Dowel Jones

Why are TV revolutionaries always so incompetent?

I'm not sure if it's NBC, or if they'd loan him out, but I can think of several characters in the area of downtown LA, say, around the La Brea pits, that could use some serious assistance. Or at least a good boxing of their ears.

I liked this episode, but, personally, an occasional joke is okay but I hope they don't go through the season yukking it up while jumping from suspect to suspect in their pursuit of the facts. That was really rude of Michael to hang Annika out to dry at the comedy club. "Surprise", indeed. He got his comeuppance. I hope Morgan and Remi managed to retrieve their kayaks after "nearly drowning" in foot deep water.

So why did that guy (sorry, bad with names) go out past the end of his line in the desert? Was he committing suicide, as the Sergeant implied? Or was he just clumsy?

I looked up the history of Groom Lake on Wiki, and there was an Army Air Force runway out there as early as 1942, but the CIA didn't start investing heavily on the base until the mid 50s.

Well, it kind of looks like the local corrupt cop might just have that in mind.

I hope they padded that doorway, because the stuntman did an absolutley great job of slamming his head into it. Tough luck, Rihan! "We just want you to know that we found your phone". Classic.

AMC put out an extra episode tonight, called 'Show Me More, Season 2'; one of those behind the scenes looks. It was kind of interesting. It was a bit unnerving to see the actor playing Colton Wolf (Blondie's real name) as a personable, funny kind of guy. Kiowa Gordon (Chee) parts his hair opposite from his character. The most revealing thing was that the director had to confer with Zahn McClarnon (Leaphorn) quite a bit over the ending, as it went against all Navajo culture regarding murder.

For whatever reason, AMC split the last episode, to me at least, into two halves, and the DVR cut off just as Izzy reached the isolated shack. I assume Victor caught up with them and killed her and the remaining Vanuatuan. Is that about right? And Izzy's sister kept Kalana's parentage secret all these years, too. What was up with that last scene where Corman is watching the recording of someone in the empty room? I think it had something to do with his father, but its significance? ETA - After reading some recaps, that is what happened. Also, the ending scene is Cormack's brother Ritchie meeting with his father, who hasn't entered the room yet. Overall, I liked the series, although it was difficult to follow with all the flashbacks. It's good to see something from a different culture on US TV.

I was thinking more of a propane powered generator, but, no matter.

I was waiting for the ghost of Blond Killer to appear before Vines out there in the desert, just as he was succumbing to hypothermia. I didn't look too closely at the final scene with Joe and Emma, but I presume his arm had healed by then, because motorcycling is best done with both arms. Nice ending. He's quite the silversmith, too. I think so. I started with the US Forest Service in 1974, and the Forest had several repeaters set up. What you need is a high point, an antenna, the repeater transmitter, and a power source. The reservation PD could obtain that through the BIA fairly easily, I would think. I guess my reaction came from that TV trope of always having the radio fail at the most inopportune times.

By the time they finally get more episodes ready, they'll probably say he served out his term as governor and left the state.

Not to mention that, as soon as the prison van is reported overdue and they interview Luis Guzman, her Mustang will be all over the police bulletins. She won't be easily hidden and Boyd will walk/run away from her in a moment.

Interesting that Carolyn apparently has the county morgue on speed dial. That dumb-as-a-rock-but-she's-in-love correctional officer is going to get a rude awakening when she learns just who and what Boyd Crowder is. Mexico? Ha!

Maybe I need to watch the show a bit earlier in the evening, as I was falling asleep throughout. It was dreadfully slow and doesn't seem to be progressing much.

I have never heard of an eclipse that lasted for an hour and change, so I looked it up. There was a solar eclipse in 1970 (March 7) but it lasted just over three minutes. Hardly enough time for the peyote to have any real effect. But, you know, it's part of the story. Show of hands - how many people flashed on Silence of the Lambs when the Sheriff couldn't find his pen? Me, at least. Uber Blondie, of course, has skills and can pick his handcuffs with said pen, much to the discomfort of the Sheriff. Somebody just kill him, who cares who he is working for. Leaphorn continues to be the worst interrogator. He's so wrapped up in the fact that Blondie killed his son he can't even think straight. Too bad Raylan's stuck in Detroit.

I missed the first episode, and it took me awhile to get all the characters sorted out, but I'm glad to have available some character and plot driven drama on my TV.

Maybe he wanted to hide the fact that the gun he threw in the river is not the murder weapon, and he has plans for that.

I just couldn't watch Sandy's appeal to the Albanian guy without groaning in laughter. "Yes, I set you up to be robbed. Yes, you almost got killed. But I still love you. (Bats her eyes). We could go off to somewhere nice and live honestly, mmmm? You believe me, don't you?" (Albanian guy) "You're a dead woman."

I didn't even think about that. The show doesn't often give references to the time period.

But he needed the bullet to signal Bernadette and the Sheriff. I would have walked to the top of that hill and then yanked him down that slope good and hard.

I thought all that talk from Blondie on the trek out of the canyon was just him trying to get under Leaphorn's skin. He was looking for an opening that he could exploit and put Leaphorn off balance so he could overpower him, which almost happened.

I can't figure out why Joe suddenly went off the rails when he finds out that Blondie killed his son. Yes, that's serious, but Joe suddenly becomes all kinds of stupid in his obsessiveness. Approach the trailer with just the two of them? The guy's a crazed killer; wait for backup, no matter how long it takes. And, by the way, Reservation Council - buy a goddam repeater system for your radios. Then, he jumps off a cliff in the darkness because, why? He just has to catch they guy? Look where that got him. (And was I wrong for looking at that puff of dust at the bottom of the canyon and thinking of Wile E. Coyote?) And I wonder how far they had tracked him on foot such that Bernadette couldn't get right back out there in daylight with the Sheriff. That reporter was cringeworthy clueless. "You're too young to have a baby." "Is your husband in there?" Where did Joe get the rope with which to tie the guy up?

I think they used the flashing lights as a means of disguising the killer while he was in the hospital. Although I'll give them credit for having him make up a fake name tag, as opposed to just putting on a white lab coat just like any other show, it still would be unlikely that he could walk through a small hospital and not be recognized as an outsider, even with the tag. Plus, the gun. But the lights and noise effectively masked his presence. Out of all the clothes that Jim Chee finds after his hospital stay, he picks up another leisure suit.

Despite the historical and geographical incongruities, I thought they ended the series quite well. It's a horse opera, so to speak, and, as Bugs Bunny so eloquently said, "Whattaya expect from an opera, a happy ending?" I hope those two cowboys got back out to the prairie, rounded up what cattle they could find from the pilgrims' herd, and sold them in Cheyenne before heading south. They deserved some reward. I was thinking at the time that Sam had also died sometime after the wagons had moved on, by whatever means, and the meeting with Elsa was both of them going into the afterlife.