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Subject: Re: Bosch rides again
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:25:35 -0400
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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:
>>>
>>>> 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.)
>>>>
>>>> In any case, the pilot was pretty watchable so I'll stay with it even if
>>>> Bosch doesn't appear very frequently.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.

-- 
Rhino