Re: Bosch rides again

On 2025-07-10 10:24 AM, EGK wrote:

On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 04:17:38 +0000, BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid>
wrote:
 

EGK <memyself@null.net> wrote:

On Wed, 9 Jul 2025 18:42:54 -0400, Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
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I just watched the first episode on Ballard, the new sequel to Bosch.
The producers had telegraphed that Bosch would pop up on occasion on
Ballard so I thought I should mention that the name Harry Bosch was
indeed spoken out loud at the end of the Ballard pilot, suggesting we
will see Harry at some point. (To be fair, they showed some previews of
the rest of the season and those scenes didn't show Bosch so maybe we
won't see a lot of him. Or maybe they didn't want to dangle him in front
of us too much for fear of making him look like a crutch for Renee
Ballard.)
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In any case, the pilot was pretty watchable so I'll stay with it even if
Bosch doesn't appear very frequently.
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I'm still trying to wrap my head around the idea of a police unit that
is staffed almost entirely by volunteers, retirees, and interns yet
still has powers of arrest. I have no idea if that is realistic and
would be curious to know if it is.

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She's popular but I find Maggie Q to be a pretty untalented.   I know this
series is based on books but I would have rather they had followed through
with the proposed series about Jerry Edgar. I like Jamie Hector as an
actor much more.

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Maggie Q is playing Ballard? That was not who imagined at all when I read
the book. She was described as a Daddario type. Certainly not Asian.

 Yes. She was briefly in the last season of Bosch Legacy.   I'll probably
watch Ballard but I just find Maggie Q's acting style to be stiff and
unemotional.  She's kick-ass in action scenes but it's not like these shows
are full of hand to hand combat.    Maybe she'll surprise me.

She is in a serious scrap late in episode 6 but I didn't see any of the martial arts moves that she'd used in Nikita. I assume that was deliberate so that this character was seen as distinct.
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Rhino