Re: Without a Trace 3/9

Robin Miller wrote:
Doug Main wrote:

3finger wrote:

I guess that's about as close to a "comedy" or tongue-in-cheek episode as we will get from this show. Weird, and it got really goofy at the end, but I kind of liked it. Only took them 3 1/2 seasons to do one.



Jack Malone was completely out of character, making quips when he's normally gruff and curt. Everything else was stupid; why does it have to be a lesbian affair? Must be the Brokeback effect. Still, I smiled a couple of times.



Why is a lesbian affair "stupid"? I thought the whole episode was marvelous--and, given WaT's history, unexpected--fun. I LOLed a couple of times.

But why did the writer bring the father the gun?

--Robin


You wanna have a bit of a romp, with a "comedy" ep, fine. But why the lesbian angle? Unnecessary, and apparently just another Hollywood attempt to legitimize, regularize and conventionalize it. However, I thought most of the "comedy" thing was stupid. Six+ hours lying in a bowling alley pit to get cured? C'mon! I did like Jack's interrogation of the friend from high school though. "Apparently you're a drunk and an idiot.." "I'm not a drunk." Old stuff, and predictable, but delivered well enough to elicit a smile.

--
Doug Main
"Hard work never killed anyone. But why take the chance?"
-Roy
Metal worker, American Hot Rod
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