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Cold Case: Forever Blue
saucycobblers:
--- Quote from: mvansand76 on January 26, 2007, 08:56:40 am ---I think it really is worth a whole movie, there is so much in this story that is so interesting. Hey anybody notice the Eileen/Lureen thing? ;)
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Noticed the Lureen parallel straight away, and thought there was something of Alma in there too - perhaps even more Alma than Lureen?
It just struck me that this episode is a bit like the original BBM novella - it just gives you snippets upon which you can build your own imagining of the characters and their histories.
mvansand76:
--- Quote from: saucycobblers on January 26, 2007, 09:02:48 am ---Noticed the Lureen parallel straight away, and thought there was something of Alma in there too - perhaps even more Alma than Lureen?
It just struck me that this episode is a bit like the original BBM novella - it just gives you snippets upon which you can build your own imagining of the characters and their histories.
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Yeah and it did a very good job in telling the story in such a way, I really did feel for the two guys right from the first minute of the episode. I did know what was going to happen, but after finishing the episode I had to go back and watch the first scene again!
starboardlight:
--- Quote from: mvansand76 on January 25, 2007, 12:41:58 pm ---STILL SPOILERS
Yeah I thought so. I was really confused by the end of the conversation just before they touched hands, where Jimmy says I don't know and Coop says are you sure and Jimmy replies Guess I don't have a choice. Do you really think that they decided to try a life together, it's such confusing dialogue.
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yeah, the time sequence was a bit jumbled up, wasn't it? it was in the christening scene that Jimmy talked about his son growing up to be something other than a cop, and Coop says, "guys like us stuck with this life." or something to that effect. But in the scene where they talked by the cars, Jimmy reminded Coop of what he said, but that scene is supposed to have happened before the Christening?
twistedude:
There are at least 3 fanfictions about it on LiveJournal, and a 50-some page thread on it on DaveCullen. There's really nothing wrong with the factual "Cold Case Files' running on A&E--why the hell was I so negastive?
But this episode on CBS is haunting and beautiful.
I think she meant Eileen/Alma.
First verse of first song:
I could hide neath the wings
of the bluebird as she sings.
The six o"clock alarm would never ring.
But it rings, and I rise
rub the sleep out of my eyes.
My shavin' razor's cold and it stings.
Last two lines of last song:
Ah, but i was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
midwest-girl:
--- Quote from: starboardlight on January 26, 2007, 01:07:53 pm ---yeah, the time sequence was a bit jumbled up, wasn't it? it was in the christening scene that Jimmy talked about his son growing up to be something other than a cop, and Coop says, "guys like us stuck with this life." or something to that effect. But in the scene where they talked by the cars, Jimmy reminded Coop of what he said, but that scene is supposed to have happened before the Christening?
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I'm not sure that in the scene where they touch hands and are talking about a life together that Coop is referring to the christening when he talks about a different kind of life. For starters, like you said, I think the Christening comes after that scene. I think there were other talks we just didn't see. Because in that final scene Jimmy says, "I wasn't thinking right when we talked" and references spending time at Coop's place. I wish we could have heard the talk(s) they had about being together. Of course, that would just break my heart even more at the end. :-\
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