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Post by HoudiniDerek on Jul 1, 2020 14:01:28 GMT -5
I love it when Face and Hannibal sing to hide the noise of the aeroplane - lovely harmonies! They sing again in other episodes, is it always 'You Are My Sunshine?' I don't think I've ever heard them sing anything else.
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Post by Eclipse139 on Jul 1, 2020 14:10:11 GMT -5
I love it when Face and Hannibal sing to hide the noise of the aeroplane - lovely harmonies! They sing again in other episodes, is it always 'You Are My Sunshine?' I don't think I've ever heard them sing anything else. I thought so! It's probably the only song they know. They must have spent a while perfecting the harmonies while they were in Vietnam.
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Post by amyk on Oct 4, 2020 21:38:32 GMT -5
Just finished watching this episode. I do love this one so much. If only poor LuAnn didn't get smacked by her dad (and apparently have to continue to put up with him), it would be near perfection for me. One thing I realized, though, that I'm not sure I thought much about before.....how could the team make it all the way from South Carolina to LA in less than one day??? Supposedly, at the end of the episode, it is the same day as when Amy was originally going to meet them at that air strip, right?
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Oct 5, 2020 14:46:37 GMT -5
Just finished watching this episode. I do love this one so much. If only poor LuAnn didn't get smacked by her dad (and apparently have to continue to put up with him), it would be near perfection for me. One thing I realized, though, that I'm not sure I thought much about before.....how could the team make it all the way from South Carolina to LA in less than one day??? Supposedly, at the end of the episode, it is the same day as when Amy was originally going to meet them at that air strip, right? Bad writing is how.
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Post by amyk on Oct 5, 2020 22:33:58 GMT -5
Don't you be putting down Babs!!
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Oct 6, 2020 12:32:03 GMT -5
Don't you be putting down Babs!!
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Post by HannibalSmith on Jun 9, 2023 11:01:04 GMT -5
The one thing that always gets me about this episode is the location: is it really supposed to be South Carolina or is Murdock really just guessing? I have lived in multiple areas of South Carolina and no where in this state does the terrain look like it does in the episode. The closest place would be western South Carolina in the Appalachian Mountains, but even that looks very different.
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Post by amyk on Jun 9, 2023 17:29:45 GMT -5
I always thought it is supposed to be South Carolina, but now that you asked about it, maybe we really don't have any idea where they are. Maybe they are in the Ozarks? Or the Appalachians. I think they are supposed to be somewhere like that because of the "hillbilly" aspect.
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Post by Katia on Jun 10, 2023 22:15:27 GMT -5
love him talking to himself in a British accent when he took the chopper love the end on the bus - Murdock is adorable upside down I didn't love poor Louanne getting hit Yes, yes, and yes! I love Sarcastic!Murdock. "Looks like we're gonna crash... and die." He doesn't seem actually concerned... just sort of annoyed with Face. (But then after they do and are okay, seems relieved...) I love that whole scene, actually.
Fun detail is Billy on his ultra-light drawing. And the detail 'horsey power'. Yes, I loved the "horsie power." Sounds like something I would've done, lol. And I felt sorry for B.A. when he said that he didn't like being lied to all the time. It's only fair that he's feeling hurt, since they are supposed to be a team and it must hurt when you always get drugged and taken to places you don't actually agree to. (not that they listen..). Yes, poor B.A. But why does he fall for it every. single. time. Sometimes I wonder if he knows how it's going to end and is secretly resigned to it, but feels he has to put up a fuss for whatever reason. Because why else would he not know that "job that requires flying" = "B.A. ending up on a plane somehow." I mean, deep down he has to know that it has to happen, right? His other option is, what, either not going on half of their jobs, or quitting the team? I love that insight into Hannibal. He's not mad because they got shot at by the army, he's mad because it wasn't part of his plan. It really shows his leadership style - he gives the guys freedom to do what they do best without micro-managing them, but at the same time he has high standards and expects them to the deliver the goods. That sounds very authentically Hannibal. He doesn't worry about danger, but he wants things to go his way. LOL. (And it does sound like Face was being quite sloppy on this mission - he didn't dynamite the bridge (presumably like Hannibal asked him to), and he gets Murdock to scam the plane instead of doing it himself. Wonder what was going on with him?). If anyone is going to be a slacker on the team, it's Face. 90% of the time if someone is complaining about having to do something or a situation, it's him. I think maybe Face feels it most acutely that they can't live normal lives? (As evidenced, at least sort of, by "Mind Games," I think.) Mind you, I think to an extent Face might not know what to do with himself without their jobs, but I think he'd recover quickly-- it'd be the other three who'd have a harder time adjusting. I think B.A. could get used to "normal life" too eventually (he might miss it sometimes, though, but I don't know that Face would-- I think any time he missed the adventure, he'd remember he's not getting shot at or in danger of being arrested, and would decide he didn't miss it *that* much), but not Hannibal or Murdock. Hannibal lives for the jazz and I bet he'd go stir-crazy without jobs and risk and putting one over on bad guys, and I think the team and the jobs give Murdock's life meaning.
