zapper

Went to tune into this week's show. hold it. they were serious? it's really over? I refuse to give up hope!!

I would have like Baez to be at the final dinner, and for Erin/Jack to not chicken out with their remarriage news. A few (or more) seasons back Frank went into a bar and ordered "Irish, ice in a separate glass" Since then that has been my drink for episodes. Yes, they drank a lot of scotch (as do i :) ) but that "ice in a separate glass seemed so very Frank to me - trust, but verify as he would know the truth of the measurement the bartender was serving. I've been timing out my current bottle of Irish and tonight I had my last "Irish, ice in a separate glass" for was what actually a pretty good episode. Siobhan at the writing helm pretty much guaranteed that. Was a good end.

article in National Post: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/raymond-j-de-souza-blue-bloods-the-unapologetic-pro-police-drama-in-an-anti-police-age Author of article is a conservative Catholic priest, just for context.

TWO DUCKS LATER

don't be getting our hopes up.

a couple of people have commented that the miscarriage was out of place and had nothing to do with the case. without getting into one side or the other, I think point they were trying to make is that the miscarriage was grieved as the loss of a child - not going to be a child, but already a child because that is what they believed - a person starts before the moment of birth. In the same way the destruction of the 100 cells invisible to the naked eye is seen as the murder of a child. Again, not taking one side or the other, it's just how I viewed what they were trying to do with the scene.

my wife looked at me after this one and said "It's called *murder* in a small town - they owe me a murder!!" or something like that, I may have paraphrased. Good directing again - no surprise from Amanda Tapping. Unfortunately looks that that is it for her, we are back to the director of S01.E01 for the next few.

FOUR HOURS LATER

I'm about a week back, I have to be in the right frame of mind to enjoy what, for me, has become the train wreck I need to watch. This was a better episode, with only a couple of WTF moments the thermos on the freshly stained deck should have picked up a bunch of stain and left marks on the deck - sloppy missed detail that was one splendid blue sweater underneath the forensic bunny suit that Cassandra was wearing. She had a shirt under the sweater, those hooded coveralls get hot, a sweater would be silly the white house that Cassandra's rich friend owned - the outside images looked an awful lot like the house James Cromwell's character house from S1E1. was it the same house? But the direction was miles above the previous three which was no surprise as Amanda Tapping was behind the episode and in previous shows I have seen where she is the director, I have found the shows to be well done.

prediction: Eddie gets pregnant, Henry dies, they name the kid Henry in his honour.

since this episode has so much good stuff to dig into WRT WTF moments .... I only saw the last half or so, but at the end there was a scene at Alberg's place where Cassandra laughs at his building project, something about him not have much experience at that sort of thing. well that deck (or whatever) looked pretty good to me: level, with proper 2x10 joists, bracing blocks, proper framing and supports. I've put up a few and I didn't see anything that shrieked danger or bad build. oh well.

I think that the show is just bad direction. Stana Katic is a much better actress than this episode showed. I also don't believe that Rossif Sutherland is that somnambulist - it has to be the directing. There was also that weird apology by the female cop about her behaviour in the hotel room when she did nothing wrong other than search further than the first cop. It's a shame, I kind of imagined this series being a Canadian version of the Jesse Stone ilk. But it just isn't, in oh so many ways.

to me it sounded like a lowering of her voice, like some sort of vocal fry. I also thought that it was inconsistent - more accent with the boy and less with the adults.

maybe I missed it in this thread, but I'm surprised noone else seems to have noticed the absence (and departure) of Connie Shi as Det Violet Yee. She was always one of my favourite characters in the mothership. But it was Riley doing the keyboard work in this episode. Pity.

Heads up - broadcast an hour earlier (8-9, not 9-10) for those who don't want to use the CTV app tomorrow when they record "Tracker" instead of the finale.