Subj : Re: Canon City
To   : alt.tv.er
From : npardue
Date : Fri Sep 23 2005 06:17:00

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er


Ellen K Hursh wrote:
> npardue@indiana.edu wrote:
>
> > Sam did the franctic mom thing well. Rather
> > scuzzy of her to dump Luka like that at the end though. "Thank you for
> > running me halfway across the country and letting me trash your car ...
>
> Did anybody else see the ex-antelope and wonder who was going to get
> the meat, or was it just me? (Hey, Alaska doesn't wear off easily....)

I thought about it. I also half thought they were going have Luka say,
"Ok, Sam, I'll do CPR, you start doing mouth-to-mouth. Come on, we do
this kind of thing in Croatia all the time!" (And of course, when he
started in with his Marko anecdote, some evil voice in the back of my
head said, "They've done it again! First he was taken and killed ...
then he was killed in a shelling ... we learn that he actually vanished
on some Croatian beach.[I mean, really, the phrase 'losing a child' has
more than one meaning...]
>
> What was with that intern Neela got? Did someone in casting say "Hey,
> we don't have nearly enough people who look like Bull from 'Night
> Court' on this show", or something? Man, if ever there was a candidate
> for being asked "Are you high?"....

Thank you. I was trying to figure out who he reminded me of. (He also
reminded me, chacter-wise, of Howard from last season.  The required
'weird' intern.)

> Maybe they're trying to subtly age Sam (by proxy) so the age gap
> between her and Luka doesn't seem quite as glaring? (God knows, that
> unfortunate bleach job does her no favors.)

Her hair went white from grief and worry?
>
>
> Hey, how about that breast-feeding mom shortly after the credits? If
> the kid is able to ask for it or help Mom undo her bra, I figure, he's
> too old to be feeding at the ol' mom-trough.

Like I said in another thread, stupid scene, NOT because the kid is
'too old' (and of course, being able to 'ask for it' certainly does not
make a kid too old -- many toddlers are fully able to ask), but because
the writers have, yet again, decided to portray breastfeeding for
laughs/squirm-factor. (Think "Chuck nursing Cosmo" last season.) Just
once I'd like to see a mother nursing a baby while sitting in chairs or
waiting for the doctor in an exam room -- without a big deal being made
about it.

Naomi

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