Just a Face and a Caption: Mystery Magnet

I don't see any actual mystery occurring. Not to mention that it's a duplicate of the picture currently on The Watson.

Honestly, I don't think this trope needs a picture at all.

edited 9th May '13 3:10:15 PM by Thnikkafan

It even looks like two uploads of the same image.

I think it fits better on The Watson, though it's still weak there.

I don't know about replacements but I say to pull the picture on Mystery Magnet and The Watson. They're both face and caption.

Heavily caption reliant. Pull. I'm having trouble thinking of another image, although I think the Doctor is an example of this trope, even if the TARDIS takes him where stuff happens. Not on the page, though...

Nice. I'm wondering if it would look better with just the article instead of the newspaper.

edited 9th May '13 6:16:30 PM by Rethkir

How about this one:

Possible caption: "264 murders, to be exact."

edited 9th May '13 5:29:35 PM by Madrugada

That works. It's a little funny, too.

5 FTW

Pretty sure 5's going to be a runaway winnder.

Rethkir: I think the newspaper framing the story helps. I could crop it down to just the story, but I'd bet dollars to doughnuts if we used it that way within six months Mystery Magnet would be back here with someone saying that it's "all text" and "visuals add nothing".

Makes perfect sense to me.

Using 5 on Mystery Magnet would fix the duplicate problem but do we want to keep the current on The Watson?

I'd like to have a discussion on The Watson because the current pic is JAFAC. 5 is perfect for this trope.

edited 11th May '13 12:49:22 PM by Rethkir

5 is up, potholed, and tagged on Mystery Magnet. Caption or no?

It's a bit texty in itself, so no caption needed.

I agree with the duck. No caption.

There's always: "264 murders, to be exact."

Ehhhh...I don't think we need to be that pedantic.

It's not particularly pedantic; in fact, it's very likely incorrect. There were 264 episodes, each with at least one murder, but I'm sure some had more than one.

That said, I don't think it needs a caption.

edited 11th May '13 7:16:43 PM by Madrugada

I didn't know that. I was just bringing up the previous suggestion. In that case, no caption needed.

edited 11th May '13 7:29:27 PM by Rethkir

At least two episodes had no (successful) murder, though you could say the ones with multiples more than make up for them.

(Also, did you create that graphic, or is there someone we need to credit?)

edited 13th May '13 1:10:36 PM by Leaper

I like how it's the "Maine Police Department." Because there's only one in the whole state.

^^ I found it with a GIS on a blog. I could not find any indication whether it was original to that blogger or came from somewhere else. I don't know who to credit it to (and now I can't even find the blog again). Unless someone else wants to try to track down the original, I'd say link it to Murder, She Wrote.

edited 13th May '13 2:55:02 PM by Madrugada

It looks like someone added a caption without bringing it here for discussion. "It's about time, too. She's been killing since 1984!" Anyone want to keep it, or should we discard/pick another?

edited 13th May '13 3:10:35 PM by Rethkir

I don't like it. It puts an emphasis on an aspect that's not even part of the trope, and I think that's dangerous. (Of course, this could apply to the entire image, but that's up to you.)

I'm not crazy about it either.