Re: Cold Case - Stop cheating

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:28:07 -0700, suzee <suzeeq@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Robin Miller wrote:
"suzee" <suzeeq@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Lord Vader III wrote:
I enjoy Cold Case but last Sunday's episode bothered me a bit. They
were investigating a death from 1938 and the dead woman's husband,
"dance partner", and coworker were all still alive. If you estimate
that each of these people were 25 back in 1938 (one of the actors
playing one the the characters is actually 31) that would make all 3
of them 94 years old. If you look at the present day characters, not
a single one of them looked over 70 years old (one actor was only
73). Maybe Cold Case shouldn't go so far back with cases if they
can't get the ages right.
They've done cases older than that, but the main players were all dead. I
agree, it was stretching it a bit to have all these peoples who should
have been in their 90s and looked 20 years younger.


I've watched Cold Case from the beginning, and I really do like it (other
than the addition of Tracie Thoms), but the really old cases always bother
me. Both for the reason you mention, that it's simply impossible to believe
that, fortuitously, all these 80- or 90-year-olds are still alive and living
right here in Philadelphia, and also because I just don't think in real life
they'd ever bother with a case that old that didn't involve a famous crime.
And where's the satisfaction in seeing a 90-year-old man with Altzheimer's
being hauled away for murder at the end?

Yeah, I figure there probably wouldn't really be a trial because he'd
currently have no understanding of what he's charged with.

Cold Case isn't about the actual process of solving murders though.
It's really an anthology show about how various people come to decide
to commit murder, with the police existing primarily as a framing
device for the real story.
.

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