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Digest - 9 Jun 2013 to 10 Jun 2013 (#2013-81)

Mon, 10 Jun 2013

There are 3 messages totaling 99 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

  1. Canada in non-Canadian dramatic television (WAS: Re: Dark Knight...again)
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  2. Dark Knight...again

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Date:    Sun, 9 Jun 2013 22:22:15 -0400
From:    Greer Watson <gwatson2@r.......>
Subject: Re: Canada in non-Canadian dramatic television (WAS: Re: Dark Knight...again)

>Do Canadians not have a mobile blood-donation set-up? If they do, what is
>it called?<

Actually, I was thinking of the way the bloodmobile was clearly targeting
the homeless as potential sources.  "Give a little, get a little," as Doctor
Dave says.  Well, I don't want to suggest that homeless people lack the
instinct for charity; but he wasn't there just for the free orange juice!
He does, after all, says it while he counts the money they gave him.

In some parts of the States, people can be paid for donating blood.
Wherever that situation holds, people who are badly in need of money come to
see selling their blood as a quick source of income.

Thus, the premise of "Dark Knight":  Fenner is specifically targeting anyone
whom he suspects might have been the person whose tainted blood infected his
mother with hepatitis.  Hence, he is selecting only those with same blood
type as his mother.  (One suspects that his real motive is revenge, for all
that he claims that he is acting to prevent another fatal blood donation.)

Of course, today this aspect of the plot seems improbable, for nowadays
donated blood is carefully tested for hepatitis, among other things.  But in
1992 (and still more when "Nick Knight" was made), the premise hearkened
back to the tainted blood scandals following the discovery of AIDS, which
was passed on to sadly many people who received blood transfusions.  In its
day, therefore, this plot was almost timely, and certainly would not have
seemed implausible.

However, Fenner specifically sought his victims only among homeless
people--and, as Schanke figured out, those homeless people who had recently
provided blood at the bloodmobile.  Presumably, Fenner believes homeless
people are the likeliest to have hepatitis, so that purchased blood is the
probable source of infection.  Indeed, Parriott makes sure to include a
scene in which two of the three whom Nick has befriended are seen at the
bloodmobile, so the viewer will know that they qualify as potential victims.
Hence "Give a little, get a little":  we see that they *sell* their blood.

And it's here that the suspension of my disbelief hit a snag.

You see, in Canada, blood is *only* donated.  You can't get paid for it.
Blood drives do exist here, of course, just as they do elsewhere; but they
are attempts to persuade people to *give* blood, not sell it.  You don't get
bloodmobiles going to poor parts of town trying to solicit homeless people
to sell their blood.


Greer

gwatson2@r.......
http://www.foreverknight.org/FK4/


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Date:    Sun, 9 Jun 2013 20:41:59 -0700
From:    "Libby A. Smith" <libratsie@s.......>
Subject: Re: Canada in non-Canadian dramatic television (WAS: Re: Dark Knight...again)



**You see, in Canada, blood is *only* donated.  You can't get paid for it.
Blood drives do exist here, of course, just as they do elsewhere; but they
are attempts to persuade people to *give* blood, not sell it. **

I'm not sure about everywhere in the US, but it is actually plasma they are
buying though I hear it called "selling blood."  The Red Cross doesn't "buy
blood" but does do blood drives.

Since it was a Canadian based tv series and wasn't most of the cast and crew
thus Canadian, wouldn't mistakes like that get caught?

--Libby (Still missing Greg Kramer terribly)

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Date:    Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:46:54 -0400
From:    Susan Bennett <nnpacker@h.......>
Subject: Re: Dark Knight...again

> Re: Greer Watson – re Watching remainder of Season 3 on Buffalo station after
> CTV cancelled
I still remember watching Ashes to Ashes in the wee hours. Buffalo played the
first half of Ashes to Ashes and the last half of Francesca! UGHHH! I tried
phoning them at the time, but no one answered the phone <g>
Susan B.
nnpacker@h.......


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