I loved Bobbi. She was great.
Why was Murdock dressed up like an orderly at the beginning? And why did nobody notice? I mean, he's kind of hard to miss...
So, Tawnia is basically engaged to Indiana Jones?? (What is with the "pre-engagement St. Christopher medals"? What, are they in high school? Why not just... get engaged? And... St. Christopher medals? St. Christopher?)
And... really, this is how they get rid of her-- she gets married and her life is over or something? I take it Brian didn't want her running around with a bunch of other guys after they got married? Or maybe she was going to be too busy popping out babies?
Poor B.A. in the coffin. Why anyone would think that was okay to do to someone, for any reason, I don't know. But I love Hannibal's attempt at an excuse, lol.
Richard Moll on TAT! Never would've recognized him (with hair, what can I say), even from the voice.
Murdock in a t-shirt and beret. Ooh. (I don't get it. I can't say DS does anything for me, though I've noted before that he does have pretty eyes. But something about this ensemble; I dunno.)
They're terrible at being archaeologists. I thought this Brian guy went to school. On a dig you don't just... start pulling stuff out of the ground and carrying it around. And you don't just... find artifacts and then unilaterally give them away. It just doesn't work that way.
Man, the "lost city" was terrible. It looked like a cross between a bad Ren Fest set and what was that kids' show on Nickelodeon in the 90s? Legends of the Hidden Temple?
Well, I am glad that we get a proper send-off for Tawnia, unlike for Amy. I do think it is kind of funny that the wedding ceremony is all in Spanish, when I'm not even sure if Tawnia or Brian understand any of it. I like the way El Cajon says "Tawnia Baker." Where did Brian get a wedding band? B.A. looks funny when Brian and Tawnia are kissing!
That's okay... I'm not sure it's legal, either-- wedding in the backwoods of another country, performed by a guy who, AFAIK, doesn't have any sort of legal authority to officiate...? But, it was cute. (Actually, on second thought... if they're both so hard-core Catholic that they give each other religious medals rather than engagement rings, I'm pretty sure nothing about that wedding-not-in-a-Catholic-church would even remotely fly... maybe it was always meant to be symbolic and they made it legal when they got home?)
(So in the 80s was it still common for only the woman to wear a wedding ring? We see the same thing when Face gets married. I assumed that archaic custom was... well... way more archaic.)
(Where did Tawnia get a fancy dress to get married in? Surely she didn't pack that for a job to go kick ass.
I like the team running the restaurant in THE BIG SQUEEZE and the diner in CUP A JOE, and even like them okay as the lumberjacks, but it does seem like suddenly they are trained to do anything and everything (even being firefighters). I do like the "helping the underdog business" formula, although perhaps it did get a bit overused. I agree that the over-the-top cartoonish antics are not so great, but even in earlier seasons we had some of that, like Murdock being pulled by Billy in WEST COAST TURNAROUND. I do like seasons 1 and 2 better than season 3, but I still like season 3 better than seasons 4 and 5.
I always found that a bit weird throughout as well. They were sort of like the original Mary Sues. They know umpteen different codes. Murdock can fly anything with wings and even build his own ultralight out of almost-nothing, and how many languages do we see him speaking? Nothing ever goes wrong for Hannibal, ever, even when it seems to. At least B.A. gets his butt kicked (or nearly so) sometimes, and Face's schemes don't always work out (in fact, he gets into scrapes way more often than I expect a great con man like he's supposed to be should). I just sort of... accept it as yet another thing that isn't realistic, but is fun.
Yes, I agree that this one is much too long....I always hate it when they throw in the Nazi stuff and feel like that was unnecessary. They could have just let it be about finding the lost city and I think that would have been sufficient.
From my notes when I watched: Random Nazis building random nuclear reactors in random parts of the Amazon? Um...
The whole premise was just... odd and dumb (IMO).
Yeah, I think they did it for something like that. The nazi was a strange thing to put in, there's a few things they could have done there instead of that, someone must have had their reasons for choosing that I guess.
