arthur trade barbs back and forth.
----

Top