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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-05 (Sunday)
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On Mon, 6 May 2024 11:34:46 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:

>shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 6 May 2024 08:09:57 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>> On Cinco de Mayo, I watched:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> What did you watch?
>>> 
>>> TRACKER  “Beyond the Campus Walls“

>
>> 
>>> Big stupid abounds.  Sister texts tracker where and when for their dinner
>>> and gets a confirmation reply from him and yet because he’s busy sitting in
>>> his trailer waiting to hear about a clue he manages to completely forget
>>> about it.
>> 
>> Just shows how he ignores everything not involving his work.
>>> 
>
>I would feel better about it if he had not texted her back a confirmation.
>

Agreed. 

>>> The big bad who telegraphed himself in the very first scene at the college
>>> doesn’t want to kill the missing kid, but the little bad does so the big
>>> bad murders the little bad in cold blood to keep from having to kill
>>> anybody and then drags the kid away because I have no fucking idea what his
>>> plan was.
>> 
>> At that point I don't think he was thinking clearly. Not sure he ever
>> was.
>
>Fair point.  He’s got a pretty good argument that he saved the kidnap
>victim and tracker shot him for no good reason.
>
>You have to wonder how they prosecute any of these cases when trackers gone
>by nightfall.

True. Given that often the only actual evidence of the criminal acts
would be the testimony  by the Tracker.

>
>> 
>>> Siblings talk about their mother, but go back-and-forth between past and
>>> present tense Like they aren’t sure if she’s alive or not, but apparently
>>> they are both sure the other brother is alive so we’ll get more family
>>> drama, which is the worst part of the show.
>> 
>> Agreed. I'm not clear on if the mother is alive or not after that
>> convo. Perhaps the writers aren't sure so they intentionally left it
>> murky.
>
>Didn’t we see the mother in the first episode? Wasn’t she the woman he
>visited that had the father‘s grave in her yard?

Yes, that's right. I had forgotten about seeing Wendy Crewson in one
of the episodes. So she must be alive but Tracker never sees her
because he never revisits with anyone.

>
>> 
>>> The black computer expert guy gets one unbelievably stupid scene where
>>> tracker gets the little bad’s cute wife to give up their password so they
>>> can send a text message to the big bad that says “I have the evidence meet
>>> me” but instead of just letting her send it they have the computer expert
>>> guy remotely forge her account and send it for her. Why?  And then they
>>> forget completely about her character at the end, even though she should be
>>> doing a long stretch in prison.
>> 
>> That felt like the computer guy needed to hit a certain number of
>> lines or screen time so they gave him that filler scene.
>
>Yeah, I’m picturing the meeting where the one suit said to the other “we
>have to pay this guy anyway“
>
>
>> 
>>> There’s another incredibly stupid scene where tracker asks the missing kid
>>> how he’s doing even though it’s the same evening and tells him he’s about
>>> to get good news and the kid gets an update from his mother about them
>>> putting the big bad away forever, even though this is like an hour later,
>>> and apparently the kid who is the witness and the only witness to the
>>> murder Hasn’t even been talking to the police. His mother has instead. What
>>> the hell?
>> 
>> Time works differently in the world of the TRACKER. So the mom can
>> know what is happening with the bad guy while still talking to the
>> Tracker and her son about what happened that day. She lives in the
>> future and the current day at the same time.
>
>That would explain it.


It's the only way I could explain what was happening in that scene.
You have to wonder what the writer was thinking. Or are we in another
situation where we have multiple writers working on the same episode
AND not bothering to read over the other's work.

>> 
>>> 
>>> There were ads for Tom Selleck on CBS mornings which I’m watching right now
>>> and is painfully awful. The lesser Natalie Morales looks like she’s in one
>>> of those ads for uncontrolled mouth twitching. And ads for the end of NCIS
>>> Oahu, which I set to record although I’m sure they won’t do anything in the
>>> way of a finale.  And ads for NCIS baby Gibbs, where they only show stock
>>> footage of Mark Harmon from behind. Again, what the hell? He’s obviously
>>> associated with the show since he’s narrating it.  “You’ve seen how his
>>> story ends now see how it begins!“  I guess he’s never coming back from
>>> Alaska.
>>> 
>> 
>> The greater Natalie Morales is still on GRAY'S ANATOMY and seems
>> likely to be there going into next season. As she's the main surgeon
>> on the show who works on kids in addition to Camilla Luddington's
>> character. Dub Dub is still awaiting Fred's call.
>>  
>> 
>
>No, dub dub ghosted me.

She's still waiting for you to find her and apologize for being male.