FORKNI-L
Digest - 12 Apr 2009 to 17 Apr 2009 (#2009-69)
Fri, 17 Apr 2009
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Topics of the day:
1. Looking at Father Figure
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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:49:59 -0600
From: Angela Gottfred <agottfre@t.......>
Subject: Looking at Father Figure
Overall impression: I'm sorry to say it, but the acting in this episode is
generally of a lower quality than most of the eps so far (with the
performances of the series regulars being notable exceptions, by and large).
With not one, but two child actors in this episode, I wonder if Gary Farmer
was stuck with an particularly thorny directing job that nobody else really
was keen on. The plot is pretty weak to, although the major theme (Nick
wouldn't mind being a dad) is interesting.
1. In the opening scene, we meet Del, an East Indian homicide detective who
is filling in for Schanke (who's at a school play). I love his lines, and I
liked his character immediately, but he was speaking too quickly for me to
follow easily, which took away from the impact of his lines.
2. Flashback is to WWII London. DH is interested in the history of this
period, so he took a swipe at decoding Nick & LaCroix's uniforms. Nick seems
to be an army captain (3 pips on shoulder), while LC seems to be a major
(thus outranking Nick, of course) in the engineers. I liked Nick's
pencil-thin moustache, but I forgot to ask if it was against army
regulations.
3. Young crime witness Lisa is separated from her father because he is on an
"offshore rig". Given FK's date (1992) and assuming he's working in Canadian
waters (off Newfoundland), this must be an exploration rig or possibly early
work on the Hibernia platform, which started production in 1997.
4. The bad guys shoot at Nick & Lisa; Nick gets shot in the left shoulder
while in the car, but it's the right shoulder that he complains to Nat about
later.
5. Nick describes the blood substitute as "low fat no sodium absolutely no
flavour", to which my DH chuckled, "It's diet blood!"
6. Lisa seems unusually articulate for a pre-teen.
7. Back to the flashback: we find Daniel, the cockney lad, playing the piano
well from sheet music. Typically, cockney kids were pretty low income and
piano lessons were probably not in the budget. Also, most children were
evacuated from London at the start of the war. However, many returned to
London for a variety of reasons, ranging from homesickness to abuse by
members of their host families.
8. The scene where Nick yells "I'm blind! I'm blind!" is just totally over
the top.
9. Back to the flashback again: Daniel is now a vampire, and is-for some
mysterious reason-wearing an army uniform. This would be more than a little
remarkable! It really smacks of LaCroix creating a Mini-Me.
10. Back to Nick's loft, where the bad guys are breaking in and Nick still
can't see. The vampire detective who could hear Lisa's heartbeat in a back
alley just off a busy street now has to call out, "Lisa, where are you?",
again for no adequately explained reason.
--Angela Gottfred
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