Re: Blue Bloods "Two of a Kind" 5/10/2024 (was: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-10 (Friday))

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 Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

On Sun, 12 May 2024 08:13:50 -0700
anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
 

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

On Sat, 11 May 2024 19:53:22 -0700
anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
 

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote: 

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
 

Blue Bloods - the penultimate episode of season 14A. Season 14B
will apparently be just 4 episodes unless the cast and producers
of the show manage to convince CBS to un-cancel it. Frankly -
forgive the inadvertent pun - if I was another network with some
holes in my Friday night schedule, I'd look seriously at picking
this up. Apparently, the ratings are still very strong (despite
the ever-weaker writing) and everyone still wants to do it so why
not?    

 

As for plot, we see the first time in a very long time where
Danny's plumper son finally got something to do but sit at the
dinner table. After being robbed on campus, he and his dad set
out to catch the robber. Also, Eddie and her partner untangle a
landlord-tenant dispute that turns out to be more complicated
than it appears. Erin discovers a legal aid attorney is not
giving his client good advice and works to take down the
attorney which has unexpected consequences for the client.    

 
Even Erin says he'd have been better off rotting in prison without
her help.
 

Jamie and Joe Hill actually engage in some off-duty fisticuffs
- with each other! - and Frank has to figure out how to make
them get along.    

 
Why are they even going to the same party anyway? Joe isn't
NYPD is he?

Yes, he's NYPD but he's assigned to an FBI task force. Which raises
another question about Frank assigning him to walk a beat. The FBI
wouldn't be happy about that. They don't go jump through all the hoops
and administrative red tape to get a local cop vetted and given the TS
security clearance necessary to have access to FBI office spaces only to
have his own command yank him away to work patrol. When you're assigned
to an FBI task force, you're basically belong to the FBI at that point
and there better be a good reason to go back to your own agency to work,
even temporarily.

When I was assigned to the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, I was taken
off all Secret Service duty schedules and travel rotations. I closed out
all my active cases or they were reassigned to other agents. Other than
court testimony under subpoena, I left all my USSS responsibilities
behind for two and a half years and essentially became an FBI agent.

Gawd this was awful. None of the stories had anything resembling a
plot. Is Sean supposed to be at Columbia? The student robbery plot
was ridiculous. Danny tells Sean to wait till the next night, and
all he's going to have Sean do is wait at the police station for
the identity parade.    

 
Note that Sean never saw the face of the guy who mugged him. It was
the later guy who cut him that he could identify. So what good was
he going to do at the first lineup?
 

At the time, I assumed that the mugger that cut Sean was the same
one who had mugged him, whose face Sean had not seen on that
occasion. But given the later revelation that the Security Chief
apparently had several accomplices, I am no longer confident that
is right. If the second mugger was a different guy, you're
absolutely right: Sean would not have been able to confirm that it
was the guy who had mugged him. In fact, if I'm right and Sean
never saw his face during the first mugging, Sean wouldn't have
been much use at the lineup either, although he might still have
been able to identify the guy as someone from the cafeteria.  

 
I went back and checked. The first mugger was wearing a watch cap and
a Covid mask and knocked Sean down from behind. Sean didn't see
anything but the ground.
 

So I *did* remember it correctly. Good to know.
 

The second guy (I can't even tell if it was the same guy) also had a
Covid mask, but it got knocked off, when Sean struggled with him.
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Night scenes make it hard to distinguish people, especially when they
are dimly lit like that scene was. Mind you, The Outer Range is much
worse for that! I'm finally watching Season 1 and its amazing how many
scenes they do outdoors and at night and with no nearby light
sources - apparently, the moon doesn't appear over Wyoming - where you
can't make out what the hell is going on visually and the audio is your
only clue.

That's at least more realistic than night scenes in shows like THE
X-FILES, where they're chasing someone through a forest at night and
there's this mysterious light that illuminates everything glowing from
just over the next rise and none of the characters even seems to notice
it or think, Where the hell is that light coming from?