I don't mind two parters as a rule, it's just this one is a tad slow at times & is a bit dragged out over two episodes. You look at the RANGE RIDER episodes and they were well worthy of two parts, it kept going throughout both episodes and was one of the best stories they had, plus the 4 guys were extra awesome in this.
After my dad had first seen the RANGE RIDER episodes I got the ins and outs of the real Range Rider! 😀
It does seem weird. I mean, this was the mid-80s... weren't we sort of over the Nazi thing by then? ("Over" as in, they didn't always have to be the bad guys du jour?)
I wouldn't mind seeing an episode or two of the real RANGE RIDER!
Was it an actual show? I assumed they just invented it for this show...
I'm pleased that Tawnia got a proper send off. I didn't warm to her at all, just because she never seemed to do anything useful in any of the episodes she was in, she was just... there!
Yeah... she was slightly useful sometimes, almost got in the way other times, and then was slightly whiny a few times. As I've noted elsewhere, they gave her some good moments where she's definitely got some huevos, but they could've done her so much better.
Was this the episode where she's described as "she's not one of you guys... she's got the heart but not the soul" or something like that? (I didn't think she even had the heart-- she wanted to, but she didn't. Amy did, I think.)
Didn't Hannibal and/or Face also sort of question Tawnia being engaged to the son of the newspaper owner?
Yup, they did. Cliched and slightly dodgy. I take it she quit after they got married? (Should've done it when they first got involved, but...)
My wife noticed that you could see right up Face's shorts when he was tied up. S
This was probably the same part where I wrote down, "Face, when we are wearing short-shorts, we do not sit like a farmer... (remind me to never put him in a kilt...)."
(Let's just say my mom found out the hard way that some men do indeed go "regimental" when she saw a guy who'd obviously never asked any of the women in his life for advice on how to sit like a lady in a skirt...)
I agree. When they do mention the war it's often only a brief mention, but that makes it more poignant somehow. They don't dwell on it, not because they find it easy to just dismiss what they went through, but because there are too many painful memories. They all seem to have chosen to deal with it by creating exaggerated personalities.
I've seen people complaining about the times this show deals seriously with the war (I'm sure I'll mention it again when I get to episodes like "Sound of Thunder"). And I dunno, maybe it's because I practically cut my teeth on
M*A*S*H and it's one of my favorite TV shows ever, but I don't see anything wrong with pointing out that war is hell. Especially when one of the characters in the show is allegedly seriously impaired by that same war. Like, you can't use that as a laughing point and just ignore the implications of what it says about war and what it does to people (Alan Alda would probably approve of that sentence, lol).
Funny how Tawnia can stay so beautiful and perfect-looking even in the hot, humid jungle. I think she also may be wearing a white top which never seems to get a speck of dirt on it....
Amy was always wearing fashionable stuff for jobs that wasn't at all practically but stayed looking nice... Face, too. He'd show up to a job looking good and still be clean and wrinkle-free by the end (I think there was one where he was wearing a white shirt when they were doing the "building stuff" montage and still looked good by the end of it, and I was like, "Face, you're looking pretty tidy after all that. Did we pull our weight here?")
The more I think about it, the more I see Hannibal as a father figure to both Tawnia and Amy, but not to Face, BA, or Murdock.
Possibly so (not a vibe I ever got personally, but I could see it), though that's probably for a few reasons. Amy and Tawnia are both a lot younger; they're like "little sister" age to the other guys... much younger sister. We know Amy was about 25, and I assume Tawnia's about the same age. Meanwhile, the others are mid-to-late 30s, and Hannibal even older.
And, I think it's harder to be a "father figure" to guys you went through war with, even if Hannibal is older. (How old was Hannibal supposed to be? I always felt like he was playing a bit younger than GP actually was.)
And, well... some of it might simply be slightly sexist. The little girls need a father figure to help them out. (*sigh*)