Fiona wrote:
but I feel a bit lost on the last statement. AFAIK, Lauren was never intended to become a regular-- do you mean she was brought in to let the viewers think that she was going to join the crew?
Or
because the episode needed some blonde content :)?
The latter I fear. Now I think about it, it's perhaps interesting the number of season 3 episodes that have blondish female one-off characters... (And don't forget that Soolin later appeared with little apparent purpose other than to soup up the gun-toting blonde index -- her character hardly develops very much for episode after episode, probably till 'Warlord'.)
But the fact that he was writing to a formula doesn't necessarily make the episode bad, or non-complex.
Hence my comment worst (best?). (And speaking as a hack-writer myself, it certainly isn't all bad, or all non-complex.)
Yes-- though I think Rescue's brilliant too, myself (saw it over
Christmas,
fantastic). I haven't seen City in about a year, though, so I can't
comment.
I love nearly all the CB episodes (and all the RH episodes, for that matter) -- but leafing through the programme list, I wouldn't have called those two particularly complex or political.
But at least three of his [[Nation's]] stories do seem to provide material to talk about, and maybe the same can be said of at least some of the others too...
But 3/19 plus a bit (Nation) < 7/9 (Boucher). I think.
Tavia