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You want a PLOT HOLE . . .

posted 19 years ago by fgeorge_76
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I'm watching this again on A&E, and the first episode of Season III. Hooker has been divorced from Fran for 9 months and is living in a Hotel.

Wait a sec . . .

In Episode I, Season I, we learn Hooker and Fran divorced years ago. They were still close, but the marriage no longer existed. Now all of a sudden, he's divorced and they moved away. Was there a creative shift? Not that it made much difference, since the show was having plot holes all the time. Hooker is a drunk in the pilot, but Shatner had that panned down. He was most likely demoted, but likes to claim he wanted to wear blue again, and later that seemed to flip-flop in Seasons 3,4, and especially 5 -- where nobody had a clue if they were undercover, or street cops.

Still Hooker lives alone for two years, with the exception of visiting his kids, and then all of a sudden he's divorced. HE WAS ALREADY DIVORCED! And people complain about George Lucas.

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[–] youkilledcaptainclown 19 years ago

Why would he do that?

My guess is that it was an attempt to explain Shatner's age, since he was pretty old to be a cop and not a detective.

"Madness is the emergency exit."

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[–] bang_on_target 18 years ago

But who is too say the episodes were broadcast in life-chronological order? After all, aside from loose things like weather, or if you can track down a calendar in the background, there is little or no reference between stories. The stories were broadcast in different order to filming, so maybe they are spread out through Hookers life haphazardly? For instance his cars change often as well, although I like to put this down to unbroadcast chases while he was driving around late at night!!

[–] millsey72 (9530) 2 years ago

I despise any and all plot holes