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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-10-20 (Sunday)
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:05:21 -0000 (UTC)
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BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>Oct 21, 2024 at 4:54:53 AM PDT, Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>:

>>SWAT:
>>The cancellation/uncancellation/renewal of SWAT took all fans of the 
>>show by surprise. I watched the season 8 premiere with curiousity, 
>>wondering who we'd see on the team. Would Luca have made a surprise 
>>recovery? Would Street be back from Long Beach? Would Deacon have been 
>>forced to re-retire to honour his promise to his wife? As it turns out, 
>>Luca and Street did NOT come back and Deacon did NOT un-retire so 
>>there's only one new face on the team and even she is familiar, if only 
>>from a different show. It took me a minute but then I realized that the 
>>new partner was one of Brett's old partners from Chicago Fire. (She may 
>>also have had a guest spot on SWAT a few seasons back based on some 
>>references to her having formally been from LA but then moved to Oakland 
>>with Hondo's assistance when things got uncomfortable in LA. I don't 
>>specifically remember that plot line but there have been a lot of 
>>episodes over the years.) Anyway, the episode itself was pretty typical 
>>SWAT. A schoolbus containing 10 children had been hijacked, along with 
>>its driver, by a group of former French Foreign Legion soldiers trying 
>>to eke out revenge on a Middle Eastern prince who had screwed them over. 
>>Luckily, the bus driver is Hondo's old football coach and friend so he 
>>helps keep the kids as safe as they can be while Hondo and the team 
>>track them down.

>The show opens with the team chasing a bunch of punks through the streets
>of Huntington Beach and down onto the Huntington Pier, but they're all
>very confused because they keep talking about how they think they're in
>Venice Beach. And of course that raises the question as to why a bunch
>of LAPD cops would be not only outside their own city but all the way
>in the next county chasing perps. Wouldn't the Huntington Beach PD be
>a little perturbed about that?

McCarrot once invaded North Korea. We have stopped asking these
questions.