amyk
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Post by amyk on Feb 26, 2023 20:10:20 GMT -5
I kind of feel like BA's dad is dead, although if he was, then it seems they maybe would have mentioned him in LEASE. We know BA talks about his dad in DIAMONDS N DUST, so he at least knew him at some point in his life.
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Post by Katia on Feb 27, 2023 17:33:54 GMT -5
Not necessarily. If B.A.'s dad not being in his life was for a not-positive reason, he might not mention him, especially if he was successfully raised by just his mother. (Then again, they also had bigger things to discuss in that episode, so it could be he just never had reason to come up. And I can't see any of the guys as being so uncouth as to say, "Soooo, where's Mr. Baracus, anyway?" {and, of course, having known him so long, they may already know.})
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Post by Katia on Apr 10, 2023 17:19:59 GMT -5
I didn't like that A.J. was Face's dad; I think I liked him better as a mysterious orphan. (Though I still think it would've been cute if he had managed to scam his way into being adopted, and so realized how useful it was to be a con artist and thus launches his career...)
Re-read this and realized... maybe it would've almost been kind of funny to have this running theme where Face did get adopted, and throughout the show he has to deal with his loving/worried parents and always coming up with excuses to evade them and never tell them about the whole A-Team thing... his biggest and longest-running con of all being that he has to make his parents think he lives a normal life rather than running around being shot at by bad guys... In the middle of being chased by bad guys he has to find a pay phone to tell his grandma "happy birthday"... he's in a scuffle with a bad guy or on a stakeout, on the phone with his mom acting like he's just watching TV... telling his parents he didn't call lately (while they were on a job in another country) for some BS reason...
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Post by amyk on Apr 10, 2023 17:46:14 GMT -5
That could have been funny, but I think his parents would have had to know at some point. The military would have come snooping around them to find out where he was.
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Post by Katia on Apr 11, 2023 16:56:06 GMT -5
The same way they went snooping around everyone else the guys knew, to find them? LOL. (I mean, if the Army was any good at this whatsoever, they would've gotten them a LONG time ago.)
And, remember, this is The A-Team. Characters can be as dumb and clueless as you need them to be... LOL. Face's parents could absolutely be kept in the dark every week (which might be part of what would make it funny).
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Post by amyk on Apr 11, 2023 21:35:53 GMT -5
True, they can do whatever they want in TAT universe....
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