Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-26 (Friday)

anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:

BLUE BLOODS S17E07 “On the Ropes“
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Man, they are really coasting now that they know it's over.
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Danny and Baez take an injured kidnapper to the hospital where the first
unhelpful nurse they run into will turn out to be killing diabetics because
they don't deserve resources wasted on them. This will be solved after a
series of ridiculous coincidences.
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Anthony takes a pair of shoes to be repaired to a father and son repair
shop directly across the street from the courthouse steps which seems
unlikely. He finds them packing up because a crooked lawyer threatened that
if they didn't give him money that he would bury them in ADA fines.  The
shopkeeper waves the soon to be murder weapon at the camera, and tells the
audience what it is.
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Jamie's nitwit captain gets a phone call from him asking for his schedule
for the day and she tells him.
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Morning briefing in Magnum's office (which should've taken place hours
before a little fix-it shop would open). Baker is wearing a white on the
right side black on the left side dress. That makes her look like either
Frank Gorshin or Lou Antonio from Star Trek.  Or come to think of it Sherry
Jackson. Gormley has a bandaged nose and announces he's going to fight a
cop, 20 years younger than him to the death in a department sanctioned
smoker.

Why would the police approve of people fighting to the death in a meat
smoker?

Jamie is escorting a witness and gets ambushed by guys waving automatic
weapons, who scurry away when somebody with a pistol gets one shot back at
them. Jamie's car apparently has bullet resistant side window glass open
bullets, spiderweb it, but do not penetrate), a completely invulnerable
windshield that doesn't even get a mark and plain house window glass for
the rear window.  Nobody makes any attempt to find the shooter who was
shot.

Heh.

Jamie tells his nitwit captain that he didn't call her. His witness was
going to testify against computer AI villains, who also drive around in
masks and vans with automatic weapons.
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Anthony tells Erin about the crooked lawyer shaking down people across the
street from the courthouse. Lazy pro crime Erin refuses to help and the
victim ends up dead.
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Anthony rousts the crooked lawyer on a street corner.
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Jamie and Eddie get a call at home that turns out to be from the AI
scammers who warn them they have their email passwords and will use them if
they don't leave them alone which seems to be a substantial de-escalation
from shooting their car to pieces in broad daylight.
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Since the AI crooks know everything, why did they bother to make a fake
phone call to the captain to get Jamie's schedule?

Why don't they committ identity fraud and make a profit?

Henry tells Frank to stay out of the smoker business.
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A dishonest and incompetent IOB person calls in Anthony and tries to frame
him with security camera footage of somebody beating the shit out of the
crooked lawyer with the murder weapon we saw earlier. Because of budget
cuts she's by herself even though every other time in the series we've
always seen these vermin travel in pairs. Anthony laughs at her because the
masked assailant in the video is like half his size.
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At family dinner, they discuss the smoker.  It seems the only living Reagan
to have ever won their prize fight. Is that idiot, Eddie, a year after she
partnered with Jamie and yet, Jamie has never heard of this. This seems
unlikely.
She also explains how AI works and what it does and gets it all wrong.  You
would really think these lines should have gone to the grandson.
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Danny and Baez harass an innocent suspect.
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Jamie brings his captain in for an undercover sting, even though she
totally booted her last undercover sting, what, a week ago?
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Anthony figures out that the shopkeeper is the guy who gave the crooked
lawyer his deserved beating and he and the guy's son find he hung himself
in the repair shop.

What? Curse those dangling pronouns!

Danny catches the diabetic killer in action and they let her stand there
and give a prolonged speech about how all diabetics should die and make the
world a better place.
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Anthony tells Erin that the crooked lawyer is suing the shopkeepers estate
for beating him up.
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Anthony and Erin go visit the crooked lawyer in the hospital and the
crooked lawyer doesn't have any idea that the shopkeeper is the one who
beat him up. They aren't even trying at this point.
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Erin figures out some phony baloney charges to put the crooked lawyer away.
Now that they've gotten the original victim killed. It seems he claimed to
be representing actual people who weren't disabled instead of just finding
disabled people to represent or making up names.
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Frank puts an end to the smoker fight by telling them that their health
insurance won't cover it.

Is their insurance agent a militant vegetarian?


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Let's go Brandon!