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Digest - 31 Jul 2007 to 1 Aug 2007 (#2007-19)
Wed, 1 Aug 2007
There are 6 messages totalling 208 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. episode discussion: Spin Doctor (3)
2. Episode Discussion: Spin Doctor
3. An outsider's view of FK-Moonlight (2)
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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:16:34 -0500
From: "Stone, Barbara" <STONEB@g.......>
Subject: episode discussion: Spin Doctor
1. Continuity error: When we see Nick in flight (and I do enjoy these hokey
flight scenes!) he is not wearing his coat. But when he appears on Mona's
balcony, he is indeed wearing his coat and gets to wave it about dramatically
as he kneels down beside her. My husband thought he might have stopped off
at his loft to get it because it was cold, but I think he he was in too great a
hurry to stop and besides, vampires don't get cold, do they? Nick's coat is
just a prop so that he can fit in, right?
2. Who was responsible for wrecking Nat's car? Laura Neil? And if it was
Laura Neil, why? Nat was on Norton's side and inadvertently led reporters to
believe that the investigation was focussed on Hiatt. Did I drowse off & miss
something????
B. Stone
stoneb@g.......
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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:56:25 -0400
From: Deborah Clarke <dmclarke@i.......>
Subject: Re: Episode Discussion: Spin Doctor
>
> 2) Schanke calling Myra to ask if he is registered to vote makes me
> laugh. It is the sort of thing my dad and brother would have to do.
>
That comment was definitely aimed at the American audience not the
Canadian.
In Canada We have a permanent voters list. All you have to do is check
off a box on your income tax form giving them the right to pass on the
information to Election Canada. Not that it seems to matter. Even if you
don't give permission you still get put on the voters list.
( And before they did it that way someone came to your house and
enumerated you. )
Either way every voter on the voters list is sent a card before the
election telling him or her where to go to vote.
That's how you know whether you're on or not.
If you don't get your card , you can either call and get enumerated.
Or if you want to wait until the election day ( maybe you didn't realize
you were missed until then ) you can still vote. In that situation all
you need to do is bring some identification with you when you go to
vote, and they'll put you on right then and there.
It's not at all complicated.
Debbie
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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:33:29 -0400
From: Wendy <w.rigney@v.......>
Subject: Re: episode discussion: Spin Doctor
I think the only reasonable answer to your second question, assuming it was,
in fact, Laura Neal, is that she was clearly insane, so it probably mattered
not if Natalie was supporting Norton. That, or Natalie was well known as
the medical examiner in that jurisdiction and, since she had that woman's
fingernail [Laura's], maybe Laura saw Natalie as another "loose end"?
Just throwing it out there.
On a side note, I am so very glad that we stopped seeing Nick, etc. in
flight after season 1. It *was* cheesy [but amusing *G*], and I think the
inference was enough for the other two seasons.
Also...I thought Natalie and Schanke were way overzealous in their political
convictions, as well, based on their characters. Again, though, perhaps it
was needed to advance the plot or enhance it.
Wendy, who thinks this is the longest post she has made in ages!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stone, Barbara" <STONEB@g.......>
To: <FORKNI-L@l.......>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 6:16 PM
Subject: episode discussion: Spin Doctor
>
> 2. Who was responsible for wrecking Nat's car? Laura Neil? And if it
> was Laura Neil, why?
> Nat was on Norton's side and inadvertently led reporters to believe that
> the investigation was focussed
> on Hiatt. Did I drowse off & miss something????
>
> B. Stone
> stoneb@g.......
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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:36:14 -0400
From: mrkkaye@a.......
Subject: An outsider's view of FK-Moonlight
From an article in the Toronto Star, 28 July 2007
As always, this list is less than authoritative --
invariably, a couple of names will slip through the cracks.
But it remains as good an indication as any of how well our
exported talent is doing down south.
Welcome to the annual Frostback Report:
THE BRITS
SOPHIA MYLES
London, England
Plays Beth Turner, love interest to a crimefighting vampire
in Moonlight, which is based on the same failed 1989 pilot
as the successful Canadian vampire cop series, Forever Knight.
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Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:29:54 -0500
From: Roxana Elizondo <roxeliz@h.......>
Subject: Re: episode discussion: Spin Doctor
B.Stone wrote:> 2. Who was responsible for wrecking Nat's car? Laura Neil?
And if it was Laura Neil, why? > Nat was on Norton's side and inadvertently
led reporters to believe that the investigation was >focussed on Hiatt. Did
I drowse off & miss something????
I believe Laura Neil did it to throw further suspicion on to Hiatt. If Hiatt
goes after the coroner who just suggested on television that he was the
subject of police investigation then it'll show how desperate he is to
cover up. Of course as Nick pointed out in Stonetree's office it does more
to exonerate him than implicate him because it's so obvious. Nick called
Laura Neil a very intelligent woman so clearly she would have known that
her reasoning wouldn't work but by that time she was so consumed with
winning that she probably failed to see that. Maybe like the way Natalie and
Schanke weren't really seeing how overzealous they were acting and in
turn compromising their own objectivity on the case.
That was the way I saw things.
Roxana
(roxeliz@h.......)
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Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 11:25:58 EDT
From: BKBVA@a.......
Subject: Re: An outsider's view of FK-Moonlight
For those who are so concerned that Moonlight is an FK rip-off:
I was at Comic-Con in San Diego last weekend, and one of the panels was for
Moonlight. While there are some similarities in the setup, there are far
more differences. And most importantly, during the Q&A, the first person up
(not me) asked about it being an FK ripoff, and from the response, it was clear
that unfortunately, the creator had never heard of it -- he answered the
question as if it had been about Angel.
For the record, from what I saw, it could be either very, very good, or very,
very bad. They really didn't have much to show; they showed a film of an
"interview" with the main character, which was actually quite amusing. But
nothing from the show itself (I think they said they were only on the second
episode), so it's too hard to judge.
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