From: kristyp@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kristy Patterson)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.la-law
Subject: Re: Thoughts/Spoilers on 12/11 Show
Date: 11 Dec 92 15:54:17 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In article <1992Dec11.012656.2268@ucbeh.san.uc.edu> cho@ucbeh.san.uc.edu writes:
>Greetings all,
>
>These are a few of my thoughts (spoilers included) on the 12/11 show.

I'll add mine, too; let me just say that I thought it had some funny moments,
but was for the most part pretty lousy.

>1.  First dog scene-  Cute scene of Lincoln swiping watch.  Did they find it
>yet?  The dog license joke was also cute.

That joke was cute, I agree.  I also liked "Lincoln-cam."  But am I just
too smart for TV :-), or was their foreshadowing incredibly obvious?
Jonathan: "I told you to get him a license."  Benny: "I haven't had time; gotta
go."  Gee... do you think Lincoln will get lost?  Takes powerful deduction...
not.

>2.  Elena Parros' entry...same initials as Evita Peron's!  She is obviously a
>very abberant type  personality.  She does use a computer notebook, so that's
>up-to-date.  Key is, was it a Mac or an IBM?  I like the fact that she and
>Tommy have some bad blood between them...it makes things interesting.

Couldn't tell what kind of computer it was (bad weather, so our reception
sucked).  I thought the chair sequence was amusing.  She's a real snot, though!
What an attitude.  When the judge basically told her she had no case, she
practically started sulking (I couldn't see her expression that well ,though.)
And the way she presented the autopsy report of the previous child, flouncing
around the court like that; I think I prefer Kittridge.  She seemed really
immature.

>3.  Rox N Tommy- Well, now I can see why Rox is so hestitant to make it
>anything besides business, after all she's been through before with the other
>guys in her life.  I still think it's sleazy.

I just don't care about this storyline at all.  I like both characters, and
I probably wouldn't have minded a relationship *developing*, but this was
totally out of the blue... and in soap land, one failed marriage and one
failed relationship is NOTHING.  I don't see how she's been through anything
that awful with men, compared to, say, Gwen or Abby or Grace.

>4.  My husband had already mentioned how Martinez was always around when the
>presents arrive, and was around during the garage scene, so he had already
>guessed Martinez to be the stalker.   I still say it's just too obvious.  But
>that comment he made to her 'You're the fairest of them all'....could it be
>that his wife's death has made him really nuts?  He recognized that the heart
>was probably an animal's, like the ones in his brother's med school.  I didn't
>think Ann was very sensitive either.  In fact, why isn't there a security
>person looking after her and the firm, if there is obviously some major
>stalking going on?

I don't think it's Daniel (A Martinez).  I agree with you that it's too
obvious; she jumped to that conclusion right away.  Logistically speaking,
I doubt they'd bring a big-name soap actor onto the show, just to have him
be a psycho and get rid of him.  He's the only one who would have a REASON
to have fairy-tale books, given that he has a baby. He also hasn't known
her that long, and she's practically thrown herself at him; why bother stalking
her?  (Not that psychos make a lot of sense.) I would say Stuart, but he
probably barely remembers her.  I had an off-the-wall thought that it might
be Ann!  She gave her a hard time about kissing Stuart, and that whole thing
about "it has to be someone who knows your routine."  She's Ann's intern, who
would know it better?  The flaw is that I can't see Ann running around
dismembering animals.  But she hasn't done much else but fret about Stuart this
season.

But HOW ABOUT SOME LAW???

>5.  The first court case of the show began at 10:22.  I thought it was a fairly
>trivial case, although I'd like to point out that the term 'failure to thrive'
>does not necessarily mean 'refusal to eat.'

Raise your net.hand if you think that baby's going to die because it doesn't
get the proper care in state custody, and the new associate feels really bad
about it.  And this wasn't even a trial; it was pre-trial, to establish
probable cause.  We didn't get a real trial last night at all.

>6.  I don't understand what the deal is with the Jewish movie director, the
>wife, and so on.  Will someone please explain what's going on?

I wish I knew... I guess they're trying to move Arnie away from divorce to
entertainment law, but the studio owner keeps talking about him as the
"heir apparent," and having him sleep with his secretary, and all this junk.
The woman in/out of the wheelchair's husband apparently owns some of the
studio, and she can somehow hurt the owner, but I wasn't paying much attention
during that bit.

>7.  Jonathan's now heading to Africa, maybe he'll head to Somalia to lend a
>hand?

He doesn't have much to do either.  Maybe he's the stalker.

>8.  Best line of the show:  Doug is talking to his ex-convict pal and says,
>'Roger, I'll be Frank.'  I think Douglas (Alan Rachins?) has an excellent 
>speaking voice.

This could be funny; let's see Sheila's reaction to Douglas' biographer living
on the couch.

>9.  Stuart and the gun-  Well, Stuart's in a jam now.  There were some
>beautiful dogs in that group!  I thought he was going to pull money out...I
>never figured he'd pull out a gun to get Lincoln out!!!  And is that really how
>dog pounds work?  

And this was the dumbest of all.  Stuart's "Born Free" act was just ridiculous.
They're really having Stuart go around the bend.  I don't think the pound works
like that, but even if that was plausible, I think the lawyer act probably
would have worked.  If not; pulling a gun after you've given someone your card
is really dumb.  And bringing all the dogs back to the firm? Sheesh.

>-Pamela Cho-

I'm about to give up; not one trial, and the rest of the threads seem pretty
useless.  Will Roxanne conceive?  Will she and Tommy have a relationship?
Will Stuart get his memory back?  Who is stalking Gwen?  Will Arnie impress
his mogul?

WHO CARES???  Give me Law & Order any day.

-Kristy
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