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quarter_to_fiveRandom aside:
Front page of Haaretz, a major Israeli newspaper, today. The two images are illustrating two completely different articles, with no particular connection between them. For all I know they were tossed up there by a popularity algorithm or something.
Meanwhile, I watched Remington Steele 1x18, "Steele in the News" (which i'd missed going through S1) which was a nice enough episode, (a bit of past angst from Steele, but he redeemed himself by being a bit funny about it) and included an outraged "we're all going to hell in a hand basket, oh how the greats have fallen, what will the people do without us", rant from an aging anchorman about the state of the news today (that is, in 1983.) It could have come, word for word, from Aaron Sorkin's "Newsroom". Only RS had the good taste to make that character the murderer and his rant a thing that invites pity as well as outrage, thus making a more complex statement in one goofy 45 minute episode than Sorkin managed in an entire po-faced, pretentious season of pompous bloviating.
Just to drive the sense of temporal dislocation home, the episode also had gossip - and complaint about the shallowness of said gossip - about a royal British pregnancy.
Front page of Haaretz, a major Israeli newspaper, today. The two images are illustrating two completely different articles, with no particular connection between them. For all I know they were tossed up there by a popularity algorithm or something.
Meanwhile, I watched Remington Steele 1x18, "Steele in the News" (which i'd missed going through S1) which was a nice enough episode, (a bit of past angst from Steele, but he redeemed himself by being a bit funny about it) and included an outraged "we're all going to hell in a hand basket, oh how the greats have fallen, what will the people do without us", rant from an aging anchorman about the state of the news today (that is, in 1983.) It could have come, word for word, from Aaron Sorkin's "Newsroom". Only RS had the good taste to make that character the murderer and his rant a thing that invites pity as well as outrage, thus making a more complex statement in one goofy 45 minute episode than Sorkin managed in an entire po-faced, pretentious season of pompous bloviating.
Just to drive the sense of temporal dislocation home, the episode also had gossip - and complaint about the shallowness of said gossip - about a royal British pregnancy.
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Date: 2012-12-05 10:10 pm (UTC)And also being shamelessly manipulative about it, as well :-).
I think that's the ep where we first learn Laura was a math major in college; I don't think? it was mentioned earlier. It comes up a few times in the series.
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Date: 2012-12-05 10:33 pm (UTC)I may have spent way too much time thinking about this show today, sigh.
And the maths? How much do I love the maths? I'm really glad I went back and watched this episode, and this was clearly the week to do it. The "is Princess Di pregnant" thing was a moment of total time-warp. (I just miss Murphy and Bernice more though.)