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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-10-20 (Sunday)
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 18:45:01 -0000 (UTC)
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On Oct 23, 2024 at 10:05:21 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
wrote:

> 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.

It was weird how the arch over the entrance of the Huntington Pier (which has
a huge sign on it that says "Huntington Beach") was totally blank, like
someone had put a big sheet of white paper over it or something.