i didn't understand why giardello, in the episode 'fallen heroes (part 2),' asks pembleton to investigate the shooting of luther mahoney -- georgia rae is dead, the mahoney family is finished -- why would g want to unearth...that whole thing -- dredge up...old stuff -- what...good...would it do
shareBecause it's his professional responsibility to investigate homicides. It's not like they can cherry pick and choose which cases they will take.
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he doesn't say that, though -- when he asked pembleton to investigate, it was as if he was trying to 'get to the bottom' of the war that was just launched, which really isn't like g
I agree, it feld odd. It did no good dredging the Luther Mahoney shooting up and it just caused conflict and bad feelings. Gee didn't push Bayliss to investigate the Pratt murder in season 3 which was probably committed by a vigilante cop and Gee had a greater obligation to investigate that murder than to investigate the Mahoney shooting.
That whole arc really rubbed me the wrong way. Kellerman got screwed completely because of that bitch Stivers, who was so "haunted" by the Mahoney shooting but she didn't even react when a woman got her brains blown out with a bullet meant for her. God I hated that character, and that whole arc really pissed me off, along with several other things about season 6. That seals was the start of the drastic decline for Homicide
Indeed, no wonder Andre Braugher was ready to call it quits when season 6 ended.
shareAgreed, I can't blame him for quitting. After they totally assassinated Pembleton's character in Blood Ties just so they could make bland walking cliche Ballard look smart, plus several more examples of bad writing, I can't blame Braugher for calling it quits.
I am glad they got him and everyone else to come back for a finale movie though, because that gave closure to the show and to all the characters without being ridiculous or forced, which some finales are. Getting everyone, past and present, major and recurring back for the finale was great and about the only good thing Homicide did in it's last couple of years.
Indeed, Warren Littlefield was so delusional when he thought that adding more "attractive" characters, like Stivers, Ballard, Falsone, and Sheppard, and giving them the main spotlight, would help boost ratings, when he really should have just found the show a better timeslot.
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