Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> On 04/12/2011 12:04 PM, Warp wrote:

> >    Of course there's nothing new under the sun, so there most probably exist
> > countless stories already with similar ideas

> Minority Report, anyone?

  Only a very vague resemblance.

  In Minority Report they only caught murderers and the technique to do that
was supernatural (and it was done *before* the murders happened). The
technique actually worked and was not based on deception and convicting
the innocent.

> The angle there was not so much that you have 100% detection rates, but 
> that you can detect crime before it happens. A few crimes still go 
> unsolved, and some people figure out how to use that to their 
> advantage... Not an entirely disimilar angle though.

  No, the crimes didn't go unsolved. The idea (spoiler alert) was to
mask a new crime as the same as a previous crime, so that it would be
dismissed. (The precogs were established to sometimes have memories of
the same crimes they had predicted in the past, and thus give a false
positive.)

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                                                          - Warp

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