I'm really not into Face's whole schtick here, though. He's taking a big risk in playing on getting Louanne's sympathy by pretending to be a fallen priest. I would think this would turn most people off, not make them feel sorry for him and want to help him... (Then again, I think it's pretty odd that of all the small talk she could make with a complete stranger (and a priest to boot), she chooses to ask about his sex life...)
Yes. I think he is great in the beginning telling them to shut up because he hears a plane. Then thanking Hannibal before falling on the horn. I know. His smile is so cute and innocent/trusting. Poor B.A... It's almost like they started with a racism episode and decided to change the characters midway. And someone said..."Um...you can't burn a black guy at the stake." Which episode was it where B.A. and Murdock get kidnapped and they're about to hang Murdock? I have in my notes, "...at least they're going to hang the *white* guy..." Not gonna lie, watching The A-Team lay a smackdown on the KKK would've been much cooler than generic hillbillies. That would be awesome. Don't know if it was already the '80s or the later '70s, but actually LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE had some episodes that dealt with racism - yes, set in the 1870s/1880s or so! Not only with African-American racism, but they also dealt with racism against Native Americans (although I do realize that the books are now considered to have racist elements, the TV show seemed to go against that). Oh yes-- in the books, Ma is very anti-Indian/insulting toward them, and the books just sort of treat that like it's okay. IIRC, even as a kid that sort of gave me pause, how much vitriol Ma felt when we're not ever really told why she might feel that way. (I mean, at the time they were written, it probably was, or probably thought that settlers had reason to feel that way. I guess it's sort of authentic to the time they were set, to not treat it as if it was wrong. I don't know how Laura actually felt about it, and if she didn't think there was a problem with it, or if she just didn't want to get on a soapbox.) I didn't like Amy's separate storyline, though. Why take a complete stranger to the hospital to see Murdock? Why, if she knew she was being followed, did she lead the MPs straight to the bus station where she was due to meet the guys. It was clever of her to page Lynch over the loudspeaker, but she could have avoided that whole situation if she'd taken them somewhere else to throw them off the scent. She basically confirmed their suspicions that she was working with the team. I HATE this part. Why on earth would Amy put them in such danger? Even if she doesn't know the dude's a bad guy, he's a stranger, FFS. She's (way) smarter than that. I mean, she takes this dude out with her to meet up with them? Thank heaven they don't show. I imagine Hannibal would be really pissed off if he knew about that-- I would be. I love it when Face and Hannibal sing to hide the noise of the aeroplane - lovely harmonies! They sing again in other episodes, is it always 'You Are My Sunshine?' Always. I won't lie... I'm sick of their dorky harmony... The one thing that always gets me about this episode is the location: is it really supposed to be South Carolina or is Murdock really just guessing? I have lived in multiple areas of South Carolina and no where in this state does the terrain look like it does in the episode. The closest place would be western South Carolina in the Appalachian Mountains, but even that looks very different. I imagine they mean for it to S. Carolina, even if it probably isn't, actually-- but, many of their alleged locations are clearly not shot in that location...
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Post by amyk on Jun 13, 2023 22:22:01 GMT -5
This is a really odd thing that Amy did. If the team had come in on an airplane, she would know that it would just be the four of them, so really what was she going to do? Did she think that this guy would not know who the team was? Was she going to just say these four guys were really good friends? Relatives?!? And what kind of explanation would she give about them flying in to this obscure airstrip?
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Jun 15, 2023 8:28:08 GMT -5
This is a really odd thing that Amy did. If the team had come in on an airplane, she would know that it would just be the four of them, so really what was she going to do? Did she think that this guy would not know who the team was? Was she going to just say these four guys were really good friends? Relatives?!? And what kind of explanation would she give about them flying in to this obscure airstrip? Just one of many reasons this episode is awful overall, even outside of some great scenes.
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