"Andy in C Minor":
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kdogg369 — 15 years ago(December 14, 2010 08:45 PM)
Family 8108 made sense to me because PTSD was almost unheard of back then.
As for The Key, I have no doubt the vicitm married when she was too young and was tired of being the wife,mother etc role that society had told her she should do but using a teenage boy to sort those issues out? No,it was wrong what she did and even Jefferies told the doer that. -
fairyqueen — 13 years ago(October 21, 2012 11:36 PM)
""Roller Girl": This one was on TV last night. I caught the end of it and was reminded why it's one of my two least favorites. I identified with Hugh, the lonely kid who never gets the girl, so I was bummed it turned out to be him. I also didn't care for "The Key" (one of my other bottom two) mostly for the same reason."
That's why I was glad it wasn't Dottie from Factory Girls. I could relate to her. I think it also had to do with the fact that, at the time the episode first aired, I was suffering from a pretty bad case of unrequited love for my best male friend who had a girlfriend. -
l4d — 10 years ago(March 08, 2016 03:35 PM)
In real life, women don't kill as often as men do. They make up about 15% of all murders.
Cold Case has 35 women as killers in 156 episodes, for a rate of approximately 22%. That means they had more women kill on the show than in real life.
So you look stupid now for complaining about that. -
bookwormdreamer — 14 years ago(June 26, 2011 08:55 PM)
I also thought they got it right in Factory Girls.It's not like they never did the woman scorned angle .They would go back and forth between the obvious and the unexpected killer.
I wasn't expecting what happened in Beautiful Little Fool but I wasn't too disappointed with it.I liked how good Carmella turned out to be.
One I did feel a little letdown by was Superstar.I felt the reporter being the doer was a bit of a letdown a bit weak on motive.I wanted it to be principal or dean who wanted her to throw the match.
I didn't want it to be her rival turned friend grace or they guy (Fritz) she played against. -
kdogg369 — 12 years ago(August 05, 2013 10:27 PM)
I would have made either the security guard or the female teacher the doer.
That is one episode where it was too politically IMO. Sad to say but in some (not a lot) school districts,anyone white coming in will be viewed as uppity and trying to educate their kids to be more white.
Cold Case critics accuse the show of being too liberal or always trying to make it the white guy,they have a point in this one. -
Razor187 — 15 years ago(December 17, 2010 10:17 AM)
Another I just saw:
Dead Heat
This plays out pretty much the same as Frank's Best. Why not have the Brit or the woman do it this time?
And so Governor Devlin, because even the cost of freedom can be too high, I REFUSE your pardon! -
kdogg369 — 15 years ago(December 21, 2010 01:11 AM)
One thing you will notice about Cold Case. The doer will almost never be a woman. Other than Criminal Minds (which makes sense) Cold Case is one of the shows that has the largest gap between male and female doers, almost 100.
In many of the episodes, this made sense. In others though, like Debut, Andy in C Minor,The Red and The Blue,there were women who had just as strong, if not stronger motives, and the writers didn't use them. -
kdogg369 — 15 years ago(December 21, 2010 01:15 AM)
The Red and The Blue - Had to throw that one in. For me, this was one of the bigger ones. Yes Dusty was a addict but that motive is weak compared to Edie's. Not only was Truck dumping her and going back to his wife, he was going to abandon their career. For a narcissist like Edie,that would have been too much to take. She should have been the one pulling the trigger,not Dusty. Dusty should have been the one who had kept his mouth shut in exchange for being bribed with drug money.
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t_smitts — 14 years ago(April 09, 2011 11:09 PM)
In the case of "serial killer" episodes like "Mindhunters", "The Woods", "It Takes a Village", "Sabotage", and "The Road", it's generally written less as a whodunnit than it is learning why the doer started killing and how to save their latest victim.
I agree about "Andy In C Minor" though (see OP)
I'd also add "Roller Girl". Wish it had been ANYONE but the boy who was her friend. -
bookwormdreamer — 14 years ago(April 13, 2011 07:06 PM)
One thing about Wishing it kind of gives away the ending at the start unless there is some twist coming.I know it's a popular episode it's well done but if it wasn't I think viewrs would complain about that more.
