Re: Re: RARA-AVIS: This mea culpa will be televised.....
Mark Sullivan (ANONYMEINC@webtv.net)
Sun, 6 Dec 1998 12:25:54 -0500 (EST)
I agree that Reed Diamond did a good job of acting the role
last season,
I think it was the role that was stretched too thin, becoming
just one
note played over and over (although given that I like
minimalism in
music, I'm not quite sure why this bothered me). It may have
been
because he was the first character to go soap opera in the
show, with
the Day of Wine and Roses scenes with Michelle Forbes. And
Homicide
started as a show where you knew next to nothing about the
characters'
lives outside the job. Now it seems to be more about their
lives than
the job, with the soap opera invading the working hours --
the
Falsone-Gaurdi relationship you mentioned and the Father-Son
Girardello
stuff. I wish they would just return to case work. That is what
made
the early show so great; of course, it didn't get the ratings
then. So
instead it courts a bigger audience which it never really got
while
risking losing its initial fans. Oh well, won't be the first
time, or
the last.
Mark
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